Yesterday I had clumsy cats, today I have talented animals... on skateboards...
So the time has come once again when "The Street" as it is known on maps (but not by the locals) is being dug up in Cowfold village. So what is special about that? Well, let me explain... The Street is about one hundred and fifty feet long at the most but digging it up has the most dire effect because it is the A272, the major East / West artery through the village. If that wasn't bad enough it is also, at this point, the A281, the major North / South artery through the village - the two roads intersect and double up on it. When it is controlled by the two roundabouts (which it normally is) the traffic during rush hour can be rather heavy and delays can be expected morning and evening. When it becomes a single lane and is controlled by traffic lights, it becomes a nightmare. Today, that nightmare happened. It is only the third or fourth time in twenty one years that this has happened so I suppose I shouldn't complain but each time the construction companies don't set the traffic lights up properly, so that at least one stream of traffic experiences much longer delays than normal; this time it is no different. Life would be a lot easier if people coming out of Horsham, joined the main A24 up there rather than coming down into Cowfold and scooting out to the A24 but they do insist on taking this "shortcut" which (a) isn't and (b) puts a great deal of extra traffic at this crucial point. To make matters worse, at the moment a lot of folks are coming through Cowfold in a bid to escape the misery of the prolonged, major A23 roadworks at Handcross. This means even more traffic on our congested little bit of road. I suppose that if the traffic lights remain for more than a couple of days, some of the extra traffic may decided not to come this way during the rush hour but that remains to be seen. All it will mean for us is that there will be a thrumming of traffic outside the house for much longer than usual possibly well into the evening. Oh well, I suppose it won't be forever and it won't bother us after Thursday. Yesterday I had clumsy cats, today I have talented animals... on skateboards... Comments are closed.
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AuthorPaul Everest - Shining wit (at least that is what I think they said) |