Bengaluru’s infamous traffic woes are once again making headlines, following a Reddit post that detailed a harrowing experience of a man who was stuck for over 1.5 hours while driving an eight-month pregnant wife to a routine checkup. The frustrated user, posting under the handle r/bangalore, shared that it took him 1.5 hours to cover a “miserable” 7 km stretch on HAL Road near Varthur on Friday. He expressed concern over the severe road congestion, saying he was terrified by the thought of “what would happen if his pregnant wife went into labour” during the gridlock?

‘What if this was a real emergency?’

Detailing the ordeal, the user wrote: “The picture says it all. 1.5 hours to cover a miserable 7 km on HAL Road near Varthur this evening. I was taking my 8-month pregnant wife for a rou

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