Life With Traffic...

So I have switched my schedule on Mon-Wed to 8-5 so I can be home a little earlier in the evening. Well some nights it really sucks driving home at 5 instead of 6 because traffic is worse. So last night I'm driving home and I'm heading North on 405 and all of a sudden traffic just stops. Well in the Southbound lanes there was a car on fire that the fire department were putting out. It was hard to get a photo while I was driving but you can just barely see the fireman in the smoke. I was just completely amazed at how the traffic on the opposite lanes of the freeway completely stopped. Too many nosey people want to know what is going on. They could've just gone home and seen it on the news!


So once I got out of this mess on 405 I got on 90 and it was stopped there too! I was dumbfounded that the meter lights weren't on for the cars getting on 90 from Eastgate. The lights are always on when I come home at 6 but for some reason they weren't on last night. This is the mess of people trying to get on 90 from the Eastgate on-ramp. You can see that the light isn't working and all the cars lined up trying to merge. I don't understand how it is so hard to merge for some people! And I also don't understand why some cars stay in the far right lane when they see traffic like this trying to merge into that lane. It would be a hell of a lot easier if those cars in the right lane switched lanes before slowing down. And why can people not speed up before they get on the freeway? The speed limit is 40 on the freeway...it is 60 and you should be at that speed before you try to merge!!! Can you tell I can't stand traffic?