Subtle differences

Traffic and public transportation are major themes being in a big city like Lima. Let’s play a game. Can you spot the difference between these two photos?

Paradero

Paradero prohibido

If you guessed that the second photo is not a bus stop, you’ve got it.

Every so often on my daily commute some level of police shows up and insists, with whistles and lots of arm motions, that the buses only stop at official bus stops and everyone gets confused because where they normally get on their bus is all of a sudden ‘illegal’. The next day the police are off somewhere else and it is all back to normal with ‘illegal’ bus stops de rigueur once more.

Here’s that sign up close:

No stopping ?