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Sunday, January 23, 2005

Good old Hyderabad. Good to see the place hasn't changed much. There are still no traffic lights on these roads. To cross, you use the age old protocol of looking to both left and right. In case of a conflict, the heavyweight wins. Oh, and most roads are outfitted with disco lights that go red, yellow and green, but nobody seems to know what these are for.

tsk1979 — Jan 23, 2005 6:28:18 PM — # ↩

Heh
Saw the same thing while travelling to nagpur. Suicidal auto wallas who cut in front of buses and lots of disco lights. The most memorable expirience was of asking the way

Q:Where to bangalore road
A: Go straigt and then "aise seedhe jao" After lots of hand gestures we got to know that there is going to be a complicated junction ahead and we have to take not the extreme left but the straight arm on the left hand side When we reached the end it was a simple T junction and we had to go left.
bluesmoon — Jan 23, 2005 9:13:36 PM — # ↩

The lights were put up for christmas, and folks were just too lazy to take them down.
ma7ur — Jan 23, 2005 11:03:47 PM — # ↩

jace dada our roads r not that bad. I'll agree with u on traffic sense. Makkadas here don't know wat the word means....
teemus — Jan 24, 2005 1:22:15 AM — # ↩

There are still no traffic lights on these roads.
That's because it was a Sunday. :p On weekdays, most of the traffic does have to obey the signals.
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jan 24, 2005 1:09:40 PM — # ↩
  
  Only most? Not all?
fixious — Jan 24, 2005 3:00:05 AM — # ↩

But at least traffic has space to actually move in Hyderabad...
mannu — Jan 24, 2005 4:09:16 AM — # ↩

Bangalore is so dark. :( No street lights. Especially Bannerghatta Road. It's very sad. I like Mumbai because it's so well lit up all the time.
irq2 — Jan 24, 2005 8:52:41 AM — # ↩

ROTFL

Don't remind me of Hyd traffic!
grecianurn — Jan 24, 2005 1:10:32 PM — # ↩

Hehe, think you touched a nerve there!