Cubbon Park metro station

Cubbon Park is an underground metro station on the East-West corridor of the Purple Line of Namma Metro in Bengaluru, India. It was opened to the public on 30 April 2016. The station is located a few metres away from one of the entrances to Cubbon Park.

History

The Cubbon Park metro station, like all other underground stations on the Purple Line, was built using the cut-and-cover method.
There was a proposal to build a 35 km line known as Bangalore High-Speed Rail Link, from Cubbon Road to the Bengaluru International Airport in Devanahalli, according to BMRCL sources. This proposal was later shelved.

Art

Cubbon Park permits artists and students to showcase their work at the station under a project called "Art in Transit". An art installation by Prathmi Mehta, a student of Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, features a board with the question, "What makes Bangalore?" in English and Kannada. The board instructs the viewer to pick up a thread from the tray next to board, and place it on one of 36 options on the board, of which Cubbon Park was one of the three most popular in April 2017.