Thats what I get for Bragging
Senior Member
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 2,597
Likes: 0
Originally Posted by BlackFlag
snip.
Also, ChrisAdams, dude, you do not hit 85 MPH in rush hour on the 405, you're lucky to hit 8 MPH. But I hear you, cops here seam to look for excessive lane changes, which makes sense. But red light running, HOV lanes serving as passing lanes regardless of the entry & exit points, etc is just common fare and really annoying.
Also, ChrisAdams, dude, you do not hit 85 MPH in rush hour on the 405, you're lucky to hit 8 MPH. But I hear you, cops here seam to look for excessive lane changes, which makes sense. But red light running, HOV lanes serving as passing lanes regardless of the entry & exit points, etc is just common fare and really annoying.
Although on the day the last LA riots started I hit about 110 on the 405, in heavy traffic. Rush hour. Of course I was running on the divider, along with lots of other people. Lost my windshield coming out of LAX and the 405 was the fastest quickest way outathere...
And not a cop in sight the whole way...Last weekend, on the 91 I hit 88, just staying with traffic. My average speed was about 20 for the trip... Mostly doing about 10, but five or six bursts of 75up.
On the 10 I've clocked the traffic at 80.And at 0 about two minutes later...
On the 210 I've been passed at 80. The fastest traffic was doing in excess of 100. Of course that was at 6 AM. At 7 AM it was one long parking lot...
Even on the 405, speeds of 50-75 are common all day long. Not during Gridlock, but when you transition the 405 to the 5 I notice most people jump up to 75.
Chris
Guest
Posts: n/a
Funny, a few years back I read an article about a little town in Ohio called New Rome that had the highest per capita ticket quantity in the U.S.A., it got so bad that it inspired a web site, www.newromesucks.com, was on 20/20 and a few others as well as the article I read in eitehr Car and Driver or Road & Track, apparently in this town an interstate highway had the traffic slow down some 20-30 MPH lower than anywhere else in the state, then they changed the interstate to a road and put a traffic light on it (for some little dink town) and while vehicles were there they ran plates for anything they could find. One ticket I remember reading about was that someone got a ticket for not having 4 bolts securing their license plate (it was not written any where in the vehicle code that it was required to use 4 bolts as opposed to 2 either).
If anyone gets bored and wants to laugh, see if they can find the articles and website, kept me busy for at least an hour and a half.
Oh, and I loved the stuff about L.A. freeways. Man you nailed it when you said 80 then 2 mins late 0. I do not miss those highways or the abuse you put on your vehicle on them. But a little further south in Orange County you'll be run over for driving 80 MPH, and that's in the slow lane.
If anyone gets bored and wants to laugh, see if they can find the articles and website, kept me busy for at least an hour and a half.
Oh, and I loved the stuff about L.A. freeways. Man you nailed it when you said 80 then 2 mins late 0. I do not miss those highways or the abuse you put on your vehicle on them. But a little further south in Orange County you'll be run over for driving 80 MPH, and that's in the slow lane.
Last edited by SnowmaNick; Oct 11, 2006 at 05:24 AM.
