Has traffic always been this bad before Thanksgiving? Here's the history behind L.A.'s relationship with Thanksgiving traffic:
Rush hour traffic for Thanksgiving in LA looks like a living nightmare Generations ago, newspapers and public officials crusaded against the increased number of traffic fatalities around the holiday weekend. The Times urged motorists to not drink and drive, to slow down and to make sure their cars were in running order.
“Over the Thanksgiving holiday some dozen human beings in this area will be killed in traffic accidents unless the statistical rate of slaughter is abated. The list, which, on the basis of past records, the County Coroner may regretfully have to tabulate, will include elderly men and women, those in the prime of life,” The Times wrote in a 1946 editorial.As Southern California’s suburbs spread and the freeway system was built out, people were driving more during the holiday week.
In 1969, Times columnist Richard Buffum wrote about an ill-fated attempt to get from Orange County to Hollywood. “In not-so-quiet desperation, I stewed for nearly 3 hours early Thanksgiving Eve in a massive freeway tieup,” he wrote. “My intention was to travel from Costa Mesa to Hollywood, where I was scheduled to play the fool — a clod-hoppered clown — in the annual Santa Claus Lane Parade of stars. I never made it. Oh I reached Hollywood eventually. But the parade was half over.”
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