The real walk to the metro
"Walkable to the station" measured as the crow flies, when you are not a crow.
Almost every listing near a metro line says "walkable to the station". Some mean it. Many mean the station is close as the crow flies, and you are not a crow. You have to cross a six-lane road, double back to the one footbridge, and squeeze past the parked bikes on what remains of the footpath.
Bangalore is especially good at making short distances long. A station entrance on the far side of a divided road you cannot safely cross. A layout with one narrow mouth, so a flat 400 metres from the station is a 15-minute walk from it. None of that shows on a straight line. All of it shows up in your actual morning, twice a day, in whatever weather the city is having.
Measure it the only way that works
Walk it once, at a normal pace, from the flat’s gate to the station gate, and time it. Note whether there is a footpath, whether it is lit, and where you cross. Ten minutes of your life, and the single most used number of your week stops being a guess.
When a Locara report quotes minutes to a station, it means along a route a person would really take, and where we are not sure, the report says so. A confident wrong number is worse than an honest range, because it makes the decision for you and hides that it did.
The distance that matters is the one your feet cover, not the one the map draws.