On Friday, the Namma Metro registered its highest ridership of 4.83 lakh.
Commuters of the Green Line of the Namma Metro in Bengaluru have reason to cheer as the authorities have decided to add two additional six-car trains from Monday to ease the rush hour journeys. At present, the Green Line trains has only four six- car trains out of the total 18 that ply on the Nagasandra-Yelachenahalli route. Compared to this, all the 18 trains running in Purple Line ((Baiyappanahalli to Mysuru Road) have six cars. Until June 2018, all Namma Metro trains plying in the city consisted of three coaches with a total capacity of 975 passengers at a given time. This caused a space crunch during peak hours. The six-car train, in comparison, can accommodate as many as 2,000 passengers. All the six-car metro rakes are provided by Indian public sector unit Bharat Earthmovers Ltd (BEML). The first compartment is reserved for women in all six-car trains. Passengers on the Green Line have been complaining of crowding during peak hours as the capacity of the trains have stayed the same since operations began, while all trains on the Purple Line have been converted to six-car trains. While the Green Line between Nagasandra-Yelachenahalli spans 24.22 km, the Purple Line between Baiyyappanahalli and Mysore Road runs for 18.08 km. However, ridership has been consistently higher in the Purple Line than in the Green Line. Incidentally, the announcement comes when the Metro on Friday also breached its peak daily ridership figures. On the eve of Deepavali (Friday), more than 4.83 lakh people used the metro which pipped the previous record of 4.64 lakh recorded on Dasara (October4). Out of these, 2.63 lakh was on the Purple Line and 2.19 lakh were on the Green Line. Speaking to TNM, BMRCL Executive Director Operations A Shankar said, “This spike in ridership ensured that our farebox revenues increased by a substantial margin.” While the fare earnings on Friday was Rs 1.12 crore, the average daily fare collections for the 2018-19 financial year was Rs 0.97 crore.
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