Where i live you can't even have 2 motorbikes riding side by side on any road. The first picture just looks so crazy to me but on the flip side, if they "bent the knee" and abide by western notions of road rules, that stoplight line would probably be backed up into the intersection behind it.

The road rules in the US seem at times to be a money collection system also, as I have once recieved an $80 ticket for not having my headlights on when it was raining.... in the daytime.