People living in the southern parts of Bengaluru such as Electronics City, Whitefield and other areas will be the main beneficiaries of the metro to the airport as it will start from Central Silk Board via K.R. Puram.
At present, Namma Metro has one interchange at Majestic. However, once the entire phase II, IIA, IIB get completed by 2023, six more interchange metro stations will be operational in the city — R.V. Road, Jayadeva, M.G. Road, Central Silk Board, K.R. Puram, and Nagawara.
Commuters travelling from Kanakapura Road or Gottigere have to board at Silk Board or Nagawara interchange stations.
There is another option: the passenger can travel from R.V. Road and get down at Jayadeva interchange and from there travel to Nagawara and then board a train to the airport. Changing trains at multiple stations will irk passengers, especially those with luggage.
“The elevated line from Silk Board to the airport will be commissioned before Gottigere-Nagawara line, which has an underground section. The construction of the tunnel line itself will take close to four years, so the elevated line from Silk Board to K.R. Puram will be completed first,” said managing director Ajay Seth.
The BMRCL had first planned the Gottigere-Nagawara line to the airport via Hegde Nagar and Jakkur.
The alignment, however, was dropped owing to the presence of a high pressure petroleum pipe that had not been taken into account at the time of planning.
Published - February 16, 2019 12:06 am IST
