Thursday 31 August 2017

Traffic Watch : Dundee

Conscientious students of this blog will know that my local pub is the Bull Inn at the Rotherfold in Totnes, Devon. 




Not much traffic at the Bull Inn, Totnes



My friends at the Bull, that is the "5.30pm to 7pm" imbibing shift, tolerate yet tire of me talking about my home city, Dundee, particularly since I only talk about the merits of its greatest football team "the famous eleven" more publicly known as Dundee FC. I've thought sometimes that my friends at the Bull have wished that I had other things to talk about. Do I always have to talk about the Dark Blues? Aren't there other topics, even if they are related to Dundee, apart from "The Dee" about which I could engage others in conversation? Surely Dundee isn't so boring a place that there is only football to talk about. 


One of my early evening shift friends, RT, who has a proprietorial interest in the tavern came up with an idea that he hoped might broaden and enrich my conversational horizons. He decided that he would start our daily exchange by providing me with the current traffic report for the City of Discovery which he would glean from a website dedicated to traffic news. RT's proposal may tell you as much about him as it does about me but I anticipated this added dimension to my life with some excitement. So much so that I decided to keep a record of the data for posterity's sake.


Here is the bulletin for June 2017.



Dundee Area Traffic Report


1st     No traffic reported in this area.

2nd    No traffic reported in this area.

3rd     No traffic reported in this area.

4th     No traffic reported in this area.

5th     No traffic reported in this area.

6th     No traffic reported in this area.

7th     No traffic reported in this area.

8th      No traffic reported in this area.

9th      No traffic reported in this area.

10th    No traffic reported in this area.

11th    No traffic reported in this area.



No traffic on Reform Street


12th    No traffic reported in this area.

13th    No traffic reported in this area.

14th    No traffic reported in this area.

15th    No traffic reported in this area.

16th    No traffic reported in this area.

17th    No traffic reported in this area.

18th    No traffic reported in this area.




Desperate Dan solves the traffic problem by walking everywhere

19th    No traffic reported in this area.

20th    Delays on the Forfar Road, southbound in Claverhouse Industrial Park.

21st    No traffic reported in this area.

22nd    No traffic reported in this area.

23rd    A92 Tay Bridge, roundabout both ways between A991, Thomson Avenue, and B946 closed to double-decker buses due to high winds.

24th    No traffic reported in this area.

25th    No traffic reported in this area.

26th    No traffic reported in this area.

27th    No traffic reported in this area.

28th    No traffic reported in this area.

29th    Slow traffic both ways between A991 Thomson Avenue and South Crichton Street due to a  Little Mix Concert at Slessor Gardens starting at 17.00



South Crichton Street in quieter times


30th     No traffic reported in this area.


The daily traffic bulletin for the City of Dundee area for June 2017 ends here.



I believe RT and I may have tired of traffic in the Dundee area and I think I'm reconciled to being less ambitious about the breadth and depth of my discourse with others. Talking about Dundee FC isn't so bad. I hope posterity, if it cares at all, forgives me.
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