Our World Tuesday # 11 Mumbai Traffic

A Street Shot during the morning rush hours near Andheri Sports Complex.
All in a hurry to reach somewhere. The man pushing the handcart saw some place and rushed in before the bike rider could, while the lady with a small child in her arms hurried into the bus which is nowhere near the bus-stop.
The beauty of Mumbai lies in the chaos of the city, and tolerance towards each other.

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My World #9

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Morning peak hour 'UP' ( heading from suburbs and other areas towards South Mumbai) traffic
at D. N. Road in South Mumbai

D. N. Road is an important road in Fort area in South Mumbai. J. N. Petit Library, Khadi Bhandar are on this road. The sidewalks are filled with vendors selling books, music cassettes, clothes, imported things like audio equipment, cameras, musical instruments and calculators etc. mostly imported from China.

The area is famous for its street shopping and the book stalls sell a myriad of books at negligible prices. Surrounded by old buildings the area is beautiful although getting defaced by the multitude of advertising banners.

Skywatch Friday #16

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The Mumbai Metro work in the middle of Versova road is responsible for regular traffic jams like this one. I was stuck in one of the traffic jams near Manish market and popped my head out of the autorickshaw to check the sky.  Got this one with the crane and I don't know what the other one is( a drill), against the light blue evening sky.

Most autorickshaw-wallas at Andheri station refuse to go to any place on Versova road nowadays in the evening, due to the traffic jams.

Outside Andheri Station

After the rains stopped, I left mom's place to go to Andheri station to get into a train to reach home. The roads were still wet and the rain did not stop people fromm moving out. It was very crowded even after 9 pm in trains today.

Traffic Jam

This is a common sight in Mumbai. This is traffic jam at Chembur, on the way to Dadar from Navi Mumbai. Earlier, this was considered normal during rush hours (office hours usually from 8 am to 10.30 am and from 5 pm to 8 pm). But this photo was taken at 3.30 pm.

Automobile sales have gone up in the already overpopulated city and we have to face the consequences.