A document 4 lakh journey by metro trains

A document 4 lakh passengers clambered onto the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) trains regardless of being a common vacation on the Ganesh idols’ ultimate immersion day when the companies have been prolonged for the primary time until 2 a.m. of early hours of Saturday.

Khairatabad metro station, due to its entry to the massive Ganesh idol within the neighborhood and the Necklace Street, was fairly clearly the a lot in style station with 22,490 riders utilizing it on the Pink Line or Hall 1 – Miyapur to L.B. Nagar route. In truth, one facet of the station needed to be closed on police recommendation to stop individuals crisscrossing and disrupting the heavy visitors stream.

There was a surge of crowd on the station for about 10 minutes at 8 p.m. in any other case, the general public had cooperated effectively, and by and enormous no incident of any type of misbehaviour was skilled regardless of the late hours, mentioned HMR Managing Director N.V.S. Reddy.

No different station had skilled such type of excessive footfalls and if the standard variety of passengers is about 15,000 tp 20,000 per hour each day on regular days, in the course of the prolonged hours late into the Friday night time, the passenger depend got here right down to 7,000 to eight,000 an hour, principally throughout the most important two corridors, he defined.

The Pink Line had about 2.47 lakh passengers altogether with the frenzy stations aside from Khairatabad, with L.B. Nagar having footfall of twenty-two,063 passengers, KPHB Colony 19,762, Miyapur 18,579 and Ameerpet interchange station 12,642 passengers.

The Blue Line or Hall III from Nagole to Raidurg had the subsequent highest variety of riders of about 1.50 lakh with the frenzy stations being Raidurg with footfalls of 19,470 passengers, Uppal 10,990, Ameerpet inter-change station 11,858, Secunderabad West 9,335 and Durgan Cheruvu 9,316 passengers. The Inexperienced Line or Hall II noticed 22,304 riders with main rush stations being Secunderabad West with footfall of three,742 passengers, Narayanaguda 3,100, RTC Crossroads 4,605 and JBS 2,350 passengers.

The profitable operating and public patronage for the metro trains in late hours don’t imply it’ll be a daily affair. Mr. Reddy doesn’t forsee any such want contemplating the “passenger footfalls and different operational points”.

“Final time we ran trains until 1.30 a.m. Working trains late entails extra working hours for workers — ticketing, safety and practice operators. We additionally want to contemplate that trains want upkeep work which could be carried out solely after the companies cease. As soon as some time we will run trains throughout prolonged hours,” mentioned the MD.