“It was the way you always dreamed...

“It was the way you always dreamed it would be, and never is, except during the Olympics and on holidays. There was absolutely no traffic.”

--Rick Ruiz, a deputy to City Councilwoman Ruth Galanter, commenting on a lack of freeway congestion Monday credited to the “semi-holiday” of the third of July, when thousands of workers--and commuters--took the day off.