Can any of SoCal Dopers give me some tips for making the interchange from the 10E to the 110S going to San Pedro??
I am planning on heading down to San Pedro this Friday from Vegas.
I normally take a completely ridiculous route to get there the 15 S to the 10 W to the 710 S and across to S.P. from Long Beach. It’s takes me longer to go to than come home by the 110 N to the 10 E to the 15 N.
I have tried to make the 10 W to the 110 S interchange however, my problem being, is that the few times I have tried I cannot seem to make the 10 W to the 110 S interchange heading to San Pedro. Each time I have tried, I end up getting lost (wrong lanes and all). Once I ended up near a huge Buddhist temple and car crusher lots…
I have nothing to tell you except that that particular interchange is the worst designed in the history of civil engineering [cite]. I am in that area once a week and I just want to pull the fingernails off of whoever is responsible for it. I think the 10E was designed by a idiot savant. Except his particular area of ability wasn’t in traffic.
I wouldn’t call your route ridiculous. It’s probably a little longer, but not by much. Plus it gets you off the 10 before you get to downtown, which can be a mess at times.
You could also take the 710 South to the 91, and take that West to the 110.
Have you considered skipping the 10/110 altogether? A few miles before the 110 interchange, exit I-10W to US- 101N, and 1-2 miles later, exit to I-110S. Only a little out of the way, and both junctions are relatively straightforward.
This is your winner. There’s absolutely no reason for you to go through downtown LA. There are few, if any, times of day where that would be desirable from a traffic standpoint, anyway.
I will give this route a try on Friday. Looking at the freeway map I have, it shows if I get lost I could end up in Compton or Inglewood [shudder]. Hopefully the signs are obvious.
I always thought the freeways in Las Vegas were bad, but the L.A. freeways make me crazy.
Gah, it was so much easier when my sis lived in Oceanside!
ha ha ha I love that xkcd guy
on Edit… Thanks for all your help and suggestions.
It’s not the interchange itself so much as 1. the traffic on it and 2. the inane way in which the 10 is constructed. On the westbound side (I mean 10W in my first post, I was turned around in my brain) that I travel on most frequently, lanes 1 and 2 separate from the rest of the freeway with a divider. Lane 1 opens onto offramps, and lane 2 opens onto the rest of the freeway at regular intervals. The result being you have people from lane 3 trying to make a massive lane change to exit, people in lane 1 either trying to exit, go on their way, or get back onto the rest of the freeway, and the poor hapless dolts in lane 2 getting squished.
105 & 110 do cut through some rough neighborhoods, but as long as you stick to the freeways you’ll be fine. The sound walls are built extra high to protect motorists from stray bullets.
Seriously, the south-central areas aren’t that bad, as long as you stick to major streets and only go down there during daylight hours. (Night time’s a different story!!)
Yo Yeti!! I gave a Doper shout out as I passed you around 3 pm!
Thanks for the route. I didn’t have any problems except for trying to merge over in ridiculous traffic. Much easier than trying to make the 10/110 interchange or even going the way I normally go through Long Beach.
