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Samoans sabotage new drive-on-the-left signs
The revolt over Samoa's road switch has begun, with villagers taking to the streets to redirect new road arrows and remove signs directing drivers to "keep left".
Unrest is brewing over a bold move by the Government in Apia to change the flow of traffic to the left side of the road to bring Samoa into line with Australia and New Zealand.
The change is just two weeks away but officials are facing a backlash.
Villagers in the town of Laulii have authorities fuming after they altered the new directional arrows on the road by painting them so they pointed the wrong way.
"Road workers had painted the lines on without the end points of the arrows and some locals have come out and added them on, but the wrong way," said Mataafa Keni Lesa, editor of the Samoa Observer newspaper.
"You can imagine how angry the authorities are."
The revolt over Samoa's road switch has begun, with villagers taking to the streets to redirect new road arrows and remove signs directing drivers to "keep left".
Unrest is brewing over a bold move by the Government in Apia to change the flow of traffic to the left side of the road to bring Samoa into line with Australia and New Zealand.
The change is just two weeks away but officials are facing a backlash.
Villagers in the town of Laulii have authorities fuming after they altered the new directional arrows on the road by painting them so they pointed the wrong way.
"Road workers had painted the lines on without the end points of the arrows and some locals have come out and added them on, but the wrong way," said Mataafa Keni Lesa, editor of the Samoa Observer newspaper.
"You can imagine how angry the authorities are."