Peak hour traffic in HSR looks like this!

This is the traffic you can encounter at the 5th Main-Mangammanapalya Main Road junction at 7pm. Strangely, this junction is manned by the cops from Electronic City. “We have to come 10 kilometres away from our station to manage the traffic here,” complained one cop.

 

When we checked with HSR traffic police on that day, we were informed that they were sent 10 kilometres away to Freedom Park for some traffic bandobast. Clearly, the jurisdiction of cops can be anywhere but where they should be. No wonder, you hardly find a few cops in HSR Layout. Will the higher ups ensure that the cops given to one station are used optimally for the area they are to manage? No wonder, there is so much chaos in HSR Layout when the cops are doing duty elsewhere.

 

And when residents do see them on the streets, they are busy collecting fines when they should be removing footpath encroachments, fixing broken dividers and streamlining traffic movement at busy junctions.