Monday, 7 April 2008
Roads of India
This, as you can probably guess, is bad at best. Drivers beep their horns more than they signal. Our taxi driver coming from the airport approximated 1 beep every 5 seconds (no, I'm not joking!), which makes sleeping in the car impossible. A horn can mean 1 of many things - you're in my lane, get of; you look like you're ABOUT to come into my lane, stay of; I'm coming round the corner; I just feel like beeping my horn; etc. It's really up to other vehicles and pedestrians to interpret them. Driving in the lane of oncoming traffic is no big deal. You just have to squeeze back into your lane when you see a car coming head on. They also have traffic police a.k.a. cows standing in the middle of the roads, slowing traffic. You can imagine...
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