Illustration 20: Sahitya Academy at Metro Station; DNA India

5.3.8 Activities, Events and Patterns of Usage

Illustration 20: Sahitya Academy at Metro Station; DNA India

The station houses various restaurants like Fast Trax, Comesum, McDonalds, Domino‘s Pizza, Dilli-6 (a Mughlai restaurant) while some smaller eateries as well. One can see people enjoying their meal and lingering around the restaurants and eateries on either side. Both ends are connected at all levels of the station hence mixing of people rarely happens. One can witness groups of people (families or groups of friends) near the restaurants. Having external access and seating spaces, the restaurants can be used by the people without having to pass through the AFC gates, which adds on to the crowd of the already widely-used station.

One can see the eateries on the edges of the elliptical lobby located nearby escalators going up for the Red Line and down for the Yellow Line and Violet Line. The eateries in this lobby can only be accessed after passing through the AFC gates. Although, there is no seating for these joints, but one can still find people standing in front of them. Both sides of the metro station also have ATMs and Vodafone 3G outlets for metro users. (Jain, 2013)

The station also has an outlet of Sahitya Academi, which is a book shop and people can be seen roaming around. According to the survey, for some people using the metro station, the book shop is one of the reasons they visit the station.