I tried getting to the city from east boonies but the highways weren't even touched, I plowed snow the whole way and just gave up about halfway and found the first place I could turn around. Couldn't go over 30 km/h on a 100 km/h highway mostly because of the ice ruts. I have 27cm of snow measured in my backyard. Crazy!
My kid now has hockey at South Fish Creek, FFS, which is at the Spruce meadows turnoff. Yesterday, had to drive there during rush hour, down Macleod Trail. I really don't know how people can do that on a regular basis. There are so many people too. The rage would absolutely take years off my life. No one is in a hurry, people leave 45 car lengths between them and the car in front, ridiculous delays starting after a green light because everyone seems to be in a trance. They cannot see that the wait could be reduced significantly for all if they paid attention more. I bet you could double throughput if you put good drivers on our roads.
And why are there traffic lights every 5 feet, so people can shop at the strip malls. The light timing is brutal too. Everyone just sitting there, not a car going through the intersection.
Its like being stuck in car orgy full of fat stupid annoying people with bad breath and you can't escape.
Take deerfoot and 22x if possible. Its much quicker than going down traffic light throttled Macleod Trail. Although between glenmore and southland at 5ish sucks, it actually moves if you cling to the left lane.
I did enjoy watching the dbags who couldn't be bothered to clean the snow off their cars getting what they deserve this morning.
Some vehicles would stop at a traffic light and the snow they didn't bother clearing off their roof would slide right onto their windshield, piling up even higher than when they started. They'd have to get out of their car and clear it off, pissing off everyone behind them and hopefully embarassing themselves enough to not be lazy next time.
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Wow, it took me a whole 18 minutes to get into work today - how do people in McKenzie Towne/New Brighton deal with that every single day?
(Actually, it took me 25 minutes door to door - man, that elevator took forever! I wanted to capture the typical automagical sense of time people have when it comes to commuting.)
It really isn't that bad. It's like 2 segments on the Fan960. I listen to the segment before Peter Maher, and then Maher in the morning, and before I know it, I'm at work.
I'm moving to Ottawa in the Fall, and while I know the winters are a good deal worse than they are here, they actually end, rather abruptly at the beginning of March which ushers in a period that other Canadians call Spring. I can hardly wait to move.
Maybe people don't like their commute going from 20 mins to an hour? Maybe people hate having to deal with idiot drivers out there who fail to recognize the hazardous conditions and plow into them.
I like snow, it means I get to enjoy winter activity. This is just slush and traffic nightmares.
It really isn't that bad. It's like 2 segments on the Fan960. I listen to the segment before Peter Maher, and then Maher in the morning, and before I know it, I'm at work.
I usually leave at 7:40. I get to work just as Peter Maher gets on. Today I got in during the segment after Maher.
From the Beltline (4th St SE) to 12th street northeast (between McKnight & 32nd Ave), I don't work at the airport (but can understand how one could get that impression with my aviation geekery).
Damn, my commute this morning was 33% longer. Took a whole 15 minutes.
From my parents house in Coventry Hills to the Airport would be about 5 minutes on a normal day, and probably 10 minutes max in rush hour traffic (assuming no accidents of course)
It snowed way more at my house than it did at the University today, its probably 15-20cm's here at the UNI. I got well over 30 at my place.
Commute was fine minus all the stupid puddles that people feel they need to slow down to 20km/h for.
I actually dont mind when it snows this much, its kinda fun and interesting and its neat to see all the people freak out. I just hope it warms up again and we can get some sense of spring sometime soon.
I hate the weather but i guess we gotta live with it.... sometimes i wish i lived in BC or Toronto...
