KCAL 9 News: Los Angeles commuters are more stressed out than drivers in other big cities.

[KitchenWitch]

No DUH!

:eyes:

Nothing like our local news media having their finger directly on the pulse of the obvious.

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. How would they measure this?

Number of road-rage shootings using Italian-made automatic weapons per 100,000 silver BMW 530i's on a 1/4-mile stretch of I-405 weekdays at 5:26 p.m.? :shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

2. I. LOVE. YOU.

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. This e-mail just received by KCAL from WHDH in Boston:

Date: Monday, June 2, 2008
Time: 00:47:36 EDT
Subj: FUCK YOU!!!

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WE'RE WAY THE FUCK MORE STRESSED THAN YOU ASSHOLES! GO FUCK YASELFS!

[KitchenWitch]

4. No lie!

:rofl:

[huskerlaw]

5. Hahahahaha

Interesting. Do wonder how they measured that, though.

Also, not entirely sure it's true. Ever been in Manhattan at rush hour?? :scared:

[KitchenWitch]

6. I would never try to drive in Manhattan, ever.

:scared:

[huskerlaw]

7. Me either!!

Then again, I wouldn't attempt to LIVE there either.

I can see the draw, I love visiting, but...yeah, just not for me.

[Shakespeare]

8. MEEEEEEEEEE either.

I've handled LA, SF, DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, and a few other biggies at rush hour. The idea of driving in Manhattan at ANY hours makes me wanna break out in hives. That's why god created cabs.

[devilgrrl]

9. Hey KCAL! Bears s__t in the woods. Story at eleven.

:crazy:

[KitchenWitch]

10. Next on KCAL 9: The Pope - He's Catholic - Who Knew?

[petronius]

11. They've got cell phones, TVs and PSPs - why would they be stressed?

:shrug:

There're plenty of things to do that relieve the tedium of driving...

[KitchenWitch]

14. Don't forget Garmins

[RoyGBiv]

12. If there's any place worse than Houston ...

I don't want to be there.

I spent most of my life (about 30 years) living in a town where what was called a traffic jam took place when more than five cars got lined up behind a flashing red light.

I now spend 1 1/2 hours driving home from work, covering the same distance I did in that other town in about 15 minutes.

I drove through LA once ... on Sunday ... at about 3 in the afternoon. Wasn't a picnic then. I don't want to imagine rush "hour."

asd

[KitchenWitch]

13. Invariably, I am either 1/2 hour early or 20 minutes late to things when I have to use the freeway

It is so difficult to predict.

[RoyGBiv]

15. Same here ...

And I have to use the freeway every day. The alternate routes are just as clogged as the freeway and longer in distance.

I got really spoiled by my home town, so much so that I don't know if I could ever get accustomed to this. (Hell, with the oil situation, I may not have to.) I left for work back home 10 minutes before I was supposed to be there, and the only reason I was ever late was because I overslept or something and left for work some time after those ten minutes.

Even the years I was in OKC, I left for work the same time every day and only occasionally ran into something that caused me to be late, usually something having to do with a wreck on the freeway that diverted traffic to the street I took to work. But even then, it was like 5 - 10 minutes at the most.

And I also never truly experienced the extremes of lower gas mileage in the city until now ... all that waiting and rolling along at 5 mph.

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[RebelOne]

17. Houston isn't even a runner-up in the list of worst traffic.

www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/05/30/atlanta_traffic_pain_index.html

[RebelOne]

16. My city comes in second.

www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/05/30/atlanta_traffic_pain_index.html

[Initech]

18. Slow news day or what?

[Gormy Cuss]

19. Think they're stressed now? Wait a month.

The hands free cell phone law is going to make those who had to buy new headsets peeved. Of course, they won't be nearly as irritated as those who didn't get around to it.

[Brigid]

20. I'm not surprised.

The few times I've been there, they all seem to drive like they've seen "The Road Warrior" too many times.