About

Namma Commute answers one question quickly: I am standing here — what is my nearest metro station, when is the next train, what will it cost, and what is around it? Today that means juggling the Namma Metro app, a BMTC app, Google Maps and a BMRCL parking PDF.

What it knows

• All 83 Namma Metro stations, with scheduled departures by direction
• Fares, including peak and off-peak, and whether a pass is cheaper
• Station parking capacity and the city-wide rate card
• Bus routes serving each station
• Nearby hospitals, pharmacies, food, groceries and places of worship
• Auto and ride fares when the station is too far to walk

What it cannot do

Nothing here is realtime. BMRCL publishes no live feed, so there is no way for this or any other app — including BMRCL’s own — to tell you where a train physically is. Every time shown is a scheduled time from the published timetable, combined with your device’s clock. If a train is delayed, this will not know.

Bus timings come from a community feed whose schedules are known to be approximate. Treat them as a guide to which bus, not when.

Distances are straight-line, not walking routes, so a river or a flyover can make the real walk longer. Ride fares other than the regulated auto meter are estimates against demand pricing — the app you book with will quote the real figure.

Nearby places come from OpenStreetMap, which is excellent for hospitals and patchy for small shops. A missing shop means nobody has mapped it yet.

Where the data comes from

• Timetables and fares — Vonter/bmrcl-gtfs, transcribed from BMRCL’s published timetables (ODbL 1.0)
• Buses — Vonter/bmtc-gtfs (ODbL 1.0)
• Parking — BMRCL
• Places, entrances and the map — © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0)
• Auto tariff — Bangalore Urban District RTA rate card

Feed version 20260817, source commit f402c4c, data built 1 October 2026. The pipeline re-runs weekly and fails loudly rather than publishing data it cannot verify.

Cost and ads

Free, with no advertising, no accounts and no tracking. It is a static site, so it costs almost nothing to run. See the privacy page for what that means for your data — briefly, your location never leaves your device.

Corrections

Wrong timing, missing station entrance, outdated parking rate? The underlying data is open, and fixing it upstream fixes it for everyone — place and entrance corrections go to OpenStreetMap, timetable issues to the feed.