In Nepal kann man den Status eines Autos am Nummernschild erkennen. Es gibt sechs verschiedene Farben: Rot für normale Autos, schwarz für Taxis und Busse, blau für Diplomaten, weiß für die Regierung, gelb für Regierungsassoziierte und grün für Tourismusunternehmen. Ungefähr die Hälfte aller Fahrzeuge sind Taxis und die haben auch die schlimmsten Fahrer. Die meisten Nepalis fahren Motorrad und auch die sind eine Katastrophe. Nummernschilder müssen nicht angebracht werden, oft sind sie nur aufgemalt und die Buchstaben müssen auch nicht gedruckt sein. Tatsächlich hat sogar die Maoistenpartei sich eigene Nummernschilder gemacht um ihre, oft gestohlenen Wagen auf die Straße zu bringen.
Im Moment wird der Verkehr durch eine schlimme Benzinkrise erschwert. Die Ölfirma hat ungefähr 6 Milliarden Nepalesische Rupien eine Zahl, die sich über die Jahre angesammelt hat, weil die Regierung die Ölfirma gezwungen hat, das Benzin unter dem Einkaufspreis zu verkaufen! Benzinpreise werden von der Regierung festgelegt und die Firma darf sie nicht selbst anheben. Aus Angst vor Streiks und Blockaden sind sie daher über Jahre gleich geblieben. Die indische Firma, die das Benzin liefert hat nun beschlossen, kein Benzin mehr zu liefern, bis nicht wenigstens einige der Rechnungen beglichen sind. Was die nepalesische Firma nicht kann. Was zu riesigen Schlangen an den Tankstellen führt, die Benzin bekommen (jeden Tag andere). Eine Verbesserung ist nicht in Sicht und so laufen wir jeden Tag ein Stück zur Arbeit. Einen Vorteil gibt es allerdings auch: Es ist kein Problem mehr, die Straßen zu überqueren!
Transportation in Kathmandu is chaotic enough to deserve its own chapter. There are very few roads in the city that deserve to be called so. Most roads are dirt roads with patches of tar in-between and even the bigger and better roads have pot-holes everywhere so that travelling always turns out to be an adventure. The number of vehicles on the roads has risen dramatically over the past years so that most of them are constantly jammed. There are plans to build new roads along the Bagmati but they are just that - plans. So far nothing much has happened and so we dig our way through roads packed with motorbikes, taxis, buses, tuk tuks, cars, cows, bikes, udos (unidentified driving objects), rikshas and people, every day to get to work.
Crossing a (real) road is a dangerous thing to do. The first time I tried it took me about 10 minutes. I was waiting patiently on ring road for my traffic lights to turn green. When they did so I prepared to walk...but nothing changed! All the cars just continued to speed along and there was not much of a chance to get across. When I saw a Nepali trying to cross next to me I hoped for my chance. It got me halfway across, only to leave me stranded. I somehow managed not to have my toes broken by cars driving over it, but my adrenaline levels must have reached the level of your average bungee jumper. By now I'm used to all this. I learned not to be confused by people almost knocking me over, I don’t react on anyone honking the horn (otherwise I would just be jumping around the whole time) and I can cross any road in less than a minute.
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At the moment, transport is made difficult by a serious petrol crisis. The oil company is in debt with around 6 Billion Nepalese Rupees, a number collected over the years and reached because the government forced them to sell the petrol cheaper than they got it! Petrol prizes are made by the government and the company is not allowed to raise them themselves. Because the government was scared of strikes and blockades, the prizes stayed the same for years. Now the Indian company that provides the petrol decided not to supply any more petrol unless the Nepalese company pays some of their bills. Which they can’t. Which results in huge queues at the few petrol stations that get delivered petrol (different ones every day…). There is no improvement in sight and so we are now walking a lot more. It gives one advantage, though: now there is no problem crossing the roads anymore!
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