LA

Los Angeles is not a city designed to be moved through. It is a city designed to be survived. The 405 at 8am is not traffic — it is a sentencing. The 110 interchange at rush hour is not infrastructure — it is performance art about despair. The average LA commuter loses 102 hours per year to congestion, according to federal data. That is four full days. Four days you will never get back, sitting in a machine designed to consume fossil fuels while you watch the same brake lights pulse red like a dying heartbeat in a film you didn’t choose to watch.