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Delhi

If you want a bit of audio-visual accompaniment to the Delhi section in Traffic, including, as in the book, interviews with Rohit Baluja and Amandeep Singh Bedi at the IRTE, and the by-now enshrined-at-the-city-gates motto “Good Horn, Good Brakes, Good Luck,” there’s this report, via Al-Jazeera. Note, as always, the best-of-intentions, worst-of-results overhead pedestrian bridges.

(via Bottleneck blog)

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  1. Abhishek Says:
    November 4th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    I learned to drive in Bombay and I can not imagine having to drive in Delhi. Delhi traffic is crazier than Bombay’s. My parents took a trip to Delhi once and had to hire a driver for the rental car (fairly cheap to do in India).

    In Bombay, there appears to be an order to the chaos, similar to a mini critical mass of pedestrians, rickshaws, buses, motorcycles and cars. Corruption and the government is largely to blame. I have never seen any enforcement for speeding, going through red lights and other similar critical violations.

    Having spent the last three years driving in America, I wonder if I will be confident and safe enough to drive when I go home for a vacation. Come to think of it, I am not driving in American any more, so I may not be much confident driving here too.

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