traffic marmalade! →[More:]

There is an immensely long train parked on the crossing right next to my workplace. There is train for as far as the eye can see in both directions (I know, cos I went and took a peek, and the trax aren't very bendy just right here so it'sa long mofo). It has been parked there for quite some time, but investigations of the local news media so far have come up empty. This is on a fairly busy through street, and there aren't many options to bypass the RR trax from here unless you're on a bike (bike path has a trestle underpass nearby).

The train was parked there when my colleague and I came back from our lunchtime ride a half hour ago, and the street was backed up for a couple blocks. Now the traffic marmalade includes roughly a zillion cars, 2 RTD busses, several cops and their attendant cop cars with lights a-whirling, and a bunch of people standing around in the road yammering on cell phones. The cops seem to be encouraging people to either bang a u-turn and go back the way they came or take a jaunt around the ring road in the office park, which also takes them back the way they came.

Both bus drivers are chewing the fat on the sidewalk in front of our building; guess they don't much care when they finish their routes.

The monsoons also appear to have begun for the season; this morning it was cloudless and lovely, now there are giant black-and-purple thunderheads building over the Front Range. I expect we'll see lightning and some rain action by 5PM.

What do you see outside?