Wednesday, September 04, 2002

Authorities in Vilnius, Lithuania have deployed some 300 cardboard cut-out traffic cops reports the BBC. Road safety in Lithuania is pretty crap with a death rate in road accidents more than double that of the European Union. Slightly reminiscent of the time in San Francisco when bridge tolls where raised for driver only cars - lowered for carpools. Some entrepenurially minded wag sold loads of inflatable "passengers" so that commuters could dodge the higher tolls. Cardboard cops, inflatable passengers, CCTV, speed cams. What next: holographic bobbies on the beat?


Speaking of Vilnius, the city's rather good looking web site reports on the latest world conference on Esperanto, the invented "world" language (sometimes mocked as Desperanto). Vilnius beat out Beijing for the honour. Wow.

:: Posted by pete @ 12:16