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Originally Posted by plutonicpanda
Many times a day I drive this road and traffic flows depending on the time of day. The myth this freeway is always backed up isn't so true. Even with traffic flowing at LOS D it still is much quicker than Expo line. This line should absolutely match a cars speed or what is incentive to take it?
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As I said before, it would be very hard to find a system that will beat a car driving a freeway/expressway in any densely populated metro in the USA.
Even in the NY Metro the car can still be faster than a train traveling over a distance like Santa Monica to Downtown LA outside of Manhattan. Now you may even be able to beat the subway going across Manhattan on the FDR up to Harlem from downtown. I've been in and driven a car along the route and taken the subway as well to this destination.
Also I used to drive the 10 Fwy 5 days a week years ago back in the early 80's it was bad then, and it's worse now. I do agree there are times traffic flows better than others, but the majority of the time during the day it's quite heavy and never lite. Even in the biggest metropolitan in the USA New York, there are certain times of day/night and even certain times of the year that traffic flow is some what smooth.
As for me personally, the incentive would be to not have to drive at all. I hate traffic in LA, and it takes a toll on your mental state, and its very draining. When I get to work it takes time for me to whine down, and focus on the pressure of the job. When I was able to take the train(I live in the burbs and work in another county now) to work from Long Beach to El Segundo, I felt relax when I arrive to work. Some days I even got to sit and take a nap on my ride to work, and it saved me a lot on gas and wear and tear on my car.
Now if I lived in Santa Monica or Downtown LA or anywhere near that route, I would most certainly leave the car at home and use the Expo Line the majority of the time. I personally feel it is less stressful than dealing with the heavy traffic in the LA basin the majority of the time.