Sarjapur Road: Strap up for adventure

Sarjapur Road: Strap up for adventure

Sometimes it snaps angrily, sometimes it falters, sometimes it runs straight. That’s Sarjapur Road for you.

Deccan Herald

Sarjapur Road, it seems, cannot make up its mind whether to be a good road or a bad road.

When it sets off from Bangalore, it does so with all good intentions: it keeps to the straight (though narrow) path, all asphalted. It continues to do so for a few kilometres, when its will begins to falter. It seems to ask itself if all the effort was really worth it.

Potholes appear on its face, and it snaps angrily at the passing vehicles.

A longish stretch later, it starts feeling guilty, and a little sheepish, and resolves to turn a new leaf. It mends its ways and covers the potholes. This turns out to be a great strain after some time, and it relapses into its bad ways again.

And unfortunately, the farther it gets from the City, the worse — and longer — the patches get. The gaps in the tar show only a thin layer of tar. Even the stretches in between are unevenly tarred, making for a very bouncy drive, especially in a car.

The road, while not the most major of the highways heading out of the City, is important in its own right. It is a useful link to the many towns on its path, a long way into Tamil Nadu. There are a significant number of residential apartments and layouts coming up. Then there are a few companies (including Wipro, which has several times in the past stated its displeasure at the state of the road) that have their offices along the road.

The other feature of the road are the increasing number of ‘international schools’ on and off it. There is Indus International School, The International School, and another one or two that will soon be coming up around there. The school buses that play daily will hardly be a delightful ride for the kids, forget making a good impression upon the parents, at least a few of who are bound to be from some other country themselves.

All this means that there will be increased pressure on the road.