Crawl, stop, repeat: The rough road to school in Bengaluru

Vehicles, including school buses, stuck in traffic on SH-35 in Varthur, East Bengaluru. It was not the first time that Kashvee, a grade 8 student of a school located on State Highway 35 near Dommasandra Circle, had consoled a nine-year-old boy sitting next to her on the school bus. “He didn’t tell us that he wanted to use the restroom, but kept crying.

Children in some parts of the city struggle with long and ardous commute to schools. Meanwhile, residents suffer as roads around the schools are choked during peak hours.

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