Bangalore Metro: Information, Route & Maps Project Updates
AN OVERVIEW
Bengaluru Metro is also known as Namma Metro is a type of Mass Rapid Transit system. It is India’s fourth-longest operational metro network. This Metro project consists of two colour code lines including 40 stations with a distance of 42.42 km.
Average of daily ridership is around 400,000 passengers.
The Phase-II is expected to complete by 2023 and operation between Electronic city-Whitefield.
BMRCL is a Joint Venture of Government of India and Government of Karnataka
Phase-I of Bengaluru Metro
- The total cost of the project – Rs 11,609 crore
- Stations – 41
- Total distance – 42.42 km
- Number of corridors – Two
CORRIDOR-I
- Purple Line – Baiyyappanahalli – Mysore Road
- Total Length – 18.22 km
- Covering Stations – 17
(Baiyyappanahalli – Swami Vivekanand Road – Indiranagar – Halasuru – Trinity – Mahatma Gandhi Road – Cubbon Park – Vidhana Soudha – Sir M Visveshwaraya – Majestic – City Railway Station – Magadi Road – Hosahalli – Vijayanagar – Attiguppe – Deepanjali Nagar – Mysore Road)
CORRIDOR-II
- GreenLine – Nagasandra – Yelachenahalli
- Total Length – 24.20 km
- Covering Stations – 24
(Nagasandra – Dasarahalli – Jalahalli – Peenya Industry – Peenya – Goraguntepalya – Yeshwanthpur – Sandal Soap Factory – Mahalakshmi – Rajajinagar – Kuvempu Road – Srirampurea – Sampige Road – Majestic – Chickpet – Krishna Rajendra Market – National College- Lalbagh – Southend Circle – Jayanagar – Rashtriya Vidyalaya Road – Banashankari – Jayaprakash Nagar – Yelachenahalli)
Operational Lines (Phase I & II): 42.42 km
- Purple Line (Baiyappanhalli – Mysore Road) – 18.22 km (17 Stations)
- GreenLine (Nagasandra – Yelachenahalli) – 24.20 km (24 Stations)
Under-construction Lines (Phase 2 & 2A): 91.44 km
- Purple Line (Mysore Road – Whitefield) – 24.31 km (19 Stations)
- GreenLine (Yelachenahalli – BIEC) – 10.06 km (8 Stations)
- Yellow Line (R V Road – Bommasandra) – 18.82 km (16 Stations)
- Pink Line (Gottigere – Bangalore Airport) – 21.25 km (18 Stations)
- Blue Line ORR Metro (Central Silk Board – K. R. Pura) – 17 km (13 Stations)
Some Major Tenders for Metro Phase-II are:
- Construction of Elevated viaduct from Mysore station-Pattanagere station – Joint Venture of IL&FS-ECC Ltd
- Construction of Elevated viaduct from Puttenahalli cross station-Anjanapura Township station – NCC Ltd
- Construction of Elevated viaduct from Pattanagere station from the starting of Challagatta Depot – Soma Enterprise Ltd.
