same case in Vizag, In fact I saw the bus perma tilted to one side. I quickly realised the odds of making it alive to the college were not 100% so took an auto for the rest of the year. The auto drivers are actually slow slogs there, you can hardly make out if its the engine moving the vehicle or the driver slyly pushing it himself.
Bangalore has auto drivers who are heavily influenced by F1. They drive like one and expect to be paid like one too
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Traffic situation in the whole country is screwed. Why pick on Bangalore, which atleast has trees (even after so many are cut down each year)
strange this thread hasn't evolved into "drivers in the US are so decent,motorists drive badly because of BS indian cuture"
well,in navi-mumbai(my city) i live in a place called kharghar which deserves this "most worst behaved motorists" title since we dont have traffic signals anywhere(even though there are as many cars and bikes as there are microbes in one's armpits) everyone breaks traffic rules right from the BEST bus guy(who forgets his driving lessons),to the auto wallahs,and college d**ks who try to impress thier pillion-riding gf's by driving like F1 drivers
heck,people even drive bikes on footpaths(completely functional with pedestrians) here
Lol..Same here near the girls College you can see boys ridding fast in their bikes trying to impress them.
Worse part is my city doesnt have footpaths in 85% of the city.Either youl fall in the drains.Or get hit by a speeding F1-Bus
You should come to Gurgaon, Haryana. 4+ people on bikes, riding on top of buses, zig-zag style of driving, cattle grazing on roads. and it only begins there.
Indian Culture is to blame. Being a hooligan on road with no driving sense is part of our culture. If a traffic policewaala finds you, taking and offering bribes is also an integral part of our culture. Not to talk about making the same mistake again.
99% people in countries like South Korea, Japan, Singapore etc. know how to drive (in lanes) and follow + respect traffic rules.
Jams happen in New York City as well. I've experienced. They have narrower roads than Delhi. But those are "traffic jams" - people still have the courtesy to maintain distance and not honk. Those are "traffic" jams. In India, we see "retarded" jams because of everyone's mistakes. And the cheap Indian habit of poking your car in every space you find instead of sticking in your own lane.
Then motorcyclists in India suffer from a "small-time" mentality which is again an integral part of Indian culture. If a carwaala honks (who also suffers from some sort of superiority complex), the bikewaala will move away/change his lane and give space to the carwaala. On the other hand, in countries having superior culture and infinitely more civic sense than India, the bikewaala will drive in his own lane. Middle of the lane. He'll drive as if he is driving a car. And the carwaala in culturally superior countries won't have any problem with that. The road is as much his as everyone's.
Now point in shifting the blame to autos, bike etc. We Indians - everyone is equally responsible.
Take a look at this idiot in red i10:
*i.imgur.com/rBjap.jpg
I don't know why are we so uncompetitive in motorsports - F1, MotoGP etc. We have the biggest and the best talentpool of drivers in the whole world. This is a fact.
^^ +1.
Normal Persons view-A bus driver sees that the other lane the cars have moved a bit he can occupy that place now,He moves..And Almost gets stuck in a diagonal way..increasing the traffic.To add to that..Autos again go from both sides...and make it a typical indian Jam
And most of the Worst Motorists.. must be gamers.. racing gamers..
Moto GP, Burnout, NFS,etc.. guess a racing game should be made on such (Indian) roads(Potholed) and Motorists..
Indian Culture is to blame. Being a hooligan on road with no driving sense is part of our culture. If a traffic policewaala finds you, taking and offering bribes is also an integral part of our culture. Not to talk about making the same mistake again.
99% people in countries like South Korea, Japan, Singapore etc. know how to drive (in lanes) and follow + respect traffic rules.
Jams happen in New York City as well. I've experienced. They have narrower roads in Delhi. But those are "traffic jams" - people still have the courtesy to maintain distance and not honk. Those are "traffic" jams. In India, we see "retarded" jams because of everyone's mistakes. And the cheap Indian habit of poking your car in every space you find instead of sticking in your own lane.
Then motorcyclists in India suffer from a "small-time" mentality which is again an integral part of Indian culture. If a carwaala honks (who also suffers from some sort of superiority complex), the bikewaala will move away/change his lane and give space to the carwaala. On the other hand, in countries having superior culture and infinitely more civic sense than India, the bikewaala will drive in his own lane. Middle of the lane. He'll drive as if he is driving a car. And the carwaala in culturally superior countries won't have any problem with that. The road is as much his as everyone's.
Now point in shifting the blame to autos, bike etc. We Indians - everyone is equally responsible.
Take a look at this idiot in red i10:
*i.imgur.com/rBjap.jpg
I don't know why are we so uncompetitive in motorsports - F1, MotoGP etc. We have the biggest and the best talentpool of drivers in the whole world. This is a fact.
Your definition of culture is non-practical and away from the reality. Culture isn't something written in historical texts or how people lived years ago. Culture = situation now. What people are now. What people do now. How they behave now. Their way of living now. So-called "cultural corruption" over years? Deal with it and fix it.
Majority of people don't know how to drive, behave like hooligans and spit/pee on road. That's India's culture in cities.
Your definition of culture is non-practical and away from the reality. Culture isn't something written in historical texts or how people lived years ago. Culture = situation now. What people are now. What people do now. How they behave now. Their way of living now. So-called "cultural corruption" over years? Deal with it and fix it.
Majority of people don't know how to drive, behave like hooligans and spit/pee on road. That's India's culture in cities.
^^^It wasn't?
@ico, agreed. Although, our system is to be blamed as well.
I mean any idiot who can change gear is handed a driver's licence (I didn't even gave a trial, let alone change gear). Rest can not care less because officials are corrupt. Then comes the retarted mentality of people. No, the jam wont clear itself magically by your honking the horn at the back of the road. No, she wont get impressed by your stupid auto/bike/cycle no matter how fast you ride it. Worst are those who put lives of others at risk.
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I havn't travelled much, but I know how strict the traffic in Nagpur (compared to where I live) is and how effeciently it helps avoid jams. Even really small things like polite nature can make difference.
^^^It wasn't?
@ico, agreed. Although, our system is to be blamed as well.
I mean any idiot who can change gear is handed a driver's licence (I didn't even gave a trial, let alone change gear). Rest can not care less because officials are corrupt. Then comes the retarted mentality of people. No, the jam wont clear itself magically by your honking the horn at the back of the road. No, she wont get impressed by your stupid auto/bike/cycle no matter how fast you ride it. Worst are those who put lives of others at risk.
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I havn't travelled much, but I know how strict the traffic in Nagpur (compared to where I live) is and how effeciently it helps avoid jams. Even really small things like polite nature can make difference.
We are blaming it on the "driving culture" our ancestors left us no pointers on how to drive, so can't blame them
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I think overpopulation is to blame. There are just too many people.
While walking, there are too many people and little footpath or rather no footpath. People are pushed onto the roads.
Bikers are juggling between the big vehicles and drive to the side. Find people walking on the roads and get back to brake testing a car or bus.
Car guy is frustrated seeing a bike guy in front, who is switching lanes like a snake. Also he can hardly see the car so the mistake falls on the car guy and so is forced to follow slowly.
Bus guy has been driving the whole day. Road rage is at it's max. He has forgotten his sobriety and intimidates anything that's smaller and even other trucks and buses. He goes like a mad man only to find a bus stop and then goes on to fight with the same bike, car, bus, truck and auto again.
The auto guys, umm, I never understood. I think they are in The Matrix. They single handedly bring more havoc than all of the above combined. But end of the day, they are earning their livelihood on this slow moving, highly maneuverable vehicle with the passenger screaming " take a cut from there, go fast, look at other autos "
Moral of the story: Take an auto
or move to another country and convince them that you are useful to them
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