Absolutely. When less than 2 or 3 percent is left as reserve or sanctuary and Protected Area for all the larger wild animals in the entire subcontinent, we must do everything we can to preserve these parks with zero human disturbance. Other Protected Areas like Corbett are also considering imposing a ban on night traffic. People should google for forest cover in India, and see for themselves how fragmented and pathetic are the shreds of forest left in this country now! Some percentage of what is shown is plantation and social forestry blocks too. Original forests for wildlife is practically gone! We wont have water to drink if this is degraded further.
The Highway between Mysore and Ooty should not be cutting through the precious reserve Bandipura in the first place.

As usual the painful steps forward by local people, made with hard labour, hope and trust, are denied any validity by government taking a huge leap backwards, through its thoughtless and insensitive actions.
Everyone knows that "ecofriendly" wind farms are made in these areas to ripoff the poor and to benefit corporations who are not interested in developing our nation but have only a beady eye at their bottom line.
Shame on them.Let us do what we can to stop this.

This is outrageous...these poor mute animals are always at the receiving end of all the political melly! I really hope the ban is not lifted..we should start a movement against this.

Most of the people are telling to ban the traffic in Bandipur tiger reserve why not the other places in india why only Bandipur. if its banned every where then no transportation will take place between most of the states at night. they highway can put humps in those highways to reduce acccidents for example from bandipur after border on the way to gudalur there are many humps so accidents are very less to.Do any one know how people are suffering because of this ban people in mudumalai, masinagudi,gudalur and waynad are suffering a lot because of this ban, if there is an emergency they have go to ooty or mysore where mysore is very easy to approach. in times of death a person from any place in Karnataka can go to funeral also. such situation has happened.so i hope gov has to come up with some solution rather putting a ban.