La is a wasted opportunity

[u/villehhulkkonen]

Imagine if Los Angeles was built like Barcelona. Dense 15 million people metropolis with great public transportation and walkability.

They wasted this perfect climate and perfect place for city by building a endless suburban sprawl.

[u/Entire_Yoghurt538]

Haters gonna hate. It's 51 degrees in LA at 7:30 AM today on December 26th with a high of 65. Have fun shoveling snow. Lets go Lakers!!!!

[u/xegendary → u/Entire_Yoghurt538]

I’m so glad they won last night. They always make things more difficult than it needs to be.

[u/Entire_Yoghurt538 → u/xegendary]

Don't forget the Celtics lost too. Ideal Christmas.

[u/NecessaryPen7 → u/Entire_Yoghurt538]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

GO BRONNY!!! Lol

[u/an_internet_person_ → u/Entire_Yoghurt538]

If it was 65 degrees in Europe we would die

[u/Entire_Yoghurt538 → u/an_internet_person_]

We use the correct (Murica) units here when talking about everyday temperature. I only use metric in my job, and thank goodness reddit isn't part of my engineering duties.

[u/Spalding_Smails → u/Entire_Yoghurt538]

Since you're clearly from LA, is that intersection near the center of the photo the one called "the stack" that I've seen pictures of from directly above?

[u/Entire_Yoghurt538 → u/Spalding_Smails]

Orange County born but I love LA too, along with all of Southern California. Lakers Nation spans all of Southern California and into Nevada and Central California. Not to mention other countries and most of Latin America.

[u/Flesh_Lettuce → u/Spalding_Smails]

Never heard it called the stack. I'm 99% that's the 110 and 105 interchange. Going to the right of this pic is west towards LAX. When you're flying in, you fly just north of the 105 so you can snap this picture. It's why there's always such great pics of fireworks during the 4th of July. I live in Inglewood in-between the two flight paths for arrivals. 

[u/Spalding_Smails → u/Flesh_Lettuce]

Thanks for replying. I looked it up and it showed the one you're referring to, the 110 & 105 Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange. I think I was first made aware of it here on Reddit a while back. Here's a post someone made featuring it. It may have been the one I saw but I can't be sure.

[u/prushnix → u/Spalding_Smails]

The one you referred to as "the stack" is a different freeway interchange that was built even longer ago.

That one is in downtown LA (unlike this one/Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange which is closer to LAX). That one crosses 101 and 110 freeways (the same 110 freeeay as this picture but obviosuly a different section.

Nowadays, in Southern California, anywhere two freeways cross, the interchange looks somewhat like this (Maybe not as complicated as this one or "the stack", but you get the idea.)

[u/Spalding_Smails → u/prushnix]

Actually, that one also came up on the search results when I looked for "The Stack interchange in Los Angeles". In fact it was the first result and I figured it was it, but then saw the Reddit post so I went with that one since I figured it was a local who knew better. Your link didn't work for me, I got 404'd on a PBS SoCal page, but I'm assuming its name, outside of being the 101 & 110 interchange is the Bill Keene Memorial. Thanks for taking the time to clarify it for me, I appreciate it.

[u/prushnix → u/Spalding_Smails]

You are welcome. Love to share knowledge, as redditor's have shared with me knowledge in the past too.

I updated the link in the post.

Just incase it doesn't work, posting it below too. If even the below link doens't work, you shoukd be able to Google it as well.

I actually didn't kow until you said. Yes, the article says its name was renamed to Bill Keene Memorial interchange in 2006. At one point in time (in the early 2000's), this used to be part of the World's Busiest Freeway Interchange where the freeways 5, 10, 110 and 101 all meet in downtown LA).
Not sure whether it holds that record anymore.

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/l-a-s-famous-four-level-freeway-interchange-the-stack-turns-58

[u/Spalding_Smails → u/prushnix]

Yup, that link works. Thank you. I'll enjoy reading it.