diff --git a/pkg/controllers/routing/bgp_policies.go b/pkg/controllers/routing/bgp_policies.go
index a900520c..41ff5320 100644
--- a/pkg/controllers/routing/bgp_policies.go
+++ b/pkg/controllers/routing/bgp_policies.go
@@ -19,17 +19,12 @@ func (nrc *NetworkRoutingController) AddPolicies() error {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	cidr, err := utils.GetPodCidrFromNodeSpec(nrc.clientset, nrc.hostnameOverride)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	// creates prefix set to represent the assigned node's pod CIDR
 	podCidrPrefixSet, err := table.NewPrefixSet(config.PrefixSet{
 		PrefixSetName: "podcidrprefixset",
 		PrefixList: []config.Prefix{
 			{
-				IpPrefix: cidr,
+				IpPrefix: nrc.podCidr,
 			},
 		},
 	})
diff --git a/pkg/controllers/routing/network_routes_controller.go b/pkg/controllers/routing/network_routes_controller.go
index 590f4d2f..8a9c2be7 100644
--- a/pkg/controllers/routing/network_routes_controller.go
+++ b/pkg/controllers/routing/network_routes_controller.go
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ type NetworkRoutingController struct {
 	pathPrepend                    bool
 	localAddressList               []string
 	overrideNextHop                bool
+	podCidr                        string
 
 	nodeLister cache.Indexer
 	svcLister  cache.Indexer
@@ -324,10 +325,7 @@ func (nrc *NetworkRoutingController) updateCNIConfig() {
 	cidrlen, _ := cidr.Mask.Size()
 	oldCidr := cidr.IP.String() + "/" + strconv.Itoa(cidrlen)
 
-	currentCidr, err := utils.GetPodCidrFromNodeSpec(nrc.clientset, nrc.hostnameOverride)
-	if err != nil {
-		glog.Fatalf("Failed to get pod CIDR from node spec. kube-router relies on kube-controller-manager to allocate pod CIDR for the node or an annotation `kube-router.io/pod-cidr`. Error: %v", err)
-	}
+	currentCidr := nrc.podCidr
 
 	if len(cidr.IP) == 0 || strings.Compare(oldCidr, currentCidr) != 0 {
 		err = utils.InsertPodCidrInCniSpec(nrc.cniConfFile, currentCidr)
@@ -366,12 +364,8 @@ func (nrc *NetworkRoutingController) advertisePodRoute() error {
 	if nrc.MetricsEnabled {
 		metrics.ControllerBGPadvertisementsSent.Inc()
 	}
-	cidr, err := utils.GetPodCidrFromNodeSpec(nrc.clientset, nrc.hostnameOverride)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
 
-	cidrStr := strings.Split(cidr, "/")
+	cidrStr := strings.Split(nrc.podCidr, "/")
 	subnet := cidrStr[0]
 	cidrLen, _ := strconv.Atoi(cidrStr[1])
 	if nrc.isIpv6 {
@@ -909,6 +903,13 @@ func NewNetworkRoutingController(clientset kubernetes.Interface,
 		}
 	}
 
+	cidr, err := utils.GetPodCidrFromNodeSpec(clientset, nrc.hostnameOverride)
+	if err != nil {
+		glog.Fatalf("Failed to get pod CIDR from node spec. kube-router relies on kube-controller-manager to allocate pod CIDR for the node or an annotation `kube-router.io/pod-cidr`. Error: %v", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to get pod CIDR details from Node.spec: %s", err.Error())
+	}
+	nrc.podCidr = cidr
+
 	nrc.ipSetHandler, err = utils.NewIPSet(nrc.isIpv6)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
diff --git a/pkg/controllers/routing/pbr.go b/pkg/controllers/routing/pbr.go
index d497536f..e528e467 100644
--- a/pkg/controllers/routing/pbr.go
+++ b/pkg/controllers/routing/pbr.go
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router/pkg/utils"
 )
 
 // setup a custom routing table that will be used for policy based routing to ensure traffic originating
@@ -18,18 +17,13 @@ func (nrc *NetworkRoutingController) enablePolicyBasedRouting() error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Failed to update rt_tables file: %s", err)
 	}
 
-	cidr, err := utils.GetPodCidrFromNodeSpec(nrc.clientset, nrc.hostnameOverride)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("Failed to get the pod CIDR allocated for the node: %s", err.Error())
-	}
-
 	out, err := exec.Command("ip", "rule", "list").Output()
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Failed to verify if `ip rule` exists: %s", err.Error())
 	}
 
-	if !strings.Contains(string(out), cidr) {
-		err = exec.Command("ip", "rule", "add", "from", cidr, "lookup", customRouteTableID).Run()
+	if !strings.Contains(string(out), nrc.podCidr) {
+		err = exec.Command("ip", "rule", "add", "from", nrc.podCidr, "lookup", customRouteTableID).Run()
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("Failed to add ip rule due to: %s", err.Error())
 		}
@@ -44,20 +38,14 @@ func (nrc *NetworkRoutingController) disablePolicyBasedRouting() error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Failed to update rt_tables file: %s", err)
 	}
 
-	cidr, err := utils.GetPodCidrFromNodeSpec(nrc.clientset, nrc.hostnameOverride)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("Failed to get the pod CIDR allocated for the node: %s",
-			err.Error())
-	}
-
 	out, err := exec.Command("ip", "rule", "list").Output()
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Failed to verify if `ip rule` exists: %s",
 			err.Error())
 	}
 
-	if strings.Contains(string(out), cidr) {
-		err = exec.Command("ip", "rule", "del", "from", cidr, "table", customRouteTableID).Run()
+	if strings.Contains(string(out), nrc.podCidr) {
+		err = exec.Command("ip", "rule", "del", "from", nrc.podCidr, "table", customRouteTableID).Run()
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("Failed to delete ip rule: %s", err.Error())
 		}