I-5 Freeway

3 or 4 day weekends and you want to head northbound… forget it… ugh…traffic blows
If there’s a accident its even worse… grrr

Thinking about driving on any freeway makes me want to vomit, especially «the» 5 in the LA metro area, especially the stretch under construction just north of «the» 91. During the day there is traffic. At night they close down lanes, resulting in traffic. There is traffic on weekdays, weekends, 24 – 7. Including Sunday mornings, probably. There are potholes from all the semis and the lack of maintenance. I hear the lawmakers in DC under-​fund transportation in CA especially. Perhaps «the» 60 in S. CA is worse with all the semis, filling up the second lane from the right stacked back-​to-​back like a super long freight train, hauling junk Americans buy from the Port Long Beach. The traffic on «the» 5 is crappy and guzzling gas and expelling poison into the air makes me feel no better than excrement. Go to
to view the hazardous smog patterns in the LA area during the summer.

The interstate 5 is an impressive freeway stretching North and South across the entire contiguous United States, all the way from Mexico to Canada. The I-​5 connects California, Oregon and Washington, and passes through numerous major cities and highly populated areas.
This particular location of the I-​5 is in Sylmar, close to where the 14 freeway and the 210 freeway branch off to facilitate travel thru other areas within Southern California. This interchange area can be a little tricky, with commuters quickly changing lanes to proceed onto their desired freeway, so be careful when traveling through this area and be aware of your surroundings.
Recent construction on the I-​5 near this location has also been rather impressive, particularly with the addition of carpool lanes. All of this additional infrastructure helps to ease the increased traffic in this region due to the continually increasing population in Southern California. Understandably, traffic can get extremely congested here during peak hours, so it is always best to find others to carpool with you to help reduce your wait time.
In my opinion, this location of the I-​5 is worthy of a four-​star rating, partially due to the clearly posted signs and reasonably smooth freeway interchanges, but primarily due to the incredible effort that was recently made to make improvements for those willing to carpool. Some other areas of the I-​5 may deserve a completely different rating.

I’m not a big fan of reviewing freeways, but I want to give some credit where it is due. I commute from Santa Clarita to the San Fernando Valley on a daily basis. I have to give credit to CalTrans for investing money into expanding the freeway to provie commuters an improved driving experience.
They have addeed a car pool lane heading into Valencia and are working on expanding the freeway on both sides with additional lanes.
Addditionaly, they are working on significantly expanding the freeway heading towards Glendale. It’s a project scheduled to be completed by year 2018, but just goes to show the extend of the work invovled.
Yes there is traffic now, but at least there is work in progress to improve our commute.

When did it come down to reviewing freeways?
Anyway, I live in Santa Clarita, so, naturally, if I want to get out of town and do stuff (or even if I need to get home after classes at College of the Canyons), I go on the Five. Be careful, since a lot of trucks use this route. I almost got hit by trucks several times.

Mmmm, well, I always get on this freeway going to Six Flags, the drive is always a drag due to traffic but it’s ok. They’re doing construction so it’s treacherous. Don’t have much else to say about it. But drive safe!