If you stay around Kanakpura Road , you know what a ordeal it is to traverse this road during peak hours. With the Metro construction in full swing, all we are left with is a narrow lane on either side for cars. Buses, jatka vehicles (horse carriages), cement mixtures, autos and lorries. On any normal day, it can take up to 30-45 min to reach the family mart junction from Konanakunte cross.

If this weren’t enough, we noticed that a huge pandal with loud speakers, lighting arrangement and seating arrangement was done right below the flyover. I believe this is some local temple celebration because we saw huge cutouts of goddesses adorned with colour lights on one part of the road.

Pandal right below the flyover. Pic: Vani Balaraman

What’s astonishing is not that they were causing a traffic jam but their idea of setting up a pandal right below the flyover that is still under construction. Most of the work is done around some part of the road, allowing a vast space for lorries to be parked and pandals to be setup. But still I am amazed that someone came up with that brilliant idea to make a seating arrangement below the flyover. On the way back home, I noticed a huge crowd had gathered engrossed in the live music the band was playing.

Does it take too much thinking to realize that a flyover under construction means easy accidents with equipments falling down?⊕