Figure 28: External Influences; Self

5.4.7 External Influences: Smell, Crowd, Noise

Being within the proximity of the administrative area, institutional area, and official area, the ITO metro station witnesses a heavily loaded crowd mainly during the peak morning and evening hours as most of the traffic includes the commuters from the nearby office buildings.

Although the metro station is relatively less crowded throughout the day, its heavy crowd during peak hours causes its users a feeling of discomfort.

Figure 28: External Influences; Self

5.4.8 Activities, Events and Patterns of Usage

Since no food joints, retail shops or book stores are situated within this metro station, one can only witness the people coming out from the metro or going down to commute through the metro.

Although, sometimes one can find youth from nearby institutional buildings loitering around the staircases having discussions. During the peak hours, one can witness huge lines in front of the AFCs which sometimes become irritating for the users to keep standing in queues for such long durations.

5.4.9 Degree of insideness and outsideness

In the survey, when it was asked from the people if they feel safe at this particular metro station, 28.7% of people did not feel safe at ITO Metro Station while 40.3% of people felt safe here.