Here’s one intersection to avoid — 6th Street and Fairfax, specifically if you are going East on 6th. It is a nightmare.
A few years ago apparently as part of The Grove Traffic Mitigation Plan, the city installed a short median on 6th Street just West of Fairfax (what that has to do with traffic from The Grove a mile away is a mystery).
The result is that it backs up traffic on 6th. It doesn’t help that the green light is a short one, allowing just a few cars through on each cycle. You can sit there for 10 minutes trying to pass through the intersection — and that’s during non-rush hour.
Is the city trying to get people not to use 6th Street? With adjacent Wilshire usually pretty crowded, it would seem to make sense to funnel some of the traffic to 6th Street. Then again, it would seem to make sense to sync traffic lights around town, but the city does not do that, either.
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