Wroclaw, the city I live in, has now (at least) ring road. It was opened beginning of September and it’s really nice, called “highway ring road” and has three lanes. Hard to believe, especially that Wroclaw was one of the European city with worst traffic. Motobikers used to call it city-with-no-asphalt. Pretty straightforward, isn’t it?
But now, finally we have our ring road.
However… :-)
Few months ago big discussion was started if this road should be free. Some politicians said that according to European law, new highways must be paid. Because government election is coming our smart politicians have to do something about this. Imagine how happy 600 000 of Wroclaw citizens plus several thousand people from Wroclaw surroundings would be after getting this news. “Well we promised that it will be free… but you know… we promised so many things…”.
Well, our politicians are not _that_ stupid. Big day came, 1st September, ring road to be opened, prime minister of Poland is present in Wroclaw on the celebration with some good news. Looks that the ring road will be free, however it will not be a highway anymore. Because according to law new highways must be paid, so we will just remove the “highway” from the road name. Boo hoo.
They create some silly law they need to bypass later on by removing one word from road description. Then they say that now the speed limit will be lower on this road because it’s not a highway anymore.
Wait, damn it, where this speed limit comes from? Technical reasons – road construction, number of lanes etc.? Or some stupid law created and later bypassed by politicians?
Maybe engineers’ credo “make it simple, stupid” was copied some time ago by politicians…
Unfortunately they have made small mistake and it’s now only “make it stupid”.
