Potholes are not leaving Bengaluru anytime soon

The state capital has 470 major roads, covering 1,344.7 km with nearly 50% having potholes, while the traffic department has identified 4,830 potholes on such roads. A logistics firm is considering the prospect of relocating from Bengaluru, citing traffic and long commute times. The city’s chronic road and traffic issues remain at the front and centre.

Residents wonder if roads will ever be pothole-free, traffic problems will ever be fixed, and regular flooding will ever end. Back-to-back incidents related to potholes in a week has highlighted the terrible road infrastructure in Mahadevpura, the IT belt.