Cayman's traffic congestion
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Cayman's traffic congestion
https://www.caymancompass.com/2020/0..._hsmi=83187613
This link is from today's local newspaper. Indirectly, it addresses our ever-worsening congestion, which has turned what used to be 20-minute commutes into 90-minute ones. There are something like 50,000 vehicles for our population of 70,000, and most of those vehicles are on less than a hundred miles of roads during the morning and evening rush-hours. The politicians are planning for the population to increase to 100,000, which of course will makes things a whole lot worse. There's enough money in government's coffers to build all the new roads needed, but will our small-island culture be able to cope with that kind of development? Watch this space!
This link is from today's local newspaper. Indirectly, it addresses our ever-worsening congestion, which has turned what used to be 20-minute commutes into 90-minute ones. There are something like 50,000 vehicles for our population of 70,000, and most of those vehicles are on less than a hundred miles of roads during the morning and evening rush-hours. The politicians are planning for the population to increase to 100,000, which of course will makes things a whole lot worse. There's enough money in government's coffers to build all the new roads needed, but will our small-island culture be able to cope with that kind of development? Watch this space!
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Why waste money on roads and cycle lanes when there is a port to build, Smith Cove to destroy and an economy to annihilate? Thankfully I walk most days to work or cycle. Trying to get from Governor's Square to South Sound in a car after 4.30pm is soul destroying.
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A proper public transport system. Buses/trains/trams/metro that kind of thing. Just a thought.
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They could build a bridge-causeway from Rum Point to West Bay and have the world's most comprehensive ring road.
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If Bojo can build a bridge from Stranraer to Larne then Breakers to Kaibo is a goer.
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Just to bring this thread up to date... The corona virus has put paid to all our traffic-congestion problems! With no cruise ships coming in, and half the businesses on the Island (Grand Cayman) closed down for the duration, the traffic numbers have gone back to about 1970's numbers. (I wasn't here in 1970, but I'm told. We spent a weekend here in '68, and it was pretty quiet then. We came to live here in '78 when there were a lot, lot, more cars on the roads than there are now.
OK. I'm going to update my Virus thread in the Caribbean section.
OK. I'm going to update my Virus thread in the Caribbean section.
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Just an update. Our roads are still pretty empty, even in the daylight hours. (We're all banned from driving at night, except for "essential" workers.) Without tourists - the borders are expected to stay closed until at least the end of August - the rental-car companies can only rent to residents, and not many of us are in the market. The big agencies are renting maybe 10-15% of their fleets, mainly mini-vans to essential businesses ferrying their employees to and from work five at a time because of social-distancing rules.
No repair shops are open yet, which is a nuisance. My old Toyota Windom (1997) has three windows that don't work, so I have to live with that inconvenience. (A First-World problem, I realise, but still...!)
No repair shops are open yet, which is a nuisance. My old Toyota Windom (1997) has three windows that don't work, so I have to live with that inconvenience. (A First-World problem, I realise, but still...!)
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The stranglehold is loosening and at last Uncle Bill's will be open so I can get tyres for my bike. And I think CIG have been pressured into letting us dive again. It was a stupid idea anyway not to allow that. But then again a lot of what has gone on here has been stupid.
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The stranglehold is loosening and at last Uncle Bill's will be open so I can get tyres for my bike. And I think CIG have been pressured into letting us dive again. It was a stupid idea anyway not to allow that. But then again a lot of what has gone on here has been stupid.
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No coughing underwater, and masks must be worn covering nose and mouth, with social distancing - 2 metres from any fish... The bug can be cured by dousing your kit in and gargling with bleach prior to all dives.
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When I was a kid, if we had a cold or anything like that we were encouraged to swim in the sea. And it did help cure us!