Top Ten. Transport and Traffic Best photographs of 2012.

It's the time of the year that different top ten lists are published in an attempt to review this year that soon is coming to an end. Best songs, best movies, best shows and the lists go on. My favourite is lists of best photographs because as the Chinese proverb, quoted later (1911) by newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane say: "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words." The web is filled with amazing photographs but I always give greater attention to the ones that involve transport and traffic. Browsing through such sites I realised that a significant percentage of these pictures involve transport and traffic on one way or another.

So here is my top ten list of the most spectacular transport and traffic photographs of 2012. I took the liberty to put my own titles on them as most of them were not published under the photographers original title. Apart from the title,  I list the country that the picture was taken, the photographers name and the news agency that published it. I kept the last spot in the list for one of my own photographs, because of it's special meaning. Is the photograph from the most popular blog post for 2012 and also is the photograph that reflects my pleasure for living and working in such a great city.

10. Bus rapid transit. Australia. KYRIAKOS TYROLOGOS.

9. Space Travel. USA, AFP

 8. Cruise Safety. Italy. PAUL HANNA. Reuters 

7. Highway Land Resume. China. CHINA DAILY. Reuters

 6. Alternative mobility. Colombia. FREDY BUILES. Reuters

5. Public Transport Overcrowd. Bangladesh.  ANDREW BIRAJ, Reuters 

thanks to fellow blogger Prafull for correcting me

4.Cost of fuel. Italy. ALESSANDRO BIANCHI. Reuters

 3. Freight Overload.Pakistan. MIAN KHURSHEED. Reuters

   2. School Active Travel.Indonesia. BEAWIHARTA. Reuters

  1. Storm Traffic Halt. United States. LUCAS JACKSON. Reuters