Not a week goes by where I do not get to experience something new here in Libya. This week was no exception. Again, the Indiana DOT could learn a few things from the folks at the Benghazi road department. It turns out that if the road crew needs to close down a section of the street in order to fill in a ditch they do the following. You put up barricades to block the street, then on each side of the intersection you pour a large pile of dirt along the sidewalk curb line so that cars can drive on the sidewalk in order to bypass the closed intersection.
You guessed it, Ali my driver took us up over the curb down the sidewalk and once we got passed the blocked intersection we went down the curb on the other side of the street. No need for traffic cops or any extra expense, after all how much can a little dirt cost.
I got the opportunity to go to a seminar today that dealt with making Libya more accessible to disabled residents. There were about 40 or 50 people that showed up for the session. The specific workshop that I attended dealt with “Accessible Tourism”. I thought that might be an appropriate one since I am working on the new hotel project. The information was good but the session lasted about twice as long as it should have since they would present part of it in Arabic and then had to repeat it in English. It was a long day……….
For some reason we are experiencing a number of power outages in the neighborhood today. Two one-hour sessions since 5:00 p.m. this evening. I had better get this blog posted before the next one hits.
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