Toll booths halt traffic on BIA road

Bangalore: Travelling to the Bangalore International Airport (BIA) was always a tedious task for commuters. But BMTC’s Vayu Vajra’s service had sorted out traffic congestion to a large extent. However, with the toll collection beginning in full swing, the increased traffic woes have left Bangalorean’s with no space to breathe.
Not only have the pollution levels enroute to the BIA doubled, with the traffic inflow increasing, problems of traffic is only worsening. Moreover, with taxi and cab owners hiking up their fares from the city to the BIA, owing to payment of the toll, people are now preferring to travel either by private vehicles or by the satellite bus service. However, a closer look at the everyday traffic in the area reveals that almost 75 per cent of the commuters are travelling up to Yelahanka in their private cars and then taking a BMTC bus.
“This is not only increasing traffic congestion from the city to the BIA, but is disrupting normal traffic inflow in the area for regular commuters. In peak hours, there are hundreds of vehicles moving towards BIA but surprisingly more than half of these vehicles don’t even close in towards the airport. We figured out that private cars are causing main problems,” said Gurunath, a constable stationed near Hebbal junction.
When Express spoke to a few such private vehicle owners, they claimed that instead of paying almost Rs 1,000 to get from the heart of the city towards the airport, they preferred to take their private vehicles.
21/02/12 New Indian Express/IBN Live

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