Day 8: Traffic

There's lots of traffic in Mexico city. The streets are wide (and mostly one-way), but the amount of cars makes the streets very crowded. Especially on Friday (Day 9), when it took us an hour to drive 5km. Traffic policemen are whistling and waving their hands while the drivers are honking.

And while driving on not-so-crowded-as-on-Friday Thursday's streets with my colleague, I've found out that
if you're a woman and you drive alone during dark hours, you may cross a red light. This does not apply if you are not alone, even if the passenger is a lady too. Or if you are a lonely man.

I think it's like an unwritten rule, because as I understood, if you do cross a red light and there happens to be a policeman he wouldn't stop you (if you are a woman and alone).
I guess this is some kind of a safety issue although it's not that safe to cross a red light.

So you can imagine how "safe" is Mexico city during nights, even though everyone says it's the safest city in this country.