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It has reduced the drive time on several major LA corridors, for example, by about 12 percent.
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In the meantime, Quan says, the synchronized signal program is putting up some pretty impressive numbers, even if the average driver isn't noticing them. Officials also recently approved plans to allow high-rise apartment and condominium buildings along a corridor in Hollywood where a subway connecting the city's West Side to downtown is supposed to go. The city has added three light rail lines in the last seven years and has more planned. That's why, said Clinton Quan, an engineering associate with the Department of Transportation, planners are continuing to push people to ride bicycles, take commuter rail lines and other public transportation and move close enough to work that they can walk there. If more motor vehicles show up in the years ahead (and there are already more than 7.1 million of them registered in Los Angeles County, a number greater than that of most states), then officials say LA traffic jams will probably get worse. Los Angeles Department of Transportation officials agree.Ĭity of angels - and gridlock: Los Angeles freeways are amongst the most congested in the worldĪs they stated in a recent report praising the benefits of synchronized signals, "No traffic signal system is capable of `fixing traffic.'" It was a non-rush hour jam that demonstrated that, good as synchronization may be, it isn't a magic, traffic-breaking bullet. That string ended on the edge of downtown, however, when Wilshire simply became clogged with too many cars. So much so that 11 green lights in a row suddenly materialized. Still, once the LA County Museum of Art, the high-rise apartments, the headquarters of porn publisher Larry Flynt and the various other Wilshire Boulevard landmarks were in the rear-view mirror, the pace did pick up. But why would they? With the posted speed limit 35 mph, I was only averaging 15. The numerous synchronized green lights didn't wait for me. On a recent mid-afternoon test drive down eight miles of Wilshire Boulevard, for example, I was cut off by a bus, stuck behind more than one right-turner waiting for pedestrians to cross the intersecting street and at one point had my lane blocked by a delivery truck.Īpproaching the world famous La Brea Tar Pits - where prehistoric dinosaurs once got stuck in muck, not traffic - so many people were waiting to turn left into a parking lot that the street became gridlocked for more than two blocks. Congestion: transportation engineer associate Abeer Kliefe works at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation's Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control Center