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04 May 08
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home to at least 16 million people. 3,500 new ones are added each day.
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Red lights did not necessarily mean "stop" or even "slow", and it was the worst of mistakes to believe that a green "walk" light meant it was safe to cross the street
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inhospitable environment for pedestrians
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thankful for the large volume of traffic, which tended to slow everything down.
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t seemed faster at certain times of the day to walk than to take a taxi, and we liked the exercise
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Once our taxi passed a donkey-cart in a tunnel, and later we were amused to see a man trotting a camel over a major downtown bridge!
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them down the street and jumping in (or "on" when there was no more "in")
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10 piasters ($.04) fare, I guess you can't expect first class.
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The Cairo minglesections made those in Brussels seem well organized!
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Both were bargains at $.10 a ride.
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