Traffic Tales

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) is a bestseller with a self-explanatory title. Apparently it has stuff about all the time wasted searching for parking in Westwood. The suggestion--make it harder to park on the street there so people won't waste so much time avoiding paid parking.

As someone who's spent a fair amount of time searching for parking there, all I can say is the experience is already miserable enough without making it worse.

In an unrelated story, "a motorcyclist dropped a canvas bag full of cash on the San Bernadino Freeway" last Sunday. Motorists stopped to grab bills. They stopped and got out of their cars.

I was on the 10 just a few hours before the incident. Bad timing.