Waiting for a reboot: Bengaluru's transport woes and the path to solutions

The third of a six-part series looks at Bengaluru's transport challenges and the way forward to resolve some of them

Suvendu, a technical director at an American semiconductor company, drives his car to work from his home in an eastern suburb of Bengaluru. 

“I stay in Varthur where the frequency of buses is quite poor. Moreover, if I have to take a bus from my home to my office on Outer Ring Road, I will have to change twice. Also, most of the buses which ply on this route are non-AC, and they get extremely crowded during office hours,” says the senior executive. 

Balaram, who works as a cook in Marathahalli, another neighbourhood in eastern Bengaluru, has been here since