Bengaluru: Day 2, and miseries turn 20x. The Electronics City-Silk Board-Hosur Road stretch — a lifeline for lakhs of tech commuters and which provides the quickest exit route from Bengaluru towards Tamil Nadu and Kerala — remained paralysed Tuesday as well.Hundreds of people complained their commute time went for a toss, extending by nearly two hours. Add to this the uncertainty of reaching your destination via unexplored routes, and you get why most Bengaluru memes swirl around Silk Board.The Silk Board junction was flooded, forcing commuters to walk in knee-deep water and chart out their own multiple alternative routes.Because of heavy flooding between Roopena Agrahara down-ramp and Silk Board up-ramp, the Electronics City flyover remained shut for hours. The ripple effect of the flooding caused by rain — and made worse by lack of foresight in civic planning — also hit the neighbouring BTM Layout. Many techies, alerted via social media, took other routes from Electronics City to Silk Board, losing hours in detour and going around in circles.Prakash G, travelling from Silk Board to Singasandra, conceded that police were indeed guiding commuters. “Yet, my bike and I were submerged in floodwaters near Silk Board. Potholes were many and I got stuck,” he said.Pranay Dubey, president of Electronics City Rising, said, “This is nothing new. The flyover floods every time, leading to multiple accidents. The civic body does nothing more than pocketing toll and ignoring citizens’ concerns. Today, I avoided the flyover and took a different route through Sarjapur Road to reach my office at RMZ Ecoworld. I took two hours today, as opposed to the usual one hour. Village roads are dangerous, with nearly foot-deep potholes.Outside Electronics City Industrial Township Authority limits, there are no proper drains.”Jasmine Ruben, principal of a private college, said she patiently waited for the flyover to reopen — as it usually becomes operational within 15 minutes of closure — and was informed about the Silk Board mess. “I had to take the pothole-ridden Begur route to reach Koramangala. Every time the flyover closes, people think that only IT people work here, but there are a lot of people like us who can’t work from home,” she said.