Taximotos under control?

Well here is the main change on the highways of Kigali - new since February. All the major junctions now have these traffic lights - must be some Chinese invention!

So when a Taximoto arrives at these you see how many seconds you have got before the green go sign changes to red. This of course means that if you are coming to a junction where the countdown is against you then you accelerate your Taximoto even faster, to get through, and if you fail then you have to grumpily watch how long you have to wait as the numbers trickle down to nothing.

Apparently these lights were instructed by the District authorities shortly after we left Rwandan in February, because two mad Scotsmen had been encouraging their Taximotos to race, speed, and jump lights.

Now, surprisingly they work pretty well, until rush hour when the police come out to run them otherwise chaos ensues.

Although the Taximotos are being controlled, don't presume that they are under the authorities thumb - after I took myself out for a curry and a beer last night, we did the usual speeding up the dual carriageway against the flow of traffic - so not everything changes