Ahh, the awesome power of blogging!

Wow. No sooner had I said that what I wanted to see was our wonderful Boys in Green taking action against the arrogant, selfish idiots for whom the rules of the road are a timewasting inconvenience, when Lo! They do it!

Last night, on the link road from Shk Zayed to Barsha/Jebel Ali Race Course/Greens, there was the usual three lane carpark. And the predictable parade of battered Sunnies and 3-digit Range Rovers whizzing past on the hard shoulder. Except last night for them it was a hard shoulder to cry on.

Must have been a dozen or more cars parked behind each other, their drivers variously remonstrating, pleading or attempting to wheedle their way forward. We all know how much more important than ours was their rush to be home, after all. That's why they were on the hard shoulder in the first place...

Anyway, good to see a sensible rule being politely but firmly enforced. Visible policing is surely a more effective deterrent than any number of scamera-generated fines.

And in the vanishingly small chance that Dubai's finest are, in fact, reading this, well done! Now perhaps you could do the same thing on the road down the side of the Greens in the morning...?