91 Freeway

This freeway has stolen more hours away from my life than I can count… and on multiple occasions it has tested my sanity… avoid at all costs

Horrible freeway I would rather use the 60freeway or the 10 freeway if I’m gong to Orange County from riverside!

If you want to spend your whole life /​day on a freeway, this will be your freeway. There is always constant traffic, filled with people can’t drive. People who drive on the 91 leave large gaps in-​between them and the car in front of them. When I mean large gaps, I mean gaps enough to fit 5 cars. There’s also large pockets of traffic and in order to get anywhere, you have to go around these people who drive way under the speed limit.
Sometimes I would just give up on my destination because the drive on this freeway is ridiculous. Also, there is always construction for this freeway whether it be for the lanes or for the freeway entrances and exits.

The 91 sucks. I mean it is terrible. They even are trying to fix the ‘ol girl– but she’s been bed way too many times to one too many times to recover from this one. But what choice do we have? Walk? Screw that. That being said: I would rather kick myself in the ass than sit on this trainwreck of a Freeway. They are doing tons of construction near the 15, which causes all kinds of hell no matter what time they are tearing shit up. Horrible.
I seriously wouldn’t wish this hell on my worst enemy. If some jerk didn’t charge about 1200 at Bevmo in godforsaken-​jersey, I probably would have a stroke. For the first time in my life I was grateful for thievery. And the last.
Unless I’m on the 91!

Overall, the 91 freeway in its entirety is «OK.» However, between Orange and Riverside counties, it’s passable (no pun intended) at best.
Between Yorba Linda Bld/​Weir Canyon and the city of Corona lies one of the worst tracts of pavement in the United States. Traveling eastbound at peak hours weekdays between 4−6pm, you will struggle for 30 – 40 minutes, typically, to simply travel about 5.5 miles to Green River Road, and probably another 10 — 20 minutes thereafter before reaching I-​15. That’s an average of about 10MPH, if you’re lucky.
You may think you’re cleaver by getting off at Yorba Linda, or even earlier eastbound at Imperial Hwy, and taking La Palma or Santa Ana Canyon east past heavy freeway traffic. Neither of these roads goes through from Yorba Linda or Anaheim Hills into Corona, and you’ll eventually have to get back onto the freeway.
In fact, that’s the biggest problem with the eastbound freeway. Westbound in the morning, once you escape from Corona, traffic is quite lovely (until you get to the 55) as traffic exits onto the 241 tollway, La Palma, and Gypsum Canyon. But in the evening heading back, all three of these roads merge onto the freeway within the same mile stretch. And how many lanes are added to SR-​91 for 6 lanes of merging traffic? Only one extra lane, thanks to the geography of the canyon walls. Even the freeway expansion happening in Corona won’t improve this pinch spot, which is one of Orange County’s «elephants in the room.»
The MetroLink is one option, but is still a bit cost-​prohibitive unless you can go all-​in and buy a month pass. But if you have kids to pick up in between work and home, it’s not much of an option.
If you live in Corona and commute on the 91, I’d suggest the Santa Ana River Trail instead, if you have a bicycle and no obligations. Just park your car on Green river and hit the trail head near the golf course. It might take you longer to get to work, but you actually may be about even on the ride home, considering the ponderous speed of traffic in the evenings. There are plenty of bike lanes in Orange County to accommodate bikes once you’re off trail (and if there aren’t, you should let your city know). And you’ll have to worry less about hitting a gym.

I hate this freeway! The express way is a complete waste of money, no carpool lane and not enough lanes! Anyone who actually have this freeway 5 stars is a complete moron

I hate this freeway. There’s constantly traffic and constant car accidents in either directions.
If this were a restaurant, the soup would be roaches with expired sriracha, the entrée would consist of half fried worms with gravy from the bottom of a dumpster, and dessert would be toe fungus from 1000 people, dry-​aged for 21 days in a humid broth of cheese and bread.
For awhile, the 71 to 91 West connector was closed… and there seems to be no improvement. The 91 East past Yorba Linda might as well be a parking lot due to the traffic, and lack of work on the «construction».
Somehow, even when traffic on every other freeway is light, the 91 West and 55 South connector gets plugged up… like a 100 year old sink with a lifetime of hair, pubes and dandruff plugging up the piping.
I hate this freeway with a passion.

I’ve been driving riverside to LA for 6 years. This is by far the worst freeway in Southern California. Without fail, it’s a parking lot every morning. Not even the notorious 405 is this bad, seriously

It just can’t get much worse – construction ALL the time and now the NIGHTMARE at the 15 and 91… not going there !

Come on are they serious anyone that knows freeways know the 91 sucks. Especially we’re the 57 and the 91 connect oh my gosh that’s a nightmare. If possible take the streets.

I know the 91 Freeway needs to be expanded, but it’s not reasonable to keep nearby residents awake every single night with construction noise and drilling vibration. I feel like I’m in a perpetual earthquake and I’m suffering from sleep deprivation! This is supposed to go on until 2017?!! Not acceptable.

I hate this place more than anything I’ve ever hated the whole world. It takes like 30 minutes to get from one exit to the other to top it off people will drive in the carpool lane all the way till the end and then scoot over into the general Lane its ridiculous

Did not know you could review a freeway!!! Lol
Well… The 91 frwy is probably one of the worst for traffic. Always seems to be traffic, and lots of accidents on this frwy. The 15 to the 91 intercharge going towards OC irritates me because people merge after the bridge and then stay on the far right, which is an exit lane (exit for main street)… It never fails, everyyyy morning some dooshbag decides that they are gona drive in the exit lane just to get ahead of some of the traffic– then they cut everyone off last minute to get over! Grrrrrrr stupid people lol

Non stop traffic. But it gives you a chance to marvel at the sunrise if you are lucky enough to wake up and commute at that time lol. I like driving and seeing the mountainside. Once the scenery is played out then you realize you waste all your time stuck in your car and it is not moving at all. Yeah traffic sucks in this freeway.

No, I do not like this freeway. At all.
Always bad traffic, lots of crazy drivers, and a hassle.
In the summertime, you’ll get lot of people heading westbound to the beach (ugh), and then you get people heading east on their way to Vegas. Always bad traffic.
Lots of newer communities in the Inland Empire are making the traffic even worse. Can’t imagine how terrible it will be in a few years.
(I did my first internship 10 years ago in Corona, and traffic wasn’t THAT bad. Now? You couldn’t pay me to put up with that drive.)

Sitting in the car and listening to music, I see the day break into a new day by viewing the beautiful Southern California sky. I am lucky to be commuting eastbound on the 91 to Orange County. I get to see the sunrise every weekday morning and see the sunset on way back home.
Commuting on the 91 might not be so smooth every morning but this freeway certainly gets me from point A to point B. It beats going inner roads and having to stop at every mile. The lanes are fairly smooth, no potholes (none that I have driven over), wider lanes than the ones in Los Angeles, a carpool lane, and shoulders to pullover in case of an emergency.
As an added perk, a service patrol truck travels on the slowest lane scouting for any stranded motorist during peak traffic. I know this service exist because I was once a stranded motorist with a flat tire. I was able to pull over on the shoulder and the service patrol truck was already parked behind me before I could even call AAA. They changed my tire to my spare for free.
People take for granted the infrastructure that this freeway offers. Compare the commute to Downtown Los Angeles and you will see and feel the difference. Look how close you are to the car next to you and think where would you pull over in case of a flat. Hope you will wish that you were back on the 91 freeway.

This is still my favorite freeway when traveling west to east and my case trying to get to the 15 freeway, I have no problem at all plus its more convenient and fast for me then the 10 and 60… pedal to the metal.

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Living in the Inland Empire (IE) I would take the 91 mainly towards Orange County to Irvine and Costa Mesa. Driving from Corona to Yorba Linda, that mountain pass can get really back up and traffic can be at a standstill. Totally nerve wrecking!
Just recently I left a club in Costa Mesa and ended up taking a detour making me take the 91 all the way from Long Beach back to the Riverside interchange where the 15 freeway meets. There was no traffic driving back and was pretty smooth all the way. Never had any problems with the CHP driving on the 91.
Always have a designated driver whenever you have go to a club or random bar. It’s not worth it getting a DUI.

Yay For Freeways!
The 91 is great for the OC portion. It has four lanes, a carpool lane and is free from graffiti. Weird, as soon as you cross into LA County it sucks nuts.
Early hour mornings (4−5am) are just fine.
710 portion has sucky truck traffic in the afternoons.
CHP always looking for carpool violations and hand held infractions around the State College off ramp. I got pulled over twice to make sure I had the little one in the back. Waste of time during heavy traffic.
Generally, I prefer driving via the 22 even if it’s further in distance when I need to head west bound.
Overall, AOK.

This was the freeway where a barely legal young girl spun out in the rain and crossed all lanes of the freeway as she entered from the 57 and sideswiped my front end of my beloved Nissan crushing it along with my arm and drove away with not even a scratch but left me with a very expensive ride to UCI and no more Nissan.
Props though to the off duty fire fighter who was driving behind us and immediately parked his Hummer behind us, threw on this Yellow coat and started lighting flares as we were calling 911.
he also tried calming my 220 pound husband who can bench press over 400 pounds who decided to get out of my car in traffic.
This freeway has always been busy, night or day. The further towards Corona, the worst it gets. Good luck my friends and be safe.
I refuse to drive this freeway at night. ILL go out of my way and take the 22 home.

Blech!