All Roads Lead to the Branch House!

 We have discovered over the last several months that there is more than one way to get from our home on Koszegi Street to the branch house.

When we arrived in January we had to drive over two sets of rail road tracks to get to the branch house.

Sometimes we couldn't cross the first set of tracks because there was a train coming on the second set of tracks.

On a really lucky day we had to stop at both crossings. The chances of waiting at both crossing was significantly higher if we were late for a meeting.

We watched the process of the digging of the new road with great anticipation!

At this point we could no long drive on the road but we could still walk to the branch house without a problem.

We still had to wait for trains!

But if we drove we still had to stop for the flashing red lights at our new rail road track crossing.

Our luck was even worse at this crossing. One time we waited for six trains, well actually it was only four with one train backing up three times. I think they recognized our car!

As work progressed they had to lay new pipes so the access to the street that took us to the crossing was blocked off.

We found Kulloi Ut (street) which was about a block up from our street and it too was yet another way to get to the branch house Actually it led to Citadella Ut which led to Lover Ut which led to Beke Ut which led to Batsanyi Ut which led to Csengery Ut which led back to our street Koszegi but on the other side of the tracks!

When we saw that they were landscaping we were super excited. When they closed the Koszegi Ut. they told us that the underpass would be done in September because it was a project of the European Union and they were telling the truth.

This is our new route with a beautiful roundabout with flowers!

Then we turn off the roundabout at the first exit which says Centrum (city center).

And here we have the train tracks and we are about to go UNDER them. Ha ha!

It is so beautiful!

No more crossing arms coming down before our very eyes!

And no more smirky smiles from the engineers! In the end I would still have to say that trains are cool!!!