Kabul Is Quick to Import Headache From West: Traffic

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | Thursday, September 4, 2003 | PHILIP SHISHKIN

[presidio9]

German highway patrolman Wilhelm Borgert honked at a beat-up white sedan trying to cut in front of his jeep. "This is a one-way street, but you always have cars coming the other way," said Mr. Borgert, here to advise the Afghan government on police reform. He has started driving the wrong way himself, he says: "It's faster."

[presidio9]

Traffic backs up at an intersection in Kabul, Afghanistan

[Guillermo]

Never anything positive...

[billorites]

Three cities in which you never want to drive are Naples, Calcutta and Boston.

[John_11_25]

I heard the Hyatt Regency hotel chain (from Chicago) is going to build a hotel there.

So they see a future.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[B.Bumbleberry]

A few months ago, the traffic cops suspended all new registrations for right-side-drive cars, hoping to scare people into buying vehicles with steering wheels on the left. But the suspension, since lifted, drove down the price of right-side-drive cars, making them more attractive to the public.

Don't you just love the law of unintended consequences of government regulation being displayed in such simple elegance.

[PsyOp]

It's just a matter of choosing the right vehicle...