10 mind blowing facts about Hyderabad traffic

1. High beam is a must (and I too comply to this restriction). I sometimes feel that most drivers do not know that there is a low beam.
2. Not just cycles, motorcycles, auto rickshaws, and cars, even trucks take the wrong side. No exceptions, not even the airport expressway.
3. (Corollary to 2) It is perfectly OK for Huge trucks to make a U turn on the airport expressway
4. A bike, auto, or a truck will be parked meticulously, blocking half the road, at the every conceivable left turn.
5. Helmets are banned. A very few in the IT corridor flout the ban. My head, your headache!
6. When you honk a group of people walking on the road, nothing, just nothing, other than the honk will happen!
7. If your registration number is from another state, you can pay a one time road tax and regularize your number for life. If you commit a non fatal traffic offences with such a car, just showing the tax receipt breaks the heart of the traffic cop in such a way, that he lets you go!
8. Skipping this one, had to make a total of 10. No offence!
9. TRS stole Hyd from AP. To imprint themselves forever, the new registration number series start with TS, because you are in Telengana “State”. Not TG, or TL but TS! Rajasthan should have been RS, Maharashtra – MS, Haryana HS, Goa GS, Orissa OS, … Assam AS! See?
10. People, like phantoms, coming out of nowhere, randomly cross the roads. It is noteworthy that phantoms do not need to look at your car while crossing the road at their own pace. See number 6 which is also applicable. Zebra crossings are few, but will never be used.

PS: Every city’s traffic has a unique story. I had the privilege to drive in Calcutta for the first time ever during these Pujas. But despite the crowds, narrow streets, and the killer buses, I could see the difference.