Bidhannagar Road is a Kolkata Suburban Railway junction station on the Sealdah–Ranaghat line.

It is linked to the Sealdah South lines via Sir Gurudas Banerjee Halt railway station.

Under the initiative of former West Bengal Chief Minister Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the town was built by pumping the alluvium containing the Ganges' saline water to fill the low-lying areas, hence the name was made 'Saline Lake' or 'Salt Lake'.

[3] Bidhannagar Road railway station handles 975,000 passengers every day, with about 325 trains in both directions.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is about 9 km at the distance via VIP Road.