Man over machine
Prague Mayor Pavel Bém admitted to MFD that in many places in
the city, the traffic situation is catastrophic. He promises to
improve it by building dozens of kilometers of new roads and 10
new metro stations by 2010. Fine, but we ask how this is going
to help unclog, say, Letná, when the literal light at the end of
the tunnel is out of order? On a recent day, the tunnel was
backed up for 1.5km merely because there was no police officer
to direct traffic as the BRAND NEW traffic light at tefánik Bridge
went on the fritz. Next to the traffic light is a high-tech camera
for big-bothering over us, but it's not very good at out-of-the-
box thinking when something goes wrong. Bém might keep in
mind that although infrastructure costing billions of crowns is
part of the solution for decongesting Prague's roads, sometimes
all it takes to send red-faced commuters on their merry way is a
well-placed rookie traffic cop earning Kč 115 per hour.
[Czech Republic ODS MF Dnes highway construction streets]
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