Santa Ana Crawl
n.— «The commute, from the cheaper homes of Riverside County to the jobs of Orange and Los Angeles Counties, is known as the Santa Ana Crawl, and about 300,000 cars make it every day on the Riverside Freeway.» —“Paying on the Highway to Get Out of First Gear” by Timothy Egan New York Times Apr. 28, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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