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The Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram has a well-developed transport infrastructure. The city and its suburbs may be traversed using road and rail. Within the city, city buses, taxis and auto rickshaws provide mobility. Scooters and motorcycles are the favored means of personal transport. Ola, Uber and other taxi services operate there.
The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the state of Kerala, India. It is one of the 108 Divya Desams which are considered the sacred abodes of Vishnu in the Sri Vaishnava tradition.
As per local folklore, it is considered as the second one of its kind after the famous Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram. More spectacularly the 10-day festival includes Rupmani Swayambaram. In going with the simplicity and elegant architecture of temples in Kerala, the temple premises here present a very serene and spiritual outlook.
There is a pre-paid taxi service counter and foreign exchange (Thomas Cook India) counter in the arrivals area. [ 19 ] Thiruvananthapuram Airport was included in the Ministry of civil aviation strategic plan for 2010–2015 to upgrade as a Category-A airport by developing to aerodrome CODE 4E/4F, constructing a parallel runway with taxiways ...
It is also the most important trading centre in the city and the state from pre-independence period. To the west is the famous Sri Padmanabha Swamy Temple, inside the fort, the nucleus around which Trivandrum city evolved in the 18th-19th century. The major city bus stand known as the East Fort Bus Stand is also located here.
Thiruvananthapuram (/ ˌ t ɪ r uː v ə ˌ n ʌ n t ə ˈ p ʊər ə m / TIRR-oo-və-NUN-təp-OOR-əm; Malayalam: [t̪iɾuʋɐnɐn̪d̪ɐpuɾɐm] ⓘ), formerly known as Trivandrum, [10] is the capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the largest and most populous city in Kerala [11] and a major port city.
The 450 meters long street facing East Fort and Padmanabha Swamy temple is the most expensive stretch of land in Trivandrum [citation needed] with most of the land being owned by Rajadhani Group and Ramachandran Textiles group. There are temples devoted to Hanuman and Ganapathi inside the East Fort premises, along with an Ashram started by Shri ...
Central bus station, Thampanoor, serves as the main boarding & alighting point in Thiruvananthapuram for all the passengers travelling outside city and state. It is being managed by KSRTC, with a majority of buses catering to long distances services and short distance (Moffusil) buses.