Bus Branding in Bannerghatta Road

Bannerghatta Road is a long arterial corridor in South Bengaluru, running roughly 25 km south from Adugodi and Dairy Circle near Hosur Road out to the Bannerghatta Biological Park at the city's forest edge. It is one of the strongest hospital and education belts in the city, anchored by IIM Bangalore, NIMHANS, the Jayadeva cardiology institute, and the Apollo and Fortis hospitals, threaded with malls, residential pockets, and tech offices along the way. Because it is a single long road rather than one neighbourhood, a branded bus running its length is seen across many distinct crowds. This page lays out what sits along Bannerghatta Road, which routes run it, where the busiest stops are, and who the buses reach.

Bannerghatta Road at a Glance

Type
Long South arterial corridor
Length
~25 km, Dairy Circle to the park
Anchors
Hospitals, colleges, malls
Metro
Pink Line, arriving
  • The road starts near the Adugodi and Dairy Circle junction with Hosur Road and runs south through Jayadeva, Bilekahalli, Arekere, Hulimavu, and Gottigere, ending near the Bannerghatta Biological Park.
  • It carries three clear identities at once — a hospital and education belt, a retail corridor, and a route to nature — which gives it an unusually mixed crowd along a single road.
  • It connects to NICE Road, the Outer Ring Road, and Hosur Road, linking the corridor to Electronic City and the wider south, and the Pink Line metro is arriving along the Bannerghatta stretch.

Areas & Landmarks Along Bannerghatta Road

The corridor changes character as it runs south — dense hospital and office clusters near the city end, malls and residential belts in the middle, and open zones near the park. Buses running the full road pass all of these in one trip, which is what makes the length itself the high-visibility asset.

CategoryAlong Bannerghatta Road
Hospitals & institutesNIMHANS and Kidwai near the city end, the Jayadeva cardiology institute, and the Apollo and Fortis hospital cluster mid corridor
EducationIIM Bangalore, Christ University, and schools and colleges such as Loyola and AMC College along the road
Malls & retailRoyal Meenakshi Mall, Gopalan Innovation Mall, and Vega City Mall, with roadside retail through the belt
Offices & techIBC Knowledge Park, Divyashree and Kalyani Magnum tech parks, and the MNC office clusters
Residential beltsThe Arekere, Hulimavu, Bilekahalli, and Gottigere pockets, mixing apartments and gated communities
Nature & the park endThe Bannerghatta National Park and Biological Park with its zoo and safari, a weekend family draw

Bus Routes That Run Along Bannerghatta Road

The corridor has its own route family, the 363 to 372 series, with the 365 group running the full length from the city to the national park. These cover the road end to end, joined by the Vajra and airport services. The routes below are the high-frequency ones. Numbers and exact stops are simple to verify on Google Maps or BMTC route search by entering a from-and-to point along Bannerghatta Road.

Route number(s)ConnectsKey Bannerghatta Road points covered
365 and 365MKempegowda Bus Station to Bannerghatta National ParkThe full length, NIMHANS, Jayadeva, IIM, Hulimavu, Gottigere, to the park
363 to 372 seriesThe Bannerghatta Road corridor familyThe Jayadeva, Bilekahalli, and Bannerghatta stretches up to Bilekahalli and beyond
364 seriesVia Jayanagar to the Bannerghatta beltThe Jayadeva and Arekere facing stops
366 and 369 seriesCity and BTM to the Bannerghatta beltThe Meenakshi, Hulimavu, and Arekere stops
V-365 VajraAC service along the corridorThe IIM, Arekere, Hulimavu, and Bannerghatta Circle stops
KIA-14 airport servicesBannerghatta Road to Kempegowda International AirportThe Meenakshi Mall and corridor stops toward the airport
  • The 365 family is the spine, running the full road from Majestic to the national park, so a single branded bus crosses the hospital cluster, IIM, the malls, the residential belts, and the park end in one trip.
  • Bannerghatta Road is known for heavy, slow traffic at the Jayadeva flyover and Meenakshi Mall stretches, so buses spend long minutes in view, which lengthens the time the branding stays visible.

Route numbers and coverage compiled from public BMTC route listings and map-based route search for the Bannerghatta Road corridor; services and frequencies are revised by BMTC from time to time.

Major Bus Stops on Bannerghatta Road

Stops run the length of the road, clustering at the hospitals, the colleges, and the malls. These are the busiest, where patient, student, office, and shopping footfall meet, so a branded bus halting here gets long viewing windows from a waiting crowd.

Bus stopWhat sits around it
Jayadeva HospitalThe cardiology institute and the flyover junction, a major interchange with very high footfall
BilekahalliA corridor stop near offices and the JP Nagar 3rd Phase side
IIM BangaloreThe institute stop, central to the corridor, with student and visitor footfall
Arekere GateA residential and office stop in the middle of the belt
Hulimavu GateA dense residential and retail stop
Meenakshi Temple / Royal Meenakshi MallThe mall and temple stop with heavy shopping footfall
Kalena AgraharaA southern corridor stop and the Pink Line terminal side
GottigereA residential and school stop toward the park end
Bannerghatta CircleThe stop near the national park and biological park

Footfall & Bus Commuters on Bannerghatta Road

Main public transport
BMTC along the corridor
Corridor length
~25 km of continuous frontage
Footfall drivers
Hospitals, colleges, malls, park
BMTC daily tickets, citywide
30 lakh+
  • Bannerghatta Road's audience is unusually varied for a single road — hospital patients and visitors, students at IIM and the colleges, office workers at the tech parks, residents of the Arekere and Hulimavu belts, and weekend families heading to the park.
  • The hospital cluster and the malls keep footfall high through the day and beyond office hours, with the Jayadeva and Meenakshi stretches busy almost continuously.
  • It has no operating metro on the corridor yet, with the Pink Line in its final stages along the Bannerghatta stretch and the Jayadeva interchange linking to the Yellow Line, so BMTC carries the bulk of the public commute for now.
  • A separate bus ridership figure for Bannerghatta Road is not published, but for scale BMTC sells more than 30 lakh tickets a day across the city, and this corridor is one of the busiest arterial roads in the south.

Who Sees the Buses on Bannerghatta Road

AudienceWhere they are on Bannerghatta Road
Hospital patients and visitorsAt NIMHANS, Kidwai, Jayadeva, Apollo, and Fortis
Students and academicsAt IIM Bangalore, Christ University, and the colleges along the road
Office and tech workersAt IBC Knowledge Park, Divyashree, and the MNC clusters
ResidentsThe Arekere, Hulimavu, Bilekahalli, and Gottigere belts
Shoppers and familiesAt Royal Meenakshi Mall, Gopalan, Vega City, and the park end
Service and gig workersAlong the corridor, with heavy reliance on BMTC for daily travel

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