Overview

• A JP Nagar commuter who says he works at Oracle wrote that his 14 km trip to Outer Ring Road takes about 90 minutes each way, totaling roughly 720 hours a year in lost time.
• He reported earning ₹28 lakh annually, paying about ₹6.5 lakh in income tax and ₹1.4 lakh in GST, and argued that time lost in congestion amounts to a second levy on workers.
• Responses on r/Bengaluru echoed the complaint, including claims that engineers would be 20% more efficient in cleaner, less congested cities and a description of the city as an “orphaned child.”
• Hindustan Times, News18 and Financial Express amplified the post with clear notices that the claims originated on social media and were not independently verified.
• The conversation fed into ongoing infrastructure politics as the BJP criticized the state government’s record, while Deputy CM D. K. Shivakumar said thousands of potholes had been filled with more work underway.