Roadblocks/ #freewrites
My fourth year in the university came with gruesome news. The first semester was terrible. Every month, there were news about students death on the campus main roads. Most times, they were drunk driving at night and going at ridiculous speed. Sometimes, it was just these drunk students death, other times they were more casualties.
Then, the university made a decision to install roadblocks on half side of the road in a zigzag manner, with a road block not so far from the next.
This drastically reduced the speed of drivers which also reduced the death rate through drunk driving and high speed.
The only consequence of the roadblocks was the Traffic it caused. It was bad. But, I guess we would rather have bad traffic than students death.
My freewrite for today's prompt: Roadblock
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That was proactive of the university. It's sad people are so careless with life. Nice freewrite!
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Nice and concise. University stories are among my favorite stories, thanks!
Wow. What made that year so different?
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Ooh. It was the bars.
When I first entered the university, they had just a bar. The bar was far from the student quarters, you had to go the lecturers quarters. Also the gate to the quarters is closed by 8pm.So only occupants had access after 8pm. I guess most students drank indoor until an extension was made close the restaurant section and five bars opened within 3 months.
And that was it. ....
That was a great idea... Uncle Bruni approves this type of roadblock. 👍👍