CABLE-GRAMS: You're about to hit the freeways,...

By Jerry Hicks, Dean Takahashi and Helene Elliott

Sept. 29, 1992 12 AM PT

CABLE-GRAMS: You’re about to hit the freeways, but you wonder which route is the best way to go. So you turn on your cable TV, and an updated color-coded map tells you which highways are the most crowded. . . . County transportation officials are now applying for a $3-million federal grant to have such a futuristic system ready by mid-1995. It would first concentrate on freeways and major streets, along with bus and rail routes.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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