Interstate 5, Los Angeles - disgusting

[dd74]

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...

[HardDrive]

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

[crustychief]

Karachi Pakistan is no picnic either.

[creaturecat]

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

[thinkfloyd14]

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

[chapo]

Your NAFTA at work with the trucks

[creaturecat]

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

[bivenator]

Pig farms in Arkansas, nice.

[quicksix]

+1 on karachi

[maxnine11]

I -5 truckstop men's room
whoooooooaaa !!

[BRPORSCHE]

225 through pasadena. Some funky smells there.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE

225 through pasadena. Some funky smells there.

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

[onlycafe]

nothing as raucous as the smell of secaucus.

[911pcars]

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

[ted]

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.

[speeder]

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 Gaijin]

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..

[sammyg2]

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.

[speeder]

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.

[stevepaa]

Originally Posted by 911pcars

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

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