First off, I must apologize for the waning attention to my blog.

I must admit I have become a bit swamped getting my “bidness” off the ground which is proving to be a soul-crushing experience. It was always anticipated that any exercise requiring that I go on bended knee with tremulous lips pursed to kiss that corporate ring would suck the life out of the creativity required to do what I propose to do.

A lot of my start-up activities involve driving around quite a bit.

Therefore I have noticed some rather dicey, hasty adjustments to our roadways courtesy the flurry of summit preparations. Let’s look at the approach to the light house in Port-of-Spain, specifically the west bound lane. A two lane road suddenly, as if by mitosis, becomes three …..on a bend no less!

I could see in my rear view mirror other motorists scrambling to get into their lane. When you get to the lights in front of the port, if you are fixin’ to go straight you better make sure you are in the CENTRE lane. If you are in the right lane and the light turns green, you will find yourself corralled into the lane leading into Port-of-Spain via Edward street.

You see the lines just don’t line up and the upshot of that is that the folks who have chosen the right lane who ought to have chosen the left , realize that at the very last minute as the come up on the concrete dividers and what do you think they do? That’s right! They simply swerve in front of you.

Next example. As you pass in front of the fire station on Wrightson Road driving on the centre lane is quite deadly, because as you may be aware by now the left lane just disappears in front of the SWWTU hall. There is no way that trini driving in the left lane is going to slow down to filter into the right lane. In fact, what most often happens is he floors it! Scraping in front of you as you then react swerving into the lane to your right. I have already witnessed 2 accidents caused by this very maneuver.

  Everyone is giving the government high marks for the effectiveness of the new bran flyover at the nestle junction. That coupled with the adjustment of the timing on the lights en route to the overpass seems to have had the desired effect of reducing the frustrating congestion that many of us have grown accustomed to.

If, however, you are heading beyond the lights and further east, as you get beneath the overpass the confusion is incredible. The lanes have been blacked out and repainted and blacked out and repainted so many times, you have no idea where the hell to point your car. And can some one tell me why the shoulder of the overpass is two lanes wide?

These are only a few of the anomalies which I am sure are widespread on this country’s road network. Don’t get me started on the vortex of death that is the south interchange. It is enough that people drive like morons in this country ….we also have to deal with fatal engineering flaws?