If you think driving around l'Arc de Triomphe is a nightmare, then experince Delhi. The rickshaw drivers, both motorised or pedalled have to fight with police barriers, dogs, motorbikes, cow drawn carts, pedestrians undertaking suicidal attempts to cross, and not to forget buses, and ice cream sellers.
There seem to be pavements here, but they are nearly all designed for hospital visits. Nearly all the shops (if you can call them that) have mini bridges across trenches a metre deep, and more often than not full of rubbish, and infested water. So I guess that everytime you venture out then it's possibly safer to walk amongst the traffic. No one respect roads signs. It's an incredible experience to be in a rickshaw at speed, and incredibly: you feel safe. The noise of the city is a continual racket of car horns. There's no car rage, and I haven't seen an accident............yet.
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