Police Commissioner N. Shashi Kumar has issued an order banning traffic movement on certain roads in Mangalore to facilitate taking up storm-water drain bridge and underground drainage projects.
The traffic ban is ordered on KS Rao Road, PM Rao Road and Sharavu Mahaganapathi Temple Road in the city with immediate effect.

The ban on K.S. Rao Road is effective for 60 days till June 10, while the ban on P.M. Rao Road and Sharavu Mahaganapathi Temple Road will be in force for 30 days till May 11.
Traffic on these roads have been diverted and accordingly, traffic from Navbharat Circle to State Bank of India and Hampankatta will have to pass via Dongarakeri Venkataramana Road, New Chitra Talkies Junction and Car Street. Traffic from M.G. Road to State Bank of India will have to run via PVS Circle, Bunts Hostel and Ambedkar Circle. Parking of vehicles on both sides of Dongarakeri Road up to the New Chitra Talkies Junction, on V.T. Road, between Srinivas Hotel Junction and Om Mahal Junction, has been banned.