[Talk-ht] waterway=stream + vehicle=yes?

Jochen Plumeyer jochen at plumeyer.org
Sun Feb 14 17:02:56 GMT 2010


Hello,

On Dom 14 Feb 2010, Hans van Wijk wrote:
> Michael Buege wrote
> > Would be good, to hear more about this fact from somebody who have
> > better knowledge of the Haitian driving habits.
>
> Yes, I found more situations on the imagery that would benefit from someone
> who's been there, but the car in the riverbed on the image made it pretty
> believable that cars actually do drive there, didn't it?

I can confirm the habit of using riverbeds as roads if possible.

I think it is possible, that the quakes have densified the sand/ sediments in 
the riverbeds, and hence it is ironically much safer than normal (without 
quake) to drive in them.

Cheers,

Jochen







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