Andheri is an elevated metro station on the East-West Corridor of the Blue Line 1 of Mumbai Metro serving the Andheri suburb of Mumbai, India. It was opened to the public on 8 June 2014.[3] After Ghatkopar, Andheri is the busiest station on Line 1, with a daily passenger traffic of 72,125 in February 2017.[4]
The Andheri station is connected with the Andheri railway station's foot-over bridge through a skywalk.[5][6][7] MMOPL later built a shorter connector that reduced the time taken by commuters to switch systems.[8]
Like other Line 1 stations, the interior walls of Andheri station are embellished with murals. The designs at Andheri were styled by three third-year architecture students: Shamika Desai, Misri Patel, and Shriya Sanil.[9]
History
In February 2017, MMOPL announced that Andheri station would be rebranded as Bank of Baroda Andheri Metro station, as part of a sponsorship deal.[10][11] In April 2021, following the expiration of Bank of Baroda’s sponsorship, the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) took over the sponsorship, leading to another rebranding of the station.[12]
Station layout
| L1 Platforms |
Side platform, doors will open on the left | |
| Platform 1 | Line 1 toward Ghatkopar (Western Express Highway) → | |
| Platform 2 | ← Line 1 toward Versova (Azad Nagar) | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the left | ||
| M | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover, food stalls, coffee/tea stalls, flea sales (at times they allow stalls for sales like clothes, jewelry, food items, small collectibles, etc.) |
| G | Street level | Exit/Entrance |
Connections
Entrances and exits
| Andheri metro station exits [1] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gate No-1 | Gate No-2 | Gate No-3 
|
Gate No-4 🛗 ♿ |
Gate No-5A 
|
Gate No-5B
|
Gate No-5C
|
Gate No-5D
|
Gate No-5E |
| Near Nagardas Road | Near Ganesh Temple/Towards Vishal Hall | Near Andheri Court | — | Near Pay n Park | — | — | Near Prasadam Hotel | Towards Agarkar Chowk Bus Depot |
See also
- Public transport in Mumbai
- List of Mumbai Metro stations
- List of rapid transit systems in India
- List of Metro Systems
References
- ^ a b "Andheri metro station layout". reliancemumbaimetro.com. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ Mehta, Manthank (5 December 2023). "Metro 1 ridership touches 90cr in 9 yrs of operation". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "Mumbai Metro hits tracks, and handful of speed bumps". mid-day. 21 June 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ "Metro 1: Metro I sees 20% increase in its ridership in a year | Mumbai News - Times of India".
- ^ Ateeq Shaikh (31 March 2014). "Ghatkopar railway station to soon to be integrated with metro station". Dnaindia.com. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ FPJ Bureau (12 June 2014). "Commuters sandwiched between Mumbai Metro and railways". Free Press Journal. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
- ^ Mehta, Manthan K (8 June 2014). "Andheri, Ghatkopar stations ill-prepared for commuter surge". The Times of India.
- ^ "Metro I sees 20% increase in its ridership in a year". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ^ Tatke, Sukhada (9 June 2014). "Murals breathe life into Mumbai Metro stations". The Hindu.
- ^ "Andheri Metro station re-branded". Asian Age. 21 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
- ^ "Mumbai: Andheri metro station renamed". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
- ^ "LIC acquires branding rights for Andheri Metro station". 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
External links
- The official site of Mumbai Metro
- UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
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