Tunisia
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 1:45 pm
Just come back from a week in Tunisia and was initially a bit surprised not to see much in the way of maxi action on the roads.
However, after a couple of miles from the airport *was* surprised to see thousands of really beaten up old fashioned mopeds with names that I'd never heard of, on the road.
Almost exclusively MTO right offs, and mostly overloaded with people and/or goods. There didn't seem to be much in the way of control over them, most of them didn't even have number plates, and lights seemed to be a bit optional too.
The riding space seems to be a bit random too, with them being roughly split into 4 equal groups, pavement and road both sides, and with overtaking being carried in all sorts of ways.
Talking to the one of our guides it seems that these are the remnants of anything that people legally owned before the Arab spring, and with spare parts being almost impossible to come by now, the police, (such as they are), are turning a blind eye.
On the upside, petrol is only 60p per litre.....
However, after a couple of miles from the airport *was* surprised to see thousands of really beaten up old fashioned mopeds with names that I'd never heard of, on the road.
Almost exclusively MTO right offs, and mostly overloaded with people and/or goods. There didn't seem to be much in the way of control over them, most of them didn't even have number plates, and lights seemed to be a bit optional too.
The riding space seems to be a bit random too, with them being roughly split into 4 equal groups, pavement and road both sides, and with overtaking being carried in all sorts of ways.
Talking to the one of our guides it seems that these are the remnants of anything that people legally owned before the Arab spring, and with spare parts being almost impossible to come by now, the police, (such as they are), are turning a blind eye.
On the upside, petrol is only 60p per litre.....
