Memories of Indian traffic

I found a nice video on YouTube today. Although showing only a very moderate version of the usual Indian traffic, it brought memories of the Chandigarhian traffic snarl back into my mind.

Oh yes, good times when 2 Indian guys with a 20m long wooden ladder crossed a roundabout during morning rush hour traffic, and 1 million scooters*, twice as much motorbikes* and (at least!) 5000 cars* PLUS 4 trainees from sector 8 Panchkula had to push their (in some cases not existent) brakes to the limit to avoid crashing into the ladder.

Discussing about the Indian traffic with German friends we found out that possibly the typical south-asian daily traffic looks more dangerous from the bird perspective, than from the trainee-on-cycle-perspective. Otherwise I'd really have no idea how we could survive 6 months cycling through the roundabouts of Chandigarh.

Check out the Indian traffic video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM

*figures might reflect the authors subjective impression