Trucking unicorn to ditch B'luru's tech corridor over crumbling roads

“ORR (Bellandur) has been our ‘office + home’ for the last 9 years, but it’s now very, very hard to continue here, so we have decided to move out,” Yabaji posted on X.

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His statement highlights familiar concerns about Bengaluru’s infrastructure: Roads full of potholes, persistent traffic congestion, insufficient public transport options, and a slow pace of metro railway development, all contributing to challenging daily commutes.

For over a decade, the ORR has been the subject of ridicule among those familiar with the city’scrumbling infrastructure. Theroad flanks gleamingstate-of-the-art business parks housing global giants such as JP ‘Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, Microsoft, Google, and IBM. Yet beyond the corporate complexes, the reality of poor road conditions and trafficcon-gestion remains a pressing issue.

Yabaji underlined the difficulties faced by employees, noting: “The average commute formy colleagueshasshot upto 1.5+ hours (one way), the roads are full of potholes and dust with the lowest intent to get themrectified, andwedon’tsee any of this changingin the next 5years.”

Sources indicated that BlackBuck, currently valued at around 211,000 crore, does not intend to leave Bengaluru entirely but plans to shift its office to a different location within the city.