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“Traffic on a Saturday morning is gridlocked, so it’s very important that he was able to get the cars to move out of the way,” Ms Anderson said.

The northbound lanes of Interstate 75, which runs west from Fort Lauderdale to Naples before heading north through Tampa and into Georgia, were gridlocked for much of Monday and into Tuesday morning.

A couple of reader submissions offered pointers on how to hack the horseshoe from hell — the permanently gridlocked U-shaped route past all of the terminals at Los Angeles International Airport.

Transit experts and airport officials believe it will significantly ease traffic in the gridlocked horseshoe loop of 1 World Way by shuttling people between terminals, parking lots and a new consolidated rental car facility.

Several overpasses on the 5, 10, 118 and 210 freeways had collapsed, and the ones that still stood were gridlocked in both directions with people either evacuating or trying to get home.