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Entry 34 : A Commute Through Town (5E136)
Linoa06 posted a City Journal entry in Skylines of Cathnoquey
Heya everyone! It's been one year since I began this CJ and I'm thrilled that it's still going on! Today we're taking a commute in this town : In the morning mist you can even see the smog coming from the glorious chimneys of the great industrial areas that cover the town and its inhabitants in soot and riches. The journey begins south, in a residential district called South Lexington. This is the A4 road from Glenvale, which here is not a freeway, but instead a 1x1 road with local lanes. It gets really jammed at rush hour. Once reaching the Morningstar Bridge, finally traffic can use two lanes. When you finally drive up onto the bridge, you sigh with relief. Maybe you won't be late to the office after all! From there, you drive on towards the CBD. You have two choices : you can try the waterbank expressway, which is hardly ever used because of its steep tolls... Or you can be cheap and carry on driving on the A4. As you drive into town the road even becomes a 3-lane way with sound barriers. And all of this to drive from this neighbourhood... ...into downtown, some 10 miles away. Somehow you beat the traffic! Or is it that you just went extra early? Either way, the streets are still quiet and the shops are still closed. Here are your shoppers and office workers! They're stuck on a bridge above the motorway, predictably enough. You wish there was a real mass transit system, beyond the inadequate buses and streetcars...but the federal grants have instead gone in the refurbishment of the small Vesper Bay Campus instead. Not that it's a bad thing, really - it's the leading university in the country as far as biology is concerned, and many talented barristers and laywers also come from these halls. With the federal grants, the university could improve quality of life for its students, and build sports facilities. The parkings didn't really get the same treatment though. That's the least they could do, right? The big addition this year isn't even the university, though. And no, it's not a proper transit system either. The Ministry of Magic has finally opened! The Ministry complex (which cost billions to the country) takes the form of a giant tower which dominates the south reaches of downtown. Landfills were turned into beautiful, weaving parks. The Ministry hosts all services for the small yet vibrant wizarding community of Cathnoquey. Cathnoquey seeks to become a leader in magical expertise - something Cyrodiil has excelled at for the past few centuries, ever since the fall of the Aldmeri Dominion. Personally, if I have to commute anywhere, I'd love my workplace to offer me a massive blooming park to relax during lunch break. But for all the talks of modernity and forward thinking, the town still lacks a definite public transport network. The buses are crammed, the trams are unreliable, and everything just costs so much! But hey, maybe we install a modern LRT system next entry And that's it for today! Next time we're beginning to improve our transit system so it connects more of the city together! Thanks for reading! And here's a map of the general area. Thanks See you next time- 2 Comments
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Article It might be surprising to people who have no disabilities, but being challenged (as the PC now puts it) is not the end of the world. Read the article to the end then comment. Over the years, I have become more and more disabled in various ways. All my life I have had rheumatoid arthritis that was undiagnosed and not treated until I was well into my forty's. Then it put me in the hospital, and now it is under fairly good control some thirty years later. However one of the control measures was the removal of the lining from my right knee cap because it was dumping too much fluid into the joint. Now, years later, this knee is also showing some serious osteoarthritis involvement, which is now under control, sort of. That's one! as they say. In 1988 I had a failed cataract replacement in my right eye. After a few years of fooling around trying to fix this, that eye is now blind. As a result I have no binary vision. That's two! I have a hereditary disposition towards hypertension and making too much cholesterol. This led to a triple arterial cardiac bypass in 2000. I am just fine thank you, but I live on heart and cholesterol controlling drugs. That's three! I am over 65, and guess what? I have benign prostate disease (enlarged prostate), so I am on a drug that inhibits testosterone production. It is good to be able to pee, even if I no longer have any libido. That's five! As a result of some of the drugs I am on to hold off my arthritis, I seem to be collecting fluid in my pericardium. Not much, at the moment, but I may have to have this sucked out eventually. That's six! Am I unhappy? Hell no. Each thing that doesn't kill me makes me stronger. I can't get around much, but I manage to live by myself and do what housekeeping needs to be done, and I have no appliances to assist my getting around. Be warned. The stats are saying people live longer. The longer you live, the more likely you are to find that you aren't all there any more. However, my goal is to live as least as long as my paternal grandmother who made it to 98 in full possession of her faculties then went out with a heart attack. Oh, yes, I seem to have forgotten that I am also on a steroid inhaler for my asthma. Guess that makes seven! I am paying the mortgage for my pharmacist.
