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=Grudge Match?=

Original story from //Yahoo! News// [|News of the Weird: Bright Ideas]

I found this story on Yahoo! News. At first I thought that the article was a joke, but then I realized that it was completely serious. The mayors of two adjacent cities in France, Levallois-Perret and Clichy-la-Garenne have a major crowded highway running through them, D909. The mayor of Levallois-Perret thought that he could solve the problem by making his portion of the highway one-way, sending all of the traffic into the town of Clichy-la-Garenne. The mayor of Clichy-la-Garenne, a political rival of his counterpart in Perret, decided that the best thing to do would be to make his portion of the highway one way, sending cars BACK into Levallois-Perret. The two mayors trying to help their cities have effectively created the worlds largest turn-a-round.

This story interested me because it told a tale of two cities; two cities that like to send traffic back and fourth and generally make a mess of things. I was surprised, because at least to my eye, the news story was completely unbiased. You don't normally get that in a news article.

Luckily, outside authorities are working to remedy the issue by forcing the mayors to make the highways 2-ways again, and hopefully help make everybody's commute a little bit easier.