Airport Road, Bangalore

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Airport Road is a major road in Bangalore. Recently it has been more in the news due to its frequent traffic jams. This road is a prominent part of the so called "Infrastructure problem" of Bangalore city. It begins from the point where Trinity Church Road and Victoria Road meet and goes right up to the Bangalore HAL airport. Beyond that, the road officially becomes Vartur Road, but ever since the real estate boom started around 2003, builders have started calling the stretch between the Airport and the Marthahalli Outer Ring Road as Airport Road.

[edit] Landmarks

Some prominent landmarks on Airport Road are: Command Hospital Air Force, the five star Leela Palace Hotel, Diamond District Apartments, Nilgiris supermarket, Manipal Hospital, etc. It also has Kemp Fort, one of the earliest malls in the city, which also houses a temple with a huge statue of the Hindu god Shiva, complete with a cave-like "yatra" at the rear.

[edit] Other roads and localities

Some of the major roads that branch out of the road are the 100 Feet Road, Inner Ring Road, HAL Wind Tunnel Road and Suranjandas Road. The areas it runs through are Agaram, Domlur, Kodihalli, Murgeshpalya, Konena Agrahara and Vimanapura etc.