
In Bengaluru, one drives on what’s left of the road.” “If you’re in Bengaluru, and not seeing any traffic on the road, congratulations, you’ve reached Chennai!” “The reason Bengaluru is good for start ups is because people get a lot of ideas while they wait in traffic.” Some attribute Rahul David’s legendary patience as a result of Bengaluru traffic. Heard about the Bengaluru travel startup that’s offering a tour of Silk Board, Tin Factory, Marathahalli and BTM? The tour is called Chaar Jam Yatra! Or “To be successful in life one has to cross many bridges in life Marathahalli/KR Puram Bridge is one of them.” “In India one drives on the left of the road. Bengaluru’s traffic jams and road conditions are the stuff legends and memes are made of.

It looks exactly like a lunar moonwalk, until you see a green and yellow auto rattle by. Except that it was a Bengaluru street pockmarked with potholes and craters. Bengaluru Traffic gives memesĪ few years ago, to highlight the city’s poor infrastructure, graphic artist and activist Baadal Nanjundaswamy recreated a scenario of an astronaut walking on the surface of the moon. These aren’t fables these are real stories! So don’t fight Bengaluru’s traffic, embrace it, make it your own and understand what makes it unique. Dr Govind Nandakumar, a gastroenterology surgeon at Manipal Hospital Sarjapur, got stuck in the final Sarjapur-Marthahalli stretch and ran the remaining 3km in 45 mins to perform his emergency surgery. A bride-to-be ditched her car and took the Metro to reach her wedding.

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Recently, a video went viral of a BMTC bus driver at Silk Board Junction finishing his entire lunch before the bus could even move an inch. There’s enough time to even get married there”. Someone posted on Twitter that his girlfriend was visiting Bengaluru for the first time and sought suggestions on a romantic place to propose to her. The neighbour politely declines, saying, “No, I’ll walk. Spotting the neighbour walking on the sidewalk, he offers him a lift.

The old Bengaluru traffic joke is about a guy in a car heading home from office. Two more times and we would have been engaged." Jeffrey Archer got a chance to experience Bengaluru's infamous traffic jams first hand and remarked to the audience attending his book launch: "A woman walking on the pavement overtook my car eight times and my car overtook her eight times.
