Motorists have been experiencing a harrowing time for the last few days on Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Ltd. (NICE) Road as the stretch has been reporting traffic snarls owing to ongoing roadworks.
A 200-metre stretch of NICE Road, where ongoing work is creating a nearly 2-km-long traffic jam, is resulting in motorists questioning why they have to pay toll and get stuck in traffic. “The main purpose of using NICE Road is to avoid traffic in the city. But the road has huge traffic snarls now, ending up consuming a lot more time than the city traffic. For the last one week, I have been travelling to Electronics City from Nagasandra witnessing a traffic jam every day on NICE Road,” said Rakesh Kashyap, a motorist.
Currently, the NICE is taking up road work near Mallasandra on the NICE Road stretch which sees bumper-to-bumper traffic. The NICE has put up a board diverting vehicles to the narrow stretch which is a one-lane road. Motorists complain that the one-lane road divided for both sides is not enough for the moving traffic. “The diverted one-lane road makes traffic worse as most of the vehicles taking NICE Road are huge trucks which take up almost the entire lane and all other four-wheelers and smaller vehicles behind the trucks, leading to a traffic jam for more than 2 km on both sides of the road,” said another motorist Roshan Cherian, a resident of Bellandur.
