I rarely get worked up while behind the wheel, here’s how and why.
Read it online at Autonet.
The last trick is my most devious one – I pretend I’m a puppet master.
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The light is green. Really tough to tell eh, and we’re not far from them even.
The sidewalk sign is easily seen, and when the light changes to yellow it’s obvious too, but not the green.
Here, I’ll blow up the photo:
Located at the Yonge and Richmond Street, a one-way road travelling west.
They’re not in need of replacing, they’ve been like this for years. This makes no sense! Every other green light downtown can be seen from far, why are these ones so dim?
Maybe it’s intentional? Like, keep the lights faded so I don’t know what I’m driving into, and naturally slow down.
Then I remembered a story I wrote for the paper in 2013. Maybe these lights have to do with that?
Artificial Intelligence was added to traffic lights so they could talk to one another, and adjust their timing. When tested, gridlock was reduced up to 40% and travel time was reduced up to 26%.
To instal AI into each intersection costs between $20,000 – $40,000, and the city that was chosen to be the test city is… Toronto.
Read it on Autonet here.
Here’s some horror stories about worse traffic jams that one you may be stuck in.
Read it online at Autonet.
If that fails, try my trick – last paragraph.
The reason for many traffic jams is an accident. So imagine how the injured person you’re inching toward, would give anything to trade places with you and instead be the one… stuck in traffic.
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Because look: this is the traffic situation on any average, mid-day.
There’s really only 2 entry points to the entire downtown… the DVP and the Gardiner Expressway (which is reduced to one lane right now.)
So if there is an emergency, and the city centre has to be evacuated, how is that going to happen?
We’re already trapped on a normal day, add in some chaos, we’re done.
Since I moved July 25, bet I’ve been downtown maybe 5 times in total.
So today was a lot. Don’t miss it. This helped.
So fun to drive, the Mazda MX-5.
It’s just my size too, a rarity. Together we can fit anywhere.
Dentist. Again.
Still have never had a cavity, ever.
It took me almost 3 hours to get out of the city. That’s not sitting on the DVP either, that’s using creativity, back ways, and still.
Not happy; being trapped in a car, that’s trapped on a road surrounded by cars, is one of my least favourite feelings.
Have a post about Toronto traffic building in my mind. I think about traffic a lot actually.
Least when I returned this evening, I didn’t have to drive.
Let’s pose.
kk I’m done.
Today’s weak blog update courtesy of the traffic that sucked it all out of me.
Back to enjoying the best night of the week #ThursdayNight
Hope yours is good too TTYT