I-105 at Downey Ave Live Traffic Cam, Paramount

This live Caltrans camera watches I-105 at Downey Ave, facing westbound traffic in Paramount, Los Angeles County. A glance at the feed before you leave can tell you whether to expect an easy drive or a slow crawl.

Paramount is a small city in southeast Los Angeles County, home of Paramount Iceland, the rink where Frank Zamboni invented his famous ice resurfacer.

Weekday traffic is heavy westbound toward the airport and the South Bay in the morning and eastbound in the evening. Trains of the C Line glide along the median while drivers sit in traffic, a very Los Angeles scene.

Opened in 1993, the Century Freeway was the last major freeway built in Los Angeles, and Metro's C Line light rail runs in its median. Interstate 105, officially the Glenn Anderson Freeway and better known as the Century Freeway, runs east-west from near LAX to Norwalk. The interchange of I-105 and I-110 is a five-level stack that rises high above South Los Angeles, often seen in films and car commercials.

This view is shared by Caltrans, the California Department of Transportation, which runs hundreds of roadside cameras across the state.