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Traffic in Chennai is crazy. On the streets you will see buses, cars, taxis, autorickshaws (little 3 wheeler taxis that remind me of the antique cars at an amusement park), motorbikes, bicycles, tricycles with carts carrying various merchandise, and pedestrians. All of these different forms of transportation travel at different paces passing each other. There are lanes painted on the roads, but no one seems to stay in them, often even crossing the middle and driving on the wrong side of the street. A common site is seeing several people on a motorbike (even a whole family), not wearing helmets, the women sitting on the back sidesaddle. Luckily traffic doesn't move too fast.