Los Angeles Traffic On The 405 Freeway

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[americanpaisareturns]

Aah the 405. One of LA’s most famous Parking lot structures.

[julianofpaignton]

On the 405, both sides of the freeway are always jammed up between Wilshire Blvd in West L.A and La Cienaga Blvd and yet when you were driving northbound on that notorious stretch you didn’t encounter a traffic jam. Amazing! Fortunately you exited the 405 (transitioning to the 10) just as the northbound lanes were coming to a grinding halt. Well done !

[matteoromenghi]

10 West, going to Santa Monica.
I miss Los Angeles.
Greetings from Parma, Italy.

[thedirtybubble]

The LA freeways remind me of how Miami's highways used to be 20 years ago. The texture, grime, barriers, traffic, signs, street lights.... everything. Actually, LA looks cleaner than Miami used to be years ago.

[ramses]

I love traveling to LA and driving on the 405! Much better than driving in Seattle.

[jorgenvonstrangle]

I remember my first time driving in LA for Fluffys special at the Dodger Stadium, just alone from airport to downtown was about an hour and 45 minutes, but left 6am the next day and highway drive felt open but super fast drivers lmao loved it though

[adi]

LA gets bad reputation for traffic, but remember it is only during rush hour and holidays. I visited as a tourist and I just planned around rush hour and i was always moving. High traffic volume does not mean a standstill. It keeps moving at most times.

[bananastan]

Dude, i would be stoked to get this traffic flow. Go hit the 101, 10, and 5 between 3PM - 6PM trying to leave LA, you will change your mind 100% money back guaranteed.

[claudiahansen]

Where you got on was where I would get off, visiting McDonnell Douglas in the 1980s.

[Daniel-zh]

You were just lucky not to encounter traffic I am former California Resident about 70-90% 405 of the time at 3-7pm it is clogged from Monday to Friday.

[shanebloeser]

I have driven on the 405 many times. Sometimes I sat there for hours!

[Nathan-jqzy]

I don't live in California but visit often. I find Californians to be quite friendly. I would also argue that California drivers are the best in the US... they drive fast and keep traffic flowing, but don't tend to tailgate and usually treat other drivers and pedestrians respectfully.

[kendallevans]

I've driven this for 40 years. No matter what they (CalTrans) does:
It always gets bad as you near LAX, mostly NB
The Sepulveda pass always sucks no matter how many lanes they add
The 405/101 (NB) exchange is deadly. You have cars screaming on a decline trying to exchange? Bad idea.
The "South Bay curve" is almost always bad.
Infrastructure improvements are always decades late and take decades to complete.


I've driven for 2 hours without seeing a CHP.

[heisgonenowheisgonenow]

next thing you know a bridge falls and a cement truck smashss into a gas station

[DavidSmith-dzbj]

Like the M25 around London always jammed

[NICKBOWERSweightlosswithnick]

that traffic is nothing. try Friday traffic going south on the 405. Its bad!!

[keithmcdowell]

u got off easy man.. try driving during 7 to 10 am

[gsp]

I learned the hard way that you cannot depend on GPS or signs to help you out around Los Angeles. The whole place is a big dump.

[TruckEnthusiastYT]

California is a very exaggerated state. We drove the highways around LA multiple times with no traffic, the only traffic was during rush hour ofc but it wasn’t as bad as they make it seem. Just small slowdowns. It’s just a lot of cars since the highways are so big, not traffic