110 freeway in LA is shut down

what a traffic nightmare that will be. i'm glad i don't take that freeway. as much as a believe in peaceful protest, i think blocking a freeway is too much especially in an already congested area.

ETA: it's actually the southbound 110 freeway in Downtown L.A. around 3rd street.   downtown is already a traffic nightmare and it's going to be a bigger nightmare if it's blocked. this is where the freeway bottlenecks around downtown. the side streets aren't a great detour.  horrible.  

omg idiots. And you are exactly right Pants, CHLA is right there, all this does is piss people off, it doesn't help anyone's cause one damn bit.

The shutdown lasted about an hour. I saw a photo of school buses in the traffic. I wonder if there were kids on the buses, although at 9:30 I would assume they were already dropped off at their schools. I don't think this is a way to get people sympathetic to your cause. It is their right to protest, but I don't really know what is the best way to go about it.

Could be for field trips.

Sure, stopping traffic in American will influence fighting in 2 counties over which we have no control. (sarcasm)

I find it impossible to understand the logic behind this.

If go to edit in your original post you can also change the subject line.

My biggest issue with this is when it makes getting to/from hospitals take longer. They’re putting other people's lives at risk while not even really getting their point across just inconveniencing others to boot.

So I am at a trauma 1 center over an hour away from LA and the USC Transplant Team just walked in and asked to be led to the OR to pick up a heart.

Could you imagine being family waiting for the organ to arrive and the team gets stuck in this crap?!

It was not smart. I saw a video of drivers getting out of their cars and pushing protestors around.

Reminds me of a local small business (car wash) that had a lovely hand-painted mural of the Austin landscape that someone spray painted "Free Palestine" all across it. That really sucks!

We have stuff like this happening in the UK by environmental groups. Two main ones - Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil pull similar stunts, causing huge disruption to all sort of people in many ways and their answer is always "But you're talking about it aren't you"

Frankly it just pisses people off and they ought to aim their protests at the politicians, the owners/presidents etc of the massive companies that are doing the environmental damage - not you and I trying to get to medical appts, a job interview and so on.