Namma Metro Lines 2026: Which Ones Actually Run Right Now

Three Namma Metro lines actually carry passengers today: Purple, Green and Yellow. The Pink Line is built but still shut. The Blue Line to the airport has not opened either, whatever the brochure in front of you says.

That gap between what runs and what gets quoted is the single most expensive misunderstanding in Bangalore property right now. A flat sold on “metro connectivity” can mean a station 400 metres away that opened in 2023, or a station that is a line on a map with a 2027 date and a history of slipping. Both get described the same way in a sales pitch. This page separates them.

Every Namma Metro line, and whether you can ride it

The table below is the whole network in one view. Read the middle column first. If it says not open, every price argument built on that line is a bet on a date, not a fact you can use today.

Seven corridors, three of them carrying passengers. That ratio is the point. Bangalore has about 95 km of metro running and a far larger number on paper, and the paper kilometres are the ones doing the heavy lifting in sales conversations.

One more distinction worth holding on to. A line opening and a line being useful to you are different events. The Yellow Line has been carrying passengers for over a year, but what it is worth to an Electronic City buyer depends on whether they can reach a station without a twenty-minute auto at each end. Check the last mile before you price in the line, because the brochure never does.

Why the Pink Line is built but still shut

The Pink Line is the most misreported of the Namma Metro lines, because it looks finished. Trains have run trial laps on the Bannerghatta Road stretch. Stations are built. The Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety finished inspecting the elevated section on 14 August 2026 and did not issue clearance.

What is missing is narrow and specific: an Independent Safety Assessment certificate for the signalling system. Not track, not trains, not stations. One document. That is why the line missed an intended 15 August launch and why the current expectation is late September 2026 for the six elevated stations from Kalena Agrahara to Tavarekere.

The 12-station underground section running north to Nagawara is a separate problem and a longer one, targeted for December 2026. Anyone quoting you a single Pink Line opening date is collapsing two very different pieces of work into one number. Ask which section they mean.

The station worth caring about is Jayadeva Hospital, where the Pink Line meets the Yellow Line. That interchange is what turns Bannerghatta Road from a corridor with a metro into a corridor connected to Electronic City. Until it opens, a Bannerghatta Road flat has a Green Line station some distance west and nothing else.

What your corridor actually has today

Short version by area. Each one links to our full guide for that place, where the station distances, prices and project lists sit.

Whitefield and KR Puram — Purple, open. This is the corridor that already got what everyone else is waiting for. Kadugodi and Hope Farm are live stations, not promises, and the ride into MG Road is a real alternative to Old Madras Road at 9am. Detail in the Whitefield area guide, with station-level notes for Kadugodi and Hope Farm; KR Puram sits on the same line and will later gain a Blue Line interchange.

Indiranagar and the centre — Purple, open. Indiranagar has had a station since 2016 and the premium is long since priced in, which is the honest way to read it. You are buying convenience, not upside. See the Indiranagar guide and the CMH Road pocket.

Electronic City — Yellow, open since August 2025. The newest of the running Namma Metro lines, and the one still repricing. Bommasandra is the terminus. The Electronic City guide and the Bommasandra page cover which pockets sit inside a genuine walk of a station.

JP Nagar and Bannerghatta Road — Green open, Pink imminent. JP Nagar already has Green Line access; what changes shortly is Bannerghatta Road itself. Gottigere sits beside the Kalena Agrahara terminus and Hulimavu gets its own station in that first batch of six. Start at the JP Nagar guide.

Hebbal and north Bangalore — nothing yet. There is no metro station serving Hebbal today. The Blue Line brings one, on the leg targeted for 2027, and that leg has moved before. Treat any north Bangalore pitch that leads with airport metro access as a claim to verify, not a feature. The Hebbal guide and Thanisandra page set out what the commute is actually like now, and our Doddajala Blue Line guide goes deep on that specific station.

Marathahalli and the Outer Ring Road — nothing yet. The ORR tech belt, which generates more office demand than anywhere else in the city, has no metro at all. Blue Line Phase 2A is the fix and it is targeted for late 2026. Until then the ORR is a bus-and-cab corridor, as the Marathahalli guide and Kadubeesanahalli page make plain.

HSR Layout and Koramangala — nothing yet. This is the question we get asked most, so: no, HSR Layout does not have a metro station, and neither does Koramangala proper. HSR gets one on the Blue Line at the Silk Board end. The HSR Layout guide and Koramangala guide give the nearest working options today.

Sarjapur Road — nothing, and nothing close. The main Sarjapur Road stretch is not on any of the Namma Metro lines that are open or under construction. Carmelaram railway station is the realistic public transport anchor, not a metro. Read the Sarjapur Road guide and the Carmelaram page before you accept a metro argument here.

What a station is actually worth

Short answer, because we have written this up properly elsewhere: a station delivers a one-time step-up of roughly 6–9% in the first year after it opens, concentrated within about a kilometre, and it shows up in rents before it shows up in resale. It is a real effect and a smaller one than the pitch implies. Our station-by-station analysis of metro impact on Bangalore prices has the numbers and the cases where the uplift did not arrive.

One thing worth saying here. The uplift attaches to stations that open, not to stations that are announced, and the announcement premium is usually paid by the buyer years early. Paying a 2027 price for 2027 infrastructure in 2026 leaves you nothing.

How to check a builder’s metro claim in two minutes

You do not need a consultant for this. Four questions kill almost every inflated claim, and you can ask all of them while standing in the sales lounge.

Then verify it yourself. BMRCL publishes the official line and station status, and it is the only source that matters when a brochure and a website disagree. For the project itself, the Karnataka RERA portal will tell you what the builder has actually committed to in writing, which is rarely the same as what the hoarding says.

Our own team does this check on every project before it goes on the site. Where a metro claim does not survive it, we say so on the listing rather than repeating it.

Questions people actually ask about Namma Metro lines

Line status verified against BMRCL and public safety-inspection records on 16 September 2026. Dates on unopened Namma Metro lines change; we re-check this page when they do.