Transportation
The Oz of Los Angeles Traffic Lights
How the city controls its traffic system, then and now.
If you think traffic is bad in Los Angeles today, be thankful you weren't around in the early 20th century. Here's what the city's streets looked like back then, via Transportation Issues Daily:
Jon Bruner at Forbes brings us an excellent profile of Edward Yu, the man who makes sure things never look this bad again. Yu is the transportation engineer in charge of setting the timing for the city's several thousand traffic lights. Bruner, who describes Yu as a "soft-spoken engineer with great power," writes: