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Re: [OM] IMG: The Bus

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: The Bus
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 16:04:35 +0000
Well done getting home safely, Tina.  

That’s a different viewpoint of a bus, but I can imagine that most will have 
damage to the exterior.  I used to live in Calcutta and Delhi and it was a 
similar situation there.

Chris

> On 7 Feb 2019, at 13:44, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'm home!  I've downloaded all of the photos and am now starting to edit
> them.  Here's the first.  Did I mention the traffic in Bangladesh??  We
> always thought the worst traffic in the world was in Tehran, Iran, but
> there is a new contender.  I have never seen worst traffic than in
> Bangladesh!  Nobody pays any attention to the street lights, the lane
> markers, or the police standing in the street waving their sticks.  The
> only traffic control is the horn which everybody blows constantly.  Every
> bus looks like this one:
> 
> http://www.pbase.com/image/168785589 <http://www.pbase.com/image/168785589>
> 
> The buses are independently owned and make money by getting people to their
> destination as fast as possible and loading up another bus full of people
> to deliver.
> 
> This is with the M240 and 24/2.8 out of the window.  I took lots of photos
> out of the car windows since we were stuck in traffic for hours and hours
> and hours every time we tried to go anywhere!
> 
> I'll be adding more photos to this site as I edit them and posting some on
> FB.  Comments are greatly appreciated, always.

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