Friday, October 4, 2013

Roadkill

Walking across a street in downtown Hyderabad is the closest I will ever come to running with the bulls in Pamplona, except the bulls are quieter.

The driving methodology here is summed up as
1) Pound horn.
2) Pound accelerator.
3) Pound brake.
4) Repeat.

The street crossing strategy is
1) Cross.*
  * wherever, whenever and at whichever speed you like paying no attention to the traffic moving around you like a river around a rock.

Also cars, auto rickshaws, and mopeds stream around buses and trucks like they were stationary objects.
The only consolation is that the roads are so congested that none of these mildly guided missiles can pick up much speed.

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