The three-coach service can carry 1,000 commuters and link the eastern suburb of Byappanahalli to M.G. Road, covering a distance of 6.7 km.
Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath inaugurated the service opens to public from 4 p.m. October 20. The Metro service will run between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.
Karnataka Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, several State ministers, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, and a number of State Congress leaders were present at the inauguration at the decked up M.G. Road station.
Almost all of them, along with senior officials of the State government and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd, special invitees and media personnel took the first ride in the “Namma Metro” (Our Metro) flagged off by Nath.
The Byappanahalli-M.G. Road link has six stations and travel time is around 14 minutes.
This is Reach 1 of the first phase of metro.
In another three years, the first phase is to have a 42.3-km network on the East-West (Byappanahalli-Mysore Road Terminal) and North-West (Hesarghatta Cross-Puttenahalli Cross) corridors with 41 stations. The phase-1 has an 8.88-km underground network.
The foundation for the Metro project was laid by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2006.
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