DScottGRRL

I’ve solved the LA traffic disaster.

All it took was a short trip to Miami where I could observe the native drivers with the objective eye of one who no longer lives there.

I have two very unscientific (and un-mutually exclusive) theories on the sources of LA’s traffic issues:

1. Pedestrians. I’ve waxed on about this before. Never (never!) have I seen traffic come to a screeching halt so fast as when a pedestrian sticks his pinky toe into the open road.

Rubbish!

I reckon that there’s at least a five-minute delay added on to your commute per pedestrian la-di-di-da-ing his way across the road. Oh and they saunter. Oh yes, they saunter.

The solution is simple - get rid of the pedestrians and the traffic will flow. It shouldn’t even be that hard. It’s not like there are that many.

2. Speed. Or lack thereof, rather. Los Angeleans drive too damn slow. And I’m a slow driver. On account of my absent-mindedness, you see. It gives me a little leeway for whan an impending object hurtles into my field of vision five seconds after it was supposed to.

But people in LA… they reaallly drive slow. What I guess I’m trying to say is, they heed the speed limit. That shit don’t fly in Miami, let me tell you.

So think on this for a second.

Think of an LA where you don’t have to stop for pedestrians and everyone drove, say, 10 to 15 miles faster than they do now. Think how much these two small, minute even, seemingly insignificant changes would benefit the traffic situation.

I think I’m just going to go now and pat myself on the back.

Toodle-doo.

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