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Ordered traffic jam

What the FUCK happened to Yonge and Dundas?!?!

I say that with a tone unlike an unexpected disaster has jumped upon me, but more similar to an event that flipped a fraction of my life over; a tinge of incredulity and excitement mixed together.

This intersection has been "home" for me for the past 2 years, in some sort of way. It's been a short time, but it'll never lose its sense of familiarity; it was indeed the 1 thing I actually remember missing, back in Argentina.

But starting today at 4AM, something extremely weird happened. Adapting to some sort of old process dating back 50 years, "criss-cross" lights were installed, and for the first time in my life I had the freedom of running into the middle of an intersection of roads and laughing like a maniac at all the cars waiting for my and every other pedestrians' crossing. Of course, those who know me would highly doubt I would do such a thing, but I'll have you know that others had done it in my reserved stead, that's for sure...

And although this granted unorderedness had just started, the cars move on. Life moves on, even though every 3 minutes there is a mini-chaos going on, this little change that has made the city that much more efficient. A little cooler. A little more fun. A twist in the city albeit a minor one that everyone is almost already used to... we're all still crossing as we need to cross, on the zebralines yes, ebut subconsciously you know there's a change, you can see it, sense it, this awareness always lingering but never fully ebbing away no matter how used to it you get...

Now, since I've been refusing to blog about being back after 3 weeks... flip this blog upside down to see the underside of the cement for those whounderstand...

posted by Irene @ 1:54:00 AM