Two hours to cover 28km stretch!

Yesterday was one of the worst days in my office commutation! When it takes daily around 45 minutes to reach my hotel from the office, yesterday it took nearly 2 hours to cover this commute! :-(( The reason being our good old, E11 highway alias Sheikh Zayed road! There was an accident near the Mall of Emirates where a car had turned upside down and Ambulance had rushed to that spot. Though this accident was on the 4th lane of the road, the traffic movement on the first 3 lanes were very slow where people wanted to view the accident! Hmmm...natural tendency of a human being! :-) Once pass this, traffic gradually came to a standstill after some more distance. We were moving at a snail pace! There was no accidents (since there was no visual information on the display board) but still we were moving very slowly! This happened for nearly 1 hour where we covered barely 15 kms!! Its so frustrating to sit in that traffic which is moving so slowly. Wish we could got down and walked, but the outside weather is so hot that after some time getting exposed to sun, you skin might definitely get burnt!! The main cause of this slow traffic movement is the bottleneck at one point, where the 4 lane road converge into 2-lane where the other 2-lane goes toward Sharjah and 2 more lanes towards Bur-Dubai. People come in all the 4-lanes to converge into 2-lane that goes towards Al Maktoum bridge and then Deira. Wish something can be done at this point so as to avoid this daily terrific traffic jam! I just wish...

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