Bengaluru traffic, in the past couple of days, has been a nightmare. Visuals have taken over Twitter which showed annoyed commuters stuck in the middle of the road trying to navigate through the clumsy traffic and reach their workplace on time. It is complete chaos in the morning, especially during office hours, in areas like Sarjapur, HSR Layout, Indiranagar and Outer Ring Road.
5 KM in 75 min on 🏍️
Welcome to Bangalore#bangaloretraffic #Bangalore pic.twitter.com/Bv88sX6zqu
— Anubhav Lahoti (@anubhavlahoti) May 16, 2023
Congratulations @blrcitytraffic for this massive traffic mismanagement… its been 3 hours… stuck at HSR 27th Main. Worst traffic this far. High time that IT cos. and Tech startups start looking for alternative cities. #Bengaluru #bangaloretraffic pic.twitter.com/1VHHlL8g1O
— Ashish Pathak 🇮🇳 (@CA_PathakJI) May 16, 2023
If traffic police concentrate on traffic management rather than hiding behind trees or pillars to collect fines,these types of cases would not occur.#bangaloretraffic #BangaloreORR pic.twitter.com/jMZ0hYtnd0
— Praveen Reddy (@Praveen55541565) May 16, 2023
Just recently, a guy shared a screenshot of his Uber app on Twitter showing how the waiting time for his ride was showing 71 minutes!
And now, another picture has gone viral on social media where we see a woman working on her laptop while being stuck in traffic in Bengaluru. To be honest, what else can one do if they have strict work timings?
Peak Bangalore moment. Women working on a rapido bike ride to the office. #TrafficJam #TrafficAlert #bangaloretraffic #Bangalore #roadblock #peakbangalore pic.twitter.com/bubbMj3Qbs
— Nihar Lohiya (@nihar_lohiya) May 16, 2023
According to NDTV, the woman was travelling via a Rapido bike and the picture was taken somewhere between the Koramangala-Agara-Outer Ring Road patch.
Another Twitter user shared a picture of passengers sitting with their laptops open inside an autorickshaw amidst heavy traffic.
not unusual to see even in autos at signals pic.twitter.com/2TE5Dno1QB
— milind (@milind_blr) May 17, 2023
A lot of people online sympathised with the woman and shared instances of other people similarly working on their laptops from inside public vehicles amidst traffic. Have a look:
Imagine the pressure, the feeling of lost in your own city where you work 10+hours a day, the disdain. All she required was a smooth traffic-less road where she could commute peacefully from her home and not account for the “extra” hour it takes to commute through a 5KM stretch
— souravbasuroy (@souravbasuroy) May 16, 2023
Imagine the pressure if she has to work on a damn motorbike
How insensitive are the employers
But if she is late due to her own accord then she is to be blamed— its just me (@Donteatmyfood1) May 16, 2023
Today it took 4 hours to reach from BTM to Bellandur
Huge traffic was there From Silkboard to Sarjapur— ARABINDA MOHAPATRA (@Rtr_Arabinda) May 16, 2023
Everything was fine with WFH but no the companies had to have the upper hand and keep employees subjugated
— Anurag (@anuragtyagi07) May 16, 2023
@peakbengaluru pic.twitter.com/S0PkekuW9P
— Card Starter (@jude200286) May 17, 2023
Imagine the kind of pressure some workplaces put on their employees that they have to resort to extreme means to get their work done!