‘This city is ruined’: Man stuck with pregnant wife for 1.5 hours on 7km journey, highlights Bengaluru’s traffic woes

Bengaluru’s traffic problems often come to the fore on social media. In another viral post, a man recently shared a harrowing experience when he was stuck in traffic for over 1.5 hours while trying to cover a mere 7 kilometers on HAL Road near Varthur to take his eight-month pregnant wife for a routine medical checkup.

Sharing his experience on Reddit, the man wrote, “I was taking my eight-months-pregnant wife for a routine checkup, and the whole time I was haunted by a horrible thought, ‘What if this was a real emergency? What if she was in labor right now?’ The sheer helplessness is suffocating.”

He described the experience of being stuck in a deadlock As in “sitting like a duck, trapped in a metal box, watching the clock tick.” He wrote, “We pay exorbitant road taxes for this privilege. I truly believe this city is doomed.”

He further mentioned that Traffic and road system of Bengaluru Have completely failed because the roads are clogged, construction never ends, and there is no sign of things getting better. He argued that sometimes living with such chaos becomes unbearable.

“The infrastructure has completely collapsed, and it feels like there’s no way out. What a thing bad experience,” he wrote.

The post quickly went viral and many people in the comments section shared their experiences of facing similar problems.

One user wrote, “This happened to me yesterday. I left the office at 6 pm in a cab. Around 6:30 my wife called me and told me she was not well. Sitting helplessly in traffic, unable to do anything, every minute felt like a year. It took me two and a half hours to finally reach home and make sure she was okay.”

Another comment read, “I can understand! My mother and sister met with an accident, and I had to rush to meet them in the hospital. I was stuck in that U-turn near Bellandur. Longest 45 minutes of my life.”

“Bengaluru It has become extremely crowded over the years, and there is virtually no space left; The city has reached its peak. It’ll only get worse from here,” one user wrote.

Another user commented, “My colleague’s father had a heart attack; he was struggling to walk only 500 metres.”

Earlier this week, Mazumdar-Shaw callThe executive chairperson and founder of Biocon also shared an embarrassing incident when her foreign trade visitor had a negative experience with Bengaluru’s poor roads and garbage.