Doubling Baiyappanahalli-Hosur railway line: Boon or Bane? Doubling Baiyappanahalli-Hosur railway line: Boon or Bane? Heelalige Railway Station connects the city to Bengaluru South and further to Hosur. Pic: Shreya Pillai Over the last few years, the city of Bengaluru has been growing beyond its potential. As a city with educated and active citizens, civic activism has been a significant decider in how the city develops. One of the citizen activism initiatives has been developing the existing railway network to boost the suburban rail project. A few years ago, the Government of Karnataka (Karnataka Rail Infrastructure Company (K-RIDE)) started developing a plan for the extension of these railway networks.