This excellent road design brought to you courtesy the brain trust in Uttar Pradesh, India /s

The best part is the dude who gets off the bus in the middle of the road.

Never thought I'd see the words "Uttar Pradesh" on the fediverse.... For the unknown- Uttar Pradesh is the Ohio of India. A lot of weird and bizzare shit happen there.

Uttar Pradesh is the Ohio of India
Incorrect. Uttar Pradesh is the Florida of India. If you hear of some fucked-up shit happening in India there's a 50/50 chance it's in Uttar Pradesh.
- Uttar Pradesh Man is Florida Man's Indian cousin.
- Bihar has to be Ohio then
Has Ohio got that bad a rep?
Sounds more like the Florida of India.
You're not kidding. I realized this when I heard about a 22-year-old woman who was killed by being pushed into a boiling vat because she resisted her assailants.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/dalit-teen-resists-molestation-pushed-into-boiling-cane-juice/articleshow/106428507.cms
I'm from Mumbai and you can't pay me enough to visit Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, or Jharkhand.
- Well, Mumbai is the top metropolitan city in India. It makes sense you don't want to visit Uttar Pradesh or any the other "hell states". And, If you live in South Mumbai, you're probably part of the top 1% or 5% of the country. So yeah, it makes sense overall.
- I quickly went through your profile and saw you frequently post about U.S politics. May I ask why? I don't mean to come as offensive, I'm just really curious. Have you immigrated or are you an international student?
I remember reading some COVID-related news from there, though that wasn't on the fediverse because I wasn't on the fediverse yet at the time.
- That news was likely the mass cremations of people who died of COVID. Uttar Pradesh had one of the highest mortality rates in the country in the wake of the pandemic. A lot of them were low-income folk who died on the way to (or right outside) public hospitals that refused to accept them due to overcrowding, lack of equipment and supplemental oxygen, and gross mismanagement
But isn't Taj Mahal located there?
Ohio of India
Oh...oh no... Containment has been breached, Ohio is spreading.
I like that it's Ohio, but not quite Florida.

I was sure the bike was going to get hit by the first bus.
A man just stepped off the bus in the middle is everything.

A man just stepped off the bus in the middle is everything.
Railway tickets in India have 'do not (de)board a moving train' on the back in very large letters. This is why. (Trains usually slow down at stations even if they aren't stopping there.)
off the bus in the middle is everything.
That's what some people refer to as a bus stop.
- The bus didn’t stop though. He just hopped off while it was slowed down.
Where is the pedestrian crossing on the left meant to be going?

I've been in India multiple times fur work (not UP). The traffic there is insane. There's a set of unwritten rules you have you follow, and a shit ton of written ones you must ignore in order to survive.

I'm not joking when I say that stopping in a zebra crossing for pedestrians to walk would get you in an accident, because nobody expects a car to stop for people.

I don’t see anything wrong with this design, it’s just missing the “no left turns” sign (or it’s being ignored).

I have a forked road like this near where I live, where OpenMaps gave illegal directions and I was able to submit a bug report tha left turns are not allowed

It doesn't help that the Indian driving culture has a concept for "slow the fuck down" and that right of way seems to belong to whichever vehicle is largest.

Sure, but this video is also speedup...

I am gonna guess it was supposed to be one way road which was turned into 2 way by just planting some sticks in the middle. The funds allotted to work was probably pocketed for another couple luxury SUV.

Looks to me like just bad driving and a refusal to watch for traffic

not taking those things into account in the design is bad planning, good design guides or forces idiots to not do idiotic things.

The absolute fearlessness of the bus drivers 😭

holy shit

The drivers? How bout that guy who just popped out mid turn and kept walking lol.

Holy shit

India isn't a continent-sized country emptied of its native inhabitants, so there is much less space to design anything neatly.

there is much less space to design anything neatly.
That's absolute nonsense. We can design things perfectly well when it suits us.
Even if it were true (it isn't; Uttar Pradesh is one of India's largest states, there's no dearth of space there -- this is borne of pure greed and stupidity), that's not an excuse. Quite a few other regions that are painfully short on space have been able to come up with brilliant, compact designs that serve their intended purpose without putting people in grave danger every day. Hong Kong comes to mind
- We can design things perfectly well when it suits us.
  If you can do the taj mahal you can do an intersection
- more to the point 3/4 of the visible land in that vid is empty, no need to compare to hong kong.
- Everything else remaining the same, you may be wrong. Here, there is no danger at the speeds Indian traffic moves at, that was a sped-up time-lapse. The cyclist was on the wrong side of the road.
  I don't know about Hong Kong - more than absolute space, what is the population density - but I imagine control over all the aspects makes for parts that fit better together. Over here, there may be a case for smaller roads planned better, mini buses instead of buses, etc. But the buses already exist. The land is already owned by somebody before they laid down roads. Designed around all that, it isn't that bad.
  We have so much infrastructure at the per-capita income levels as they are of a billion people. This isn't something to fret over.
There is plenty of space for a roundabout on this intersection
- I don't see it. A roundabout would eat into space vehicles need. And roads were laid in and around land already owned by people, so it wouldn't have been a clean slate.
  Traffic only flows 3 ways: bus goes on straight, bus turns left, and traffic from that road on its left goes straight. The cyclist should have come on the other side below the elevated road, and turned under it to reach this intersection.
We can visibly see in this video that there's nothing in the way of rounding this junction off
Singapore:
- He he. Have you lived there? They started limiting permits for new cars to the number of old cars taken off the road, for example. And they are small enough to have very good public transport. And centtalized enough to control all aspects and plan cohesively.
  Do you know of any large region that has done it nearly as well? What is that region's per-capita income and its population density?