Bengaluru traffic has gone from a civic problem in collective trauma. Once praised as a technological center in India, the city is now testing its workforce daily with blocked roads, failing public transport and a feeling of resignation which deepens with each delayed journey.
In Whitefield, Hebbal, and through the outdoor road, travel times challenge logic, even transforming short trips into exhausting events. The promises of infrastructure abound, but for many residents, each rush hour looks like a slow disasual.
Capturing increasing disillusionment, a Reddit user summed up the feeling squarely: the Silicon Valley of India is a “city that breaks you a journey at the same time”.
“I leave the office at 6 pm. Ret to 9:15 am My house is 12 km away. There was no rain. No protest. No accident. Just Bengaluru being … Bengaluru. The bus which generally covers my route has not presented itself today. Nothing on Tumoc or Namma BMTC, just a silence. Hunt, ”read the post.
The message called the driving ineffectiveness and swollen prices: “Namma Yatri?” Not a single driver accepted unless I lean at 50 ₹ +. “Optional tip” is the biggest joke in this city. The meter? Lol. Finally paid for a car that I would not pay for an interurban bus. And the worst? I was not even surprised.
Frustrated by what they saw as a failure of a city focused on technology to solve basic problems, the user added: “This is supposed to be the capital of the country of the country. A city full of tools for creating people to “solve urban problems”. You think basic trips would be one of the first things we determine.
“It is as if the city takes you away slowly, not with great failure, but with a thousand small every day,” wrote the user. “However, in a stubborn corner of my brain, I continue to think that maybe one day it will be better. I don’t know when. But I want to believe that it will be.”
The message struck an online rope.
“Bro at least your office is 12 km from Ur Home, some of us traveling more than 30 km a day … The shuttle is a real pain in the ass, traffic being so worse … Today, I was stuck for 20 to 30 minutes in weekly traffic itself because of the stupid metro and steal works … We are damn too bad,” commented a user.
Another shared: “I left Whitefield at 5:30 am and I arrived at home at 10 years old. It was before the metro was one thing. It is crazy to see how this problem has been underway for more than a decade now, but all of our politicians want to do, it’s Dhudh Thindu Dhappa Agoy. ”
A third evacuated: “The journey is shit, horrible bosses, a pathetic mood all the time. I simply decided what follows – I give it two years to support this shit, except as much money as possible, I slowly start to move closer to my native or to move to a smaller city like mysore … I am necessary for my family, I cannot be a statistics on people dying prematurely due to stress.
