I don’t know if it’s the $5/gallon gas prices, but freeway life here in southern California has become more surreal of late. Granted, traffic volumes are down, at least a little, so freeways are no longer in that perpetual state of criticality where a butterfly crossing through the 3 lane causes a 6 km backup. Yesterday I saw no less than 3 warnings about people walking on the I-5 freeway — which is a 10-lane high-speed monstrosity — and just now I saw this in a live CHP incident report near me here in La Jolla. Someone is bicycling in the dark in the fast lane of a freeway? Dear God, people. I know gas prices are high, but this is getting deranged.

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