![]() ![]() Get traffic updates on Los Angeles and Southern California before you head out with ABC7. ![]() Thanks to the AP and Taylor, Facebook has now added a notification that the photo has been altered. Stay updated with real-time traffic maps and freeway trip times. “The idea that someone would take this seriously is, well, alarming.” “It’s a bit of obvious hyperbole to (I assume) make a point about continually widening freeways to address growing traffic levels,” Taylor wrote. Taylor, a professor of urban planning and public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, wrote to the AP reporter that the false image “has been bouncing around for years.” ramp - South LA in District 7 View on Google Maps ID: 230514LA02143 LAHB Los Angeles 5:52PM. 18 hours ago &0183 &32 The pursuit apparently began in the Los Angeles Police Department’s jurisdiction, but by 9:40 a.m. ![]() It shows five lanes of traffic in each direction, with far fewer cars. Motorcyclist killed in traffic crash on 405 Freeway in Seal. In its story about the picture, the AP provides a link to the original photograph that had been doctored to produce the viral fake, saying it appears to have been captured in 1998. The photo by Taylor, taken in approximately the same location (although looking southbound, the opposite direction) offers proof that there are not 19 lanes in that stretch of freeway, but 12 - including carpool lanes in each direction that were added in 20 during the infamous “Carmageddon” project. Traffic is usually heavy on the freeways during morning and evening commutes when youre driving in Los Angeles. ![]()
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