It has never been easy, but this has been one of the worst months in memory for the harried freeway drivers of Los Angeles, where the price of living near warm palm-fringed beaches, lovely mountains and deserts is that one can hardly get there.
Just Friday, a tanker caused a colossal nine-hour traffic jam by jackknifing on the San Diego Freeway just before the evening rush. That was worse than when another truck accidentally dumped 64,000 pounds of manure on the Foothill Freeway on Tuesday evening and when 1,000 head of sheep made a mess of things at the Las Virgenes Road exit of the Ventura Freeway the other day. …
