Our congestion on the 405 wasn't relieved

Taking these would have been cheaper

Bette Billet pointed me to a lengthy article that appeared recently in LA Weekly on the 405 lane additions and the ramp reconstructions in the UCLA area.  Excerpt:

...Is the 405 any more relieved of congestion than when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Congressman Brad Sherman and County Supervisor Gloria Molina demanded in 2006 that L.A.'s "fair share" of state bond money be used to add carpool lanes to the 405? The answer is no. A traffic study by Seattle-based traffic analytics firm Inrix has shown that auto speeds during the afternoon crawl on the northbound 405 are now the same or slightly slower — the maddening 35-minute tangle between the 10 and the 101 is actually a minute longer... 

Full story at http://www.laweekly.com/news/11-billion-and-five-years-later-the-405-congestion-relief-project-is-a-fail-5415772

Too bad we didn't have the option below: