Now for the L.A. ribbing
If you don't live in Southern California, you can always take comfort that your traffic isn't so bad. Take this dispatch from the Sacramento Bee:
It used to take five minutes to get to the freeway, and now it takes me as much as 20 minutes!" lamented Kat Krist, a Los Angeles transplant who lives in fast-growing North Natomas, where Interstate 5 and local surface streets are overmatched. "It crept up on us," Krist said. "Now I am having to find that window of time so I don't hit the worst traffic. This is L.A. thinking. I see it turning into an L.A." While traffic is getting worse here, we aren't yet Los Angeles. There, road warriors wasted a nationwide-worst 72 hours, according to the study.
