When we think about Bengaluru, we think about jam-packed traffic, parking and congestion issues, and of course, good weather. So, when an X (formerly Twitter) user shared a picture showing wide roads and footpaths in the city, people were left wondering which part of Bengaluru is it! If you haven’t guessed the place either, then scroll on to know the answer!
X User Shows How Bengaluru Roads Looked Like In The 1960s
This is BENGALURU city from 1960s which had well built roads & footpaths with disciplined pedestrians & traffic
We lost Civic Sense now unfortunately 😔
Can you identify the area? #Bangalore pic.twitter.com/oPpT5NEeFN
— Karnataka Weather (@Bnglrweatherman) November 28, 2024
X user Karnataka Weather recently shared a nostalgic picture of Bengaluru from the 1960s. The grainy, black-and-white picture shows spacious roads, significantly wider footpaths, fewer cars and buses on the road, and even people freely cycling around. This is an absolute contrast from what the city’s roads look like right now.
In the caption, he added that back in the day, the city had “well built roads & footpaths with disciplined pedestrians & traffic. We lost Civic Sense now, unfortunately.” He then went on to ask people if they could identify the place in the picture. Well, if you can see Vidhana Soudha in the picture, then you can guess that this is the Coffee Board area of Bengaluru. Of course, with what was less traffic as compared to the neighbourhood we see today!
Netizens Try To Identify The Location In The Post
This post by Karnataka Weather has garnered more than 97,000 views already. Hundreds of netizens in the comments tried to guess and identify the place in Bengaluru. While some of them were right, others were way off the mark! Many people also commented and talked about the stark contrast between how the city looked back then versus how it looks today. Scroll on to see some of these comments.
Majestic?
— Shilpa (@shilpa_cn) November 28, 2024
Queens road coffee board junction!!
— Raghavendra Rao (@rajabhi123) November 28, 2024
Coffee board?
— Gautam (@gautam9) November 28, 2024
I can see Vidhan Soudha on the top left corner.
— Sridhar 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 (@sri_63) November 28, 2024
Near vidhan saudha
— n sreedhar (@nsreedhar1) November 29, 2024
Vidahana soudha,
— Krishna chandra (@Chandrashe38012) November 28, 2024
Bit confused. Looks like LIC building opp unity building but can see Vidhana Soudha. Or is this K R circle.
— What’s in the name (@adjust_not) November 28, 2024
Town Hall circle
— girish siddiah (@girishsiddiah) November 29, 2024
Vidhan Soudha area
— Sushmita Chakraborty(MODI KA PARIVAR) (@Sushian212) November 29, 2024
Cubbon Circle
— Veteran_S (@SKS5706) November 28, 2024
coffe board building
— thrishul_a (@thrishul) November 28, 2024
I thought for a moment that this spot was near the Atria but it turns out to be the Coffee Board junction.
Oddly there are more trees in the area now than there were then.
— Fardeen Ahmed (@Deeniac96) November 28, 2024
What a quaint town it was in the early 70’s
— JATINDER SINGH (@jatinsingh100) November 28, 2024
Even Mumbai was like this so was a city in US or UK…..Population explosion ruined every city across the world..
— Tweetterati💛🧡 (@vigytweets) November 28, 2024
How did we go from this to current cluster mess of public infra? They just had to replicate what was there not shit all over it.
— Shashank Tripathi (@ShashankDuttTr1) November 28, 2024
Traffic can be improved by 60% if BTP focuses on enforcement for traffic discipline and the BBMP on parking spaces & footpath encroachments
The failure of both in these matters are main cause of congestion and accidents
— Rebel (@RebelloAnil) November 28, 2024
Every city is like that. We had planned our cities for population of those times but didn’t scale it up and stuck with the same. Even today the suburbs are so shabbily built and only the core of the city has got planning of play grounds and parks among other things.
— Prakash R (@prakashradiare) November 28, 2024
Bengaluruians never lost discipline… it’s the influx of migrants who have spoiled Bengaluru with zero discipline and spitting paan every where
— Arjun Narayan (@rjunan) November 28, 2024
Look at all those cyclists and buses! And the unencroached, continuous footpaths. For Bengaluru to be an urban heaven again, we need to go back to this ratio of cyclists : buses : cars. The more the private vehicles on the road, the more inhospitable this beautiful city will be.
— Pranav Balakrishnan (@PranavBalakrish) November 28, 2024
Things were fine in early 2000. Single Baskin Robbins at Sankey road. Whitefield jungle. BTM walkable. BG road had one Mantri. Nice small Udupis everywhere. Offices in MG road. 2 Multiplex.
It started going bad since 2005 with ORR, Sarjapuara, Diamond district, Bagmanes.— Manu’s Descendant (@OwnTheMaya) November 28, 2024
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Cover Image Courtesy: X/@Bnglrweatherman
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