This morning is one of those mornings...
Not the horrible, Oh God, I hate my life mornings...
Nope, one of the, "Wow, things are actually ok" mornings...
The main reason? Less traffic...
Everyone arriving into the office has that slightly suprised look on their face. The look that says "I didn't have to battle with gritted teeth through 4 miles of molasses like traffic"...
You can tell that they haven't been gripping the steering wheel so tightly that they can't feel their fingers anymore, they haven't had that knot of tension building in their shoulders and they have yet to experience that first wave of rage and injustice that hits you when the lights change and nobody moves...
All in all the world seems a 17% nicer place this morning...
The reason for the lighter traffic?
Well, I have three options, it's up to you, to decide which is most likely...
1) All of the vast investment in public transport, roads, the upgrade of the M50 and so on, has somehow combined to resolve Dublin's traffic problems and from this day forth there will be no more traffic problems...
2) The sheer volume of noise about the environment and carbon footprints, the accelerating extinction of species, the disappearing polar ice caps has all led the people of Dublin to listen to their collective conscience and give up driving to work. There were just be less traffic from now on...
3) Most people got drunk and/or laid last night and couldn't be arsed getting up today...
It's hard to decide which is most likely...
Friday, February 15, 2008
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My dear childless Conformist? It's mid term.
ReplyDeleteNot that I'm complaining. My bus was 20 mins late this morning and I was 20 mins early!
I prefer your explainations though.
And such little traffic at the mid-term break certainly proves that there should be a coordinated school bus system here. Buses assigned to particular routes and groups of schools so, for example, the Dalkey and Rathdown and Monkstown and Harold students are all handled by a couple of buses, say.
ReplyDeleteIt seems nuts (to me having grown up in America with school buses galore) to have so many 1-parent-1or2kid cars flowing at 8am and again at 1pm/2pm/3pm.
Denis O'Brien paid everyone to stay in bed......
ReplyDeleteFunny. A traffic mystery solved. Wouldn't you think that someone in the know would notice, and start an urban school-bus programme?
ReplyDeleteMid term happened last monday in a lot of schools, made fuck all difference, I reckon option 3 is the one, my wife even thought that option at 8.26 this morning when she phoned me to say there was no cars on the M50.
ReplyDeletesorry atreus, I somehow missed your comment.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a really cool sign and wave of good karma that two separate minds suggested what we both believe to be a decent possible solution to the problem. :)
ReplyDeleteThe schools-off factor is so far beyond axiom that it is more true than pope being catholic. This truth has been around for 30 years and noone's ever done anything about it.
ReplyDeleteTib - I can see this turning into an excuse for everything. DOBPMT.
Why didn't you do your homework? Denis O'Brien paid me not to. Why did O'Reilly kill his wife? Denis O'Brien paid him to.