Bucharest Drivers/Roads

Badly Parked Vans

by Craig Turp April 18, 2011 Bucharest

These photos – taken on Strada Paris and supplied via a source who wishes to remain anonymous – are magnificent. As the photographer explains: ‘what makes them so ridiculous is that the driver was working in the garden at the front, but had put the rear end of his van in such a place that [...]

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Bucharest’s rich can drive cars, the poor can take the bus

by Craig Turp April 2, 2011 Bucharest

No, that’s not our opinion, instead it’s what we understood from reading this article (part of a series called Five Things Bucharest Should Be Ashamed Of) – written by a chap called Ciprian Ciucu – currently being published over at Contributors, a site dedicated to what can often be decent, well thought through opinion pieces. [...]

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Some good ideas simply don’t work in Romania

by Craig Turp April 5, 2010 Bucharest

The PDL senator Iulian Urban came up with – on paper – a sound idea last week: Fines for driving offences should vary according to the income of the offender. A sound idea indeed, although not entirely original: Finland has had a similar system in place for years. Other countries probably do too. But think [...]

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Hands off RATB

by Craig Turp March 9, 2010 Bucharest

Make a list of good public services in Bucharest. Finished? Thought so. There are not that many public services in Bucharest which approach anything that could even be said to resemble ‘good.’ But there are a few… Rubbish collection is one, at least in our sector (Sector 3). We get our rubbish collected twice a [...]

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Bucharest Life 2009

by Craig Turp January 4, 2010 Bucharest

A week or so late, here is Bucharest Life’s Review of the Year that was 2009. January A new government, led by Traian Basescu and Little Emil Boc, installed following parliamentary elections at the end of 2008, introduces, amongst other moves of sheer political genius, a compulsory profit tax for small companies (even those that [...]

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Nu Bloca Intersectia

by Craig Turp December 9, 2009 Bucharest

First off, we bet you never knew that the Bucharest police force had its own Facebook page? Well it does, and for what it’s worth, it’s here. Secondly, we bet you never knew that they had made a mildly amusing 30-second commercial to try and encourage the city’s drivers not to block junctions? Well, they [...]

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