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Driving in this certainly requires more attention and skills. This may offset the hazards somewhat. The average Western driver would have a meltdown, I know I would.
Well, you can tell that the movie is sped up. And they do crash into each other, with the families on scooters faring very poorly. At least there aren’t any cows on the street here…
Dangerous, yes. Dangerously efficient. That system moves about 1000% more traffic than an equivalent US intersection would.
I bet they have really good curry there too.
And here we have to deal with turn left on green arrow only, no turn on red, you can’t take a U turn, or roll through a stop sign.
Don’t know if it’s true, but I read once that India has 1% of the worlds cars and 10% of the worlds traffic accidents.
This video has been sped up to about twice the speed. Look at the people walking.
I lived in India for ten years, and yes, the traffic moves with beautiful efficiency – there’s no gridlock. However, every friend of mine who rode a motorcycle eventually had an accident. Two were killed – hit by a bus – and another two required long hospitalisation. Broken arms, ribs and concussions were the norm.
Looks like the perfect host country for the Darwin Awards. 🙂
Amazing… but they also have something like 81 deaths per one million people, compared to the roughly 9 deaths per million people in the US or 0.08 deaths per million in the UK.
Man! Check out the white car that creeps in from the top. It drives the wrong way, against traffic, and slips over the middle in order to cross the street. That is insane.
Chaos works!
reminds me of an ant junction…..
Wow!
Same video, only at normal speed.
#9 – that might be a police car – it looks like a white Ambassador (a common make of police car in many Indian cities).
I’ve been visiting India every year or two for the last 10 years or so and I have to say that things have changed *dramatically* in that time. Delhi, for example, didn’t have any flyovers the first time I visited and now they’re everywhere – the improvements in traffic flow, even in the face of a greatly increased rate of private vehicle ownership, is pretty amazing.
The other thing I’ve witnessed is the degree to which vehicle fuels contribute to air pollution. In the early ’00s Delhi banned two stroke engines in motor vehicles (introducing LPG / CNG instead) and the difference in air quality is nothing short of miraculous. Delhi’s air went from something that I’d imagine breathing in one of the circles of hell to “merely” being dusty, foggy and smoky. In fact on a good day it’s not all that different to LA (albeit somewhat more dusty).
On my last trip I visited Hyderabad (a much smaller city that has not introduced the same air pollution measures), and I’d rate its air pollution worse than Delhi’s. There’s nothing like breathing in partially combusted oil and petrol to give your eyes, nose, throat and lungs a thorough scouring.
Boston and Ottawa are just as bad…
Who says motorcycle’s can’t cure traffic congestion