"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

Sometimes I am short on patience at the best of times. Seriously, I am not kidding. (That’s for people that know me.)

Went for a little drive today to Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. This being the start of the long thanksgiving weekend in Canada, the traffic was heavy, but moving along nicely. Only observed one idiot who was probably traveling 180 km per hr in a 110 km zone.

Traveling along at good speed one of those signs appear on each shoulder of the road. “Construction Ahead!” Well normally that doesn’t bother me much, work has to be done and in this case they are in the process of adding a passing lane. In an instant there is a line of stopped traffic ahead that stretches to the horizon. There is no oncoming traffic from the other direction either.

Minutes pass – a lot of minutes. People get out of their cars and walk their dogs. They dig in the trunk of their vehicles to get something to eat. My rear view mirrors show traffic behind that extends to the horizon behind me. So now we have traffic from horizon to horizon. Sit and sit some more. More than thirty minutes pass.

A few cars get out of  the line, turn around and go back. The last interchange was about two kilometres back. Time for me to do the same, turn around and go back. I am familiar with the Annapolis Valley and know the old #1 highway travels parallel to the 101 highway. I head back to the exit that was behind me, back tracking the couple of kilometres which gets me on to the old #1.

The old #1 is slower, narrower, but we are breezing along at a cool 80 km per hr. For About Three Kilometres! Which brings us almost parallel to the other construction on the 101 highway. There’s those signs again. “Construction Ahead!”

And there’s the line of traffic again. There is no oncoming traffic from the other direction either. We sit, and we sit some more. Twenty five minutes later they let us go. Workers are repairing the curbs, nothing more.

What morons would think this up? The start of a holiday weekend, two construction projects holding traffic at a stand still for long periods of time. Two main arteries of traffic (the only two) blocked solid with traffic and not moving at all.

Coordination is not in their dictionary. I bet “Have a safe weekend, drive safely is,” but I bet no one in those line ups was in the mood for any of that after all that sitting, waiting and idling.

No wonder the tag line is:

-=One Day At A Time=-       (¯`·._.·ns¢ävË·._.·´¯)

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