Outer Ring Road (Bangalore)

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Outer ring road is a road that runs around most of the perimeter of Bangalore, India. This 62 km long road was developed by the Bangalore Development Authority and different sections were opened progressively between 1994 and 2002.

This road connects all major highways around the city - Tumkur Road (NH-4), Bellary Road (NH-7), Old Madras Road, Hosur Road (NH-4A), Bannerghatta Road, Kanakapura Road, Mysore Road (SH-17) and Magadi Road. It passes through major suburbs such as Hebbal, Banaswadi, Krishnarajapuram, Marathahalli, Madiwala, BTM Layout, JP Nagar, Banashankari, Kengeri, Nagarabhavi, Nandagudi, Anekal, Whitefield, Nandini Layout, and Gokula.

Initially conceived to keep the truck traffic out of downtown Bangalore, the city has outgrown the Outer Ring Road. Nandi Infrastructure Corporation Limited has almost completed another partial ring road around Bangalore as a part of the Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project (BMIC). The BDA and BMRDA have planned three more ring roads beyond the existing ring road.The first of these, the Peripheral ring road will run a few kilometers beyond the BMIC-PRR. The second and third of these will be known as the Intermediate ring road and the satellite towns ring road respectively. [1].