For all the valid complaints about the Ukraine's Viktor Yuschenko, he's enacted a truly outstanding provision by eliminating all traffic cops. It turns out that this empirical example is proving what many libertarians theorize about a natural order emerging without state involvement:
"It appears drivers are being more careful," said Valery Borysov, a Kiev city official. "In general the road situation is stable."
According to some driving is now less stressful:
"To be fair, a lot of people are out of town because it's the summer holidays," said Vadym Chabanov, a Kiev courier rider, "but driving is less stressful because now you don't have to worry about some goon on every street corner inventing violations to hit you for a bribe."
The next step is for Yuschenko to enact a privatization of the roads, Block style. Maybe Professor Block can land another lucrative state contract, I hear the statists have been courting him already.
Hat tip to Aaron Gunn.
