Clown Car Commute

[No Name Guy]

These stories are about the mayhem that this Waze app are doing to neighborhood traffic, but the money clown car LA commute was this gem:

Longtime resident Joann Killeen said her four-mile commute to UCLA, where she teaches a public relations class, can take two hours during rush hour. "The streets on the west side are no longer a secret for locals, and people are angry," she said.

(Bold added)

Quoted from:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/15/popular-smartphone-app-causes-traffic-jam-uproar-in-california-neighborhoods/
Another version of the same article without the clown car commute quote:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/12/la-neighborhood-blames-waze-app-for-morning-traffic-jam/

OK - the stupid, it burns.  4 miles, in two hours?  Really?  That's a nice slow walking pace. 

What is it about large cities (cough, cough - LA, NYC to pick on two) that engenders local forms of money foolishness?  The clown car culture of, plastic surgery billboards, etc of LA and the going out to eat / tiny over priced apartments / clothing of NYC.....I just don't get it.

Meh....

[Patrick A]

This hurts my brain

[austin]

What an idiot. What else is there to say? I can't believe people like this exist.

[slugline]

Maybe the UCLA professor is disabled . . . or needs to haul in a different class set of dead-tree textbooks each day? ;)

[Melchior]

Surely four miles in two hours is a gross exaggeration?

I'd sooner drag myself hand over hand than push pedals in a car at that pace.

[frugalnacho]

Surely four miles in two hours is a gross exaggeration?

I'd sooner drag myself hand over hand than push pedals in a car at that pace.

Me too, and that's not even considering the financial aspect of it.  Truly mind blowing.

[jinga nation]

If you can't read a map or are directionally challenged, don't use a mapping app. If you can't do simple time = distance/speed math, you're lacking cranium components.