the railway station is served by city railway station metro station on the namma metro's purple line, which opened on 30 april 2016. later that year, the bangalore metro rail corporation limited (bmrcl) decided to construct a foot-over-bridge from the metro station until the boundary of the railway station, while the south western railway, would complete the rest of the work. the foot overbridge connecting platform 10 with the metro station was opened on 18 february 2019. the bmrc reported that monthly ridership at the metro station was 175,000 passengers per day prior to opening the bridge, and increased to 250,000 two months after its opening.