Saturday, February 7, 2009

You asked about traffic in Delhi?!?

If you were curious...think of road travel in Delhi in this manner -

Chicken. Millions of drivers in millions of cars playing chicken with every other vehicle on the road, to include the vehicles traveling in the opposite direction they are. First one to the corner, wins! First one into the traffic circle, wins! First one into the opposing traffic lane, wins! First one to edge the nose of their vehicle an inch ahead of the other vehicle, wins!

Surprisingly, it seems to work. A well-choreographed game of chicken. The amount of attention required while driving though is preposterous. There's no cell phone, no texting, no eating while driving, no make-up...just driving. Why? Because you have to focus...you have to tune in to the consciousness of every other driver on the road in order to figure out what their next move will be...and, more importantly, if they're the kind of driver that will slow down as you cut them off on the curve or if they'll push right through you. I've only seen a handful of accidents where one or both of the drivers were apparently incorrect.

Delhi...OUT!!

2 comments:

Anne said...

Wow! Sounds safe! When can we come visit??

Anne said...

By the way....I can't get your other new blog to pull up?? I want to hear all about the world of politics and who stabbed who in the back!! Fix it!!