[Leica] IMG: The Bus

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

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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