Pour ce qui est du bus, tu viens de me convaincre de ne pas y aller! Ce n’est pas le genre de place pour une personne souffrant +++ du mal des transports…

Une chance que tu es solide!

Pas y aller: ben tu peux aussi te payer le gros taxi-auto a suspension molle tu sais… Mais moi j’aime bien l’ambiance des bus. J’aime juste pas avoir peur d’y laisser ma peau (ou mes dents).

Mes condoleances a toi et ta famille.
Mathias

En passant, fais aussi attention à toi là bas… les chauffeurs semblent vraiment dangereux !

Au fait, c’est ça que tu planifiais écrire ce am?

Encore une fois, très désolée pour toutou.

et… fais attention, ok?

La STM risque de ressembler de plus en plus à ton expérience indienne, au rythme où le service se déteriore là-bas, alors attachez vos tuques tout le monde!

Fais attention a toi, car je ne voudrais pas qu’on te renvoie en avion avec une petite infirmiere privee parce que tu t’es casse la figure en sortant d’un bus.

 » Local city buses in India, particularly in the big cities such as Kolkata and Delhi, are generally fume-belching, human-stuffed, mechanical rattletraps which travel at breakneck speed; except when they are stuck in traffic. Little time is given for disembarkation and there are daily reports of injury and death caused by buses. This is largely due to the immense pressure placed on bus drivers to rake in as much cash as possible

Bus drivers are often paid by the number of passengers they carry, and may even be fined for each minute they are late. Naturally, this leads to dangerous and cut-throat competition among bus drivers. Those drivers who are caught for dangerous driving are given bail and immediatly return to work, content in the knowledge that their case won’t come to court for years; by that time any witnesses have disappeared or have little memory of the incident. According to newspaper reports, 4 out of 5 drivers are simply fined and never tried.

Many drivers openly admit they are ‘forced’ to adopt ‘techniques’ such as intentionnally blocking the way of rival buses, or taking risky measures to overtake them, all at the peril of innocent pedestrians and fellow road users. According to drivers, in off-peak times they initially drive slowly to scoop up the maximum number of passengers, then wildly accelerate towards the end of the journey to make up time.

The moral is, when crossing a road don’t entertain the notion of stepping out in front of an incoming bus. Moreover, don’t even weave through a group of buses at a stop, as another, faster-moving bus may be obscured by the first one! »

LP 2003 p 158.