Comments on: Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: “Autopia” Downtown Los Angeles, 1957 http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/10/autopia/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:28:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Autopia, Tomorrowland, Disneyland, USA, 1956 http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/10/autopia/comment-page-1/#comment-1795 Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Autopia, Tomorrowland, Disneyland, USA, 1956 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:45:28 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/10/autopia/#comment-1795 [...] Last weeks slide: “Autopia” of Downtown Los Angeles, the freeway interchange called the “stack,” and this week’s, Autopia in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. The similarities between the two are staggering! [...] [...] Last weeks slide: “Autopia” of Downtown Los Angeles, the freeway interchange called the “stack,” and this week’s, Autopia in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. The similarities between the two are staggering! [...]

]]> By: Pete http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/10/autopia/comment-page-1/#comment-1732 Pete Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:24:45 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/10/autopia/#comment-1732 The East LA Interchange is impressive, to be sure. The way that the main alignments are essentially two overlapping Y-shapes is a brilliant piece of design. The 10/405 interchange is good-looking from the air. Few driving experiences, though, are the equal of going through the Four-Level at night with light traffic, the towers of downtown blazing brilliantly overhead as you swoop through the concrete treetrunks like Tarzan on a liana. Not even the 105-east-to-110-north carpool connector, which takes you at least seven stories up and provides an incredible view of the entire Los Angeles Basin, can compare. It'd sure be nice if the Four-Level's capacity were a little higher, though. Sucker backs <i>up</i>. The East LA Interchange is impressive, to be sure. The way that the main alignments are essentially two overlapping Y-shapes is a brilliant piece of design. The 10/405 interchange is good-looking from the air.

Few driving experiences, though, are the equal of going through the Four-Level at night with light traffic, the towers of downtown blazing brilliantly overhead as you swoop through the concrete treetrunks like Tarzan on a liana. Not even the 105-east-to-110-north carpool connector, which takes you at least seven stories up and provides an incredible view of the entire Los Angeles Basin, can compare.

It’d sure be nice if the Four-Level’s capacity were a little higher, though. Sucker backs up.

]]> By: Geoff http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/10/autopia/comment-page-1/#comment-1731 Geoff Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:47:55 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/10/autopia/#comment-1731 The four-level is the most overrated freeway interchange in the city. Gimme the 405/10 (for aesthetics) or East L.A. (sheer complexity) interchange any day. The four-level is the most overrated freeway interchange in the city. Gimme the 405/10 (for aesthetics) or East L.A. (sheer complexity) interchange any day.

]]> By: Pete http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/10/autopia/comment-page-1/#comment-1730 Pete Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:48:03 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/10/autopia/#comment-1730 Glad to see that someone else realizes the central importance of the Four-Level Interchange to this city. It's so elegant in the way it's depressed into the hillside, too--few other highway interchanges have this sense of sheer poetry to them. A symphony in concrete, I tell you. Glad to see that someone else realizes the central importance of the Four-Level Interchange to this city. It’s so elegant in the way it’s depressed into the hillside, too–few other highway interchanges have this sense of sheer poetry to them. A symphony in concrete, I tell you.

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