Bengaluru Metro: 22-km Bannerghatta Road to Nagavara metro line to open next year, says Dy CMDeputy CM Shivakumar announced that Phase 2 Reach 6 of Namma Metro in Bengaluru will be ready next year, with 22 km corridor, 6 elevated an...
08 Feb, 2024, 09.54 PM IST
Case against NCC, 7 officials in connection with Metro structure collapseTejaswini (30) and Vihan died after a structure at 'Namma Metro' construction site fell on them at Nagawara on the ring road here on Tuesda...
11 Jan, 2023, 03.42 PM IST
Metro wants taller buildings, denser transit corridors for Bengaluru developmentThe draft Bengaluru Transit-Oriented Development Policy is expected “to come into force with immediate effect from the date of its official...
16 May, 2019, 11.07 AM IST
L&T Construction bags Rs 138-cr order from Bengaluru MetroThe work includes the supply and installation of telecommunication systems for Namma Metro’s 27 stations.
02 Nov, 2018, 04.57 PM IST
Bengaluru Metro’s reluctance to answering RTIs irks citizensThe annual report shows the BMRCL received 375 and 254 RTI applications in 2016-17 and 2015-16 respectively. It does not say if answers wer...
08 Oct, 2018, 12.11 PM IST
Bengaluru Metro delay: IL&FS Engineering and Construction Company gets June deadlineTop sources in Namma Metro told ET that the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation (BMRCL) has levied a penalty on the contractor for failing to ...
20 Aug, 2018, 04.23 PM IST
6 construction companies vie to build 17-km Outer Ring Road Metro sections in BengaluruIn February this year, the transport utility had floated bids for the civil work which comprises construction of 13 metro stations between ...
30 May, 2018, 10.48 AM IST
Metro move to get more contractors backfiresThe BMRCL had estimated tunnelling and construction of 12 underground metro stations between Nagawara and Dairy Circle to cost ₹5,048 crore.
12 Feb, 2018, 10.23 AM IST
Countdown begins to raze Jayadeva flyoverBDA had spent Rs 21 crore to construct the flyover, which was thrown open to public in 2006. An underpass along Bannerghatta road will, how...
20 Nov, 2017, 12.07 PM IST
With only six stations, trust Bengaluru Metro to take you to the airport fasterIn the completed phase-I and under construction phase-II, metro station are between 800 metres to 1 km from each other, and the average ope...
02 Oct, 2017, 11.17 AM IST
Civic work to start in a year: Metro Phase II boasts of most expensive underground lineBMRCL had taken five years to tunnel 8.8 km of the underground section of Phase I. This time it has doubled the number of TBMs from six to ...
06 Jul, 2017, 10.17 AM IST
In-house team to draft proposal to connect Namma Metro to the Kempegowda International AirportBMRCL managing director Pradeep Singh Kharola confirmed that the DPR will be prepared by BMRCL but did not say when the report will be read...
27 Jun, 2017, 10.17 AM IST
Gottigere-Nagawara Metro line estimated to cost Rs 11,014 croreEstimated to cost Rs 11,014 crore, this line traverses along Bannerghatta Road as an elevated line up to Swagath Road cross.
15 Mar, 2017, 10.59 AM IST
It's a 3-year wait until Metro decongests Kanakapura roadMeanwhile, the BMRCL had to cut as many as 127 trees for this elevated metro project. While approval to cut 44 trees is accorded by BBMP, t...
09 Jan, 2017, 11.24 AM IST
Bengaluru's Namma metro 2nd longest after Delhi metroAfter the opening of the 4.8 km stretch of the metro between MG Road and Magadi Road, Namma Metro has become the second longest metro syste...
26 May, 2016, 02.38 PM IST
From Bengaluru to Chennai: A tale of two metrosAlthough Bengaluru had a head-start, it is bogged down by time, cost-overruns & Chennai appears to have learnt right lessons from Bengaluru...
30 Jun, 2015, 10.30 AM IST
In the slow track: Namma Metro comes under fire from angry BengalureansPublic impatience with Metro Rail authorities is growing along a stretch of Bengaluru where construction has been completed but services ar...
20 Feb, 2015, 10.20 AM IST