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You just described Kathmandu perfectly. Very few traffic lights were ever installed, they never really worked due to load shedding. Now with the load shedding
by beilabs 9y ago
You just described Kathmandu perfectly. Very few traffic lights were ever installed, they never really worked due to load shedding. Now with the load shedding in the city removed these lights only flash orange (sometimes).
Recently there has been a clampdown on people skipping queues, driving on the wrong side of the road (all positive efforts).
My two rules, same as where I learned to drive on a farm in Ireland; avoid hitting people, avoid hitting cows. Everything else will take care of themselves (cars, bikes, buses, trucks).
- matt_the_bass 9y agoAccording to multiple friends that are from Kathmandu, pedestrians are more like to be killed that injured from cars. The reason is if a driver disables a pedestrian they need to support them financially for life. But if they kill them they have a fine with a maximum limit. So it’s often less expensive to kill someone that to injur them. Therefore there are numerous cases of drivers hitting a pedestrian, not killing them, then running them down again to make sure they die.