Indian Road Traffic

First read Mike Boon‘s post on Indian traffic and watch the clip that he has embedded in it. He had wanted his “one regular reader who lives in India” to give a response to that. So I obliged!

Your “one regular reader of this blog lives in India” has woken up and is going to “chime” in and explain how it works!Mike, its all about where you live and what u have there. The roads are smaller, the British left us with a bitch called bureaucracy and we fed it with steroids. The roads are really bad in some areas and the local bus, taxi & auto drivers here will find driving in a western country a piece of cake! He may even find it a bit boring.

The clip is probably taken in mid-India although I can’t be sure. Organized chaos is right! But that’s the way most cities & towns are in India. You have to learn to go with the flow. My city is terrible at times; you can wait for an hour to cross the roads and get to the other sides. We are a huge population, over-populated in a country which suddenly does not look that big compared to her citizens. Maybe we can start sending some more Indians to Canada to fill in those wide open areas, eh? And let’s start with me! I wish, lol!
So that’s it, too many people, too many bikes, scooters, cars, buses, trucks, autorickshaws, cows, dogs, cats……, is it a wonder that I don’t drive?

Sorry that the comment is too long.

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