“Bengaluru’s traffic has been stolen”: Actor Ashish Vidyarthi jokes as roads turn empty during festive break

In a rare sight for Bengaluru, actor Ashish Vidyarthi captured the city’s empty streets on video, joking that its infamous traffic had “vanished” as residents left town for the festive season.

Bengaluru, the city that never moves without a traffic jam, has suddenly started moving,  smoothly. During the ongoing festive break, the city’s notoriously congested roads have turned astonishingly empty, leaving even actor Ashish Vidyarthi in disbelief.

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In a lighthearted video shared on his Instagram, Vidyarthi quipped that “Bengaluru’s traffic has been stolen”, as he cruised from Indiranagar to the airport in just 25 minutes, a journey that usually takes over an hour. The actor humorously urged authorities to “look into the matter,” adding, “There is no traffic on the streets of Bengaluru. It wasn’t there yesterday, and it isn’t there today either!”

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The actor, who was on his way to Kochi for a stand-up performance, couldn’t hide his surprise at the smooth commute. “Please don’t go back to the old times when Bengaluru had no traffic. The world is moving forward,” he joked, adding a touch of sarcasm that resonated with thousands of daily commuters used to bumper-to-bumper chaos.

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Residents across the city echoed Vidyarthi’s observation, noting that major stretches like MG Road, Indiranagar, Koramangala, and Outer Ring Road were unusually peaceful. With many families having left the city for holidays, Bengaluru momentarily transformed into what locals described as a “pre-IT-era Bengaluru”, calm, breathable, and blissfully quiet.