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Hosur Road

Electronics City

After Whitefield,cops have now turned their eyes on to another tech corridor: Hosur Road. Despite constructing the city's longestto Electronics City, the traffic mess beneath the flyover continues. With many vehicles still preferring to use the free road below, techies and others are caught in traffic jams every day. Hence, the travel time from Central Silk Board tois going from bad to worse.The traffic police who have studied the traffic pattern have finally found a solution: Ban bi-directional traffic on the service road. DCP (Traffic-East) MN Baburajendra Prasad told Mirror, “It is literally a mess and the only solution is to ban bi-directional traffic. We are introducing this one-way rule very soon.” Another police official told Mirror, “We have studied the whole area and the immediate action is to ban bi-directional traffic. The uni-directional rule will be applicable from Central Silk Board to Kudlu gate.”Hosur Road records high traffic density as it is a common road for both the golden quadrilateral as well as the north-south corridor road. This is the main connecting road to south India from North and West India along with the gateway to Electronics City that houses hundreds of tech companies. It may be recalled that following several protests by techies, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) constructed the four-lane elevated highway and extended the existing Hosur Road (the road beneath the flyover) to a six-lane road along with the two-lane service roads on either side.It was then proposed to make the service road bi-directional. An NHAI officer had said the whole purpose of the service road was to help local traffic. As it was already a six-lane road which would be used by long distance travellers, a one-way service road would have created problems for the local public.Hence, it was made bi-directional. However, things have changed since then. The heavy traffic on the service road is now actually creating more jams than usual. With motorists coming from all directions, it is literally chock-a-block.The police said the only option left to them was to make it a single direction road so that traffic could be regulated and motorists would be asked to take the other side of the service road at traffic signals.Many techies complain about the service road mess. Minu M, a frequent user of the road, said, “American road rules imposed by the Bommanahalli traffic police were creating traffic issues at Bommanahalli service road (near Prashanti hospital). The rule is that while entering the service road (towards Hosur), people have to go through the right side of the service road, then after a certain distance, they have to change to the left side to move on.“Due to this lane change, vehicles are stuck up here. I got stuck for around 40 minutes on this service road only due to this strange rule. In the main road around six times, the traffic signal changed, but I continued to get stuck in the same position on the service road. ”I am not sure whether the police are aware of the issue because the blockade happens around 50-100 metres away from the junction. Something should be done about this.”Another road-user B Reddy said the one-way rule on the service road should be implemented.“It is common to see school buses violating rules. They should be dealt with strictly.”