Bengaluru civic body's white-topping along Mysuru Road is causing severe traffic jams

Civic Issues

Commuters will have to put up with traffic jams for the next two months, says a BBMP official.

TNM Staff

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Bengaluru's traffic woes are infamous, so too are its potholes. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike's (BBMP) move to make the roads pothole-free by white-topping them has now resulted in causing severe traffic jams. The BBMP, which had halted white-topping work along Mysuru Road in April, has started the construction once again. The Palike has started the white topping work at the Goripalya Junction near the Mysuru Satellite Bus Stand resulting in painful traffic jams spanning 1-2 km along the stretch. BBMP had finished white-topping work on one side of Mysuru Road and has begun constructing the other side now, leaving commuters only half the road to ply on resulting in traffic jams. “One bus can ply along the path and two cars next to each other. Since the construction work is being carried out, there are traffic jams,” a BBMP official said. The Palike had begun white-topping along the stretch from Nayandahalli to the Central Crime Branch signal last year but had stopped construction work as commuters were being inconvenienced due to traffic jams. “Currently, there is a lot of traffic as the alternate route from Majestic via the Cottonpet Main Road has also been dug up as TenderSURE roads are coming up in the area. Vehicular traffic has been prohibited on this road and hence people moving towards Goripalya are getting stuck in traffic and the jams are stretching up to two kms from the junction,” the BBMP official added. BBMP officials, however say that the white-topping work will continue and is expected to be completed within two months. The officials are laying concrete along the stretch from KR Market to BHEL. “We have already finished half the work eight months ago but had to stop as there were major jams and the congestion was too much. Commuters have to just bear for two more months,” he added. Currently, the BBMP has finished white-topping work from the Mysuru Satellite Bus Stand to Guddahalli signal. The BBMP has to complete white-topping on another 2 km stretch. “A lot of commuters have complained and demanded an alternate route but we are currently unable to do so because the alternate road has been closed for traffic,” he said.     

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