Traffic Reports in Driving in Los Angeles County
You can get traffic reports 24 hours a day from several radio stations. Radio stations don't play traffic reports during sports events or special news events. Traffic reports will often substitute the verbal name for a freeway "Westbound Santa Monica Freeway" for the number; be aware that for example, the congestion may be nowhere near Santa Monica.
KFWB 980 AM has traffic reports on the ones (:01,�:11,�:21,�:31,�:41, and�:51) when they aren't playing Dodger games or running Larry King Live. KNX 1070 AM "News Radio" - Los Angeles' 24-hour news station - has traffic reports "on the 5's" when they aren't running the simucast of 60 Minutes (7 pm on Sunday) or 60 Minutes II, or "Weekly Roundup". KFI 640 AM "More Stimulating Talk Radio" and KABC 790 AM run traffic reports four times an hour, usually during commercial breaks of their talk shows. The radio station web sites have links to graphics showing traffic speeds and the accident logs of the highway patrol.
Caltrans has installed real-time traffic speed sensors on most freeways in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
City of Los Angeles street speed information is available though the City's website
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