The driving here in Hanoi is different than anywhere else I have been. The motorbikes, the cars and the bicycles seem in near constant motion. Everything is constantly flowing forward but at a reasonable slowish pace. They have lights on some streets but even there people are only stop for a minute or so, maybe less. At non lighted intersections everyone drives all the way through all the time, in every direction, without stopping.
In Hanoi when you walk on a crosswalk with a green light signal you need to do so quickly as the turning cars will NOT Stop for you. There is also lots of horn use here but not as aggressively as in India where people often use the horn in anger and VERY aggressively. Here in Vietnam the horn is used softer, as a working tool, as I am here watch out for me safety feature (often in Thai the horns are used the same way).
The streets of Vietnam seem to be in never ending fluid motion, especially the motorbikes but it some how seem safer than Thailand. Here people do not drive too fast, it is sort of a controlled chaos thingy. After nightfall many streets are empty or near empty.
In Hanoi when you walk on a crosswalk with a green light signal you need to do so quickly as the turning cars will NOT Stop for you. There is also lots of horn use here but not as aggressively as in India where people often use the horn in anger and VERY aggressively. Here in Vietnam the horn is used softer, as a working tool, as I am here watch out for me safety feature (often in Thai the horns are used the same way).
The streets of Vietnam seem to be in never ending fluid motion, especially the motorbikes but it some how seem safer than Thailand. Here people do not drive too fast, it is sort of a controlled chaos thingy. After nightfall many streets are empty or near empty.
