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Weird thing about metro, which I never understood is that it is not constructed as a "standard module". It is very bad from accessibility standpoint.

Few observations:

1. The lifts, escalators are not consistent or in pattern. Like some stations don't have down-going escalators. Some stns are unusually higher than ground level (silk board stn), but there's one escalator on to go up, but none to come down. Also, to hide their cost cutting measures, a board is put up asking ppl to take stairs as it is healthy and avoid lifts as it is meant for old-age ppl.

2. All stn above ground have platform on the left and all stations underground have platforms on the right (center and shared between 2 rails), but at Majestic it is the opposite and no clear pattern and boards in improperly placed. At Majestic, purple line has platforms on the left and on green line platform in or the right (center and shared). If I'm not wrong, Platform numbers are p1-p2 for purple and p4-p3 for green. Muscle memory never works. I'm always lost in Majestic underground station😅.

3. Recently noticed in RV road metro stn. The station platform numbers are inconsistent. Ordering is not 1234, it's 2143 (p2-p1 of green line and p4-p3 of yellow line, where p1-p4 share the platforms). Why?

4. Silk institute is the last stop on green light, but central silk board (commonly known as silk board) is on the yellow line. Kannada announcement is especially confusing 😜. "reshme samsthe vs Kendra reshme mandali).

5. Similar thing with, metro stn at Electronic City. Electronic city bus stop = Infosys Foundation Konappana Agrahara. Konappana Agrahara bus stop = Electronic city Metro stn. No idea how many faced troubles due to this. Besides, names are too long that train will reach station by the time announcements are done 😅.

6. Station platform at Ragigudda is unusually wide. Too wide concierge. Probably because the double decker road ends there. Oh, and due to bottle neck at Ragigudda signal, it is sometimes faster to go through the signals at ground level instead of being stuck at the signal at the end of flyover.

7. Male voice announcement on Yellow line is funny. It doesn't say "doors will open on the right", but it says "doors will \*wopen\* on the right". Mostly kannada accent induced in English.

Some of these feels like OCD problems, but these are simple things that could have been fixed by engineers and designers having common sense.

Weird thing about metro, which I never understood is that it is not constructed as a "standard module". It is very bad from accessibility standpoint.

Few observations:

1. The lifts, escalators are not consistent or in pattern. Like some stations don't have down-going escalators. Some stns are unusually higher than ground level (silk board stn), but there's one escalator on to go up, but none to come down. Also, to hide their cost cutting measures, a board is put up asking ppl to take stairs as it is healthy and avoid lifts as it is meant for old-age ppl.

2. All stn above ground have platform on the left and all stations underground have platforms on the right (center and shared between 2 rails), but at Majestic it is the opposite and no clear pattern and boards in improperly placed. At Majestic, purple line has platforms on the left and on green line platform in or the right (center and shared). If I'm not wrong, Platform numbers are p1-p2 for purple and p4-p3 for green. Muscle memory never works. I'm always lost in Majestic underground station😅.

3. Recently noticed in RV road metro stn. The station platform numbers are inconsistent. Ordering is not 1234, it's 2143 (p2-p1 of green line and p4-p3 of yellow line, where p1-p4 share the platforms). Why?

4. Silk institute is the last stop on green light, but central silk board (commonly known as silk board) is on the yellow line. Kannada announcement is especially confusing 😜. "reshme samsthe vs Kendra reshme mandali).

5. Similar thing with, metro stn at Electronic City. Electronic city bus stop = Infosys Foundation Konappana Agrahara. Konappana Agrahara bus stop = Electronic city Metro stn. No idea how many faced troubles due to this. Besides, names are too long that train will reach station by the time announcements are done 😅.

6. Station platform at Ragigudda is unusually wide. Too wide concierge. Probably because the double decker road ends there. Oh, and due to bottle neck at Ragigudda signal, it is sometimes faster to go through the signals at ground level instead of being stuck at the signal at the end of flyover.

7. Male voice announcement on Yellow line is funny. It doesn't say "doors will open on the right", but it says "doors will *wopen* on the right". Mostly kannada accent induced in English.

Some of these feels like OCD problems, but these are simple things that could have been fixed by engineers and designers having common sense.