by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 23, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
I got this link from the friendly people at SkyscraperCity.com who also have a discussion board to track the use of Beirut as an adjective. Here’ s one from Ireland: The new link road from the M9 motorway to Athy, now called the new N78, was heavily criticised...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 19, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
I had told Elizabeth Diffin of the BBC Online Service that you don’t hear people say “it looks like Baghdad”; apparently I was wrong: Many roads in Tiverton are so potholed, they are ‘more like those in Baghdad or Beirut’ – a former town Mayor...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 5, 2009 | Looks Like Beirut
From Portland,Oregon to across the Atlantic at Sandy Cove, Kinmel Bay, we have a new “Little Beirut”: The roads around Sandy Cove, Kinmel Bay, are so bad that pensioner Bob Ashcroft, 89, has been tipped off his motorized scooter three times. … Mr...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 1, 2009 | Society
The country that had left us with claustrophobic roads and evil roundabouts is back, this time, they plan to tame the streets of Beirut: …six [French] officers […] have been in Beirut for the past two weeks as part of a cooperation project between the...
