The title of this post is borrowed from Tyrian, a vertical scroller shooter from my childhood. It was a level in which you had to escape from Ixmucane, a planet that was about to be turned into a star, but the systems were succesfully deactivated by you, Trent Hawkins.
The girlfriend and I finish the day at the same hour, so we went back to my home to eat, watch movies and else. Everything is perfect until I take her home, as she lives kind of far. Any possible route is not particularly fast, the short path gets constantly blocked by traffic, the long way has way too much bumps and is also blocked by traffic at the beginning. So any route was slow, until today.
Anyone living in Mexico city knows that the metro zone’s second level of the peripheric ring, the main “highway” that crosses both the metro zone and the city was opened last year, supposedly to celebrate the bicentenary of Mexico’s independence. It’s construction was chaotic, cruising through the metro zone was like being kidnapped inside a car, but now that it’s open it provides an awesome way to cross it from side to side in no more than twenty minutes.
So I loved it. Even though it’s not free, I’ll gladly pay those ~$16 MXN to cross a quarter of the metro zone in under five minutes and be back home in less than an hour, provided of course that I come back right away. It was a nice ride indeed, the feeling I got while driving through it was that it is a very good quality construction, at least for Mexico’s standards.
Being an elevated highway, there’s always the catch that small bumps are created everywhere where a piece joins another one. This small bumps, although noticeable are not significant enough to slow down when hitting them. Some of them are scarcely felt. Also, it feels great to see everyone else trapped within traffic below you. I hope karma won’t read this, as I may get caught in traffic while someone above me laughs (as it happened to me once, while crossing the express lane towards Lechería)
