I got this postcard from a Postcrossing connection last week. The card is from the early 1960’s and it shows the intersection of the Pasadena and Hollywood freeways. But what it’s says on the back is the most interesting.“The Los Angeles Freeway System is unique in that it criss-crosses the city and makes it possible to drive through the heart of the Metropolitan area at highway speeds.” Fifty years later this is not so true. It will be interesting to see what solution we find to our self-made traffic nightmare. Congestion charges are one solution.

Here is the same intersection from Google Earth today: