In 2016, about 600,000 vehicles are registered in Yangon Division and the float is expanding on a daily basis. The city is now highly congested at peak hours while 5 years ago cars would stop 100 meters ahead from the traffic light to wait in the shade of a tree for the light to turn green.

Yangon dwellers commuting by public transport have no choice but the one circular train carrying about 15 percent of urban traffic or one of the 300 bus lines, considered as the backbone of the urban transport in Yangon.

Since 2011 the average commuting time and the number of road accidents dramatically increased. Each single junction hears everyday, restlessly, the symphony of the horns, and sees the road as a battle field in which everyone tries to make his way through.

Nevertheless, in this overcrowded and long daily commuting, Yangonites remains calm and patient. Acceptance and resilience are at their best.

The dramatic evolution of Yangon traffic that became a hectic jungle in only a few years is the most obvious sign of the extremely fast changes happening in Myanmar today. Meanwhile the calm behaviour of public transport users highlights the inertie of such adaptation.