I am in Los Angeles for a few days for business meetings… And this trip is the longest time that I have been away from the US (8 months) for about 10 years.

The traffic in LA is unbelievably bad! Yesterday one of the people that came to the business meeting had to travel from Manhattan Beach to Hancock Park. It took him 45 minutes just to get on the freeway from his house. And then over an hour to get to the meeting.

I can remember when the same trip would have taken – start to finish – no more than 20 minutes.

I was told today that people who have season tickets to events at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion (where they hold the Oscars) are not bothering to leave home now. The traffic is too bad.

People have talked about the freeways of Los Angeles becoming a parking lot for some years. Now it is really happening here. The arteries are clogged. Heart attack territory – and how do you give a city a triple by pass?

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