Planes, trains, and...actually just automobiles

Travel in India.

There are main highways that have traffic lanes painted, but they are not really used...a three lane road could have five lanes of traffic. Once you get off the highway, the main roads carry on in much the same way.  Occasionally there are stop lights to help you turn into traffic. Otherwise, if you are making a right turn--same to us as making a left turn...traffic in India flows from the left side--through oncoming traffic, you simply wait for a big enough gap like, say, a bicycle-sized-gap in traffic, and merge forward, hoping that car you ducked in front of has a good braking system.  You have to inch forward like this through the 3-6 lanes of traffic flying by. As a passenger you have no control of how this happens, but you get a front row view of all the near misses. 

After the main roads you turn onto the dirt roads.  There are main dirt roads which are generally wide enough for 2 cars, and the smaller back roads which are barely big enough for one.  All of the dirt roads have huge holes everywhere and are painfully bumpy when passing through in car or tuk-tuk. 

Vehicles on the road consist of cars, buses (that don't seem to stop for passengers, they slow down and you have to hop on to the rolling bus), motorcycles (with 1-5 passengers such as a single driver, two or three friends, or a family of mom, dad, son, daughter and baby on one motor bike), tuk-tuks, bicycles, rikshaws (a bicycle carrying passengers or goods such as a washing machine, a refrigerator, or bricks [we really saw a man transporting appliances up a hill!]), and camels. Animals on or in the streets include camels, cows, ox, pigs, dogs, monkeys, goats and rodents.  And in the streets they are all grazing on garbage.  Its a strange, sad system, but it seems to work.

Delhi is huge.  And crowded. It takes a long time to get anywhere, but there is plenty of time to marvel at all the traffic moving constantly.

And the horn!  I believe Indians just constantly lay on the horn, rather than use it lightly when someone gets in the way, or even occasionally to let others know they are passing (which has been more common in my travels than in the US). It is constant. And unpleasant. Many of the cars and tuk-tuks are old and decrepit, and the horns blare out that misery like an anthem "I'M DYING, BUT GET THE F@?K OUT OF MY WAY" Contrary to the horn though, there doesn't seem to be much road rage in India.  Despite the awful traffic, everyone seems quite content.  Strange, but I'll take it!