Bangalore traffic is THAT bad

I am a local and I’ve always defended Bangalore infrastructure whenever someone lashed out at it. I thought while it had its flaws, people were probably exaggerating how bad it truly was. Today I found that isn’t the case. I had a movie at phoenix market city at 7:45, left my house at 6:15. For reference, my house is 3.5km away from phoenix market city. We did not reach the mall even by 9:45, which was when the movie ended and chose to turn back home and leave. And as if the traffic wasn’t enough - there was absolutely no traffic police to be soon. Some construction further obstructing an already jam packed road. People with 0 clue about lane discipline merging in and out as they pleased, which only further exacerbated the traffic. When we finally reached the opposite side of the mall, there were droves of people OUTSIDE the mall. There were so many people that were crowds outside the walls. Burned so much diesel and definitely lost a peace for my sanity. Who do we hold accountable for such pathetic infrastructure? MLAs don’t give 2 shits, and the BBMP? yeah… I’m sorry for the rant but this was nothing less than a harrowing experience. Warning to anybody planning to leave their houses in the area tonight, don’t. It only added salt to the wounds when my friend, who left at the same time as me, drove from 238 miles Dallas to Cyprus before I could reach phoenix mall (3.5km). So done with this bs.