Bengaluru: Dasara traffic delays buses on Tumakuru Road

A KSRTC bus that left Majestic at about 10pm took until around 2am to cross Nagasandra amid Friday-night traffic on Tumakuru Road.

Passenger Abhishek M said he got out of his auto near BVK Iyengar Road and walked to Majestic to avoid missing his bus. From Orion Mall, he said, the bus took more than two-and-a-half hours to reach Govardhan Theatre.

A KSRTC conductor on the Bengaluru–Mangaluru route said the journey from Navarang Theatre to Goraguntepalya took more than three-and-a-half hours. Rain and Dasara traffic slowed vehicles on approach roads including Chord Road, Sankey Tank Road, CV Raman Road and a stretch of the Outer Ring Road, traffic police said.

Traffic near Govardhan Theatre eased at around 2.30am. The Yeshwanthpur–Goraguntepalya corridor normally handles 800 to 900 buses on a weekend, but the number rises above 2,500 during festive and long weekends.

Police deployed more than 12 personnel near Govardhan Theatre, where passengers wait along the road for KSRTC and private buses. Officials have proposed bus bays, shelters and road widening there, along with shifting some services to Basaveshwara Bus Terminal in Peenya.