A group of technicians from the Traffic Engineering Unit arrived this Friday at the most frenetic intersection in Havana, 23 and L. Their objective: to repair the eight pedestrian traffic lights whose fault signaled 14ymedio the day before and which had plunged both vehicles and passers-by into chaos.
Spotlights melted from use or damaged by a stone, in addition to the accelerated old age suffered by all Chinese-made objects, caused the total breakage of the eight devices, completely turned off this Thursday.
The brand new blue engineers’ vehicle, recently imported, thanked on one side the “collaboration of the Japanese people” who donated it to the Island. Slowly, they began the work and dismantled the devices, with absolute disinterest on the part of the passers-by, who kept crossing the street hunting for the perfect moment to evade the flow of cars.
Until now, a Police officer has not been arranged to regulate traffic until the light signals can be restored, and the repair prognosis does not seem encouraging. By noon the first spotlight had not yet been installed. “They have been working on the same pole all day. It seems to me that they are going to take a long time, because I already went to Playa and turned around and they are still in the same place,” a woman commented to her companion.
Another change that Havanans will witness is the replacement of the modern numerical countdown screens for cars and pedestrians –placed in some streets of the capital– by the conventional round spotlights. No transit authority has explained the reason for the setback. But none of the Havanans is concerned about the question: they are still looking for a moment to cross at an accelerated pace 23.
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