Bengaluru rains: Citizens complain of flooding, traffic jams. 'Will tell my kids I crossed a river to go to work'

Bengaluru started the week with hours of heavy rain and predictions of more rainfall in the coming days. With waterlogged streets and traffic snarls at several locations in the city, Monday morning blues hit citizens hard with many taking to social media to share pictures of their flooded localities, questioning authorities if the situation in the city will ever improve.

"When taxes of Bengaluru that don't vote distributed amongst those who vote as freebies, this will be the result! No single drain was maintained in the last 16 months in #Bengaluru! We are left to God’s mercy!" wrote citizen's group @east_bengaluru on X.

Another user wrote, "Will tell my child that I used to cross a river to go tot work. Who am I kidding though? 25 years later infra will remain the same."

Several social media users shared pictures of flooded Balagere Road that resembled a winding river. "Pic of the day" they called it.

People have also been stuck on the road for hours owing to the waterlogged streets and the traffic jams. X user @parmod1979 said it took him two hours to take his children to school. Another user Sridhar Swaminathan (@sridharSwamina1) has been stuck in a bus for three hours. "Had a very bad day on a bus from Electronic City to Silk Board took three hours. In the bus there are a lot of aged travellers who also finding it very difficult," he wrote.