Chipata Life
May 29th 2008 Chipatans are proud of their traffic lights; it's a good sign the town is developing, and was a key landmark of the town as first described to me in Lusaka. However, I haven't yet worked out the rules of their usage- are they as in the UK (in theory Zambians drive on the left) or elsewhere, where you can turn left on red? Not helped by the frequent powercuts when it's every driver for themselves
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