This is a picture of the driveway that goes past the entrance to my building. It is a one-way drive for dropping off passengers and then loops back to join the main road. Right now, there's road construction going on at the end of the drive and so you can't rejoin the main road. So, they've closed the driveway. But look where they've put the pylons - not up toward the drive entrance (where you see that woman walking), but here at the door. It's been like this for weeks.
I guess they think that this allows drivers to pull in for passenger drop off. But once the passenger is out, the driver has to reverse back up the drive and reverse into traffic on the main road to get out. I see things like this and shake my head. Yesterday there was a little traffic jam as a car and 2 taxis had pulled in for drop off. The rear-most taxi couldn't see that the road was blocked and kept honking and wondering why the front car wasn't moving along. Meanwhile a van pulls up behind the rear taxi - but is still in traffic and the traffic starts to build up behind him. As I walked in the door, everyone was busily honking their horns (of course that is the miraculous cure for all traffic jams) and no one was getting out to explain that everyone needed to reverse about 30 yards to let the first car out.
I wandered in wondering if this traffic snarl might finally convince building security to put the blockade down closer to the main road. But as you can see - nothing has changed.
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