Back in my days of commuting to and from the Westside, I thought I could outwit, out-calm or outwait the big, bad 10 Freeway. I was wrong.

No matter how much James Taylor I played, or how many audiobooks I consumed or hours I delayed before taking the on-ramp, it seemed that I-10 remained an endless sea of red brake lights. I’d slink into my spot on the commuter conveyor belt and inch along, defeated.

Now comes affirmation from my colleagues Terry Castleman and Shelby Grad that a commute that felt like Southern California’s worst really was. The fearsome but often unavoidable 10 ranks as the worst freeway in Southern California , according to an analysis by The Times. Statistical savant Castleman and SoCal history whiz Grad came to this conclusion by measuring the region’s freeways fro

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