bengaluru as of now you may find it tough to walk on avenue road or russell market road however the bengaluru traffic police btp is now busy planning to ask the bengaluru metropolitan transport corporation bmtc to operate buses on these busy roadswe want to decongest the town hall junction and for this we plan to use the avenue road in fact the b uses plied earlier on avenue road now we plan to bring back the buses on these busy streets once the smart city works are completed said special commissioner traffic ma saleeminterestingly avenue road is one of the oldest roads in the cityavenue road is the shortest route from kr market to old mysore bank circle however as the road is congested the buses travel via town hall the town hall junction is a major junction that connects kr market road with jc road so the police want to divert the buses during the peak hour via avenue road so that the town hall junction could see lesser traffic of heavy vehicles informed a police officialhowever it will be a herculean and challenging task for the police to operate buses given the condition of the current road the police officers are hopeful that once the buses are introduced it will also put an end to the haphazard parking problem on the road they also need to ensure that the pavements are free from hawkers and footpaths for walkers t he authorities may have to install iron grills alongside the pavements and ensure the narrow 40feet road is not used for parkingduring his earlier stint as additional commissioner of police ma saleem had announced that traffic police were facilitating bus movement on the narrow avenue road in bengalurus business district so that the journey time between city market and mysore bank circle would be reduced drasticallyhowever it could not materialise because of resistance from traders and unwilling bmtc bus drivers police say that allowing buses on the avenue road will reduce the distance to less than two kilometres besides cutting down travel time by more than half it will also increase fuel efficiencyinitially the plan would be to operate during peak hours as a large number of people from south bengaluru areas such as chamarajpet bull temple road and basavanagudi work in the vidhana soudha and other government offices located in the areaas reported by bangalore mirror earlier avenue road is a onemile stretch from mysore bank circle to sirsi flyover at kr market the area was originally known as doddapette where the british army led by lord cornwallis camped while fighting against tipu sultan the british were marching towards mysuru and bengaluru and doddapette was a strategic location to take on tipuit is documented that the area along with adjoining areas of chickpet and sultanpet emerged as the citys trading hub it is also said that during partition hundreds of thousands of refugees from pakistan came to the area and made it their home later many other