Highway Heaven does a tour of Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles

[bing101]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MaNNgmgU-E

In the video Highway Heaven goes from DTLA to Santa Monica.

[mrsman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MaNNgmgU-E

In the video Highway Heaven goes from DTLA to Santa Monica.

This was nice.  Thank you.

As an LA native, I have driven end to end on many of our famous streets including Wilshire, but I haven't done so in a while.  It was a good way to check out the current situations and the effect of subway construction on the street.  More arrows at major intersections, split-phasing at La Cienega (due to loss of lanes due to subway consturction), and flyover ramp at I-405.

One other relatively recent novelty that caught my eye was this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0670012,-118.3851386,3a,75y,307.18h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6V4YLb-5dXGjaRVI8Z1uWw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D6V4YLb-5dXGjaRVI8Z1uWw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D312.47983%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

A mid-lock ped xing light 1.5 blocks west of Robertson in front of Audi dealer.  How many people cross the street here?  Is this really necessary?

Also didn't realize Sinatra had an L.A. song to go with "New York, New York" and "Chicago (that toddlin town)"

[nexus73]

The surface streets look less congested than the freeways.  Even so, it took an hour to make it from end to end.  The cost would be very high but the only way I see to make is to make superboulevards out of the main surface streets.  One traffic light per mile with an occasional interchange perhaps would let the traffic flow better.

Thank you so much Bing for the Wilshire tour and all the informative notes you posted on the video.  Nicely done!

Rick