Commute easy

Indiranagar Metro Station

Indiranagar Metro Station

As much as possible, try and avoid taking your vehicles out and use the public transport or use car pooling. It is always comfortable to take the purple line metro that connects Byappanahalli to Mysore road.

To commute to Whitefield, there are trains from Byappanahalli, that would soon become regular.

 

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Two wheelers for rent at the Indiranagar Metro Station

 

Two wheelers can be rented out at the Indiranagar metro station for a fee. Check out;
www.metrobikes.in

 

 

 

 

Metro Feeder service from Swami Vivekananda Metro station on 80 feet road

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Swami Vivekananda Road Metro Station

Swami Vivekananda Metro station on 80 feet road makes a perfect location for parking your vehicles and taking the purple line metro towards Mysore road.

BMRCL has also identified it as an idea location to provide metro feeder services to several areas that do not have metro connectivity yet, as it has a bus bay and makes it easy to serve those areas by buses. Please take a look at the list below.

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Metro Feeder services list from Swami Vivekananda Road Metro station

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Bus Bay at Swami Vivekananda Road Metro station

Bangalore Bus Commuters: Exchange of info, updates, ideas, requests and issues around taking the bus in Bangalore.

Bangalore Suburban Rail Information Page with a list of  existing trains to Whitefield, Hosur, Ramanagaram, Kengeri and other suburbs. There will soon be a suburban rail.

Car Pooling:

To commute to work and back, try and see if you can avail car pooling around the neighbourhood.

Bangalore Car Pooling Facebook Group: A group to connect people who want to car pool in the city. Please exercise caution when you travel with strangers. What would be advisable is to do your due diligence before you travel, and only travel with people who you are really very sure about ( well referenced). What would be best is if you form your networks through people you know personally and then form groups.

Here’s how web-based companies unite carpoolers

PoolCircle:  Leverages your existing network of connections, or “Circles”, to provide a safe carpooling platform for you.

Bla Bla Car: Connecting car owners and co-travellers to share city-to-city journeys. BlaBlaCar is a trusted community marketplace that connects drivers with empty seats to co-travellers looking for a ride. Over 2 million people use BlaBlaCar every month creating an entirely new, people powered, transport network. With a dedicated customer service, a state of the art web and mobile platform, and a fast-growing community of users, BlaBlaCar is making travel social, money-saving and more efficient for millions of members.

Let’s Drive Along: Innovative, flexible, secure, measurable car-pooling exclusively for car-owners. (Endorsed by the Bangalore Traffic Police). Register and look for members around your area.

ZipGo: They have created our schedules, keeping your’s in mind. ZipGo leaves every 30 minutes, Monday to Friday, starting from 8 AM to 10 AM in the morning, and starting from 6 PM till 8 PM in the evening.

Here is an extract from UK’s popular newspaper, The Guardian;

Cities around the world are coming to the same conclusion: they’d be better off with far fewer cars. So what’s behind this seismic shift in our urban lifestyles? Stephen Moss goes on an epic (car-free) journey to find out. Read on…

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