Review | L.A. Can't Drive - Part 2

I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project

So D-Day approaches. D is for “detour”, and I’m calling it that because Carmageddon is so overused that I swear there’s going to be a B low budget feature released with that title. The kicker is  I hear that they’re going to need to close this same portion of the freeway again for a couple [...]

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Table for Three for a Party of One

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter We’ve been life for over 4 1/2 years, can you believe it? Man, how time flies. And though we’ve certainly had more cars, videos, and stories featured than actually listed, this post is officially labelled “car1000″. Car1 definitely seems a long time ago. Sadly, I wish I could say that my [...]

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Mike’s Interview on Blogging.LA

Here’s a quick shout-out to my colleague Jason DeFillippo over at blogging.la. Click on the link to read a little interview I did with him over the weekend.

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Visualizing L.A. Traffic Congestion

This was too cool to pass up. A friend sent this to me from FlowingData, which is an animation compiled by Waze, in collaboration with the Gray Area Foundation and Nik Hanselmann, that visualizes 24-hours of traffic data in Los Angeles. The red dots stand for traffic congestion, and the green dots stand for traffic [...]

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Dear DMV Renewal Office, Where Is My License?

Hello? Anyone there? I have an inkling that there are a total of 6 one-armed people working at the DMV Renewal office in Sacramento. Though government furloughs and layoffs certainly suck for public servants, we as members of the general public are starting to feel the effects of such downsizing. To be specific, when I [...]

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