Traffic in India

Published by Toronto Mike on January 6, 2008 @ 19:19 in Miscellaneous

carI've watched this video of traffic in India a few times, and it's still baffling me. The best way to describe it is as organized chaos.

At least one regular reader of this blog lives in India and I'm hoping he'll chime in and explain how this works and how they prevent accidents. I can tell by the pedestrians in this clip that it's sped up a little, but only a little. It's still quite fascinating.

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Jill
January 6, 2008 / 21:20

I had the opportunity to live in Venezuela for a couple of years and spend some time in the Philippines due to my fathers career. This is siimilar to the driving madness I was witness to there as well. The rules as I know are anything goes and may the more assertive/aggressive driver win. My father had to relearn to drive when we returned to Canada.

Doug
January 7, 2008 / 08:47

It looks like real life Frogger to me!!

Argie
January 7, 2008 / 10:33

That is amazing. Now if we can get them to stop aborting female unborn babies that would be wonderful.

someone reading
January 8, 2008 / 08:16

thought i would make a comment that seems to be fitting.....with all the rules everywhere else and the fact that we have so many traffic issues...could this be the question and the answer???????????

Roshan
January 8, 2008 / 20:35

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.

Roshan
January 8, 2008 / 21:23

I forgot to add that the government does very little to fix the roads. They just can't be bothered!

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