When road traffic rhymes with anarchy

The law does not seem to be made for everyone, especially regarding traffic in Marrakech. The Highway Code is flouted all day long by inconsiderate drivers. The situation is such that one wonders if all users really know or at least remember the basic rules of the Highway Code. A true anarchy, an indescribable mess, and disorder now reign supreme in the ochre city. Motorists, pedestrians, and drivers of two-wheelers, carts, and horse-drawn carriages do only as they please, hardly worrying about others, at the risk of causing serious accidents and unfortunate inconveniences. Driving in the wrong direction, parking on pavements and in bends, confiscation of space reserved for pedestrians, non-respect of traffic lights, speeding, dangerous overtaking, failure to wear a helmet for drivers of motorised two-wheelers... constitute, among others, the procession of infractions to make the traffi…