Radio Theater of the Absurd

[Robert S Chase]

Well it is the Dunkin Donut traffic report! <grin> see 
http://www.maine.gov/mdot/mainedot-news-release/graylawenforcementhelprequest806.php 
and http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/060818gray.shtml

Bob Chase

> As someone who has lived in Maine for thirty-plus years, I find these so
> amusing I chuckle every time I hear them.  WHAT traffic??  As far as I'm
> aware, there are exactly four roads in the whole state where one can 
> predict
> at-least-somewhat clogged traffic on a more-or-less everyday basis --- the
> Maine Turnpike from Portland south, Route 1 from Portland south, I-295 
> from
> Brunswick to Scarborough, and Route 302 from Portland to Windham.  I live 
> in
> central Maine; I can get in my car on any given weekday morning, go onto a
> numbered state highway, and perhaps drive a half-hour before I meet 
> another
> vehicle.