Our driver was late picking us up for work this morning. His explanation was there were traffic delays because they were doing traffic surveys. I didn't quite know what to make of this until we emerged onto the main road, which is usually quite congested at the 715am peak hour, to find a row of uniformed policemen holding the cars back at the pedestrian crossing, making it easy for us to get out across the three lanes of road (which translates to 6 to 8 lanes of traffic). As we looped back in the opposite direction we could see a dozen or so young people, presumably university students, casually dressed in every day clothes and sandals, with clipboards in hand leaning into the drivers' windows asking a bunch of questions.
One can only imagine the type of questions being asked - "how do you find the traffic congestion along this stretch of road?", "how long does it take you to get to your destination?".
The traffic snarls on all the side roads and stretching far past our turn off did not look pleasant. Hope they got some useful information out of the exercise!!
Photo from the Asian Times. That traffic looks remarkably ordered though! Normally there would be two more rows of tuk tuks woven in there too.
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