Essayist D.J. Waldie offers his reflections on Southern California's enchantment with cars, freeways and the poetry of movement.

By D.J. Waldie

Los Angeles loves wheels.

It loves the wheels on trains, chrome wheels on custom cars, and the urethane wheels on skateboards.

Wheels over the asphalt, the concrete, the adobe soil of any freeway or sidewalk or backcountry trail, if it leads away from wherever it is you are.

Wheels are the fix for this city's need.

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Vigilantes in San Jose patrol the freeways for carpool lane cheaters. (California Connected, 2004)
The need for speed at the home-grown race track at Irwindale. (Life & Times, 1999)

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