Georgian traffic police have been fired, reports the International Herald Tribune.

Georgian driving rules might be recorded like this: Always be first. Always regard a two-lane highway as a three-lane highway, keeping in mind that the middle lane, an imaginary space squarely astride the other two, is a lane solely dedicated to you. Go as fast as you can, except when roads are wet. Then go faster.

Lounging in front of empty barracks, the traffic police watched traffic rush past. There was nothing for them to do. They did not even try.
Georgia once had more than 4,200 police officers on its roads. On that evening it effectively had none. Cars sped by at 145 kilometers, or 90 miles, an hour. The officers looked bored.
Asked why they were not working, they exchanged smirks. “We are not functioning any more,” Lieutenant Pavel Kankrelidze said.
Put another way, the traffic police had been fired. Georgia has had what it calls its Rose Revolution, the bloodless nudge last year that pushed President Eduard Shevardnadze from power. Now it is having a road revolution, utterly changing what it is like to drive in one corner of the former Soviet Union.

This is one export that Armenia would be glad to accept from Georgia. Real democracy, then real law and order.

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