A Winter in India

When we were in Lucknow, we ate lunch at a restaurant on the ninth floor of a hotel, where we had a great view of many things. What struck us the most was this bird’s eye view of merging traffic. Remember, people drive on the left here. So the bus and the white autorickshaw ahead of the bus, and the bicycle in front of the autorickshaw, and the scooters on the other side of the white car, have come down the left side of the road (the right side of the image) from the top of the photo and are merging across two lanes of traffic to get to the bottom left road. Notice they are actually too far over and at this point are in the oncoming lane of traffic, not in the left lane where they belong. Simultaneously, those like the white car, that are coming from the road at the bottom right need to get across in front of, or behind, or through the bus, to get to the left lanes headed to the top of the photo. No yield signs, no traffic light, no detectable pattern, yet somehow they all interweave and end up where they want to be!