L.A. has been a shortcut city for a very long time. It is almost 50 years since I resided there; back then good shortcuts got mentioned in the gossip columns,

L.A. has been a shortcut city for a very long time. It is almost 50 years since I resided there; back then good shortcuts got mentioned in the gossip columns, and magazine articles were written about great shortcuts. The difference now is that the solutions are newer, high-tech, and more expensive, but the problem is much worse.