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I am committing INR 1 Cr to find Bangalore Choke-Points via Google Maps & AL.
11 km → 2.15 hours in Bangalore Traffic on Saturday late night!
I was stuck at one choke-point at ORR, where I spent 100 mins struggling to understand why there is no traffic-light or cop here!
But I don’t want one more “Bengaluru Traffic Memes or Rant”. I WANT TO FIX IT.
Very recently, in April 2025, Google Maps started sharing "Road Management Insight". It's a city-level data in Big Query format.
Using Google Data and Satellite Imagery, we can list down all the choke-points & their exact timings in a month. For the traffic department to work on those areas specifically.
I am willing to spend INR 1 Crore on this project by funding: 1-2 senior ML/AI engineers. And providing budget for using Google Maps API calls, Satellite Imagery & GPUs
I will start this project, when BTP/BBMP: Open their raw feeds or API access AND names a team, committed to acting on the insights we generate.
🙌 How can you help right now?
1. TAG anyone you know in the Bangalore Traffic Office, BBMP or the Traffic Commissioner’s office, let this hit the right inbox.
2. ML/AI folks: comment "IN", if you can work along part-time to end this menace
3. Every commuter who’s sick of bleeding time: comment or share. More noise -> faster response.
Bengalore is India’s tech future; and people making it happen deserve MUCH better.
#BangaloreTraffic #AIforGood #OpenData #CSR #peakbengaluru
So this psy*ho called to sell something, I told him my phone is DND, you cannot call like this & cut phone
What did he do? He submitted my phone number everywhere as an inquiry (for villa, bathtub, furniture, franchisee, and what not) & now my phone is ringing non-stop
Thank you @narendramodi Sir
Thank you, for using that word TWICE in a tweet about travel 😅
Funny how the entire internet is sobbing over Punch (baby monkey), while eating a mother cow, a mother goat, or a mother whale for dinner.
Stress has become such an easy word to throw around these days, to justify actions, non-actions or laziness
People who barely have any work, chore or responsibility, use it so casually that it's almost laughable.
Just had a HARD realisation
Chasing Money or Glory or Power: is all a losing game to begin with. As it's always comparative in nature, and there will always be someone ahead of you.
Chasing Freedom, Peace or Happiness: is all a winning game, as it CANNOT be compared with others. You can never know if one has more than you or not.
Or maybe meaning of life is ONLY to keep becoming better version of self. As then you are ONLY comparing yourself, a day or even a moment from before, and it COULD be a winning game and is TOTALLY under ones control.
Back in 2019, I stayed in a Kopan Monastery (in Nepal) for 12 days, with 300 monks and without any external connection.
All we did was meditate from 6.30 am till 6 pm (with 10-15 mins break in between).
They taught me 8 different types of meditation there, one of them I can still meditate for hours.
Before leaving the monastery, I got my phone back. I went up to the place and clicked this picture, where I used to meditate mostly.
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As per Upanishads, even God envies Human form.
Gods are bound by perfection. And demons are bound by pleasures.
Only humans get to choose.
Prashant Pitti retweeted
If Delhi is the pollution capital of India, Bangalore is the traffic capital of India.
If you spend 2 hours in traffic daily, over 60 years that's 5 full years stuck in a car. Not moving your body. Breathing polluted air. Losing time, losing health.
Prashant Pitti @ppitti (co-founder of EaseMyTrip) donated ₹1 crore of his personal money to fight against Bangalore traffic.
He’s now working with Google Maps, traffic simulators, AI researchers, and ride-hailing data from Uber, Ola, and Rapido to build long-term, data-driven solutions.
While most of us honk and blame, he’s doing something about it.
India needs more such problem solvers.
I am committing INR 1 Cr to find Bangalore Choke-Points via Google Maps & AL.
11 km → 2.15 hours in Bangalore Traffic on Saturday late night!
I was stuck at one choke-point at ORR, where I spent 100 mins struggling to understand why there is no traffic-light or cop here!
But I don’t want one more “Bengaluru Traffic Memes or Rant”. I WANT TO FIX IT.
Very recently, in April 2025, Google Maps started sharing "Road Management Insight". It's a city-level data in Big Query format.
Using Google Data and Satellite Imagery, we can list down all the choke-points & their exact timings in a month. For the traffic department to work on those areas specifically.
I am willing to spend INR 1 Crore on this project by funding: 1-2 senior ML/AI engineers. And providing budget for using Google Maps API calls, Satellite Imagery & GPUs
I will start this project, when BTP/BBMP: Open their raw feeds or API access AND names a team, committed to acting on the insights we generate.
🙌 How can you help right now?
1. TAG anyone you know in the Bangalore Traffic Office, BBMP or the Traffic Commissioner’s office, let this hit the right inbox.
2. ML/AI folks: comment "IN", if you can work along part-time to end this menace
3. Every commuter who’s sick of bleeding time: comment or share. More noise -> faster response.
Bengalore is India’s tech future; and people making it happen deserve MUCH better.
#BangaloreTraffic #AIforGood #OpenData #CSR #peakbengaluru
🚨 MAJOR UPDATE on Bangalore Traffic Project!
I am confident of improving Bangalore traffic by 25-30% within a year's time
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1. Collaboration at Scale
In just 10 days, after meeting the commissioners of BTP, BBMP, CP, Google team, IISC professors, Scientist, Road Engineers, Traffic Related Entrepreneurs. All three newly appointed commissioners were very kind to invite me to showcase existing capabilities AND collaborate to work together. For the first time we are bringing all key public and private players - to the same table.
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2. Quick Optimization Projects
A) Bangalore Traffic Simulators
Both BTP and IISC have simulation models, which can create millions of re-routing permutations to reduce travel-time (not shortest distance). I have requested the data from Google, Uber, Ola, Rapido, that will make models predict better re-routing. Some of them have confirmed to help. Waiting for others. If the model starts working, we will be able to predict where/when gridlock is going to happen, so we can fix it before it occurs.
B) Fixing Feedback Loop
Govt already has apps, where people can report potholes. I will take ownership of that app, to increase its scope (report illegal parking, broken signal, wrong side driving, water logging, broken vehicle, etc). I will also increase accountability and recognition by showcasing all the complaints lodged AND action-taken (along with time-stamp) publicly.
C) Hyperlocal Rain Predictor
Govt closes the road to do infra/maintenance work, but then it starts raining on that patch of road and work halts. This leads to crazy downtime and traffic congestion. Hyperlocal Rain Predictor project will also allow us to fix drainage issues, even before it happens.
D) Green Wave Signals: Putting traffic lights in sync, so they move vehicles in waves, instead of stopping at every junction. A pilot is already happening, we will analyse the results to see if it makes sense to be done at City level.
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3. The Vision for India
Many people mentioned in my last post "Bangalore Traffic is an Infra problem", congrats on stating the obvious. If we continue to wait for the infra to become better, then we are merely playing a catch-up game with the West. There is so much scope to optimize current infra, and I would rather focus on that. This is no longer about rants or blaming the system. It’s about practical optimism - believing that with data, intent, and collaboration, we can improve what feels unfixable.
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4. Ask from Readers:
A) Continue your support and share/comment. The more you amplify, the more right folks will be able to join us in solving this gridlock. I am in it for the long haul. Are you?
B) Join our WhatsApp Community, where I will regularly post the next-steps. Plus we need more info from each one of you. On which junction/road, you face massive traffic issue. So we can present them to the right authorities. Link to join below in the comment section 👇
#BangaloreTraffic #ForPublicGoodAI #Bangalore
Alot of folks are not able to see WhatsApp Community link
Posting again
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Prashant Pitti retweeted
"Confident of improving Bangalore traffic by 25-30%": EaseMyTrip co-founder Prashant Pitti meets Traffic Police, BBMP Commissioners for Rs 1 Cr project
Read @ANI Story |
aninews.in/news/national/gen…
#PrashantPitti #Bengaluru #Bangalore #TrafficPolice #EaseMyTrip
Please join this Whatsapp community to make Bangalore traffic breathable.
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Major Update after 9 days on what all has happened here
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🚨 MAJOR UPDATE on Bangalore Traffic Project!
I am confident of improving Bangalore traffic by 25-30% within a year's time
---
1. Collaboration at Scale
In just 10 days, after meeting the commissioners of BTP, BBMP, CP, Google team, IISC professors, Scientist, Road Engineers, Traffic Related Entrepreneurs. All three newly appointed commissioners were very kind to invite me to showcase existing capabilities AND collaborate to work together. For the first time we are bringing all key public and private players - to the same table.
---
2. Quick Optimization Projects
A) Bangalore Traffic Simulators
Both BTP and IISC have simulation models, which can create millions of re-routing permutations to reduce travel-time (not shortest distance). I have requested the data from Google, Uber, Ola, Rapido, that will make models predict better re-routing. Some of them have confirmed to help. Waiting for others. If the model starts working, we will be able to predict where/when gridlock is going to happen, so we can fix it before it occurs.
B) Fixing Feedback Loop
Govt already has apps, where people can report potholes. I will take ownership of that app, to increase its scope (report illegal parking, broken signal, wrong side driving, water logging, broken vehicle, etc). I will also increase accountability and recognition by showcasing all the complaints lodged AND action-taken (along with time-stamp) publicly.
C) Hyperlocal Rain Predictor
Govt closes the road to do infra/maintenance work, but then it starts raining on that patch of road and work halts. This leads to crazy downtime and traffic congestion. Hyperlocal Rain Predictor project will also allow us to fix drainage issues, even before it happens.
D) Green Wave Signals: Putting traffic lights in sync, so they move vehicles in waves, instead of stopping at every junction. A pilot is already happening, we will analyse the results to see if it makes sense to be done at City level.
---
3. The Vision for India
Many people mentioned in my last post "Bangalore Traffic is an Infra problem", congrats on stating the obvious. If we continue to wait for the infra to become better, then we are merely playing a catch-up game with the West. There is so much scope to optimize current infra, and I would rather focus on that. This is no longer about rants or blaming the system. It’s about practical optimism - believing that with data, intent, and collaboration, we can improve what feels unfixable.
---
4. Ask from Readers:
A) Continue your support and share/comment. The more you amplify, the more right folks will be able to join us in solving this gridlock. I am in it for the long haul. Are you?
B) Join our WhatsApp Community, where I will regularly post the next-steps. Plus we need more info from each one of you. On which junction/road, you face massive traffic issue. So we can present them to the right authorities. Link to join below in the comment section 👇
#BangaloreTraffic #ForPublicGoodAI #Bangalore
It pays off to be more Curious than Cautious.
99% of potential projects don't go-live, due to a cautious approach, while the downside of starting (and even failing) could have been very little.
Prashant Pitti retweeted
"Committing Rs 1 crore": EaseMyTrip Co-founder's innovative incentive to fight Bengaluru traffic
Read @ANI Story | aninews.in/news/national/gen…
#EasemyTrip #PrashantPitti #Bengalurutraffic
Prashant Pitti retweeted
This is the most disappointing thing you’ll see in a long time.
The Karnataka government is simply not doing its job.
And now, unicorn start-up founders have had to step in—taking it upon themselves to fund and execute what should have been a government responsibility.
If @siddaramaiah and @DKShivakumar have even a shred of shame, they should apologise to the people of Bengaluru and address the issue as an urgent priority.
Remember this: BJP is the natural party of governance. Even on its worst day, the BJP and its allies are a thousand times more competent than the Congress.
Learn from Karnataka. Don’t repeat their mistake. Never vote for the Congress. Ever.
I am committing INR 1 Cr to find Bangalore Choke-Points via Google Maps & AL.
11 km → 2.15 hours in Bangalore Traffic on Saturday late night!
I was stuck at one choke-point at ORR, where I spent 100 mins struggling to understand why there is no traffic-light or cop here!
But I don’t want one more “Bengaluru Traffic Memes or Rant”. I WANT TO FIX IT.
Very recently, in April 2025, Google Maps started sharing "Road Management Insight". It's a city-level data in Big Query format.
Using Google Data and Satellite Imagery, we can list down all the choke-points & their exact timings in a month. For the traffic department to work on those areas specifically.
I am willing to spend INR 1 Crore on this project by funding: 1-2 senior ML/AI engineers. And providing budget for using Google Maps API calls, Satellite Imagery & GPUs
I will start this project, when BTP/BBMP: Open their raw feeds or API access AND names a team, committed to acting on the insights we generate.
🙌 How can you help right now?
1. TAG anyone you know in the Bangalore Traffic Office, BBMP or the Traffic Commissioner’s office, let this hit the right inbox.
2. ML/AI folks: comment "IN", if you can work along part-time to end this menace
3. Every commuter who’s sick of bleeding time: comment or share. More noise -> faster response.
Bengalore is India’s tech future; and people making it happen deserve MUCH better.
#BangaloreTraffic #AIforGood #OpenData #CSR #peakbengaluru
You know the problem is worth solving when EVERY Techie (worth their salt) in Bangalore is messaging you to work pro-bono!
Fill out the form in the comment section to join!
Also still waiting to hear back from BTP and BBMP on my earlier offer 🙆
I am committing INR 1 Cr to find Bangalore Choke-Points via Google Maps & AL.
11 km → 2.15 hours in Bangalore Traffic on Saturday late night!
I was stuck at one choke-point at ORR, where I spent 100 mins struggling to understand why there is no traffic-light or cop here!
But I don’t want one more “Bengaluru Traffic Memes or Rant”. I WANT TO FIX IT.
Very recently, in April 2025, Google Maps started sharing "Road Management Insight". It's a city-level data in Big Query format.
Using Google Data and Satellite Imagery, we can list down all the choke-points & their exact timings in a month. For the traffic department to work on those areas specifically.
I am willing to spend INR 1 Crore on this project by funding: 1-2 senior ML/AI engineers. And providing budget for using Google Maps API calls, Satellite Imagery & GPUs
I will start this project, when BTP/BBMP: Open their raw feeds or API access AND names a team, committed to acting on the insights we generate.
🙌 How can you help right now?
1. TAG anyone you know in the Bangalore Traffic Office, BBMP or the Traffic Commissioner’s office, let this hit the right inbox.
2. ML/AI folks: comment "IN", if you can work along part-time to end this menace
3. Every commuter who’s sick of bleeding time: comment or share. More noise -> faster response.
Bengalore is India’s tech future; and people making it happen deserve MUCH better.
#BangaloreTraffic #AIforGood #OpenData #CSR #peakbengaluru
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