A report compiled by the Outer Ring Road Companies Association (ORRCA) last month revealed that traffic congestion on the Outer Ring Road stretch in Bengaluru costs the city a whopping $15-plus billion in revenues annually.
“We presented the report to state Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara on Wednesday,” informed the ORRCA spokesperson Krishna Kumar Gowda in a conversation with DH. The minister has assured he will study the report carefully and revert to ORRCA soon, he added.
This comes as the 17 km stretch saw one of the worst traffic jams in the garden city’s recent memory, on Wednesday, owing to a host of issues ranging from people leaving the city for the long weekend, to employees swarming to work after Tuesday’s bandh and a number of vehicles breaking down across the stretch.
