Odysseus...
Jan. 13th, 2005 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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.
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Date: 2005-01-13 01:40 pm (UTC)And it was my pleasure, no point more people suffering in that jam-o-doom than had to!