I don't remember a lot of traffic in general back in those days. The road was all mucked up, not nearly as many cars as there are now. Now-a-days the worst traffic you can get stuck in is when the Ricks crowd lets out after sunset with the buses and vans and such.
I used to stay in the neighborhood by Kaisers so I always walked...back in those days I walked just about everywhere.
"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."