“I use less than 10 km of this expressway. There is no other road for me to head to my company. Why are they now asking me to pay Rs 135?,” Hemanth, a private firm employee, was seen shouting at staffers at the toll plaza on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway on Tuesday morning.
Starting Tuesday, commuters have to pay a toll fee to use the expressway, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. The move has drawn the ire of the public as well as activists who demanded that the fee be reduced. Toll fee collection at the plaza started at 8 am and a long line of vehicles was seen on the stretch heading towards Mysuru which,