Bengaluru, Aug. 20 -- A video circulating on social media has once again spotlighted Bengaluru's crumbling infrastructure - this time showing an ambulance caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic on a flooded, pothole-ridden stretch of road in the city's so-called IT corridor. The siren, wailing helplessly amid the chaos, has become a metaphor for the city's civic paralysis.

"Is the ambulance siren signaling that the system itself is in the ICU? Roads in the #BrandBengaluru IT corridor are beyond "deplorable." One side is under BJP MLA, the other under Congress MLA. So, we get divided roads and divided development!" a user posted on X, tagging Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar.

The footage - taken at Muthanallur Cross on...