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LooseWilly

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3. Traffic & intersections in India are about the same.

Reply to AsahinaKimi (Original post)

Thu Aug 30, 2012, 04:46 PM

Aug 2012

Signs are posted telling motorists (begging them, really) to 'Obey lanes'... but drivers don't pay any attention, and motorcycle & scooter riders care even less, not to mention motorized rickshaw taxi drivers.

It turns out that chaos works just fine... it's not the absurd intersections that slow traffic most in India, it's the pot-hole ridden roads and the occasional ox-cart or elephant trudging along, occupying real estate that a motorcycle could otherwise zip through...

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Wooo!! Crazy Intersections in Vietnam [View all] AsahinaKimi May 2012 OP

why can't they make real traffic intersections? -KittyKat- Aug 2012 #1

Welcome to Du! AsahinaKimi Aug 2012 #2

Traffic & intersections in India are about the same. LooseWilly Aug 2012 #3