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HI,

yeah posting again. I am posting more frequently since I have 2 days in the city centre, so next post will be from the middle of the jungle, so in a week or so.

So, transport and traffic in India, cool, crazy, good drivers

Most common are motorcycles, old cars, tractors / carts and buses.

Traffic education: none, that is what makes them good drivers. You can make a U-turn in any road you like, any place, any time no matter what other cars are passing. If you don’t honk the horn, you’re not good to drive. You can hear constantly horns honking, it seems its a tradition. Indicators? Who bothers about them, what is their use? Zebra crossing? Why should you car? to cross a narrow road with zebra crossing it takes you from 20 - 40 seconds, impressive Driving? yeah fine there are lanes, in narrow roads, you can see 3 -4 cars overtaking each other, 2 of them being on the wrong side, so what? No wonder they have 85,000 traffic fatalities a year You can cross from one road to another on a T junction on any side of the road, there is no need to respect your lane. IF you have a bike you can even cross roads from the pavements. Bus drivers? They are all racing against each other, all the time!!

Bus status? well, this one, very similar to maltese buses, those kind of old ones, but even dirtier. But you won’t find a flag of Bob Marley or a set of good speakers in their buses, or those small pictures of naked women hanged to the mirrors, no way.. nothing of that So, in bus hamallagni, we beat them guys

Cars, very old, typical TATA, lada, perhaps an old (classic) ford vans (yeah, MR Henry Ford, your classic cars are allover the world mate!!) and sometimes the typical hillman, hunter, cortina cars lol (police have the hunter and hillman cars). Every now and then you see a new matiz or hyundai. On the way to Bangalore (city centre) I was in a TATA jeep, with like other 10 people (yeah squeezed!) and on the traffic lights there was some kind of honda cabriolet, really common in Malta. ALl the guys where like yeah, latest model beautiful. The nice thing was that the driver was a what they call sexy indian, with a woman. The woman had that smile on her face, like “yeah it is me in this car, you’re jelous? what are you looking at?”..

bikes…well no big bikes, again old bikes, sometimes a new but nothing big, no harleys, no racing bikes, no Kawasaki ZXR lol. The best bike you can get at the moment with the biggest horsepower is the latest Honda Nero 250cc. Get a black bike of these, a moustache, cool hairstyle (ferq fil-genb) and you’re in to date the hottest chicks in town!! Helmet? It is legal only for the driver, well legal, maybe you will see 1 in 20 drivers with the helmet, the rest, relax, why bother? Even our Priests who have bike, why bother wearing a helmet? What is funny though, passengers on bike are not forced legally to wear a helmet, and most of them are parents taking kids to school, so you see a father with the helmet and 3 (yeah 3 kids) kids without helmet lol. Sometimes you see a whole family on a bike, yeah true, like mum and dad, 3 kids Well a small word about helmets, impressive Schumacher and Alonso did a huge hit in here. Many helmets are replicas of their helmets, some of them are “scary” replicas lol, some of them are good replicas, really good

Well tip for travellers: Mind how to cross the road, traffic lights, zebra crossing, no respect man. When there is a red light, usually it has a countdown displayed, like 120 seconds. AS soon as it is 20 seconds, although cars are passing through the other road, no worries man, just drive into them and honk the horn and you will be true. Some of you know that I really like to drive, and fast, but hell, I’m scared to drive here!!!

again, some means of transport pics

Auto, cheap means of transport, kind of taxi. There are 1,000’s of them in city.

Old bike with typical India Style customization.

Typical City street scene.

Blue bus, depending on the colour it got something to do with regions.

Very nice Fernando Alonso Helmet Replica.