Take your first ride at 4pm on Thursday
Bangalore Metro will go live at 4pm on October 20. The inaugural function of Reach 1 (MG Road to Byappanahalli) will start at 10.30am at Field Marshal Manekshaw Parade Ground, and is expected to last till 2pm.
Services will begin at these stations:
- Mahatma Gandhi Road Station towards Byappanahalli
- Byappanahalli Station towards Mahatma Gandhi Road Station
Passenger entry to stations and purchase of tickets at the stations will start from 3pm onwards.
The trains will stop at Trinity, Halasuru, Indiranagar and Swami Vivekananda Road stations for 30 seconds each. The frequency will be 10 minutes.
The trains are scheduled to run up to 10pm, and tickets will be on sale up to 9.50pm. If need be, services will be extended by an hour to 11pm.
From October 21 onwards, regular Metro train services will start from Byappanahalli (BYPH) and MG Road (MAGR) at 6am in each direction. The frequency of trains will be 15 minutes between 6am and 8am, 10 minutes between 8am and 8pm, and 15 minutes between 8pm and 10pm.
The last service will run at 10pm from both directions: Byappanahalli Station to MG Road, and vice-versa.
Union minister for urban development Kamal Nath will inaugurate the first line from MG Road to Byappanahalli and flag off the first Namma Metro train. Dignitaries invited will inaugurate the stations and operational control centre.
Chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda will preside over the function. The other dignitaries who have confirmed their participation are Union railways minister Dinesh Trivedi, Union minister of state for railways KH Muniyappa, Union minister for corporate affairs M Veerappa Moily, Union minister for labour and employment Mallikarjuna Kharge, former chief minister of Karnataka Dharam Singh and Japanese ambassador Akitaka Saiki.
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