Barefoot monks holding alms bowls share the streets with scooters, battered cars and cycle rickshaws.
It handles excellently, as I found out when I was steering around rickshaws and bicycle messengers.
On village roads, cycle rickshaws and monks with parasols amble by fruit vendors and car part stalls.
Private buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws kept off the roads and most banks were shut in the state.
In the capital, Delhi, auto-rickshaws and taxis were off the roads, but metro services were functioning normally.
We all head back to where we first met Iqbal and scatter in our taxis and auto rickshaws.
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Kant wanted one cheap enough to compete with three-wheeled motorized rickshaws and even considered building a small three-wheeled truck.
Those with pocket money could ride one of 2, 000 rickshaws -- Asia's largest fleet -- owned by A. Cohen.
You had to share the sidewalk with bicycles, electric rickshaws and occasionally, cars.
Some rode on the roof tops of buses and trucks, many on rickshaws, some on bicycles and many just walked.
Their progress along the narrow lanes of the old city was slowed by the people, cars and rickshaws in their way.
Buildings are stacked together in congested rows, cows roam freely in the streets where potholes cause scooters, taxis and rickshaws to swerve.
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All 60, 000 auto-rickshaws in Delhi (analogous to the 3-wheeled tuk-tuks seen in Thailand), for example, are being equipped with a GPS-enabled system.
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There are colourfully decorated rickshaws around every bend, tea shops on every block and kids playing cricket wherever they eek out the space.
Some of the issues discussed included the fare structure, the area in which the rickshaws would operate and road widths in the town centre.
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Traffic jams contend with sacred cows, ambling camels and rickety rickshaws.
This is where you are less likely to see a taxi and more likely to see market traders cycling along on their squeaky rickshaws calling out their wares.
Traffic hazards still included men pulling rickshaws laden with bricks and firewood but all along the route there were new buildings in various stages of construction.
Its three-wheelers are widely used throughout India as auto rickshaws, which you will not be seeing at the Detroit auto show any time soon.
With motorbikes, auto-rickshaws and battered jeeps zooming in and out, it is hard to imagine that you are arriving at a medieval heritage site dating back to the early 16th Century.
Rickshaws and scooters rattle past while women gossip in the gateways, men play games of mahjong, and kids chase each other through the dusty backstreets, dodging boxes and washing lines.
The Foreign Office recently updated its advice for women visiting India, saying they should use caution and avoid travelling alone on public transport, or in taxis or auto-rickshaws, especially at night.
Indeed, the few times a second team member does sit up front it's to help the driver navigate big-city traffic, mostly as a second set of eyes out for cyclists, rickshaws and tuk-tuks.
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