The original version of Hylen’s book contained 116 photos, and the expanded new edition of “Los Angeles Before the Freeways” has 143 images. Hylen began taking photographs downtown about 1950.

Top image: an early view of the the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) at Bristol in Santa Ana, courtesy of the Orange County Archives. Los Angeles southland transportation Daily Newsletter ...

Dramatic images of LA fire looming over the 405 Freeway during morning commute. Named the Skirball fire, the blaze north of Brentwood covers over 50 acres.

When the 101 Freeway opened in 1940, it was the focus of Thanksgiving gridlock photos. But by the 1970s, that photogenic interest shifted to the 405 Freeway, at least in the pages of The Times.

Protests against the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, first ignited in L.A., have spread across the country.

Most images show traffic jam on larger freeway in China. Only the first image in the carousel shows the Katy Freeway, Adam Hammons, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Transportation, said ...