Global News by Tag: Transportation
PATTAN, KASHMIR, INDIA – Nazir Ahmad rushes to approach the owner of a horse-drawn cart, called a “tonga” here, and begs him to carry his ailing mother to the hospital.
“She suddenly caught fever and complains about pain in chest,” says Ahmad, a resident of Trikolbal, a village in Pattan.
Ambulances are unheard of here in Pattan, an administrative division in the northern part of Jammu and Kashmir state.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Passenger-filled buses, microbuses and trucks travel along Prithvi Highway, a 200-kilometer, snakelike road that connects Kathmandu, the capital, with the tourist town of Pokhara. The Trishuli River flows along the road. Over its rapid currents stretches a makeshift cable bridge with a small, rusted, square basket operated by a pulley system, popularly known as a “tuin,” which villagers in the foothills here use to cross the river.
ACCRA, GHANA -- “Every day, when I wake up, my problem is how to get to work,” says Lolita Hodonou, 24, a student and an intern who lives in New Fadama. Her neighborhood is in Accra about 30 minutes from Kwame Nkrumah Circle, the central point for public transportation in Ghana. Every morning, Hodonou spends at least two hours traveling from her home to Asylum Down, where she works.