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Nov 13, 2010

Lebanon and the Speedtrap Fever

Speed traps are active in Lebanon... A step further in the development process that this country is having. It's great having finally a way to enforce law to ensure our safety, but on what expense? Are these new laws made just to keep the flow of cash running to the gov or is it truly to maintain the safety of the Lebanese people?
Let's put aside the roads condition and how unsafe they are, let's put aside the fact that some cars are a hazard by themselves just because they still run on the streets, putting aside the "weird" way each and every one of us gets his/hers driving license, let's put aside the driving signs that need a major makeover especially those regarding speed limits (one of them installed near the Sanayeh Garden in Beirut says that the top speed is 20 Km/h, if i leave the car running without accelerating, 3al avance ya3ne, it has a speed that exceeds 20 Km/h!!)... Putting aside all of these, and assuming that this step of activating speed traps is somehow enough (adding to it discipline from drivers around Lebanon), why is the only news we heard, so far, were about statistics:
On the first day 3630 tickets
On the second 1500 tickets
In Zahle 250 tickets per day
What about the accident rates? The mortality rates? The hazards? Did they drop?
I don't wanna sound pessimistic... I just hope that this step taken to really organize driving in Lebanon will not be another file in a cabinet!

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