?A few lines on a bitumen road, half-functioning traffic lights, some pavements in big cities for decoration and occasional disciplinary drives, is all what one can sum up as when it comes to Indian traffic scenario, its rules and their enforcement, ? says Oslan, a Britisher, who spent more than a year in India on a study assignment.

Is this what an Indian too would think about roadways in India? That is not an easy question as the answers could be as diverse as the groups and classes one can put the Indian users into across its expansive geography.

Let's talk about the first. The first city of the nation is a cosmos of cultures and economic diversity. The up market south district traffic looks quite regulated given the maximum allocations spent on road safety. Hence there is some semblance of discipline.

The order deteriorates as one moves towards the west, the north and then the east. The last one is the worst for reasons of density, the degree of callousness and increasing number of intersections without traffic signals or having provided with a regulating traffic policeman. The maximum movement on the road, looking at the overall traffic situation is chaotic with general disregard to traffic rules and care of one for the other.

Mumbai traffic is a bit organized, but nevertheless the number that plies on the roads simply puts the best order to the wind.

has grown from the one streamlined a few years back to the one which is bumper to bumper and yet moving, of course at the snail's pace. Chennai traffic is no different. The story repeats city after city. No one is different from another when it comes to big cities.

Needless to say incidents of drunken driving and violations of rules about roadway safety spiral up by the day. Looks like the traffic police is the biggest money spinner for making a huge killing out of the road rompers.