.... at rush hour.
Okay, it's rush hour, and traffic is crawling along Central
Expressway. Usually, traffic moves faster.
I look up and see THREE helicopters doing tight circles. ****.
Helicopters are expensive, so it must be something spectacular up
ahead. And the three helicopters are not circling over the same patch
of freeway. No, they are separated by several miles, so there must be
three spectacles.
The first two are just cases of Entrance/Exit between regular traffic
and the HOV lane. This happens all the time - why does Dallas continue
the pretense that an HOV lane is useful for anything except stroking
the egos of carpoolers? Somebody at the second wreck is waving a gun
around, but I think (hope) he's a cop.
The third wreck was the real spectacle. Three fire trucks, four
ambulances, two police cars, flares and lots of broken glass. The
first vehicle is a mid-sized pickup truck with hijackers on the rear
axle. At least I think it had hijackers. There is a wedge of an orange
Fiat that has run up underneath the pickup. Behind the Fiat is a
catering truck that rammed the Fiat further under the truck.
The person in the Fiat is being pulled out, alive and only slightly
bloody - amazingly; the wreck makes it look like she would be sheared
off at the shoulders. She must have ducked at the critical moment.
We finally get past the wrecks, and I30 is closed because Yet Another
Piece Of Bridge has broken through, and one of the two lanes are
closed. Gah! What is it all of a sudden with freeway infrastructure?
Yay! Traffic starts moving again after we clear the bottleneck at I30
and 35E. I pick up speed - just starting to get into that 70 mph
comfort zone, when everybody starts hitting their breaks again.
Oh yeah, Memorial Day is just around the corner, and the police have
to practice their radar gun skills. In at least three locations along
I30. Damn wimpy drivers refuse to go faster than 40 or 50 mph all the
way into Arlington, which is so fukken traffic bound that it is
impossible to drive faster than ten miles blow the speed limit
everywhere.
And it's only going to get worse when Dallas Cowboys stadium opens
up...
Gah. Finally - Home Sweet Home. There are cats waitiing to greet me
and soothe me.
Mark Edwards
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