How I Fixed That 405 Exit

You Don’t Need to Be a Transportation Expert to Help Keep the Roads Safe

Don’t you hate it when a driver makes a wide turn into your lane?

Me too.

When I first moved to Redondo Beach, I noticed this happening regularly at the Southbound 405 Inglewood Avenue off-ramp. At first, I wasn’t sure what to do about it.

The problem was one of design. There were two lanes from which one could turn right at the bottom of the off-ramp—the right lane and the center lane—but those two lanes merged into three lanes heading south on Inglewood. It was a dangerous mismatch between the off-ramp and …

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by Marla Paul | December 17, 2012

When James Bond chased a villain across the top of a speeding train, leaping from car to car as the locomotive wound through a mountaintop in the opening scene of …

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by Keith R. Thorell | September 26, 2012

Whoever invents commuting monikers in Los Angeles seems to prefer religious themes. Pundits dubbed last year’s weekend-long closure of the 405 Freeway “Carmageddon.” They’ve named the closure of Wilshire Boulevard …

So That’s What an Auto Show Is Like

A First-Timer Hits the Convention Center, So You Don’t Have To

by Monette Borigsay | November 21, 2011

Like every Angeleno, I use the crap out of my car, but before this weekend I’d never been to an auto show. I suppose I expected scantily clad women draped …

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How I Fixed That 405 Exit

You Don’t Need to Be a Transportation Expert to Help Keep the Roads Safe

Here’s Why 007 Is Such a Fine Role Model: Seat Belt Usage

OK, Maybe I’m a Little Safety-Obsessed. But Why Can’t TV Learn More From James Bond?

‘Rampture’ Is Just the Latest Front In My War With Lucifer

Taking On the Dark Lord Caltrans, One Miserable Surface Street At a Time

So That’s What an Auto Show Is Like

A First-Timer Hits the Convention Center, So You Don’t Have To

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