{"id":92602,"date":"2025-12-13T00:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/92602\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:35:08","slug":"l-a-traffic-is-slightly-better-but-that-may-not-be-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/92602\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. traffic is slightly better, but that may not be good news."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>           New data show congestion dipped in 2025, knocking Los Angeles down a couple spots on the global traffic rankings.        <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Tom Carroll\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/tom-carroll\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Tom Carroll. (Ricardo DeAratanha \/ Los Angeles Times)\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765586108_694_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>  <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Terry Castleman\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/terry-castleman\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Terry Castleman. (Ricardo DeAratanha \/ Los Angeles Times)\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765586108_697_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>      Dec. 12, 2025 4:12 PM PT                          <\/p>\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<p>But experts say the change isn\u2019t because of better roads or transit. Instead, remote work, high downtown office vacancies, and a still-struggling city core may be keeping cars off the road. Angelenos are still spending nearly four days a year stuck in traffic \u2014 and the economic cost remains in the billions. Tom Carroll spoke with reporter Terry Castleman to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>               <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Tom Carroll\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/tom-carroll\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765586108_694_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Tom Carroll is a content creator for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2022, he created, produced and hosted the web series \u201c<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/tomexploresla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tom Explores Los Angeles<\/a>.\u201d He has produced stories for NPR and Gimlet. A fourth-generation Southern Californian, he is a graduate of Occidental College and the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>         <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Terry Castleman\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/terry-castleman\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765586108_697_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Terry Castleman is a data reporter on the Fast Break Desk covering breaking news. In 2020, he was named alongside his colleagues as a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/finalists\/rosanna-xia-swetha-kannan-and-terry-castleman-los-angeles-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pulitzer Prize finalist in explanatory reporting<\/a>. Previously, he worked at the New York Times and volunteered as a first responder for refugees arriving on the shores of Lesvos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New data show congestion dipped in 2025, knocking Los Angeles down a couple spots on the global traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[51019,31237,1810,51018,50192,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,10278,31236,1009,3044,51016,31234,1816,51017,72],"class_list":["post-92602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-fourth-generation-southern-californian","tag-gimlet","tag-good-news","tag-high-downtown-office-vacancy","tag-l-a-traffic","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-npr","tag-occidental-college","tag-southern-california","tag-story","tag-terry-castleman-dec","tag-tom-carroll","tag-university","tag-well-road","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}