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Commuters connected Tuesday struggled to navigate stretches of eastbound Bengaluru, particularly astir the Outer Ring Road (ORR), arsenic evening rainfall coupled with ongoing storm-water drain works near roads flooded.
The concern was truthful terrible that the agelong betwixt K.R. Puram and Iblur Junction witnessed bumper-to-bumper traffic, leaving commuters stranded for much than an hour. In definite parts of the stretch, commuters were seen getting retired of their vehicles to wide the water.
A elder postulation constabulary serviceman told The Hindu that aggregate points were flooded on the ORR stretch, Marathahalli, and K.R. Puram Road, slowing down traffic. “The stretches witnessed knee-deep level flooding, forcing america to divert traffic. Both the main carriageway and the work lanes were clogged,” the serviceman said.
The serviceman noted that the Devarabeesanahalli Junction was the worst hit, with flooding connected some carriageways.
The ripple effect of the paralysed postulation connected the ORR was felt connected different stretches that bore the further burden, but the concern did not improve. Other affected stretches included HAL Airport Road, Kadubeesanahalli Road, Bellandur-Doddakanelli Road, Bellandur Main Road, and Mahadevapura Main Road.
Commuters took to societal media to explicit their vexation and shared videos and pictures of clogged roads. Devaraj Nadiger, an X user, wrote, “The authorities had truthful galore months to hole flooding connected ORR, yet each twelvemonth the aforesaid story. Ok, fto the CM instrumentality the oath first; radical who voted tin hold for their basal infra.”
“The ORR curse wherever the cars don’t adjacent determination for 1 hour,” wrote Vedant Kulkarni, different X user.
