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I Can Make Your Parking Tickets Disappear

Curbing Your Car in L.A. Can Be Hazardous to Your Bank Account. So I Did Something About It.

I like to think of myself as a pretty smart guy, but when I moved to Los Angeles from San Antonio, Texas I quickly tallied up $1,500 in parking tickets. In the world of L.A. parking sign decryption (picture a mythical universe where Harry Potter collides with Parking Wars), even a perfectly intelligent newcomer is both ill-prepared and ill-financed for the adventure at hand.

Recently, I attempted to park by a curb featuring signs that read as follows: “Passenger Loading 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.”; …

by Michael Brouillet |

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A City of Freeways? Or a City of Freeway Fighters?

Los Angeles Has Been Defined Both By Its Big Roads and By the Efforts to Stop Them

by Gilbert Estrada |

Southern California has approximately 67,000 vehicular lane miles. In other words, we have enough roads to wrap around the earth 2.69 times at the equator. Government officials believe more roadways …

How To Savor Your Crawl Up the 405 Freeway

Don’t Sweat the Closure on Sunset. Instead, Join Me On a Miraculous Tour Through Jurassic L.A.

by Arthur G. Sylvester |

If you’re among the 300,000 or so commuters who crawl through the Sepulveda Pass every day, you’ve surely noticed the $950-million construction project that is adding an extra lane to …

Transportation Designer Geoff Wardle

You Want to Fly Down the 405? Not So Fast

Geoff Wardle is director of advanced mobility research at Arts Center College of Design in Pasadena. Before participating in a panel on the future of the bicycle in L.A., he …

Will L.A.’s Rush Hour Make Us Crazy Forever?

Perspectives on the Congestion of Tomorrow’s L.A.

Many years ago, you could zip from Pasadena to Santa Monica at most times of day and expect a pretty smooth run of things. Then more people started noticing that …


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