The road between Varthur lake all the way to Marthahalli has around 10 speed breakers in and around them. They are in the worst condition possible, and most of them are put in places not even necessary. There is one speed breaker in Tubrahalli bus stop which has been placed after a junction! Why do we need to slow down after passing a junction???
Just 10 meters before this speed breaker, there is another shabby mountain on the road. As I live not very far from this, I have seen at least 10 accidents cause due to the pathetic condition of the road here over 6 months
What sense does that make? Who decides where a speed breaker should be put. 90% of them are useless, and cause damage to the cars, bikes, people and cause unnecessary pollution. Recently there was an article that said Whitefield is the most polluted part of Bangalore (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com-02-23/bangalore/31090885_1_whitefield-rspm-air-pollution-levels). We'll obviously, its because there are over 20, 000 speed breakers here, and 90% are illegally constructed!!!
Then there is a stretch which connects Old Airport road (Near CV Ramanagar) to Jeevanbhimanagar. Oh! What can I say about this road, there are grand canyon type of craters on this stretch, the size that can eat an entire car!
Jeevan-bhimanagar has another 10 speed humps within 400 meters. See people, we have only 2 lanes to drive on, out of which the left most section is used for garbage, parked motorcyclists and stray people, so we're left with Busses, Bikes, Cars, Trucks, Taxi's and cycles to travel in one lane. Now after all this, if all of them have to keep breaking every 30 seconds to cross one of these speed mountains! its going to take a lot of fuel and time to cover a ridiculously short distance. This not only causes financial losses via damages to the vehicle, but also aggravates any tax paying citizen to wonder, whether we are paying 19% road tax for Motor Vehicles in Karnataka (Highest in the country), only so that the BBMP can waste all that money in piling up Tar to inconvenience and sometimes "Kill! " the local law abiding citizens of Bangalore.
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