Yesterday, I saw a cab driver creatively fasten the passenger's door to the body of the car with a piece of wood and a leather strap. I wouldn't want to be in that cab. No one wears seat belts. Most cabs do not have seat belts. When Arnoldo Aleman, now president of Nicaragua, was the mayor of Managua, he constructed these things called rotondas, which are large round pieces of land, surrounded by a circular road.
Streets converge at the rotonda, and cars drive around the circle and exit on their desired street.
It's actually a fairly clever way to control traffic. It takes the place of an intersection with stop lights. And for a city whose electricity goes out often, it's safer than using traffic lights. For the pedestrian, a rotonda is a nightmare. I prefer to wait.