OT - you think the North Circular is bad?

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"Richard Brookman" wrote
> From another group:
>
> http://www.metacafe.com/watch/116783/crazy_driving_in_india/
>


Having been there a number of times I don't see any problem, perfectly
normal driving for India. The largest vehicle in any conflict has right of
way unless it's a "suicide" bus which has right of way over everything, all
except the cows that wander everywhere which have ultimate right of passage.
If you are of equal size then the first to toot has right of way. Quite
sensible, seems to work OK.
We have always passed the time on the road from Delhi to Agra counting the
"dead" lorries, those on their roofs or in ditches or streams (sometimes
with the drivers still sitting there guarding the load), passes the time.
How anyone survives a crash in one of those wooden cabbed Leyland Ashok
lorries I can't imagine, and we wonder what happened to all those hitching a
ride on the roof?

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Regards
Bob H


 
Dougal wrote:

|| Richard Brookman wrote:
||
||| From another group:
|||
||| http://www.metacafe.com/watch/116783/crazy_driving_in_india/
||
|| So how would we do it differently in the UK?
||
|| Traffic lights, pedestrian crossing period, right turn prohibitions
|| and red light cameras - worse still, a policeperson on point duty.
|| Would the traffic move any quicker?

That's what I thought. In one sense, total anarchy, but also everyone kept
moving and there were no accidents, at least in the 30 sec or so that we
see. I loved the bit where everyone is flying across each other's paths,
buses, cars, the lot, and two pedestrians calmly wander across the middle of
the junction.

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Rich
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Richard Brookman wrote:
> Dougal wrote:
>
> || Richard Brookman wrote:
> ||
> ||| From another group:
> |||
> ||| http://www.metacafe.com/watch/116783/crazy_driving_in_india/
> ||
> || So how would we do it differently in the UK?
> ||
> || Traffic lights, pedestrian crossing period, right turn prohibitions
> || and red light cameras - worse still, a policeperson on point duty.
> || Would the traffic move any quicker?
>
> That's what I thought. In one sense, total anarchy, but also everyone kept
> moving and there were no accidents, at least in the 30 sec or so that we
> see. I loved the bit where everyone is flying across each other's paths,
> buses, cars, the lot, and two pedestrians calmly wander across the middle of
> the junction.
>


A chaotic system, but it must be said that it worked in that example!

--
Karen

"Sometimes I think I have a Guardian Idiot - a little invisible spirit just
behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile" - Jake Stonebender
 
What are insurance rates in urban indian cities?

I would imagine that traffic cameras in central Durban, South africa would
reveal a similar state of anarchy.

Regards
Stephen


 


> What are insurance rates in urban indian cities?
>
> I would imagine that traffic cameras in central Durban, South africa would
> reveal a similar state of anarchy.


£9.00pa for a 110 in Bangladesh if that helps.

My sister in law has a 3 year posting there - driving the landy around is
great fun - the roads are total anarchy.


 
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