Surely there’s another way

Monday’s post brought some ‘interesting’ forthright comments from some readers – strangely they chose to email their opinions /suggestions instead of posting them here on the blog

“That’s just silly, surely you don’t have to go through all that rigmarole each time you want to go in that direction”

“You don’t need that stress while driving, there has to be another way”

“Why don’t you take another route”

Well yes, there are ways to bypass the roundabout – for example, let’s say I want to go to the library in Mooroolbark or the train station on Brice Avenue just across from the library.

These are the roads I’d usually take from home, it’s the most direct way – drive to Cambridge Road then the same way I described before

(The roundabouts are where Hull Road and Cambridge Road meet)

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You’ll have to imagine that the twisty turny bendy streets coming off slightly wider roads are filled with suburban homes so driving here might look easy but there are local (slower) speed limits, parked cars to be manoeuvred around (more people in some households owning cars) and believe it or not some mums still walk littlies to the nearby local primary school or kinder (not every household has two cars)

Going on slightly ‘straighter’ roads still means local streets, crossing over oncoming traffic and waiting at traffic lights that work in conjunction with another intersection slightly further up the road

And this is the easiest (less stressful for some) way
But almost twice as far to drive!

The Golfer occasionally goes that way – I prefer the roundabout way😊