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SoCal all the way, and I think LA is more photogenic only because it looks "warm" in just about every picture. SF looks...not "warm."

Haha, love it. This is almost as good as the adsd thread of 2005.

Happy birthday!

The auto show is from the 4th-13th of December this year...more info please.

This. Miami Vice was such a slickly-produced program... Here's the thing about soundtracks and opening sequences: networks can fit in more commercials without them, or, increasingly due to DVR, that's another 40 seconds of footage for the show.

The WeHo routing is known around metro as an additional "pink line." Purple line is going to happen, mark my words. Pink? That's more up in the air, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet on it...just the timing of "when" is uncertain.

Hahahaha yeah no one calls it "THE" OC if they're from SoCal...unless they're doing it ironically. I can't stand Orange County...such a beautiful place, but the people...ugh. Some good ones, to be sure, but soooo many new monied boors.

Metro passed the LRTP on the 22nd, and that item provided allocations of Measure R funding for a variety of highway, bus and rail projects for the region.

And? I'm an Indianapolis native with very little to say that's positive about the place. I'll just say this: there are a LOT of nouveau riche in SoCal, and many, many of them came from the midwest. Not really drawing a conclusive link, just noting an observation.

I'm never on the 605...so far inland. 710 I go on occasionally because sometimes it's faster to get to SGV by taking the 60 to the 710 and getting off at Cesar Chavez or Ramona, and taking local streets to Atlantic or Fremont, then north to Valley. My main freeways are 110, 101, and 10. 405 would be on that list, but I try to avoid that mess whenever possible.

Houston hasn't been "Deep South" for a very long time.

Well, I think the point is to provide an alternate to the 5 for truck traffic. Can't say I'm thrilled, though, about the elimination of an interchange at Huntington Dr., or the elimination of an interface with the 110, but whatever. As extensive as LA's network is, it has one glaring deficiency: many interchanges do not allow complete freedom of movement, and so if one wants to go from point A to point B, there often is a lack of alternate routes, even if several different freeways intersect. I also think it will ease congestion on the 10 between SGV and the 5, and allow the 210 to be a more viable alternate for some 10 traffic. Hell, northern Pasadena will become a LOT more accessible as there is virtually no regional access to the 210 between the 605 and the 2 / 134.

High upfront cost, but think of all the money in razor blades you'd save in the long run. And everyone says it just feels like being snapped with rubber bands. Take a percoset beforehand and ride it out if that bothers you.

There is ONE "South Central" and I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist outside of Los Angeles.

Don't be a little bitch. Focus on the task at hand, and remember that at this point in life: maintenance-free longevity should take precedence over flash.

Just get the hell out of there. Really, you won't regret it once you do.

Yup, everything...including cold winter and humid summer. I could never live there.

Or you could just get electrolysis.

Methane is always an issue, but technology has improved since the 1980s. Still, it would be pretty entertaining if random parts of the Fairfax district just exploded. The subway will be built with the same tunnel boring machines as used in the 1980s--they've never left the tunnel, but methane detection and ventilations will be used to prevent ignition. Nope. Santa Monica may be the end destination, but the lines cover very different areas geographically, as the map shows. Unclear. That said, the incremental cost of tunneling isn't outlandish because of the appreciation of Caltrans-owned property purchased in the 1960s and 1970s in anticipation of a surface routing. The tunnel is the only way this will get built due to South Pas' whiny NIMBYism--they've fought that freeway for 4 decades. Funny. Excluding the fact that it is a Historic Scenic Byway, and therefore can only have minor modifications made to it, where would those lanes go? The Arroyo Seco is to the right, and neighborhood streets are to the left. And every historic bridge would have to be replaced. And shoulders would have to be added. Impossible. The only modification that freeway will receive in the forseeable future is the addition of a concrete center barrier with "stone wall" detailing to replace the double guardrail, and maybe the addition of soundwalls in some neighborhood areas.

Ugh my vote is east coast. Chicago...well, I find most people from there to be rather vulgar, and that accent...

Well, Gold Line extension east opens Nov 15th, the Aqua/Expo line is under construction to Culver City and will soon be extended to Santa Monica, and Villaraigosa and the Metro board just approved a Long Range Transportation Plan on the 22nd that includes an accelerated timetable for the Purple Line (Subway to the Sea) extension and funded many other things through Measure R. We're getting there, slowly.

I will be one of the first cars to drive through it. Love it, cannot wait for the whiny NIMBYs in South Pas to get the freeway through there, even if it goes under everything. That connection is needed and would open up the 10 immensely.

Where do you want to move?

I think I'll be dressed as "urban blight." I'll be unkempt and sloppy looking, and I'll go around f@#king other peoples' $h! up--knocking over drinks, spilling on people, generally being an ass. I think it's the most inspired idea I've heard all year, and ironically it came from Planetizen.

LA did a good job with the freeways. No other city has anywhere near as extensive of a network. What LA stupidly did, however, was turn down the offer from Alweg to build a FREE MONORAIL line, in hopes of demonstrating its success, leading to more lines. That was in the 1960s, and Ray Bradbury still comes out of his hole from time to time to complain about its absence.