Public services were collapsing, the roads were already full of potholes and electricity was insufficient. But after the arrival of tens of thousands displaced by the Israeli strikes, Beirut and its infrastructure reached their limits. “Before there were traffic problems,” but today “Beirut has become a big parking lot,” said Jamal Andada, who has been driving the streets of the Lebanese capital for 25 years in his taxi. “There should be two lanes and there is only one” On the main street of the Hamra shopping district he loses patience: “there should be two lanes and there is only one”, so a ten-minute journey “can now take an hour” . The streets of Beirut, home to about six million people, are often plunged into darkness at night due to chronic power shortages and have always been plagued by increased traffic. But since the cross-border exchanges of fire between Israel and […]
Source: News Beast
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