As Bengaluru’s visitors disaster continues to dominate headlines and social media feeds, a sharply worded put up from a widely known voice within the tech and enterprise neighborhood has added gas to the talk.
Muralikrishnan B, Analysis Scholar at ISB and former President of Xiaomi India, took to X (previously Twitter) to vent his frustration over town’s notorious Outer Ring Highway bottlenecks, coining it with the now-popular time period “ORRmageddon.”
“ORRmageddon, 6kms – 1 hour, And FWIW I can run a 10K in 45 minutes,” he wrote within the put up.
The put up is a blistering reflection of simply how dysfunctional visitors has turn into on Bengaluru’s Outer Ring Highway (ORR), notably the stretch connecting tech hubs like Marathahalli, Bellandur, and Sarjapur. His comparability, with the ability to run a 10K quicker than drive 6 km on ORR, has struck a chord with pissed off commuters and has since been broadly shared.
“ORRmageddon” has emerged as a biting nickname for the each day chaos on ORR, mixing “ORR” with “Armageddon” to explain the apocalyptic-scale gridlocks the realm sees throughout peak hours, rain, and even minor disruptions. The time period encapsulates the collective anger of 1000’s of IT professionals and residents who routinely spend hours caught in visitors for brief distances.
The put up provides to a rising refrain of voices urging metropolis authorities to take significant steps to deal with town’s infrastructure failings. With tech parks lining the stretch and lakhs of staff counting on this arterial route, the present state of ORR has turn into an emblem of the widening hole between Bengaluru’s speedy development and its crumbling infrastructure.
Whereas civic our bodies proceed to roll out patchwork options, from flyovers to signal-free corridors, residents are demanding long-term fixes that tackle congestion at its core.
