Bengaluru: The Nagasandra metro station situated on the Green Line floods with people on Monday after the end of Diwali weekend. The metro station which is situated near the IKEA furniture store saw tremendously high footfall, resulting in the formation of nearly one-kilometer-long lines on IKEA Road. The passengers asked for the line to start soon saying that it could decrease the overwhelming crowd.
A person posted an image of the metro station filled with crowd on X and wrote that there is a chaos in Nagasandra metro station. There is a 1 kilometer-long line starting from the Kennamental entrance of station. He wrote that if the metro line had started from Madavara, the problem could have been avoided.
Here’s a video, over a minute long, recorded from an auto rickshaw, showing a long queue of people waiting to enter the Nagasandra metro station on a Monday morning. Bengaluru traffic is no joke! pic.twitter.com/5p9geMfXPg
— Bipin Domy Thomas (@DomyBipin) November 4, 2024
People blame lack of foresightedness of politicians
The problem was discusses by people on the internet where they blamed the administration for its lack of foresightedness. A user wrote, “More than a month since inspection and approval and still common citizens have to wait? No wonder we have become a laughing stock! Makes me sad as a Born and bred Bengaluriga! #brandbengaluru?”
Another user wrote, “This state government perhaps is waiting for another lesson like K.R.Puram- Byappanahali connection when the eternal wait for a formal opening ultimately led to immediate start without any fanfare.”
One user wrote, “Politicians having AC cars with security facilities wont understand common people. They probably just want people to get used to the miserable travel here. There was no need for a 3 km metro inauguration. Public’s gonna use and pay for these metro, not those politician.”
A user expressing his frustration and hopelessness, wrote, “Companies should shift from Bengaluru to other southern cities like Hyderabad and Vizag. Bengaluru had become a killer state to employees and people who always under traffic pressure.”
