It's a common sight in Dhaka. All sorts of vehicles, both fast and very slow, are plying most of the the roads and streets. Buses, trucks, pickups, jeeps, rickshaws, rickshaw vans - all cram the road and run their race. Speedy vehicles are constantly forced to give way to the tortoise-paced rickshaws or rickshaw vans. Rickshaws or rickshaw vans are also nonstop shouted at (by the bus conductors) to move to the left or right. Result: a perennial sight of a python-like lumbering of vehicles along the roads and streets. Some dwellers of Dhaka clandestinely take this phenomenon as a blessing in disguise. For seldom does Dhaka have to see speed related road accidents! Life is slow (too slow indeed), but safer than that in the roads of cities like Jeddah where dangerously speeding BMW's suddenly go ripped into pieces in the middle of the road.
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