Delhi Traffic

"With 12 million people and 3 million vehicles, the Department of Surface Transportation reports, Delhi streets are far over capacity...

Many drivers have no licenses, are not literate and donÕt know the traffic laws. Drivers of some 300,000 of 400,000 rickshaws Ñ the tiny, buzzing three-wheelers that swarm on Delhi streets Ñ aren't licensed. An Indian Supreme Court mandate on rules for driving schools has disintegrated."

-- 1999 The Christian Science Monitor.

"Traveling in India is almost a hallucinatory potion of sound, spectacle and experience. It is frequently heartrending, sometimes hilarious, mostly exhilarating, always unforgettable - and, when you are on the roads, extremely dangerous."

The rules of the road, Indian style.

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