India Blog!

Here's a scene from the morning commute. Whoever said a rolling stone gathers no moss? A city bus, during rush hour, collects more interest than a blonde in Delhi. It's amazing the resolve of this crowd of guys to catch this bus. I hear the busses all over the city are pretty regular, but there are just so many people trying to get to work at the same time that they can't possibly hold everyone. I will never feel crowded as I sqeeze onto the T again! Sometimes you see so many people hanging onto the doorways of the busses that the whole bus is tilted at a precarious angle. On this bus, the guys at the back were actually hanging on through broken glass in the back window!

On the positive side, busses in Delhi have all become more environmentally sound. The busses and the auto rickshaws are all now required to use a certain type of fuel, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). It apparently reduces the amount of exhaust let out into the atmosphere and is generally more sustainable right now. That's one problem taken care of... now what to do with the fleet of horns that sound like a million simultaneous Taboo buzzers?