Summary:
After the Shivajinagar metro station, the alignment in the DPR had showed the metro line doing a slight detour to the Cantonment railway station and then towards Pottery Town. However, in the work orders issued, the underground line bypasses the railway station, and instead places the metro station at Bamboo Bazaar, some 300 m away. Instead, he claimed the new station would be closer to the suburban terminal planned at the end of the railway station. “We can provide an underpass from the metro station to Cantonment railway station, including a travelator (a moving walkway), to ease commuting between the two stations,” he said. more-inA travelator and a new entrance to the Cantonment railway station are among the “commitments” made by Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.
(BMRCL) in response to the protests by activists and residents who feared that the proposed metro station would be far away from the railway station..