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Jul. 9th, 2019 09:09 amA water main break near campus late Sunday caused the city to block off the large north-south avenue that passes the library where I work.
The city failed to set up proper detour signs. This is a typical university campus area where the streets are weirdly offset and terminate unexpectedly because either the building was there first and the streets were routed around it, or because at some point the university bought the land and closed down the street.
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This morning,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
myrialux took the route in green to the library, where he dropped me off. We had a caravan of a number of cars behind us, who decided we knew where we were going. I rolled my window down and started pointing with broad gestures to the road they SHOULD take and yet NOT A SINGLE PERSON did so, and they all followed us past the turnoff, past the library loading dock where myrialux turned in to drop me off, to the dead end into a glorious traffic jam.
myrialux was stuck on the loading dock drive until they all left, so I stood out there and pointed everyone to the correct road. Most people smiled and waved in thanks, and turned the direction I was pointing, but a couple either didn't see me or had no idea what I was trying to tell them and so stomped on the gas and zoomed back down the way we originally came.
Some say they are stuck on campus even now, circling the classroom buildings, construction zones, and graduate student housing for eternity.
The city failed to set up proper detour signs. This is a typical university campus area where the streets are weirdly offset and terminate unexpectedly because either the building was there first and the streets were routed around it, or because at some point the university bought the land and closed down the street.
( cut for more description of the situation plus crappy diagram )
This morning,
myrialux took the route in green to the library, where he dropped me off. We had a caravan of a number of cars behind us, who decided we knew where we were going. I rolled my window down and started pointing with broad gestures to the road they SHOULD take and yet NOT A SINGLE PERSON did so, and they all followed us past the turnoff, past the library loading dock where myrialux turned in to drop me off, to the dead end into a glorious traffic jam.myrialux was stuck on the loading dock drive until they all left, so I stood out there and pointed everyone to the correct road. Most people smiled and waved in thanks, and turned the direction I was pointing, but a couple either didn't see me or had no idea what I was trying to tell them and so stomped on the gas and zoomed back down the way we originally came. Some say they are stuck on campus even now, circling the classroom buildings, construction zones, and graduate student housing for eternity.
