Life in Port Harcourt City...The Morning Rush

Written by Bliss Okere









Port Harcourt city , famously known as the garden city has gradually turned into the garbage city, speaking of the traffic in the city as Aba road is the only major express road in the city, which has brought about the constant traffic jam between 6:30am up until 12noon , then it starts again at 3:30pm till when it decides to have mercy and go to bed.
The morning rush in Port Harcourt city has turned into that of Lagos, where you resume work at 8 O’clock but have to get up at 4am just so that you can beat the traffic and get to work hopefully at 7:30am, imagine.
My experience about the morning rush actually starts with my alarm clock sounding at 5am, ah trust me now, I give my self extra time despite the blaring sound. I wake up finally at 5:20am, while I am praying I always mention the traffic situation, yes I actually do because it requires prayers , some days could be worse where the traffic moves 1metre after 10mins wait, then 1 meter again after another 5mins slowly like that, then you are in for it when you have just 30mins to make it to work. someone  will be wondering why I include traffic in my prayers , simple, to avoid grammar while I have to get to work, like someone hitting my car or I having to hit someone’s car.
If you use the ABA/PH  express road regularly then you have an idea of what am talking about, the craze starts from the Oil mill bus-stop with the irritating transport commuters who have refused to be reasonable. They stop at will to pick passengers, without even minding that there are other road users, this is common with the bus drivers , they are ready to insult you to the last if you talk, they are in more rush than you and I. Now the well dressed ” I am a manger” the guy with suit and tie in his kia jeep is no exception , Ha! they actually drop there manners at home for the time being , I mean the road is actually a battle field in the morning, come and see cursing and swearing, I am no exception O !, because your fellow human being just makes life and driving frustrating for you, from swerving and changing lanes at will without caution to protecting your lane so that no one enters in front of you, its really crazy. By the time you get to work you are already sapped out  a little by the driving menace.
In the process of all this I still find some things humorous, like the guy in his suit and tie with another guy just like him who had a collision, oya now come and see grammar and posing, you will hear words like “do you know who I am ”…
Its actually disturbing and at the same time a funny morning rush in Port Harcourt city. It came to my understanding (from my a reliable source) that some guys now hustle at the traffic post, pretending to be police officials on coloured clothes. They lay in wait for a JJC to beat traffic then they surround your car, where the doors are open , they jump into your car , my dear you don become their maga. I hope nemesis will catch up with them

No matter what it is I still love port Harcourt  city, there is no place


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