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Yeah, looking at a map, it looks pretty vanilla and I'm not sure why it had such a notorious reputation at this point. If I recall, I think the original was a cloverleaf design, so in every direction you had people merging on and off in a span of about 300 feet.

Ah, yeah. It was renovated in 2007. [1] An LA Times article on its reputation is here. [2]

> And there are plenty of accidents. Sgt. Morrison of the California Highway Patrol estimates that his officers respond to about 30 calls a day in and around the interchange. They handle fender-benders, stalled cars and the occasional 20-car pileup.

That said, either way, it is pretty vanilla compared to the legit spaghetti mentioned in the article with regard to the Sydney interchange.

[1] https://www.caltrop.com/project-details/sr60-sr91-i215-inter...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-freeway21sep21-story.htm...



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