Vehicles and animals that create tremendous traffic conditions in India that can not cross the road

Transport vehicles avoiding by sewing cattle standing in the middle of the road. A cow worshiped as a sacred existence of Hinduism is strolling through the city of India with a cosmetic face. If you walk down the street, exhaust gas like a nose to a brutal horn. While cattle also touched, to horsesRickshaw, Tractor to pig and traffic situation in India was chaos.

Hello, staying in India has also passed 1 monthTakuya Sudo @ circle around the world bicycle @ Charridermanis. Indian roads where more than 1.2 billion people live are always enthralled with enthusiasm as Munmun. Every day to sharpen the nerve so as not to hit, so as not to hit. But, I suddenly thought. On the road, what exactly is it moving?

◆ Indian traffic volume
April 13 Oriaiya (Auraiya)


April 15 Fatehpur (Fatehpur)


April 17 Varanasi (Varanasi)


Traffic volume literally "on the constant" level, hesitates to cross the store on the other side of the road. I can not find a civilization 's useful instrument such as traffic lights. Instead, policemen are doing traffic control. At first glance it is disorderly, but as the stay in India becomes long, certain rules such as "If a person (cattle) is traversing, will not stop but speed will be relaxed" "When turning at an intersection, hand sign is issued" I can see it. However, it is another matter if the rule is safe. Because I am bumping and shouting at me, please be careful when walking in India.

◆ On the streets of the city
As far as the highway linking large cities is concerned, the bypass around the town is working and large cars can not come in the center. That is why we are not prohibited. In the city, I caught a cow that walked slowly, I was hurriedly hiked by the motorcycle's horn and found a cheap hotel and wandered right. Such a vehicle that I saw on the streets of the city is ... ....

First of all, since the layers that can have private cars are limited, it is motorcycle that becomes the legs of the general people. Two-seater, three-seater is commonplace. Dad, mum, it is also Indian everyday that two children and one family are riding a single motorcycle.


A three-wheeled taxi called auto-richer or tuk-tuk. If it is small, it will be a must for taxi as a mini bus if it is a medium size, as a freight car with a loading platform attached, it is indispensable for Indian life. Electric auto-rickshawers that occasionally seem to run silently quietly without sound of the engine.


Privately owned cars in India are bashfully brand new vehicles and do not match the surrounding scenery either. Suzuki made small car, Tata made ordinary car,MahindraLarge-sized 4-wheel drive made by the company is popular.


A stall to trade on the street is also moving on the road. It is a rather slow pace, so you have to overtake the gap.


A minibus packed with a lot of children.


The tractor is running through the city. In addition to agricultural machinery, it also played a role as a transportation vehicle with a loading platform.


Bicycles are also active as common people's feet. The city cycle is like a sturdy Japanese mammaari.


A man power taxi called a cycle rickshaw. I put a customer on board and sweat it all over.


A bicycle loaded with a large amount of mattress. We carry luggage as well as people.


There is also a bicycle for selling mobile that sells ice cream by ringing the tin ringin and bell.


◆ Street animals
Before coming to India, there was an image of a cow walking in the town, but it was unexpected that other animals were roaming around. Human beings and domestic living areas are mixed. In the first place, cattle live in town, so you may not mind the details. The following animals bustle on the road of India.

As a Hindu holy being, the cow treating it carefully. It blends in with the lives of Indians.


It also has a role as a boat car carrying heavy luggage.


Pigs traveling more and more unnoticed than cows. Mane impressed the sky on a straight line, complementing wildness.


There are many stray dogs, but how are you getting tired of Indian opponent? There is little to be chased like South America, so I am saved.


I thought it was a dog, it was a goat. I stand standing with a stately figure.


A donkey standing on the street with a weak looking face.


Papaka, Pappaka, a horse carriage carving a comfortable rhythm and running through the city.


And, although I have seen only a few times, in the western part of India camels were walking in the streets. Because it is a huge body well beyond the height of a person, it is made to be jerked when passing nearby.


I do not take pictures, but chickens and ducks are also playing by the side of the road. However, this impression that it is few compared with other countries. And, although the dog lying down as much as the mountain, I did not see the appearance of the cat at all. It is strange and it can not be helped, but is there some reason?

◆ On a suburban road
The car that is running also changes in the city center and the main road. A lot of large cars carrying things with people in India. When the road was narrow, I was constantly smiling while checking the backward with a mirror. Even if an oncoming car is coming, I will sing a horn of explosive sounds out there and overtake at a tremendous speed. With a bypass free trunk road, these heavy-duty vehicles also rush into the city, so it got caught in traffic jams with a high probability.

An old large bus with an age that connects the town with the town.


Although it is a heavy-duty truck, the storage space was also expanded above the driver's seat.


Large agricultural vehicle. Even if it is overtaken, when the road becomes full of holes, it slows down at a stroke so you can catch up with it, somehow like a tsundere.


I loaded sediment and stones with an Indian dump truck, but I did not tilt the loading platform, and the loading and unloading was done manually. As cargo truck, we carry various kinds of luggage.


An oversized luggage placed on a heavy-duty truck bed.


◆ Daily appearance on the road
A boy about 3 years old was holding a handle across a large motorcycle by one person. The reason is that my father is shopping nearby. In an auto rickshaw that has become full, a man must cling to the outside of the car. My father pulled from the front and my mother unexpectedly caught up with the two large children sitting on the luggage of Taigaoka pushing from behind. Because it is indispensable to everyday life, the everyday life that can be unfolded on the road is often made to be frustrating.

A huge group of motorcycles that flow into the gap in a hurry, despite being stopped.


The loading method of large trucks is also novel.


A light truck loading platform full of snack confections.


A hand sign that you see when you turn around an intersection.


Horde of cows walking on the main road.


The food stand that sells standard Indian sugar cane juice was self-running. Run on a rubber band to the engine that limits sugar cane.


Large buses cross each other narrow paths. I was screaming among drivers without giving up either.


Bicycles are an important means of transportation. For expecting bicycles with heavy luggage running from the oncoming lane, maybe Chalida, but ordinary Indians will run through.


A cow that waits quietly for the car to pass.


Will it collide and break, the mirror of the motorcycle is folded. Or, there is no mirror. Ringing horn instead of the mirror, we are paying attention.


An intersection where a lot of cycle rickshaws go and go.


◆ Look at the traffic situation in India in the movie
First of all, I tried fixed point shoot of the intersection of a small town (Rotary).

Transportation vehicles that run through the intersection of a small town in India one after another - YouTube


A movie of this time I took a picture of a car going and leaving. Anyway, since cars, bicycles, pedestrians and so on constantly go and go, I think that you can understand what you said "to hesitate to cross" written earlier.

Continuous traffic vehicles on Indian road - YouTube


Like this, Indian streets are crowded every day. All kinds of speeds use one road, so they tend to get crowded. In Africa there are few vehicles and in South America there are a lot of passenger cars, so I felt the most chaotic situation in the world that Indian people, cars and cattle were involved.

(Sentence / photo: Takuya S. Narou Charriderman
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