Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Ring III... trying to make to Blues Mäysti practices in Oulu

Had the immense pleasure of trying to make it from Helsinki downtown to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport last Friday. I do know that Friday around 4-5pm is always the traffic jam peak in Helsinki area so I generously (that is what I at least I thought) reserved 2hours for making it into my 17:05 Helsinki-Oulu flight. But RING III is a national small scale catastrophy ! What a waste of human energy and natural resources.
There are 4 traffic lights right in this key motorway leading all traffic from western side of south Finland to eastern side... and most often also back ;o) Practically all heavy trucking from east2west, west2east (including traffic from Finnish harbours to Russia and back) happens there. Shit loads of Capital region commuting happens there = tens (?) of thousands of people are going from home to work and work to home and thus are sitting and cursing this every workingday waste of their precious freetime.
I heard this insanity is reasoned with costs issues - fixing the traffic light crossroads would cost too much money for now.
But what makes this all really sad is that there is really only just one crossroad (Ring III - Tampere motorway) which actually would need to be fixed. 3 of these 4 crossroads are actually used for some "pathetic little shitty other roads with no significance for anything" or to put it more nicely "for roads that could be routed to some other already existing multilevel junctions".
If it's a money issue at least please reduce the traffic light in RING III to just this Tampere-RingIII junction, and re-route other 3 to those near by multilevel junctions.

Ok done it - does not piss me off so much anymore for some wierd reason

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