SG Highway’s Nearest Metro Station: Route, Distance & Travel Guide (2026)

SG Highway, officially the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, is one of Ahmedabad’s defining roads, an eight-lane corridor running from Sarkhej in the southwest, past Bodakdev, Prahladnagar, Thaltej, and Science City, and on toward Gandhinagar in the northeast. It’s home to the city’s biggest malls, its densest corporate stretch, and a fair share of its most expensive residential addresses, all lined up along one road that most Ahmedabadi’s simply call “SG Highway” regardless of which sector they mean.

Quick answer: It depends on which end of SG Highway you mean, since the route is a long arterial road, not one address. Thaltej Gam and Thaltej stations, located near Thaltej and Bodakdev, currently provide a short auto ride to the metro. Further southwest toward Sola, Science City, and Sarkhej, there’s no station nearby yet; that stretch is precisely what the upcoming Blue Line extension toward Godhavi is being built to fix.

Quick Reference: Metro Stations Along SG Highway

 The honest pattern here: the Blue Line currently ends right around where SG Highway’s most built-up stretch begins. Everything northeast of Thaltej has metro access within a reasonable auto ride. Everything southwest of that, some of the fastest-growing residential pockets in the city, is still waiting.

1. Thaltej Gam Metro Station: The Highway’s Current Western Anchor

Location: Western terminus of the Blue Line, right off SG Highway

Metro Line: Blue Line (Line 1)

Opened: 8 December 2024

Status: Operational, and about to stop being the end of the line

Thaltej Gam is one of the newer additions to the Blue Line, and it currently marks where the metro network runs out on the SG Highway side of the city. For anyone in the Thaltej, Bodakdev, or Ambli area, it’s the practical starting point for a metro trip toward central Ahmedabad or, via interchange, toward Gandhinagar and GIFT City.

Its bigger significance is what’s coming rather than what’s here already. This station is the launch point for the approved Phase 3A extension, which means Thaltej Gam is about to go from being a terminus to being a mid-line station on a considerably longer stretch of the Blue Line.

How to get there from SG Highway:

• Autos and app-cabs cover the short stretch between the highway and the station reliably.
• AMTS buses run along SG Highway and connect to the station area.
• Two-wheelers remain the most common last-mile option for residents in the immediate vicinity.

If you’re exploring property for sale on SG Highway, proximity to Thaltej Gam is already a point agents raise for the Thaltej and Bodakdev stretch, and it’s likely to matter even more once the extension opens.

2. Thaltej Metro Station: For Bodakdev and Prahladnagar

Location: Near PVR Acropolis and Mondeal Business Park

Metro Line: Blue Line

Status: Operational since 2022

Thaltej station is located a short distance from Thaltej Gam and serves both the office crowd around Mondeal Business Park and residents further into Bodakdev and Prahladnagar. It’s arguably the more useful of the two Thaltej-named stations for anyone commuting rather than just passing through.

How to get there:

• Company shuttles from nearby business parks often loop past this station during peak hours.
• Autos and Ola/Uber cover the connecting stretch to Bodakdev and Prahladnagar comfortably.

3. Doordarshan Kendra Metro Station: Central SG Highway

Distance from SG Highway: approximately 1.9 km

Metro Line: Blue Line

Walking Time: Around 19 minutes

Named for the nearby Doordarshan broadcasting tower, this station covers the more central stretch of SG Highway, useful for the Gurukul and Science City-adjacent side rather than Thaltej or Bodakdev specifically. It’s one of the stations where the walk is technically doable, but most people still choose an auto given Ahmedabad’s heat for a good part of the year.

4. Gujarat University Metro Station: The Navrangpura End

Gujarat University Station sits closer to Navrangpura than to the busiest stretch of SG Highway itself, roughly a 20-minute walk from the highway depending on the exact starting point. It’s a useful option for anyone whose daily destination is the university side of the corridor, and it also puts you a short ride from Old High Court, the interchange station where the Blue Line meets the Red Line.

5. The Blue Line Extension to Godhavi: What’s Actually Coming

This project is the development that matters most for the southwestern stretch of SG Highway, the part that currently has no metro access at all. Phase 3A extends the Blue Line from Thaltej Gam westward in two segments: a 3.3 km stretch to Canal Road with three new stations, followed by a longer run to Godhavi with the remaining stations, adding up to roughly 10.8 km and nine stations in total.

The route is designed to serve exactly the areas that have grown fastest without any rail transit nearby, Shilaj, the approach to Bopal and Shela, and the Sarkhej end of the highway. There’s no confirmed opening date yet; this is still at the approval and early-construction stage, but it’s the single biggest piece of unfinished business for SG Highway’s metro story.

Getting to SG Highway from major parts of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar

From the Old City or Kalupur: Ride the Red Line to Old High Court, then interchange onto the Blue Line heading toward Thaltej Gam. One change, roughly 35 to 40 minutes total.

From Gandhinagar or Mahatma Mandir: Take the Yellow Line to Motera Stadium, then change to the Red Line, and finally change at Old High Court to the Blue Line. It’s two interchanges, so the budget is close to an hour.

From GIFT City: Ride the Violet Line spur to GNLU, interchange onto the Yellow Line toward Motera Stadium, then follow the same Red-to-Blue route into SG Highway. Worth knowing: this cross-phase journey requires an NCMC card; token tickets don’t work across the interchange.

From the airport: There’s no direct metro route yet. A planned spur from Koteshwar Road to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport has been pushed into a later phase, so a direct cab remains the practical option for now.

Metro Timings for SG Highway Stations (Blue Line)

Note: Ahmedabad Metro runs the same schedule every day, including Sundays and public holidays, with no separate weekend timetable. That’s a genuinely simpler setup than several other Indian metro systems. Timings can still shift slightly during festivals, so it’s worth a quick check on the GMRC app before an early or late trip.

Last-Mile Connectivity Options Along SG Highway

SG Highway itself is a fast, wide road, but the service lanes and internal society roads branching off it are where most last-mile trips actually happen.

 SG Highway’s own traffic, especially around Iscon Cross Road, Prahladnagar, and Karnavati Club, can slow even short last-mile trips considerably during evening rush hour, so it’s worth padding auto or cab estimates a little.

What Metro Connectivity Means for Property Values Along SG Highway

SG Highway has been Ahmedabad’s premium corridor for years, well before the metro reached anywhere near it. Property for sale on SG Highway averages somewhere around ₹6,000 to ₹9,100 per sq ft depending on the stretch, with pockets like Bodakdev running closer to ₹8,800 to ₹9,000 and Thaltej around ₹8,000, driven mainly by schools, malls, and corporate offices rather than transit access.

What the metro adds is momentum rather than a new foundation. Areas near the operational Thaltej stations have seen appreciation in the double digits over five years, and industry sources are already citing the upcoming Godhavi extension as a reason for renewed interest in Shilaj, Bopal, and Shela, localities that have grown fast on their own but never had rail transit nearby. That’s the part of the SG Highway corridor most likely to see the metro genuinely change the situation rather than simply reinforce prices that were already high.

The usual caveat applies: Phase 3A doesn’t have a confirmed opening date, and Indian metro extensions routinely take longer than their initial estimates suggest. Buyers pricing in the extension today are pricing in a wait, not an immediate shift.

Localities Near SG Highway Worth Comparing

If you’re weighing different stretches of SG Highway against each other or against nearby West Ahmedabad micro-markets, here’s roughly how they compare:

Where a given address on SG Highway lands in this comparison depends heavily on which end you mean; this is a corridor with genuinely different price tiers within a few kilometers of each other.

Why this matters beyond just visiting

SG Highway is a prime example of a corridor whose reputation was built entirely without the metro’s help and is only now catching up to it. The road, the malls, the office towers, all of that came first. The Blue Line arrived at Thaltej Gam only in December 2024, years after this stretch had already become one of Ahmedabad’s most expensive addresses.

What’s left is the harder part: extending that access further out to where the city is actually still growing, Shilaj, Bopal, Shela, and the Sarkhej end. That’s a deliberate, funded next step rather than a vague someday-plan, but it’s also not close to finished. Anyone treating SG Highway as a single, uniformly connected corridor is missing how differently connected its two ends actually are.

Conclusion

Thaltej Gam and Thaltej are the names worth knowing if you’re anywhere near the built-up, established stretch of SG Highway. Further southwest, toward Sola, Science City, and Sarkhej, the honest answer today is that there’s no close station yet, and the approved Blue Line extension to Godhavi is the project that changes that. Anyone buying along this corridor should think about which end they’re on before assuming the metro answer is the same for all of it.