Driving from LA to Vegas

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All things equal, the 210 is much better than the 10. The 10's carpool lane only stretches for about 5 miles and doesn't really help. The 210's carpool goes from Pasadena to the 15 so that would really help. That said, you're travelling on a Friday before a 3-day weekend, so many additional variables will be in play.

What time are you leaving? If you're leaving from the Westside at 6/7pm or after, you should be ok, relatively speaking (since everyone would have been on the road from 3pm and on).

You can do the 5-2-134-210 combo. However, the 2 and 5 portions could really be backed up. If you're going to go through downtown anyway, a better bet is to take the 110 North all the way to Pasadena, get on local streets for about 1 mile and then back on the 210.

Other options include the 405-101-134-210 (probably not a good idea), or through Laurel Canyon etc.

Heading east out of LA shouldn't be that bad. The worst part of traffic is the 15 north in the Ontario/Devour area. It is ALWAYS backed up here! Reason being is that tons of big rigs come through here and they can't make it up hill, so everyone slows down.