Interstate 5, Los Angeles - disgusting
 

Anyone drive the 5? How's your breathing? How do you smell once you get off the 5?

I've found a lot of the rank of the 5 has to do with those nasty Long Beach Harbor cargo tractors. They're the most disgusting POS vehicles in modern transport. They nearly vomit diesel exhaust.

Good gawd, I wish L.A. would just say, "Enough!" and pull those rolling carcinogens off the public roads.

Now, back to my oxygen mask & tank...:mad:

Take a drive around New Delhi, India on a hot summer day. LA is like a clean room at NASA compared to India.

Karachi Pakistan is no picnic either.

Going by the "off Powell St." rendering plant on a hot day. Give that a go.

Im my opinion the 710 close to LB smells worse. And there are far more trucks as well.

Your NAFTA at work with the trucks

The Vancouver rendering plant, less than 1 mile from beautiful downtown Vancouver, worst smell ever STG :


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Pig farms in Arkansas, nice.

+1 on karachi

I -5 truckstop men's room
whoooooooaaa !!

225 through pasadena. Some funky smells there.

It is much better than it used to be...

nothing as raucous as the smell of secaucus.

There's a large cattle ranch right next to I-5. Thousands of head of cattle looks like a prime source of methane gas. Yum. Can't miss it during the pass-by, no matter the rate of speed. Apparently, the speed of BS is faster.

Sherwood

depends on wind direction?
Agree from Long Beach/Carson north on the 405 today the sea breezes were not as strong.
Photo from today along the 5 in San Clemente. :cool:
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The State of CA. and the EPA are actually doing something about the port trucks out of LB and LA harbor. There is currently a program to replace all of the old, decrepit trucks w/ new "clean diesel" semis using subsidies/tax breaks. They are ahead of schedule after one year, their goal was 5k trucks in the first year and they were @ 5500 or something when I read the article recently.

The program has its controversies and glitches, (using public $$ to buy new trucks for private companies and individuals), but is considered a worthwhile investment of tax $$ because it's working really well. Ie. the air is measurably cleaner in the 710 corridor.

The guys who pick up the containers from the ports are all independent contractors, so they don't have big budgets.

Also, they do not go very far - so they don't need the newest and most reliable tractors..

Make all that stinky diesel exhaust go away so it doesn't offend my sensitive nostrils.
I don't care if those trucks are delivering everything I want to buy or have already purchased, I don't care if getting rid of them will increase the cost of everything we buy, I don't care. I just don't want to smell stinky stuff.

It's L.A.
L.A. stinks.
That's why I don't live in L.A. and don't go there unless I absolutely have to.
But, even on it's worst day L.A. smells better than Ensenada, cabo or Puerto Vallarta.

I much prefer the smell of diesel trucks over the smell of raw sewage.

Where I live in L.A. doesn't stink and the air is clean. But then I don't live near any ports or refineries.

Harris Ranch feed lot near Coalinga. Fatten the cows for slaughter.