GODDAM!! There are a lot of people in SoCal!!

Wobbie

So, I drove down to Oceanside on Friday. WTF is with all that traffic on the I-15, out by Corona?? Where are they coming from? Where are they going? :shock: :shock: :shock:

Five lanes of gridlock. I could not take it!

norm

it's our booming economy!!!

sweet adeline

as long as they stay south of ventura, i'm fine with it.

norm

sweet adeline wrote:

as long as they stay south of ventura, i'm fine with it.

yeah but your place keeps burning down

sweet adeline

norm wrote:

sweet adeline wrote:

as long as they stay south of ventura, i'm fine with it.

yeah but your place keeps burning down

population control

there is actually another fire downtown today. some dumbass' attic caught on fire.

translation: pothead left the lights on too long for his pot plants.

dcfaithful

Thank God the section of I-15 (Wasatch Valley in Utah) that I commute on is never that congested. That kind of traffic would stir up some serious madness in my brain!

Two things in your post have significance to me...one being I-15, and two being Corona, which is where the headquarters for the company that I work for is (that company being Watson Pharmaceuticals).

Evil Merlin Part Deux

I knew a guy that drove that 6 days a week. I can't believe he did it for nearly two years.

He drove from out by Elsinore to Irvine every day. At first he didn't pay the toll roads so it was I-15 to the 91 to the 55 to the 5 and back. Some days he'd take Ortega Highway as well, but that can be just as bad or worse if you get caught up on that through the pass.

He finally started taking the toll road which saved a little bit of time, and then he finally did the smart thing and moved.

norm

Evil Merlin Part Deux wrote:

I knew a guy that drove that 6 days a week. I can't believe he did it for nearly two years.

He drove from out by Elsinore to Irvine every day. At first he didn't pay the toll roads so it was I-15 to the 91 to the 55 to the 5 and back. Some days he'd take Ortega Highway as well, but that can be just as bad or worse if you get caught up on that through the pass.

He finally started taking the toll road which saved a little bit of time, and then he finally did the smart thing and moved.

i'd eat a gun if i had to do that :twisted:

when i was working in santa monica 20 years ago, my supervisor lived in colton....i think he put 50,000 miles on his car in about a year :shock:

Wobbie

norm wrote:

it's our booming economy!!!

You're definitely selling lots of gas and junk food!

I did get on a couple of toll roads......they were nearly deserted.

Evil Merlin Part Deux

norm wrote:

Evil Merlin Part Deux wrote:

I knew a guy that drove that 6 days a week. I can't believe he did it for nearly two years.

He drove from out by Elsinore to Irvine every day. At first he didn't pay the toll roads so it was I-15 to the 91 to the 55 to the 5 and back. Some days he'd take Ortega Highway as well, but that can be just as bad or worse if you get caught up on that through the pass.

He finally started taking the toll road which saved a little bit of time, and then he finally did the smart thing and moved.

i'd eat a gun if i had to do that :twisted:

when i was working in santa monica 20 years ago, my supervisor lived in colton....i think he put 50,000 miles on his car in about a year :shock:

Holey moley, that's insane. Yeah, that's part of the reason I continue to rent. If I need out and need to move quickly I do it. I'd much rather hassle with the move to live close to work, rather than constantly drive our freeways on a daily basis.

When I was younger my dad had a co-worker and where they worked their schedule was 13 nights on 1 night off. And he drove from Moreno Valley to Anaheim 9 of those days and then Moreno Valley to Torrance 4 of those days. Ugh. Insane. My brother in law said a guy joined his job a few years back on a construction project in Norwalk that lasted six months and a dude drove from Victorville.

I can't believe some of the places people come from in SoCal to work.

Wobbie

Evil Merlin Part Deux wrote:

I can't believe some of the places people come from in SoCal to work.

If it takes me 20 minutes to get to work, I bitch all morning about the sucky "commute."

norm

Evil Merlin Part Deux wrote:

My brother in law said a guy joined his job a few years back on a construction project in Norwalk that lasted six months and a dude drove from Victorville.

I can't believe some of the places people come from in SoCal to work.

construction workers are some of the worst in terms of driving to jobs...apple valley to oceanside is one that comes to mind :shock:

PJ_ROCKS

norm wrote:

Evil Merlin Part Deux wrote:

My brother in law said a guy joined his job a few years back on a construction project in Norwalk that lasted six months and a dude drove from Victorville.

I can't believe some of the places people come from in SoCal to work.

construction workers are some of the worst in terms of driving to jobs...apple valley to oceanside is one that comes to mind :shock:

That is one thing i dont miss about Cali !!!! the dam traffic...haha, 15 / 10 / 57 / 60 .... hurry up and wait..

mca47

I'm there a lot of work (unfortunately) and when someone asks me "So, how long does it take to get to ____?"

The answer I came up with that works every time...

"Fucking forever!"


I then follow that by "I hate SoCal!"

so-much-clearer

I live right near where the 405 (aka World's Longest Parking Lot) and 10 meet. It takes me at least 15 minutes to drive 4 miles to UCLA!