With the Bengaluru Metro, Namma Metro, starting services from today 20th October,it will be a great relief to the people of the city. After the IT grand spread in this city and lakhs of IT professionals coming and adding to the population every year, the traffic was almost jammed completely in the morning and evening hours. Even to travel about 20-25 kms, one hour was not sufficient. Some of the big IT companies had shifted to the outskirts of the city to avoid traffic jam.
Whenever I went to Bengaluru, I experienced the same difficulties. Going to the Airport it takes more than one and half hours, which could be covered earlier by about 50 minutes. M.G.Road is almost blocked in the busy hours. Boards were erected on the roadsides advising the drivers to go through side roads to avoid traffic.
At present the metro is only for about 7 kms. but it may be extended shortly. I feel that once metro is fully operative, there will be some relief for the jammed traffic in Bangaluru.