Photo-Blog: Traffic in Hyderabad

Was in Hyderabad and had the luxury of being driven around the town by three different drivers, all of them complaining about the traffic of this city. I am not writing much on it today, reserve it for some other time, but, wanted to share some photos I shot on Hyderabad traffic. So, this is a post with pictures to say stories.
Pic.1 - The story of development, roads being re-done, unfortunate statues of forgotten leaders being further abused by over sized hoardings, clue-less citizen cruising along...(Pic.2) while yet another flyover is to come up in front of more sky scraper hoardings...

While this is the environment for the traffic to operate, we come to the people in the traffic itself next...
Pic.3: Hyderabad police prescribe helmets from drivers not all riders, not many follow, with good reasons...here is a bike of a family of 6! How would they all fit with helmets?...and no body every follows the traffic lights...here (Pic. 4), look at the traffic light on the right corner and watch the large vehicle cutting from the left across the onward traffic...sab kuch chaltha hai spirit...

(Pic. 5) And the poor victims...pedestrians concerned (with an infant in this case) waiting patiently for the procession of merciless (and often mindless) cars to go past in every traffic crossing...(Pic. 6)...and commuters of public transport suffer the triple humiliation of no stand or shelter, having to withstand the road laying / relaying dust and rubble while they wait for the buses to arrive and with no demarcation , the traffic almost on their footsteps...

...and the ever present victims of urbanization across India (Pic. 7), those nameless persons who populate the footpath, live and die there and save much to the exchequer by not being a burden on it...(Pic. 8) not to mention the other major victims, which tries to see the silver lining in the opportunities of the economic growth, but, has to cope with the fact that it doesn't exist in the policy makers' mind the unorganized sector, here a fruit vendor, trying to navigate past crazy traffic...