Bengaluru: In a decisive move to tackle Bengaluru’s crippling traffic and pothole crisis, Additional Chief Secretary (Urban Development) Tushar Giri Nath has directed officials to implement a series of infrastructure upgrades along the 35-km Outer Ring Road (ORR) stretch from Silk Board to Hebbal Junction.
During a joint inspection with top officials from BMRCL, BWSSB, BESCOM, Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) and city police, the ACS listed out immediate measures to improve traffic flow and reduce congestion.
Key directives included:
- 20 new entry/exit ramps on ORR to connect service roads and main carriageway, expected to cut congestion by 30–40%.
- Mandatory signboards at all dug-up roads showing the responsible department. BMRCL, BWSSB, BESCOM must restore roads post-work, or face accountability.
- Silk Board Junction – Comprehensive redesign, stormwater drain desilting to prevent waterlogging.
- Iblur Junction – Skywalk for pedestrian safety, anti-waterlogging works, and feasibility study for a “magic box” underpass.
- Agara Lake stretch – White-topping to be expedited; temporary fixes to be done immediately.
- Ecospace area – Flooding mitigation as a priority; drains to be reinforced.
- Panathur Road – Road widening works to be accelerated.
- Hebbal area – Service road development to ease bottlenecks.
Direct monitoring:
Chief Commissioner Maheshwar Rao personally photographed potholes on Langford Road and sent them to engineers for urgent repair. At Agara flyover, a damaged drainage pipe was flagged for immediate replacement, and eco-fix materials were ordered for milling potholes.
Officials present included Chief Commissioner Maheshwar Rao, City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh, BMRCL MD Ravishankar, civic commissioners K.N. Ramesh, Ramesh D.S., Pomala Sunil Kumar, Additional Commissioners Lokhande Snehal Sudhakar, Naveen Kumar Raju, and Traffic Joint Commissioner Karthik Reddy.
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