[Leica] IMG: The Bus

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Bangladesh is not in East Asia.....

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 3:40 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> Regarding your bus image, now I know why we have so many accidents in
> Atlanta.  We are a Mecca for East Asian immigrants.  Tom's street scene
> does a good job conveying everyday life in Bangladesh.
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:40 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Oh Boy.   Welcome back.  I will get set for another great travel log of
> > places I will never get to.  I enjoy all the ones you have posted in the
> > past and I look forward to this one.
> >
> > That is one busy street crammed with people.  Love it.
> >
> > Aram
> >
> > On 2/7/2019 5:44 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> > > PESO:
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Tina
> >
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