Odysseus...

[hobbitomm]

...probably got to travel faster than me.

Yesterday the Tay bridge was closed (high winds), so I couldn't do my standard 25 minute rushhour commute. Not a huge problem, thinks I. I'll go to Perth (35 minutes) and then along the duel carriageway to dundee (another 25 minutes or so). Ah, alas, not to be. The Friarton bridge, which carries the motorway around Perth to join up with the duel carriageway was also closed (high winds), and therefore the traffic from these two main routes was all trying to get through small roads into the centre of Perth, to use the bridges there, one of which is medieval. The result? A completely gridlocked Perth, and me sitting outside it for 3 and a half hours.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2005/01/13/newsstory6713294t0.asp

Whatever they say, traffic was _not_ moving freely by 9.30!

I got to work at 11am.

Comments

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I so understand your frustration. The same thing happened to me when I was living in Freuchie. Perth is very pretty but you wouldn't want to commute through there. :)

*hug*

[e-halmac.livejournal.com]

blooming heck
thats madness

i'm still curious as to how all three of my classmates who live in dundee made it through to st andrews for 11am...

[graylion.livejournal.com]

_duel_ carriageway? you've been fencing too long ;-)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

It was the effect it had on me... wanted to get my sword out...

[qidane.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks for the "Perth is a nightmare" text message yesterday morning. I stayed at home all morning and headed into work after they had opened the bridge. I got a chance to re-configure my home network to allow me to connect to my work desktop. A little sluggish to use but more productive than sitting in a traffic jam. Perhaps you could arrange for a similar option. I understand there are some very good robot arms on the market, and the patent is going to be asleep so will not know...

PS Sorry for being short on the phone yesterday. Someone had just descended on me clutching a bit of paper and a dongle in a "I mean business" way.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Not a problem. I thought it was something of that kind :)

And it was my pleasure, no point more people suffering in that jam-o-doom than had to!