AMID BAGHDAD'S CHAOTIC TRAFFIC, IRAQI WORKERS SIGNAL CHANGES

摘要

A traffic light is a small thing―usually obeyed, often cursed and cheerfully violated until it quits working. Then people anxiously look forward to seeing it repaired. Huge numbers of Baghdad's traffic signals have been out of service for more than a month. Their absence has contributed to traffic snarls and has become one more irritant in a daily grind marked by fuel shortages, intermittent electricity, uncollected garbage and other postwar dysfunction.