I hear this week the Prime Minister is going to spend a few vacations in Chania, his home. By the way, I inform him that it is better to ride on foot or by bicycle, otherwise it is very likely to be found without a driver's license. And then he has to go stand for two or three hours on the mail line to pay her more in the second line to get his plates. So it's a waste of one or two mornings since his vacation. You're gonna tell me the Prime Minister doesn't drive his own car. Okay, but we all drive it. Also the thousands of tourists who rent to see the sights of the area and go to the beaches.
We know that in August, Athens traffic is transported to the province. Obviously, there must be an effort to be orderly on the roads and on the sidewalks, but the local branches of traffic must have this very aim. To help the functioning of their areas during the period of the great peak, not to see the Julyes and Augustes as an opportunity to fill the state fund with the fine money. Because especially in Chania, that's what happens.
They set it up on the main beach road that passes in front of all beaches and large hotel units, two lanes have all and all, parked cars exist on both sides and once they see someone step on the dividing line they get their license. And they're cutting him a fine that doesn't have an electronic payment code, so he has to be paid to the ELTA downtown. The Swede or Pole take a bad handwritten call and then he has to go 20 kilometers away, stand in a line to pay.
I'm writing it because local professionals sent me a bunch of posts from tourists writing. «don't go on holiday in Chania, because you will return home without a driving licence». No, I do not seize the traffic that is doing its job, I take over its excessive rigour which instead of helping the region's functionality at its most profitable economic moment, creates more problems than it is trying to solve.
The owners of the rental in Chania see themselves in a state of persecution. They have filed dozens of reports trying to save their jobs, as their cars are immobilized so far. Because they also have problems with traffic. The professional car does not legally have the same treatment as the IX, in holding the signs for example. And their foreign clients go mad, throwing a black stone behind them. They tell me that nowhere else in any other city is such rigour and formalism displayed by traffic.
Apparently, the leadership of local traffic consists of people who are extremely conscientious to apply the letter of law. Good for them, but to be aware that police need to understand the needs and particularities of their area to help, not think that ten times the calls they're cutting, they accomplish something. That's not how it works. As whip goes with carrot, rigor must go along with functional clemency. Otherwise we're making a mess of things.
