Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Ranches access roadkill

Yet another road post, I will make a sad prediction here:

Someone is going to die on the access road to the Gazelle ghetto at Arabian ranches and probably before too long.

While every other Emarr slum in waiting is serviced with dual carriageways for some reason the 1000 plus homes at Gazelle have a single-lane twisting access to the main road. Emarr's response to the danger of speeders is to put in speed humps, the Weasel now has to negotiate 16 speed humps to reach the main road.

And is it safer? What do you think..

The speed bumps concentrate the traffic leaving drivers frustrated as they crawl along behind slow trucks, busses or cars. This changes the risk-reward ratio in that frustrated drivers take risks to overtake very slow vehicles whereas people will happily sit behind vehicles moving at 50 or 60kmh

The Weasel has now met drivers on the wrong side of the road overtaking 3 times. Twice he managed to stop, the third time he was forced from the road into the sand.

Now the Weasel mobile is low and probably cannot be seen behind bushes around the blind bend you overtake on, but guess what, that is why you have to wait until you can properly see the road ahead BEFORE you overtake.

It isn't even a race thing, of the 3, one was an Indian worker, one a local woman and one a stupid western bitch with Baby on board stickers on her rear window (not one but two), who never-the-less pulled out around a buss and two cars on a blind bend, very clever.

The Weasel has now taken to driving with lights on in the ranches but even this didn't help against the last stunning example of attempted suicide/baby murder.

We drive in fear.