Colwood Crawl or Bay Street Stall, name your frustration. Driving in Greater Victoria is becoming a lesson in patience, punctuated by brief moments of elation when you finally get the green light allowing you through an intersection that 10 minutes ago had been a speck in the distance.
Hitting two or three green lights in succession is considered a commuter’s jackpot.
Warm summer weather often brought out the urge to get your motor running, roll down the windows and head out on the highway. Times change, much like a person who has grown older and has to curtail their activities. Curse those clogged arteries!
Yes, the roadways will become safer and easier to navigate, but the journey to get there is a difficult one.
What might ease the pain is more regional oversight. It could offer a look at all the projects and allow for more sense of priority and order. That idea might even become one more plank in the platform for amalgamation.
In addition to major undertakings, you are dealing with 13 municipalities, all with their own agendas of smaller road work and construction that affect traffic.
In the meantime, take a deep breath when you’re on the streets and try a little kindness with your frayed patience. Don’t be always lane-hopping. Let in that vehicle waiting to enter the main flow of traffic. It won’t make your trip much longer and you’ll get an appreciative wave rather than the finger.
Remember, we’re all in it together.
