L.A. fuming over Obama traffic, demands investigation

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Source: Los Angeles Times

The massive traffic jam that resulted from President Obama's motorcade and speech Monday night in Hancock Park is prompting calls for an investigation from some residents, who say they were caught in traffic for hours.

Obama was only in L.A. for a few hours, but his presence caused numerous streets to be blocked off.

Residents reported that commutes and errands that typically took minutes turned into hours-long ordeals. One particular complaint was that streets remained blocked for hours -- even when Obama was inside TV producer John Wells' Hancock Park home at a fund-raiser.

"What has occurred is way beyond reasonable and can only be described as negligent," L.A. resident Kevin McCarthy said in an e-mail to The Times. "If it isn't my story, currently evolving, of beginning my 1 mile journey home at 5pm and at 7:50pm now being 3 miles from home with no viable idea of how to get closer, it should be about the two sirens-wailing ambulances I have witnessed stuck in this unnecessary gridlock."

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/la-fuming-over-obama-traffic-demands-investigation.html

[Richard D]

1. I once got stuck in an airport for 5 hours

cause * was giving a speech in Las Vegas and the entire airspace was shut down.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. "L.A. resident Kevin McCarthy said in an e-mail to The Times."

My side is literally splitting,

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. He probably thinks the real presidential staff have been replaced by pods.

[FLyellowdog]

3. Impeachment is the ONLY answer! nt

[Jennicut]

4. Massive traffic jams! Somehow these people have never been to CT, Mass, RI or New Jersey.

Traffic jams...oh, to wonder what life would be like without them. A traffic jam on the highway is a daily occurrence for anyone in the most densely populated states.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. It was beyond bad. People stuck for 3 hours.

[left coaster]

12. Yeah, what would Angelinos know about traffic jams?

;)

[Scurrilous]

5. So what?

They used to shut down 101 every time Reagan flew into Santa Barbara to loll about his 'ranch.'

[gratuitous]

6. Quiet, you moonbats

Dictionary Brown is on the case, because as we all know, traffic is never tied up in L.A. There must be some sinister explanation why someone would be a mile from home at 5 p.m. and three miles away nearly three hours later. This being L.A., walking is totally out of the question.

[MadMaddie]

8. Did the Residents get fumed when the previous president

came through?

We had similar reporting in the Seattle area, the local prop and small plane owners were complaining about lost business. I don't recall them complaining when the previous president came here.

[snooper2]

9. Clicked on Thread, instantly looked at the link to the article and thought

it would be from the Onion...

Come on, with a thread title like that, but no- it's real :rofl:

Now to read the article and laugh some more :rofl:

[Chulanowa]

10. A traffic jam? That's nothing!

WE got The Obooma.