{"id":4059,"date":"2010-08-14T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2010-08-14T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T04:57:00","slug":"nyc-la-antagonism-getting-digs-in-wherever-they-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4059","title":{"rendered":"NYC &#8211; LA Antagonism: Getting Digs In Wherever They Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/15\/us\/15freeway.html?_r=1&#038;hpw\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times has an article on the reconstruction of \u201cthe 405\u201d in West LA<\/a> (we\u2019re surprised the Grey Lady even knows where it is), and appears to be taking any opportunity to twist the knife into LA. Some choice quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> \u201cWhat looms is an alleged three-year marathon of [&#8230; littany of woes&#8230;], and a reminder of the price paid for the absence of meaningful public transit.\u201d\n<li> \u201c\u201cIt\u2019s going to last for three years, but it\u2019s going to take 23 years off my life,\u201d said Jake Lawson, a 40-year-old actor who lives in the San Fernando Valley and now adds an hour to his regular trips to Santa Monica for acting auditions. \u201cI\u2019ve begun turning to my favorite radio station, contemporary Christian, so I can pray to the good Lord to just let me get through this as I\u2019m sitting in traffic for three hours.\u201d\u201d\n<li> \u201cThere is nothing unusual about people in Los Angeles complaining about traffic (it is not as if they would dare complain about the weather).\u201d\n<li> \u201c(As is the case with most highways in Southern California, this one is referred to simply as \u201cthe 405,\u201d rather than \u201cInterstate 405\u201d as it would be called in most other states.)\u201d\n<li> \u201cPrivate elementary schools are considering how they are going to get school buses across another bridge on Mulholland Drive over Interstate 405 (sorry, the 405) in time for morning classes. Supporters of the Getty Museum are worried that visitors will find another museum to visit during the construction snarls.\u201d\n<li> \u201cDebbie Nussbaum, who lives in Westwood Hills \u2014 basically, ground zero for this project \u2014 said a driver lost in her neighborhood the other day went winging by at an excessive speed, clipped a bumper on a parked car and flipped over. Ms. Nussbaum said the woman had to be cut from the wreckage, but declined medical treatment and asked only for help in escaping the neighborhood and getting home.\u201d\n<li> \u201cThat said, there has always been a sizable contingent, including the author Joan Didion, who spent much of her adult life in Los Angeles, who question the value of even having a car-pool lane, calling it something that does not translate from the neat theory on an engineers\u2019 drafting table to the complicated arteries of Los Angeles.\u201d<\/ul>\n<p>If you hadn\u2019t guessed, yes, I\u2019m going to write a rebuttal defending my city. [ETA: Hmmm, they didn\u2019t provide the ability to provide comments. So I emailed the author of the post. NYC may have a better subway system, but dammit&#8230; you don\u2019t insult our freeway system. That\u2019s our job.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an article on the reconstruction of \u201cthe 405\u201d in West LA (we\u2019re surprised the Grey Lady even knows where it is), and appears to be taking any opportunity to twist the knife into LA. Some choice quotes: \u201cWhat looms is an alleged three-year marathon of [&#8230; littany of woes&#8230;], and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4059\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roadgeeking","category-lj-xfer","tag-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}