Yukon Jay - 小祥

The day in the City of Vancouver 在溫哥華開車

What started off as a 20 minute drive home ended up being a 2 hr drive home... Here is the story of my adventure from SFU to my home.

Normally to get from Burnaby and Vancouver to North Vancouver I would have to take Second Narrows Bridge to get over the water. Well as I was sitting on Hastings street few blocks away from the bridge.... there were traffick backed that I hadn't moved in like 20 minutes. I thought... screw this, I'll never make it home with this traffick. I then decided I'll take the long way and go through downtown Vancouver and get on the Lion's Gate Bridge... all the way on the other side of town.

It turns out that there was someone that wanted to commit suicide on the Second Narrow's Bridge... the bridge was shut down from 9am to about 2pm, trying to get the guy down. The reason why they shut down both directions on the bridge was because we have and I stress, assholes, who would shout out "Jump right in your moron".

With this bridge off limits, it meant more traffick on Lions Gate because these are the only two ways to get over the water, the two bridges, to North and West Vancouver. And once again with all these vehicles that are trying to make it over that one bridge... that meant everyone had to deal with the domino backed traffick.

One thing I did notice, while sitting there listening to the radio play Canadian born Avril Lavigne's and Matthew Good's music, was that everyone just sat there with their car idled. Like hello!!! So much of our precious expensive gas are being wasted... why not just turn off the car? Do we really think we can march into China and India and say "It's great that your quality of life is getting better and better... but be a good global citizen and stop using so much oil and gas because we 'need' it." Or do we really think we have a right to just tell those Nigerians to get their butt back to work? Let's think about it for a second... if it is illegal to idle your car in school parking lots so that our children wont inhale polluted air, shouldn't the same law apply if traffick was like a parking lot?

So I made it after 2 hours of traffick in Vancouver... it turns out when the Second Narrows Bridge was opened around 2pm, Lions Gate was closed right after for about an hour.... why?... a second guy attempted to jump. Both men are now in hospitals getting psychiatri evaluation. I'm glad I made it back to North Van before that happened or else I would of been more than 30 minutes late for work. My mom's friend, however, was stuck... hehe

我今天寫的很多, 要寫中文會寫太久, 所以我大概的講一下. 我今天從大學開車開回家的時候, 馬路上的車特別多因為警察把回家的橋擋起來了. 从溫哥華到北溫(我們住的地方)需要過個橋, 那因為有個人要想自殺, 他就再橋上一直要跳橋. 因該只是20 分鐘, 我為了要回家在去上班, 就要用別的橋. 那下個橋是在溫哥華的別邊, 走的話就要比較久. 總共走了2小時. 不應該那麼久, 一個小時就應該可以了. 可是因為別人也要走這條路, 車子又更多. 別人像我不能用那第一個橋, 之能大家用第二座橋.

Posted by Jay at October 21, 2004 10:50 PM