Now What?

The longer I live over here the longer I realize it can be a waste of time to ask why? Especially when it comes to the driving around this place! One of the main roads we travel on daily is called Commonwealth, or as the locals like to call it "the highway of death". It is a large 20+ lane road (10 heading each direction) that has cars, motorcycles, jeepneys, large buses swerving in and out of traffic like they were bicycles, and of course pedistrians. You have to be very aware of what is going on around you all the time. It's not just called the highway of death for no reason, people actually do die on that road! (Tragically, a pastor and his wife were just killed in an accident on this road.)

As we drive along, sometimes the flow of traffic comes to a hault because of some "improvement" the are doing to the road. Like digging a hole in the middle of 10 lanes so that they can repair pipes that run underneath the road. Buses and cars are roaring by and swerving around the digging. It is maddening! Most recently, for some reason un-beknownist to us, the local gov't decided to make more "improvements" to Commonwealth by taking 8 of the 20 lanes (4 on each side) to build large concrete U-turn lanes. They are only providing 2 u-turn lanes but are using 4 physical "lanes" (not that we have lanes anyway, there are no lines on the road) to do it in! They need the new u-turn lanes wide enough for the turning radius of the jeepneys. So what do you get when you take 10 lanes of traffic and force them down to 6? Alot of people asking why! What in the world are they thinking? Traffic used to flow nicely but now is a log jam!! But you know what? No matter how much I ask why or rant and rave about it, they are moving forward with their "improvments". Not a thing I can do about it so I ask myself why ask why? Might as well embrace it, praise the Lord and just keep driving!