'What If She Went Into Labour?' Bengaluru Man's Nightmare Traffic Ordeal With Pregnant Wife Goes Viral

A Reddit post detailing a distressing traffic ordeal in Bengaluru has struck a chord with thousands, reigniting conversations about the city’s worsening congestion.The user, identified as @nshl, shared

that he was driving his eight-month pregnant wife for a routine medical checkup when the situation turned nightmarish. What was supposed to be a quick 7 km trip along HAL Road near Varthur stretched into a 1.5-hour ordeal.The post, captioned “1.5 hours, 7 km, and an 8-month pregnant wife. Is Bangalore liveable anymore?”, described the panic and helplessness he felt while being gridlocked. “I kept thinking, what if this was a real emergency? What if she went into labour right now?” he wrote, adding that the suffocating immobility of being “stuck in a car for so long” left him anxious and furious. “You're just sitting duck, trapped in a metal box, watching the clock tick by. I genuinely believe this city is doomed,” he lamented.

1.5 hours, 7 km, and an 8 month pregnant wife. Is Bangalore liveable anymore? byu/nshl inbangalore

The post quickly went viral as fellow Redditors poured in with empathy and similar horror stories from their own commutes. One user advised, “Bro, I think you should temporarily shift to a nearby hospital cause this could have been an emergency.”Another echoed the sentiment, recalling, “Happened with me yesterday. I left the office at 6:00 pm in a cab. Around 6:30, my wife called me and told me she wasn’t feeling well. Sitting helpless in traffic, unable to do anything, each minute felt like a year.”A third user shared an equally frightening experience: “My mum and sis met with an accident, and I had to rush to visit them in the hospital. I was stuck in that U-turn near Bellandur. Longest 45 minutes of my life.”The thread has since become a space for frustrated Bengalureans to vent about the city’s paralysing traffic — and the growing fear that even a short drive could turn into a nightmare.