All back, safe and sound.
A good and successful trip in all and certainly an experience, its one of those places that makes you appreciate what you have got as its a VERY poor place.
The trips in Fiat 1100 Taxis, some of which are from the 60's, (although the same design was being manufactured right upto 2002 in India) is interesting and very cramped. They do all run on CNG (compressed natural gas) but, the driving style is out of this world, its not a place where you want to be if you need emergency medical treatment because all you get is basicaly a Midi van as an ambulance which seems to be slower at getting through the traffic than the Taxis! (everybody uses Taxis, old buses and motor trikes so there are LOADS of them)
From a maintenance perspective, some of my obesrvations were:
Lights are clearly not compulsary, rarely used and certainly very rarely work
Brakes, gearboxes and clutches dont last very long here
Road maintenance seems to be non-existant!
Roag markings are a waste of time, I counted 7 vitual lanes on a two lane road
When crossing the road you realy do take your life into your own hands
Didn't see a single policeman!
Tyres are normaly the smoothest thing on the car with the only pattern visable normaly being the threads sticking through the canvas.
Traffic lights are very interesting....some have a timer which counts down the seconds until they are going to change, this has some interesting affects.
1) Red light, timer below 10 seconds......engine revs rise and the vehicles start to creep forward.....
2) Green light, timer below 10 seconds.......this means floor it, go for it....pretty un-nerving given the other traffic will be doing point 1!
A big hello to A380 Elite who met me on the sky bridge, I hope we didn't make to much mess and that they managed to get the medi system repaired, It was great to talk to you.
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