Transportation
A Wild Ride Down India's First Bike Lane
In Bangalore, the infrastructure is there. Teaching cyclists (and drivers) how to use it is another matter entirely.
BANGALORE, India – Traffic in Bangalore, a friend once said as he steered a van, is like an ocean. Huge trucks swim next to motorcycles and scooters, who weave between compact cars. Always making waves is the abundant yellow auto-rickshaw, "a three-wheeled death trap made of metal and canvas," as one journalist dubbed it. The only sure motion is forward.
And a bicyclist is a very small fish.