Also: our new mayor, Antonio Villagriosa, is supposedly working on some traffic relief. However, putting meter maids out in the middle of Cahuenga and Hollywood boulevard to direct traffic, is in my opinion, no solution.
When downtown LA became accessible by one way routes only, virtually all traffic jams ceased to exist. Now it's a breeze getting through there.
I wish the same could be done with L.A.-area freeways. One would need to make all eight lanes of the 170, 101, 110, 10 and 405 one direction for four hours daily. For example, in the morning, all traffic from the San Fernando Valley is routed toward downtown L.A. during the hours of 6AM to 10AM, then from 4PM to 8PM, the flow is reversed out of downtown.
Those going against traffic would simply have to use surface streets.
Is this feasible? A
re there any city planners on this forum?
