It's been an appalling week of work this week plagued with system glitches, human error, the occasional drenching from mother nature going to and from work, and compacting a couple of week's work into a handful of days. Even some of my most mild mannered and cheerful colleagues were getting a bit grumpy at times, not so much because of the work as such - I don't mind putting in solid work - but just the fact that it was taking so long to achieve so little.

Sending the image of this grey and overcast morning to mono (not that much was needed) seemed to serve as an appropriate theme to end the week on, as was the ridiculously low arbitrary speed limit sign which also impedes progress unnecessarily. The major cause of car accidents is unsafe driving (and in some cases unsafe roads) which may or may not (and often does not) involve excessive speed, but that would be too complex a concept for our politicians (and senior police who like to have their face on camera) to get across. It's much easier to do the "speed kills" soundbite and whack 10km off the limit everywhere you look, like dropping the limit on the 6 lane, relatively straight with all pedestrian traffic behind a barrier Anzac Bridge down from a "suicidal" 70 to 60. A limit which, of course, most drivers ignore unless there's a police radar trap there. Oddly enough, it hasn't occurred to our leaders that if you make laws which treat the public with contempt, the public will in turn tend to treat those laws with contempt rather than obeying them. Dropping the limit without regard to the nature of the road (in an effort to be "seen to be Doing Something) is a classic example of this.

The upper deck of the shot shows the Cahill Expressway. Below that is the City Circle rail line running here from the elevated Circular Quay railway station on the right toward the next station, the underground Wynyard. The motion-blurred lights of a departing train provide the only other colour in the image.