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5 Exercises for Sitting in Holiday Traffic

By KCRW Traffic Queen and Shortcuts Author, Kajon Cermak

There is so much more to do in a car whilst sitting in traffic. More than drumming your fingers on the steering wheel while simultaneously heaving BIG siiiiighs, eyeballs rolling out of your head every time you check the clock – so much more than hitting every button on your spacecraft’s instrumentation panel. I would suggest an audio book or that self-help course CD that you just got in the mail but wait a minute – that would mean you are not listening to KCRW. No, no, no, that won’t do.

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5 Best Places to be Stuck in Traffic by Kajon Cermak

Kajon Cermak, KCRW Traffic.

With 10 million people in LA County, 789,000+ in Ventura County and over 3 million in Orange County, why is it that every single one of them is on my freeway at exactly the same time I am going exactly where I want to go? We’ve all experienced some of the same annoying, overly repeated traffic scenarios — driving into Hollywood, southbound on the 101 you can pretty much count on hitting a brick wall at Melrose; the 5 in Santa Fe Springs always seems to bottleneck at the 605; in Orange County the northbound 405 is a nightmare into the Westside and now, through the Valley to the 118; the southbound 405 from Hawthorne to Long Beach always crowded, and then from the 22 to the 73 just doesn’t make sense. And the eastbound 10 from the beach to downtown, don’t even get me started.

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