Baiyappanahalli is an elevated metro station on the East-West corridor of the
Purple Line of
Namma Metro
(), also known as Bangalore Metro or Bengaluru Metro, is a rapid transit system serving the city of Bengaluru, the capital city of the States and union territories of India, state of Karnataka, India. It is the Urban rail transit in India#List ...
in the
Baiyyappanahalli neighbourhood,
Bangalore
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, India.
Station layout
Entry/Exits
There are 3 Entry/Exit points – A, B and C. Commuters can use either of the points for their travel.
* Entry/Exit point A: Towards Old Madras Road or towards Tin Factory side
* Entry/Exit point B: Towards
Baiyappanahalli Railway Stn.
* Entry/Exit point C: Towards Ramamurthy Nagar side and towards this metro parking
Facilities
BMRCL has constructed a
skywalk from the Baiyappanahalli station to BMRCL's traffic integration area on the
NGEF side (Kasturinagar). The commissioner of metro railway safety (Southern Circle) had given permission to construct the skywalk.
Initially, there were no toilets at Namma Metro stations, despite demand from commuters. The metro's first toilets were opened at Baiyappanahalli and Indiranagar stations on 21 June 2013.
Parking
Baiyappanahalli station has a 2600m
2 asphalted parking area. It is being operated by Central Parking Services, under contract, until 2015. The parking lot can accommodate 100 four-wheel and 150 two-wheel vehicles. It was the first Namma Metro station to offer parking facilities.
Connections
The metro station is connected with the
Baiyyappanahali railway station of the
Indian Railways
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network.
Gallery
A couple of this metro station pictures are shown below:-
File:Baiyappanahalli Metro Station Exterior.JPG, Front Entrance of this metro station
File:Baiyappanahalli metro station.jpg, Metro station building adjacent to Baiyyappanahalli railway station
File:Pic from Namma metro baiyappanahalli station 1465.jpg, Back Entrance of this metro station
File:Pic from Namma metro baiyappanahalli station 1559.jpg, Concourse of this metro station
File:Pic from Namma metro baiyappanahalli station 1490.jpg, Platforms at this metro station
See also
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Baiyyappanahalli
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Bangalore
Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...
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Baiyyappanahali railway station
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List of Namma Metro stations
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Transport in Karnataka
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List of metro systems
This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways, undergrounds, tubes, mass rapid transit (MRT), metrô or U-Bahn. 204 cities in 65 cou ...
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List of rapid transit systems in India
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Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation
References
External links
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)''UrbanRail.Net''– descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
Namma Metro stations
Railway stations in India opened in 2011
2011 establishments in Karnataka
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