My Saviour!!!

Ok, I know what you're thinking. It's a photo of a train. I was getting confused looks from the boarding passengers as I stopped to take a photo of this most un-attractive Arrow commuter train this afternoon. Unappreciative fools, every last one of them!

I'll explain.....

I decided to pay homage to this reliable little baby after the pure mess that greeted motorists inbound to Dublin this morning on the N7 motorway. Like thousands of others I commute from Kildare, Newbridge to be exact, every morning and the propect of two hours plus stuck in traffic does not appeal to me one bit. That two hours turned to close on three to four hours for the poor unfortunates that had to brave the new outlay at the Red Cow roundabout which came into effect from this morning (1/5/07) From the comfort of the train I listened to the traffic reports and tried to calm my up to ninty fiance via text as she averaged a speed of 5km every ten minutes! Again the ugly issue of the capitals traffic problem was brought to the forefront this morning as the working population went slowly mad.

My solution? Get the train if it's possible to from where you live. Some people look at me like I have ten heads when I tell them that I commute to work via the train every morning. "You have a car, why do you bother?" is the usual question. This mornings traffic says all I need to say on that issue.

Oh, do keep me a seat if I've managed to sell my idea to you:-)