Friday, April 24, 2009

Auto Ricksaw in Mumbai

This is my first posting in my blog...well still learning. Not to say that I have nothing to do here in India, but I'm just sharing my experiences here with all my friends over in Malaysia. Got a camera the other day and snap a few pictures and tada.....up on my blog.

The first thing you encounter is the famous auto rickshaw in India...Well if you have been to India, don't know if you have sat on in any one of these. The minute they agree to take you to your destination, yu get in and they will start with 10 rupees. Then as you go along, the rate increases and this includes you sitting in a jam. The jam here in Mumbai is worse than that in KL. Its really disorganized. To make things worse, they are in the process of constructing an LRT line and the road is pretty much narrowed down.

The auto rickshaw drivers here I can catagorized them as hell drivers. Some are OK, but the majority are worse than the mat rempits of KL. They drive without care about the guy sitting behind (mind you no seatbelt). I dun know about the brake & tayar conditions but sometimes they scare the h!@# out of me. Somemore some of this drivers see that a foriegner is sitting in the rickshaw, they tend to take you the long way so they get extra Rupees and you more.

Some of the pictures here to give you an idea.