Comments on: SoCal garages and yards http://polizeros.com/2007/03/05/socal-garages-and-yards/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:45:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Bob Morris http://polizeros.com/2007/03/05/socal-garages-and-yards/#comment-94794 Bob Morris Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:36:17 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2007/03/05/socal-garages-and-yards/#comment-94794 I'd thought about moving back for a while. But wanted someone to move back with. Then Sue and I got married the end of 2004! The move is easier for me than her because we now live near where I grew up, so I already know where everything is. We both brought clients with us and, as it turns out, we'll be back in LA the 16-20th for Sue to work with one, which means I'll be driving the lead truck in the LA protest one more time. I’d thought about moving back for a while. But wanted someone to move back with. Then Sue and I got married the end of 2004!

The move is easier for me than her because we now live near where I grew up, so I already know where everything is.

We both brought clients with us and, as it turns out, we’ll be back in LA the 16-20th for Sue to work with one, which means I’ll be driving the lead truck in the LA protest one more time.

]]> By: Lisa http://polizeros.com/2007/03/05/socal-garages-and-yards/#comment-94585 Lisa Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:26:54 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2007/03/05/socal-garages-and-yards/#comment-94585 Hope you will have many happy days in Conn. My mother is a New Englander, from Stratford, Conn (though she hasn't lived there in over 40 yrs. I was raised in Florida). I like New Englanders. Hey, there are the original frugal, reduce/reuse greens, whether they called it that or not! If you had't married Sue, though, you probably wouldn't have moved, right? You have an Internet business so traffic doesn't affect you as much as it did her. Traffic is getting insane on the Westside. My friend who attends LA Greens meetings in the Fairfax district lives in Santa Monica and it has been taking sometimes 2 hrs to get crosstown to attend our 7pm meetings at the Peace Center. Hope you will have many happy days in Conn. My mother is a New Englander, from Stratford, Conn (though she hasn’t lived there in over 40 yrs. I was raised in Florida).
I like New Englanders. Hey, there are the original frugal, reduce/reuse greens, whether they called it that or not!

If you had’t married Sue, though, you probably wouldn’t have moved, right? You have an Internet business so traffic doesn’t affect you as much as it did her.

Traffic is getting insane on the Westside. My friend who attends LA Greens meetings in the Fairfax district lives in Santa Monica and it has been taking sometimes 2 hrs to get crosstown to attend our 7pm meetings at the Peace Center.

]]> By: Joe Hartley http://polizeros.com/2007/03/05/socal-garages-and-yards/#comment-93118 Joe Hartley Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:18:32 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2007/03/05/socal-garages-and-yards/#comment-93118 What's particularly ironic is that until the mid-1970's, it was easy for the middle-class to buy a decent home in a safe neighborhood on a single income. Didn't leave a lot of room for extras to fill the garage, but enough to raise a family. Then they stopped building freeways and other transportation without stopping building houses, and behold, thirty some-odd years later, a metropolitan region of several thousand square miles with gridlock. On Saturday I drove from Santa Monica to Riverside. No problems getting out of LA, since nobody gets up before 11, as far as I can tell. But as we got closer to Riverside, the traffic got worse and worse, until it simply stopped about 20 miles west of Riverside and stayed stopped for about 45 minutes. Then it was rush hour traffic all the rest of the way. Oh, did I add that this was at 7 am? On a Saturday? Coming back in late afternoon, which usually is an easy drive on the weekends, was just as bad to get to donwtown LA. Even on the weekends you can't get around the traffic anymore. What’s particularly ironic is that until the mid-1970’s, it was easy for the middle-class to buy a decent home in a safe neighborhood on a single income. Didn’t leave a lot of room for extras to fill the garage, but enough to raise a family. Then they stopped building freeways and other transportation without stopping building houses, and behold, thirty some-odd years later, a metropolitan region of several thousand square miles with gridlock.

On Saturday I drove from Santa Monica to Riverside. No problems getting out of LA, since nobody gets up before 11, as far as I can tell. But as we got closer to Riverside, the traffic got worse and worse, until it simply stopped about 20 miles west of Riverside and stayed stopped for about 45 minutes. Then it was rush hour traffic all the rest of the way. Oh, did I add that this was at 7 am? On a Saturday?

Coming back in late afternoon, which usually is an easy drive on the weekends, was just as bad to get to donwtown LA. Even on the weekends you can’t get around the traffic anymore.

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