[sustran] Re: FW: Traffic in India

[S.K. Jason CHANG]

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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Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
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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