I'd just like to say that Caltrans plus the plethora of really stupid people on the freeway equals a situation maddening enough, enraging enough, blood-boiling enough, to make the Dalai Lama murderous.

Why the fuck are you people slowing down? Is it some sort of stimulus-response thing, some sort of infant-type thing, like the way babies reach for keys or bright colors? "OOoooohhhhh, orange cones!!!! I have to stop and look! Look! Pretty colors! Oh, flashing lights! Wow! Let's all slow down and look! Wow!!!"

Save me from this city.