Why Why Why Why Why!?!!?

Is it that ALL roadworks and flower maintenance and watering has to HAS TO be done at around 9am in the morning? Why? I mean why on earth would you want to make a really really bad traffic situation worse?! Why? The roads are already mayhem in the morning, mostly due to the fact that the person in charge of road planning in Gib clearly is addicted to acid. Gibraltar probably has two of THE most fascinating intersections in the world. The first one as you drive into Gib, by the Shell garage near the runway. I am unable to even begin to explain this utter chaos of roads and roundabouts with traffic lights IN them, half way intersections without traffic lights. Can someone explain why they didn't just make one big roundabout? They seem so fond of the everywhere else... The second one, and this one looks like something a kid would make with a toy race track, i mean what the fuck happened up around Queens cinema (which I refuse to go to - hence no posts about it but I am sure it deserve a special blog all together)?! I would post pictures from Google earth but the resolution over Gib isn't good enough, wonder why...

You might have notice i have left the runway/border part out of this post which is mainly to keep my blood pressure down. But since there will be a tunnel in place by the end of 2009 I'm not to concerned about it any more. And frankly together with the new terminal (do you think they might call this one south?) that will be ready next year it will just be bliss to drive in and out of Gib again.... WHAT?! they haven't started yet?! So when will it be ready? Never you say, oh, go figure.... I did wonder what they would do with the border queue since it would seem to dangerous to have all those cars stuck in a tunnel underneath the runway.. hmmm.

I really really and I mean really cannot get my head around this, so in the cab this morning (I know I know but it was really hot and I had forgotten my shades...) when stuck in what seemed to be a completely unnecessary traffic jam (caused by the flower people closing one lane in acid land intersection) I wondered what the Gib Gov department in charge of flower maintenance would say if I called them and wondered about their time planning. This is how I imagined it might pan out..

- Good Morning Sir (you know it's a sir because the government only hires Gibraltarians and Gibraltarian women aren't allowed to work - they have children..)
- Good Morning
- I have a question, how come all the road maintenance and flower maintenance in Gib has to take place during morning rush hour? It seems to cause so much unnecessary disruption to the traffic, would it not make more sense to perhaps push it back an hour or two until it has calmed down a bit?
- Pero... That's when they start work, no. They have all these flowers to water and so if they are going to water them all they have to start somewhere and that's why they do it at that time, no.
- Oh ok, so when do they finish? I mean there's not that many roundabouts and sidewalks to water..
- They finish at one no.
- I see, summer hours...
- So how about starting at the other end of Gib and not at the runway? That way by the time they get to the runway it will be later and less traffic, meaning less disruption and also your guys wouldn't have to be in the middle of all those fumes?
- Pero no pero si pero no, no that would make to much sense.. CANNOT COMPUTE!!!!!!!