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Never thought I'd see the words "Uttar Pradesh" on the fediverse.... For the unknown- Uttar Pradesh is the Ohio of India. A lot of weird and bizzare shit happen there.
Uttar Pradesh is the Ohio of India
Incorrect. Uttar Pradesh is the Florida of India. If you hear of some fucked-up shit happening in India there's a 50/50 chance it's in Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh Man is Florida Man's Indian cousin.
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Ohio of India
Oh...oh no... Containment has been breached, Ohio is spreading.
Has Ohio got that bad a rep?
Sounds more like the Florida of India.
I like that it's Ohio, but not quite Florida.
But isn't Taj Mahal located there?
- I was sure the bike was going to get hit by the first bus.
- A man just stepped off the bus in the middle is everything.
off the bus in the middle is everything.
That's what some people refer to as a bus stop.
The bus didn’t stop though. He just hopped off while it was slowed down.
Imagine it had to actually stop there lol
A man just stepped off the bus in the middle is everything.
Railway tickets in India have 'do not (de)board a moving train' on the back in very large letters. This is why. (Trains usually slow down at stations even if they aren't stopping there.)
- Where is the pedestrian crossing on the left meant to be going?
The best part is the dude who gets off the bus in the middle of the road.
The absolute fearlessness of the bus drivers 😭
holy shit
The drivers? How bout that guy who just popped out mid turn and kept walking lol.
I don’t see anything wrong with this design, it’s just missing the “no left turns” sign (or it’s being ignored).
I have a forked road like this near where I live, where OpenMaps gave illegal directions and I was able to submit a bug report tha left turns are not allowed
I've been in India multiple times fur work (not UP). The traffic there is insane. There's a set of unwritten rules you have you follow, and a shit ton of written ones you must ignore in order to survive.
I'm not joking when I say that stopping in a zebra crossing for pedestrians to walk would get you in an accident, because nobody expects a car to stop for people.
I am gonna guess it was supposed to be one way road which was turned into 2 way by just planting some sticks in the middle. The funds allotted to work was probably pocketed for another couple luxury SUV.
India isn't a continent-sized country emptied of its native inhabitants, so there is much less space to design anything neatly.
there is much less space to design anything neatly.
That's absolute nonsense. We can design things perfectly well when it suits us.
Even if it were true (it isn't; Uttar Pradesh is one of India's largest states, there's no dearth of space there -- this is borne of pure greed and stupidity), that's not an excuse. Quite a few other regions that are painfully short on space have been able to come up with brilliant, compact designs that serve their intended purpose without putting people in grave danger every day. Hong Kong comes to mind
We can design things perfectly well when it suits us.
If you can do the taj mahal you can do an intersection
he he, the Taj Mahal? That structure built by a king from an invading dynasty, after which he had the artisans' hands cut off? Much like what the British later threatened to do to weavers and healers and fighters who didn't toe their line?
Irrelevant, don't you think?
more to the point 3/4 of the visible land in that vid is empty, no need to compare to hong kong.
Like I mentioned, UP has no shortage of space. The HK comparison was to say that even if they were short on space that's no excuse to build piss poor infrastructure like this
i would in fact argue that cramped places will inevitably have better infrastructure because it's basically that or literally just dying
Everything else remaining the same, you may be wrong. Here, there is no danger at the speeds Indian traffic moves at, that was a sped-up time-lapse. The cyclist was on the wrong side of the road.
I don't know about Hong Kong - more than absolute space, what is the population density - but I imagine control over all the aspects makes for parts that fit better together. Over here, there may be a case for smaller roads planned better, mini buses instead of buses, etc. But the buses already exist. The land is already owned by somebody before they laid down roads. Designed around all that, it isn't that bad.
We have so much infrastructure at the per-capita income levels as they are of a billion people. This isn't something to fret over.
there is no danger at the speeds Indian traffic moves at
I fight for my life in Indian traffic every day, don't even give me that guff.
Urban or rural? This video is from rural land off the highway, from the looks of it.
I wouldn't play down the rashness in urban traffic, I too am a sufferer!
more than absolute space, what is the population density
Come on. Google is a click away. You knew the answer already.
Uttar has a population density of 829 / Km^2. Hong Kong is 6800 /Km^2. That makes Hong Kong 8.5x more dense. And land is owned in Hong Kong, Japan and even the US. When roads are built, the owner is given market rate money for the land.
There is no excuse.
HK population-dense And yet, they prioritized roads? Car brain right there?
... given market rate for the land diverted Why should anybody agree to give up their land for roads? These might not be empty lands possessed decades ago, it might be ancestral family land for centuries. I don't like that those lands are uncultivated, but putting down asphalt liberally everywhere is car-brain.
Why should anybody agree to give up their land for roads?
Transportation of some sort is needed. It doesn't matter if it is for bikes, trains, or cars. Land must be used for the good of the people. Absolute ownership, no matter the cost to society is capitalist-brain.
I think your ire is misdirected, but I agree with the ire. The problem is the elevated road there! It serves car-brain, and that space could have been put to good use for the "low income" people as somebody put it, instead of catering to the "high income" people zooming above in cars.
Transportation is necessary. Roads existed long before cars. You didn't even watch the video. The problem was the road couldn't handle a bus turning.
There is plenty of space for a roundabout on this intersection
I don't see it. A roundabout would eat into space vehicles need. And roads were laid in and around land already owned by people, so it wouldn't have been a clean slate.
Traffic only flows 3 ways: bus goes on straight, bus turns left, and traffic from that road on its left goes straight. The cyclist should have come on the other side below the elevated road, and turned under it to reach this intersection.
Bro roundabouts are everywhere in europe, we can see tons of space here.
Singapore:
He he. Have you lived there? They started limiting permits for new cars to the number of old cars taken off the road, for example. And they are small enough to have very good public transport. And centtalized enough to control all aspects and plan cohesively.
Do you know of any large region that has done it nearly as well? What is that region's per-capita income and its population density?
My bro, you said UP doesn't have the land to make sure the junction is even safe to turn, and now you said Singapore is small enough for them to make it work. Do you even understand what is the topic about?
Do you even read full messages? They limited car registrations, and have good public transport, because they have to when they are that small.
That junction is unsafe only to car brains. That cyclist was riding the wrong way, which somehow doesn't count?
That elevated road was made to appease outsider car brains, and ate up the space that could have satisfied whatever people here say should have been put up for the benefit of laypersons (who seem to have the fortitude to bear the elevated road hogging space there).
Yet, that elevated road is all right for people here. Right? Otherwise, how could a car-brain third-worldliness pornographer have parked his personal ride on the road above and recorded this!
Do you even read full messages? They limited car registrations, and have good public transport, because they have to when they are that small.
Yes i read the whole thing. So tell me, how the hell does limiting car and good public transport automagically make their road good?
And what the heck are you on about? That's not even on topic.
Some guy brings up Singapore, I talk about Singapore, and the guy says it is not on topic.
Apparently, road design has nothing to do with whether public transport is involved or not and in what form.
That's the Internet.
I mention singapore because you said UP doesn't have enough space to do it, yet you said singapore is small enough to able to do it because of unrelated reason.
You still haven't tell me how having a good public transport will automagically make sure this sort of junction, which consist of more than 90° angle left turn, no line to indicate who got the priority and who need to yield, and no yellow line in the middle of junction to indicate no stopping, would never exists.
You're proven wrong yet still want to twist it as if others are so wrong and you're the only correct one. Now that's the internet.
Upvote if you agree.
So, you think that, even when roads and transport policies are co-designed on a clean slate like in Singapore, transport policies wouldn't have influenced road design? When even something as simple as a bus lane has been known to work?
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We can visibly see in this video that there's nothing in the way of rounding this junction off
Holy shit
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