Expressway Scenery

Travelling on the expressway is still quite a pleasant experience especially on days when there is less traffic. The scenery is a sight for sore eyes.

Picturesque Paro airport in Bhutan

 Paro airport is Bhutan's only international airport in a valley on the banks of the river called Paro Chhu. It is a doorway into Bhutan for international travelers. It is known to be most difficult commercial airport in the whole world. There is only one runway, visible at the far end of the picture, in the background below the hills.

When planes approach they have to maneuver between very high Himalayan mountain peaks, as high as 18.000 ft. The runway itself is only 1,980m in length and thus makes it even more difficult for the pilots.

Very few pilots can make this difficult approach.

From the wiki: Flights to and from Paro are allowed under visual meteorological conditions only and are restricted to daylight hours from sunrise to sunset.

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Or Airport Lounge with people waiting or Inside of an Aeroplane

Or check all photographs under the label Airports  which has images of different airports of the world.
You might also like to see Mumbai aerial view - pictures on the way out of Mumbai  

Bullock Cart or Bailgadi yatra

Villagers on a pilgrimage. Their mode of travel is the bullock cart. They travel with all their belongings, spend their nights on the road. It's a long journey ahead  -to a temple. The men, women and children.

A very typical sight on Indian highways. They travel in the sweltering heat.

Prime Minister Modi and Maharashtra ministers

This is the stage on which PM Modi is sitting with the Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Nitin Gadkari, the Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India, Prakash Javadekar. Minister of Human Resource Development, Sharad Pawar and other Indian politicians at the formal inaugaration of the Pune metro. This event took place in Pune on the 24th of December 2016.

A closer look at the politicians who mostly look bored.

MRT stations of Singapore

The stations where the 27 year old underground train system, called the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) are spic and span, and modern. The MRT itself spans the whole of Singapore. 2.755 million commuters ride the MRT daily (2013 statistics) and the the MRT network comprises of 152.9 kilometres (95.0 miles) of route, with 113 stations on standard gauge.

Escalator taking you down into the underground rail network

The steel gates which open once you swipe your ticket.

The broad and clean corridors connecting different platforms.

The platform with neatly marked arrows telling you where to stand. The read arrows are for people who are waiting to get on. The green one marks a path for those who get down from the train.

Your might also like Shanghai Train Station or Inside of a metro or local train or subway
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Painted Art on Rickshaws in Bangladesh

Rickshaw owners can be proud owners - decorating their rickshaws with pretty pictures or graphic art, most of it quite colourful. This sense of ownership and pride is more often seen on trucks, but here are a few rickshaws in the city of Dacca, in Bangladesh.

Here is a cycle rickshaw painted in the most exotic colors and designs. In Bangladesh.

Related Images: Truck Art and Truck Painting
Rickshaw passengers in India or You might also like to see more pictures of Hand Pulled Rickshaws or pictures of Cycle Rickshaws in India
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Truck Cleaners and Drivers

These are the kind of scenes - the truck drivers, the colourful trucks and the cleaners which are very typical of India. The cleaner is the truck drivers man friday and cleans the truck and also acts like his assistant in signalling overtaking vehicles or helping the driver park.

The truck cleaner here is lighting up a bidi (cigarette).

A truck cleaner.

A smiling truck cleaner.  Note the colorful painted truck. A bright pink front section!

Even if the truck is white there are innovative ways to make it look fiesty and colorful. Pictures of film stars for example. And colourful cloths tied to the truck also make it more visible. Here, a little boy is the cleaner of the truck.

More pictures of Truck Drivers in India or you might also like to see pictures of Truck Passengers! or Photos of trucks or Truck Art and Truck Painting or Unsafe trucks
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Accidents scenes - overturned and smashed vehicles photos  or check all the pictures filed under the label Transport.

Singapore bus and bus stops

Buses in Singapore are frequent and well organised. Bus stops are clean, spacious and comfortable and shady.

A colourful bus in Singapore.

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Airbus A380 of Singapore Airlines

The Airbus A380 is a double-decker aircraft with four-engines. The world's largest passenger airliner, so far it is deemed to be quite safe with no issues.
The airport space it occupies is quite large as can be seen from these pictures and only airports with upgraded facilities can accommodate it.

The A380's upper deck is as long as the entire length of the fuselage and the width is the same as a wide-body aircraft.

The sight of the huge wing is quite awesome.

The large wing of the Airbus A380

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Singapore cabs or taxis

Taxis or cabbies in Singapore are of all hues and often nicely dressed up, inside as well as outside.

Inside of a Singapore cab, with GPS and camera too.

A Yellow city cab in Singapore.

Several blue cabs in Singapore.

Related Photos: Singapore bus and bus stops
or Cabbies or taxi drivers in India or Truck Drivers in India or Rickshaws in Pune, India
or Auto Rickshaws and Cycle Rickshaws in China
or Taxis and auto rickshaws crammed with people
or School Rickshaws with small children Or Fire Station and Fire engine
Or more images filed under the label of Transport 

Political campaigning in India

Campaigning in elections in India is pretty hectic and these are two photographs of groups of BJP party workers campaigning in Delhi in March 2014.

A group of party workers crammed into an open jeep with a BJP flag.

People busy on their cell phones. Including the driver of the vehicle. I guess that is allowed for political workers!

You might also like : Happy Birthday Political Posters or Illegal number plates or Security for politicians in India or Crowded and overflowing public transport or Traffic violations in Mumbai and Pune and Thane or Police checks on vehicles for unaccounted for cash during the elections.

Truck Passengers!

Here are a group of people riding atop a truck, quite a common sight in India.

Another man riding on top of a truck, perhaps to hold the planks of wood.

More pictures of Truck Drivers in India or you might also like to see pictures of Truck Passengers! or Photos of trucks or Truck Art and Truck Painting or Unsafe trucks
Or Cyclist holding a tempo or Chagda in Gujarat (public transport in Gujarat)

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Illegal number plates

In India the law is more often on paper. A simple legal requirement of correct number plates for motor vehicles is not followed. And ironically it is the law makers themselves who break the laws most often. It is as if they have a separate legal code for themselves. Clearly India is a democracy only in name. In reality we have a feudal system. Perhaps not as bad as some middle eastern and african countries, but feudal just the same. These number plates are not just to satisfy the egos of politicians but also to ensure that any other violated traffic laws are NOT easily traced back to their vehicle. These types of vehicles are more likely to break other traffic laws.

Written in fancy lettering, this number plate in Devanagari script is illegal. It should be MH04 GM201. As the little red flag reveals, this vehicle belongs to someone in a political party.

This car has brazen added the words MLA to the number plate, clearly to intimidate policemen and the public.

This one is an older photograph, but it is also a politician's car.

These numbers which are supposed to be 4141 look like the word "dada" in devanagari script. Height of stupidity. Dada means don.

You might also like to see images of other politicians making a fool of themselves: Happy Birthday Political Posters

For more humorous signs check out Funny Signs from Thailand or Interesting signs with funny instructions! or Funny English Signs or Thieves beware signs from the UK or Funny Road Signs in India

Cycle Repair Shops in India

Small cycle repair shops dot the Indian landscape, from small towns and cities, to villages. You will find a shop repairing cycles just about anywhere. It is the most common mode of transport in India.

A small shed which functions as a cycle repair shop in South India.

Cycle repair shop in Agra, India.

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Cyclist holding a tempo

A common sight in India is to see cyclists holding on to motor vehicles so that they can speed along with it. The traffic police either cannot see them or turn a blind eye. In any case even if they are caught, they are simply reprimanded. It is not considered dangerous enough. Or I suppose it is dangerous only for the cyclist, no one else. These photographs were taken through the windshield of a car.

Here the cyclist is trying to catch up with the speeding van ahead of him.

Here he managed to do it! When we overtook we realised it was a middle aged man, oblivious to the risks associated with this mode of travel. The tempo is carrying commercial goods for sale in the marketplace. Vegetables like onions and potatoes.

Related Photos:  Traffic violations in Mumbai and Pune and Thane or Taxis and auto rickshaws crammed with people  or School Rickshaws with small children or Families on two-wheelers or Crowded city streets in India  or Traffic Jam Photos or Traffic chaos or  Elephants on the streets of India or Chagda in Gujarat
Check out other images filed under the label of Transport  or any other labels under this post.

Women cycling in India

In a poor country like India cycling to work is common, but it is the men who usually do it. Sure, upper class women cycle for exercise or leisure  but women's emancipation is more for the upper classes. Well-to-do Indian women do drive to work in motor vehicles but women from the poorer classes avoid taking a cycle to work, unlike their men.
Women cycling to work have been spotted in Puducherry or Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu, and Pune in Maharashtra. These photographs have all been taken in Puducherry.

This is a photograph of a girl in a pink salwar kameez cycling in a village near Puducherry.

A woman in Puducherry on a cycle.

A foreigner cycling in Puducherry, Tamil Nadu. Plenty of people cycle for leisure in Puducherry, and so do the tourists.

Related Pictures: Puducherry or Pondycherry or check out all the posts on Puducherry or Women.
You might also like:  Boy on cycle with his mother in rural India or Cycle carts with three wheels or Cycle Rickshaws in India or Cyclist Silhouette and Sketch or Man ferrying cycle in canoe

Mumbai Pune Expressway Traffic Jam

Traffic jams on the Mumbai Pune Expressway are very common. You just never when there will be an accident, particularly in the Ghat section where the roads narrow and large vehicles occupy the right lane. Recently there was a huge jam not because of an accident but an agitation by some Hindu radicals because of facebook posts. An excuse for the unemployed goons to create a nuisance and disturb the life of ordinary and law abiding citizens.

Photographs of vehicles jam packed on the Mumbai Pune Expressway in the Western Ghats, on the way from Pune to Mumbai.

Related Images: Mumbai Nashik Road Pictures or Mumbai Ahmedabad Highway scenes or Toll Plaza on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway
Or Expressway Accident Photographs or Accidents scenes - overturned and smashed vehicles photos

Or for some beautiful scenes: Views from the Mumbai Pune Expressway Ghat section or  Mumbai Pune Expressway