Bengaluru bids to get out of a jam

The plot city's representation of being perennially stuck successful postulation desperately needs an overhaul, but whether the Congress regime's Rs 73,600 crore mobility infrastructure program is the reply is up for debate

CHOC-A-BLOC: Traffic jam connected a roadworthy starring to the Yelahanka IAF station, Bengaluru, successful February. (Photo: Hemant Mishra)

The archetypal flyover successful Bengaluru opened successful 1999, marking the opening of a pivotal play erstwhile the city’s software-fuelled maturation astatine the crook of the millennium would alteration it into a planetary exertion hub. But today, contempt 42 elevated roads, the confederate metropolis remains infamous for its postulation snarls. And that is due to the fact that of a teeming conveyance count—there are an estimated 12 cardinal vehicles successful a metropolis of 14 cardinal people. All that whitethorn good alteration present if Karnataka lawman main curate D.K. Shivakumar has his mode and implements an ambitious caller plan, which volition escaped the plot metropolis of its postulation woes.