Instead of magic "The Wire" traffics in realism and the romance of failure.
By the same year, wireless traffic will overtake wired traffic, with Wi-Fi and mobile devices coming to account for 54 percent on traffic to wired traffic's 46.
Unlike the facilities of the security services, which are heavily armed and protected by mountainous blast walls and coils of razor wire, the traffic police headquarters offered a softer target.
Still, Shiite youth are continuing to set the fires that so frustrate the government, burning electricity pylons, wiring and traffic lights as well as tires.
Roadside signs wired to traffic lights can help get the message across a couple hundred metres from a junction, but such signs are expensive, and have not been widely deployed.
"Thieves have removed wiring from traffic and railway signals and even posed as utility workers in order to remove large sections of thick utility cable from sewers beneath city streets".
He also agreed to pay $35,000 for city utility workers, who would accompany the building on its move, to ensure that no overhead wires or traffic signals were damaged.
"The Egyptians invented farming," he said, peering despairingly at a landscape of electric wires and buildings, traffic and trash.
In urban areas, the trees generally took power lines down with them, leaving many neighborhoods in Atlanta a chaotic mix of scattered tree limbs, live wires and nonfunctioning traffic lights.
Lucas Henderson admitted to committing wire fraud and trafficking in counterfeit goods by posting bogus coupons online while he was a 22-year-old computer security student at Rochester Institute of Technology.
