Bangalore
Metro (under construction), planned monorail

Known as the Namma Metro, our "our Metro", it can be distinguished from their metro, my metro, or his metro. There is much criticism of the metro being unfriendly toward it's customers. With features like pay to pee, no park and rides, and a fine if you stay in the system longer than two hours, customers are indeed feling like it is their metro.

Line 1 opened in Septemberl 2011. Meanwhile, a tunel boring machine is digging the new East-West Line as you read these very words. When completed, the 96 km system will have 4 lines and 87 stations. It will be run by the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation.

History

In February 2004, a 2 line, 33 km system, including 6.7 km underground section, was authorized by a planning commission panel. In 2005, tenders for the line began flowing in. In March, 2005, the BMRTL opened its Official Home Page . Construction on the first 23.7 km Green line began in June 2006.



Wanna be friends with the Bangalore metro? Catch it on twitter or Facebook. (Children under 10 are encouraged to apply.) The Banaglore Nama Metro has even  made it to youtube. 



Some people don't want to be friends with the Bangalore metro because they are busy singing  the Bangalore metro blues. Residents with homes and businesses scheduled for demolition claim they are being removed from their property and held at the police station while their real estate is demolished without any paperwork. The head of metro responded that you can't make an omlette without breaking a few heads - er eggs.

Skyscraper City page
Wikipedia page


 



The Bengaluru Namma Metro also has the power to split in two, allowing a disenchanted driver to "ditch" the passengers when they become too annoying.