[sustran] Re: FW: Traffic in India
S.K. Jason CHANG
skchang at ntu.edu.tw
Tue Apr 25 02:16:49 JST 2006
It is a trade-off of efficiency and safety! Similar driving behaviors
and situation in most of Chinese cities, resulting an "official record"
of 100,000 more fatalities and 520,000 more injuries annually!!
Jason
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National Taiwan University
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Tongji University, Shanghai China
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Quoting Brendan Finn <etts at indigo.ie>:
> Dear Paul,
>
> Thanks for that link, it really captures it.
>
> Don't you agree that it just flows? Everyone gets through so much
> quicker than if there were traffic signals, and you get no tailbacks.
> Of course, it gives the screaming heebie-jeebies to people who must
> always have their cutlery properly arranged, creases in their
> newspapers, and everything just 'so', but to the people who are in
> the thick of it, they're just getting on with it.
>
> As it happens, I shot a similar video last summer in Urumqi, except
> there's also a pedestrian crossing going through it which is freely
> used by the cars doing u-turns. I started to video it to show people
> how bad the traffic and driving was. After 10 minutes of filming I
> realised that it all worked rather well, and felt suitably humbled
> about my prejudices.
>
> With best wishes,
>
>
> Brendan.
> _____________________________________________________________________________________
>> From Brendan Finn, ETTS Ltd. e-mail : etts at indigo.ie tel :
>> +353.87.2530286
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Barter
> To: Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 8:14 AM
> Subject: [sustran] FW: Traffic in India
>
>
> A wonderful video clip of an Indian intersection working in ways most
> traffic engineers would never imagine in their wildest dreams. If you
> have never seen traffic in South Asia then this might come as something
> of a shock.
>
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM
> >
>
> Paul
>
>
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