Monday, January 14, 2008

Must They Complicate Everything?

Everytime I want to go into the city I have to take the bus or taxi over a bridge. This is the most complicated bridge I have ever seen in my life.

To cross this bridge, there are multiple ways of getting on and multiple cars coming from multiple directions all at the same time. In my personal experience, the bridges I've seen have always had a mere two ways of getting on: either from this end. Or from that end. Depending on which direction you're going.

This particular bridge has four different ways you can attempt to get on at just the one end.

If you want to go North and you're coming from the East, you have to go North then East under the bridge, then South, then pull a U-turn and go North again.

In Canada you'd make one turn, and drive a couple dozen metres.

There is always a cop directing this mess, no lights, no stop signs, and no speed limits so far as I can see. Through all of this chaos there are buses, trucks, pedestrians, bikes, scooters, wagon-bikes, cars and vans attempting to weave their way through everyone else to go the way they need to go. And of course, all of them are ignoring the no honking sign stuck randomly in the middle of it all.

But here, I took the liberty of drawing a diagram to make things easier for you until I actually remember to bring my camera and take pictures.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure, but I think that's the same diagram they used to try to teach me where babies come from.
To this day, I'm still confused :)