Near my office in West Perth is a train station for the Fremantle Line, the public transport train that runs through the western suburbs between Perth and Fremantle. When I take the train to work on rainy days, that is where I disembark.
Next to the station is a new construction project where they are building a new condominium tower. The pedestrian exit for the station goes right in front of the construction site. Often the passengers have to pick their way though trucks and equipment being unloaded at the site.
They have been working on it for over a year now. Progress is amazingly slow. I reckon that the developer must be getting his panties in a twist over the lack of progress.
I dawned on me today why nothing is getting done. Every time a train stops and disgorges passengers, all work on the site stops as all the workers pause to perv on all the good looking office girls walking by. The problem is that there is a train every 7.5 minutes. The trains run every 15 minutes, one northbound and one southbound. So about every 7.5 minutes a pack of passengers has to run the construction site gauntlet out of the station.
If the developer were smart, he would install a tall fence around the perimeter of the property to block the view of the outside world from the guys in the inside. It would probably pay for itself in a week of productivity gains.
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