Don’t think I want to drive here....
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Don’t think I want to drive here....
I know, probably doesn’t belong here but this is insane! No stop lights, stop signs etc. Watch the pedestrians too.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UEIn8GJIg0E?rel=0
Denny
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Denny
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Great little restaurant just off the screen on the lower right. I've eaten many breakfasts watching the craziness of this intersection and only saw a couple donkeys killed when hit by a van. Otherwise never witnessed a collision between cars or people.
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Traffic is interesting in Addis. I'm sure they have traffic signals someplace, but I don't remember seeing one. I'm not sure what those rules are, and they seem to be pretty different than the right of way rules I'm used to. But there is a set of rules on who goes when that people seem to follow, and it seems to work fairly well. Compare that with Kinshasa (just came back from there) where the rule is every person for themselves, with the predictable result that traffic is a mess. It's interesting in itself that Ethiopians are following traffic rules in their cars, because in person on foot, there are no rules. If you're the next one in line at a counter, and there's 6 inches between you and the counter, someone absolutely *will* jam himself into that 6 inches in front of you, unless you physically prevent him.
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