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Bengaluru Metro Yellow Line carries 3.8 crore riders in first year

Bengaluru Metro Yellow Line carries 3.8 crore riders in first year
Yellow Line carried 3.8 crore passengers in its first year · thehansindia.com

The Namma Metro Yellow Line is a special train system in Bengaluru, a big city in India.

It connects a busy office area called Electronic City to other parts of the city.

The Yellow Line just finished its first year of running, like celebrating its first birthday.

In that one year, more than 3.8 crore people rode on it, which is a huge number.

At first, the line had only three trains, so people waited a long time, about 35 minutes.

Now it has ten trains, and during busy times a train comes every seven minutes.

The metro helps office workers get to work without using cars, which is better for the environment.

One company, Biocon, says its employees avoided 99 tonnes of carbon emissions by riding the metro.

The metro also works with buses to help people reach the stations.

This makes the roads less crowded and the city cleaner.

Key facts

Route
RV Road to Electronic City (19 km)
First-year ridership
More than 3.8 crore passenger journeys
Commercial launch
August 2025
Opening-month daily ridership
81,365 (August 2025)
Daily ridership by July 2026
Around 1.5 lakh passengers
Trains in operation
10
Peak-hour frequency
Every 7 minutes (6 minutes planned)
Feeder buses
28 BMTC buses, about 300 trips daily for 15,000+ passengers

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