Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) has put forward one of its most sweeping infrastructure proposals in years: 35 new flyovers, 25 underpasses and 101 skywalks, submitted to the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) as part of a citywide congestion audit covering every traffic police zone. The plan also calls for making 25 major junctions signal-free through new underpasses. It's the kind of proposal that, if it moves forward even partially, would reshape commute times across several of the city's busiest residential corridors, so it's worth separating what's actually confirmed from what remains contested.
1. Where the Plan Points First: East Bengaluru
The proposal explicitly names Mahadevapura and Whitefield as the city's worst-congested zones, prioritizing that stretch of the IT corridor for the bulk of the new infrastructure. That's a notable, if not surprising, acknowledgment from the city's own traffic authority that the ORR-Whitefield-Marathahalli belt, long one of Bengaluru's densest employment and residential clusters, has effectively outgrown its existing road network. For anyone evaluating a home in that corridor, the proposal itself is a useful signal of where the city recognizes the problem is worst, even before any single flyover or underpass actually breaks ground.
2. The Plan Isn't Moving Forward Unopposed
This isn't a quiet, uncontroversial rollout. The proposal has already drawn public pushback, including a formal objection from a sitting Bengaluru Member of Parliament, addressed in a letter dated September 11, 2026 to Karnataka's Minister for Development of Bengaluru. We don't have visibility into the specific grounds of that objection from the coverage available, but the dispute itself is a reminder that a traffic-police proposal to the GBA is a starting point for negotiation, not an approved, funded, shovel-ready works program. Bengaluru's infrastructure history backs up that caution: large flyover and underpass projects in the city have repeatedly run into delays from land acquisition, utility relocation, contractor issues and, at times, simply a change in the administration overseeing them.
3. What's Actually Under Construction Right Now
Separately from this broader 35/25/101 proposal, there is concrete, narrower work already in progress. The GBA has said it aims to complete works on 10 flyovers and underpasses across Bengaluru within 2026, a more modest but more immediately actionable commitment. One specific, named project, the 2.38 km Ejipura-Kendriya Sadan flyover, was reported with an expected completion date of October 2026, with the large majority of its structural segments already cast at the time of reporting and roughly 15 spans remaining. That's the kind of granular, project-specific progress worth tracking directly if a commute along that stretch matters to a home you're considering, rather than relying on the headline citywide numbers alone.
The Bottom Line
Bengaluru Traffic Police's proposal for 35 flyovers, 25 underpasses and 101 skywalks is a genuine, consequential plan, and its focus on Mahadevapura and Whitefield reflects where congestion is most acute today. But it's a proposal under active political discussion, not a confirmed program with a delivery date, and buyers should weight it accordingly: useful as a signal of where the city is focused, not as a reason to assume any specific junction near a prospective home will be decongested on a particular timeline. The narrower, already-funded projects like the Ejipura-Kendriya Sadan flyover are a better gauge of what's actually arriving soon. Talk to our team if you'd like help weighing connectivity and commute times for a specific Bengaluru corridor.
