Comments on: Nu Bloca Intersectia

By: Andy H

Andy H — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:32:37 +0000

@Davin I think the policing of speeding leaves a lot to be desired, but I’d put much of the blame on the driver mentality. The presence of a police radar in a village is signalled to everyone, so that they can slow down and not get done. However, almost nobody slows down just because you’re driving through a built up area, and you know it’s dangerous and there are children and other people (and animals, and cyclists, and no pavements, and drunk blokes everywhere). People slow down so as not to get caught, not so they don’t cause an accident. At some point this needs to be reversed somehow.

By: Davin Ellicson

Davin Ellicson — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:28:01 +0000

Thanks Parmalat for the insight!

Peter: yes you said as much when we met. Interesting.

By: Parmalat

Parmalat — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:19:27 +0000

@Davin: what’s wrong with commandos on the street? )
Of course someone is behind BGS as well as all the other security companies having signed contracts with the state (represented by the Bucharest mayorship in this case).
The idea is: you’re a BGS owner, you are politically connected to PDL, you go to the PDL counselors from the city council and tell them “you give me this contract and I give you this commission (for the party as well as for yourselves)”. They approve and everyone walks away with something in his pockets!
You know, these days if the Financial Police (Garda Financiara) visits your company and sees that you broke some laws, the bribe doesn’t go to them anymore but you have to rather make a donation to PDL if you want to get away )

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:28:13 +0000

I remember the 90′s where police was everywhere, and they stopped your car too often to check your papers, giving tickets for not wearing a seatbelt (!) and speedcamera’s almost behind every corner, mostly outside big cities. Especially when you were driving a foreign car with foreign licenceplates, you were like a driving sugarpie whit the bee-cops buzzing around you to check if you had valid insurance papers in case you would hit a Dacia. Now Bucharest and Romania is the Far West, the survival of the fittest on four wheels.

By: Davin Ellicson

Davin Ellicson — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:01:34 +0000

Wow! In 2009, they finally start practicing normal traffic laws like towing cars, something that has been done in the West, for, oh I don’t know, a 100 years!