SigAlert issued on 110 Freeway in downtown LA An overturned propane tanker trailer triggered a SigAlert in downtown LA. LOS ANGELES - No injuries were reported after a big rig loaded with propane overturned Monday morning on the transition road from the 110 Freeway to the 10 Freeway in ...
Southern California is notorious for its traffic. We even have our own lingo for bad traffic events: the SigAlert. But where did this term come from? And L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison wonders if it's fading into obscurity.
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Los Angeles is a city of drivers –“why walk when you can drive” seems to be the motto here which somewhat makes sense considering the great distances between things. However Los Angeles has a continuously developing metro along with a Metro Link system serving a large area of the ...
Bruce McGowan, Capistrano Beach The “Sig” in “SigAlert” is a man, not a signal. Loyd Sigmon, former general manager of Golden West Broadcasting, invented the SigAlert back in 1955. We reached Sigmon at his home north of Los Angeles to get a full rundown on how the term was coin...
Patt Morrison is a writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where as a member of two reporting teams, she has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes.
It’s a pace that suits life on this tranquil island, a salty Mayberry where residents consider a road with three carts and a minivan a cause for a SigAlert. In Avalon, where most of Catalina’s 3,300 residents live, the streets buzz with gas and electric carts on their way to the...
On a bad day, the drive home can take three hours or more, much of it along the I-580 corridor from the I-680 interchange to the Alameda-San Joaquin County line. Nearly every commuter on the bus has a horror story about the (pick one) accident, storm, flood, SigAlert that pushed ...
At just under 18 feet long and 8 feet wide, the Crown Victoria is indeed pretty close to being a one-car SigAlert. But rounding the edges and corners removes much of the bulkiness. Modernizing the bumpers and wheels, while replacing an antique front grille with more contemporary slits, fini...