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What a pain! I hope the opening of the new Hemingways shopping complex sorts everything out, and life can get back to normal – other than being excited about the first few visits to the new Hemingways shopping complex.

There have been various incidents I myself have noticed that I’m sure others have noticed too. Perhaps some people have noticed even more problems than I have.

When stuck on a hill in slow-moving traffic half way between the Hemingways/Western Ave offramp and the Abbotsford offramp, people come speeding around a bend and try and push in because they’ve missed realising they need to slow down to get into the queue of slow traffic on the left – or perhaps some do realise and are just pushing their luck. Those that have behaved like good little East London citizens are just sitting in that traffic edging forward calmly – or as calmly as they can manage under the circumstances.

Okay, some people make mistakes and it’s also being a good East London citizen to allow them into the line of traffic, but some are really pushy about it, blowing their hooters almost demanding a place in the queue. Other drivers in that queue are also late for work or dropping their children at school, but I’m sure most try and avoid being late by leaving home just a bit earlier, while the Hemingways mall and road construction are taking place. It’s not their fault if other drivers oversleep.

It is my opinion that those people who are truly in a hurry up the hill on the N2 near Hemingways should either continue through to the Amalinda offramp, or have a sign hanging out their window proclaiming they’re trying to get their fitting or snake-bitten child to the hospital. If they have a legitimate excuse for needing to push into the traffic queue, I’m sure other drivers in the queue won’t mind letting them in.

Then there’s the signs on the road – if you see them – warning about the times that the Hemingways/Western Ave offramp is closed for the night or day. Sometimes those signs are not placed before the Abbotsford offramp and unsuspecting drivers get up to the offramp before noticing it’s closed and have to proceed to the Amalinda offramp. Or, like this morning, coming from Beacon Bay or Gonubie, the sign was in place before the Abbotsford offramp, but you could only see it if you were in the slow moving traffic on the left, and were heading to town anyway. It was low down and any cars heading straight across the Nahoon River and up the hill to near Hemingways, would not have seen it due to the slow traffic blocking their view of it.

I hope that’s not what happened to the poor driver, parked on the side of the road just other side the Western Avenue offramp yesterday whose bonnet was spewing an immense amount of smoke all over the place. Perhaps he had known he had car problems, but thought he could make it to another petrol station in Western Avenue rather than stop at Abbotsford, only to find he had to go even further to the Amalinda offramp. He wouldn’t have made it to a Western Avenue garage either, but the bad visibility of the signs proclaiming the offramp is closed is not good, but hopefully all the problems will soon come to an end with the opening of the new shopping mall.

Heres my design of a road rage tshirt

© Teresa Schultz

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