Traffic in Dar es Salaam can get pretty bad. At least a couple of times it's taken me two hours to drive around 10 miles. So you can imagine the anticipation that gripped us when work started to widen the main road from Mwenge towards the city centre. But as the new road took shape we began to scratch our heads. Could it really be wide enough for two lanes in each direction? Well, the conundrum was solved when they eventually got round to painting the white lines. The answer? Three lanes. That's three lanes in total.
For a while it wasn't clear who had the legitimate right to use that middle lane. Signs have now gone up showing it's two lanes towards town and one coming back out. However, in reality, the usual rules of the road apply: priority goes to the larger, heavier and faster vehicle - and also to the braver driver.
There's already been a considerable amount of chaos.










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