RE: South Africa's Pointsmen - an experiment in human behaviour?
I guess that is one of the problems of some countries.
Where people don't abide by the rules and stipulation of course endangering other people just so they can get to their destination quicker despite the fact without order you create chaos and if anything it may take longer getting to somewhere as a minicab swerves in front of a couple of cars. I wrote about this once in a post where I talked about the problems in Kenya when I went to visit there on my journey of discovering what Africa is like.
At least there are pointsmen. Despite the fact they may not have authority if people see someone in a high visibility jacket they tend to behave as I think we generate this illusion that they are in a place of power and we will face repercussions if anything happens @kiligirl
You might be onto something there, @arckrai. Selfishness, and balancing out the relative evils - "the impact on my life will be much worse if I kill the pointsman than if I grudgingly obey him".