The Clog from OzSydney Traffic and Country Cows
October 25th 2006 23:24
“Traffic is very heavy at the moment, so if you are thinking of leaving now, you'd better set off a few minutes earlier.” - Anonymous Traffic Report
Ahh, you gotta love traffic! One of the few advantages of living in a country town is that traffic just doesn’t exist. The worst traffic jam we ever had was this one time when we had to wait behind the car in front as a cow slowly walked across the road. It was the talk of the town, live reports flooded in on the radio and it was the top story on the evening news.
No that’s not totally true, but you can see my point. Sydney traffic is absolutely absurd. When I lived in the country I never dreamt of actually having to add travel time to time spent just sitting in between two cars doing nothing to a road trip. And I never even thought that the amount of cars on the road would change depending on the hour of day: “How long to Potts Point?” “If you leave now, half an hour. If you leave in 10 minutes, 50 minutes.” – Just ridiculous.
When I grow up I want to live somewhere near a station, and somewhere popular so it’ll be heaps easy to get anywhere, and I won’t even need a car! Somewhere near a main station so I can catch an express train to the city and somewhere with a local sushi bar, Italian restaurant and massive Woolworths. If I must use the road I will get around on a moped which will be cheap to run and good for the environment. It’ll also be easier to escape predators like those massive useless yank tank four-wheel-drives. If only 1 in 10 of these buggers goes off-road, then what’s the freakin’ point?
Ahh, you gotta love traffic! One of the few advantages of living in a country town is that traffic just doesn’t exist. The worst traffic jam we ever had was this one time when we had to wait behind the car in front as a cow slowly walked across the road. It was the talk of the town, live reports flooded in on the radio and it was the top story on the evening news.
No that’s not totally true, but you can see my point. Sydney traffic is absolutely absurd. When I lived in the country I never dreamt of actually having to add travel time to time spent just sitting in between two cars doing nothing to a road trip. And I never even thought that the amount of cars on the road would change depending on the hour of day: “How long to Potts Point?” “If you leave now, half an hour. If you leave in 10 minutes, 50 minutes.” – Just ridiculous.
When I grow up I want to live somewhere near a station, and somewhere popular so it’ll be heaps easy to get anywhere, and I won’t even need a car! Somewhere near a main station so I can catch an express train to the city and somewhere with a local sushi bar, Italian restaurant and massive Woolworths. If I must use the road I will get around on a moped which will be cheap to run and good for the environment. It’ll also be easier to escape predators like those massive useless yank tank four-wheel-drives. If only 1 in 10 of these buggers goes off-road, then what’s the freakin’ point?
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