Traffic gridlock on Varthur-Gunjur stretch in Bengaluru Thursday
Bengaluru: A day after TOI highlighted how students spent up to 2.5 hours in school buses to travel a few kilometres on the Varthur-Gunjur stretch (SH-35), the situation on Friday was marginally better. it still took over 1 hour and 15 minutes to cover the distance While the school made some changes to student dispersal today. Yesterday, the journey took nearly 2.5 hours,” he said. Otherwise, she would have taken another 45 minutes to reach home. Residents said unless bottlenecks along SH-35 are addressed and ongoing infrastructure work is expedited, schoolchildren will continue to bear the brunt of Bengaluru’s traffic woes. box Knee-jerk reaction Bengaluru East City Corporation began filling potholes on portions of SH-35 using hot-mix asphalt.
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Parents said schoolchildren remained stuck in long traffic queues on their commute home, maybe a few minutes less than Thursday. Jain said the situation has left parents anxious and constantly monitoring school bus apps. No parent should go through this stress every single day,” he said. Another resident, Neeraj Agarwal, said children should not be subjected to the hardships that many Bengaluru professionals have come to accept. Civic officials told residents that pothole repair work would continue through Friday night, with the aim of improving driving conditions ahead of Saturday morning traffic. Ongoing infrastructure work and larger issues causing traffic congestion remain unresolved,” said a resident.
But stuck, they were. Fresh complaints kept pouring in from citizens, particularly the large tech workforce residing along the corridor. “My child’s school is 4km from our home. “We keep worrying. Is the child OK? Is there a medical emergency? These are our thoughts. Parents’ frustration has spilled onto social media as well. One resident, Arjun , posted on X that he eventually left home to pick up his daughter midway through her journey after tracking the bus’s slow movement. “After waiting for nearly two hours, I picked up my daughter from the road. I run an online business and had the flexibility to do that. What about parents who are in offices and cannot leave work?” he wrote. Residents dismissed the exercise as only a temporary fix. “Pothole filling is the bare minimum. Download the TOI App.
Amit Jain , a resident of the Varthur-Gunjur stretch, said his LKG-going child was stuck in traffic for more than an hour on Friday.
Imagine what these children go through while sitting inside buses for hours in traffic without any certainty about when they will reach home.” Describing the ordeal faced by young children, Jain added: “The moment my child reached home today, the first thing he wanted to do was use the washroom.