Gurgaon: The long queue was witnessed outside several metro stations in Gurgaon on Wednesday after Delhi announced that the train would run at a capacity of 50% without the provisions for standing commuter waiting time.
Reducing the capacity of the passenger, they said, there is no point because many are forced to stand in the queue at the station and social pause sans platform.
Whether the Covid case increase in the national capital, District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) imposed fresh restrictions and restricted capacity of seating in Delhi Metro to 50% seating capacity and prohibiting passengers to stand up.
Sarita Yadav, 38, from Dharera, who traveled to Delhi, said he would start before if he knew there would be a delay.
Yadav, who will reach Delhi at 11:30 a.m.
for appointments that relate to work, have to wait in the queue outside the metro station until noon.
Other Satish Kumar, 34, who also had to stand in the queue for almost half an hour, claimed he missed an important meeting at work.
“What’s the point? We stand outside in the long queue back to the back.
We will contract Covid here in the queue and bring it inside the Metro station? Isn’t this the whole exercise by the government that is in vain and intended to create discomfort for us,” Kumar said.
10 people sent inside the station.
“We have received an order that batch 10 people will go inside after it will wait a few minutes before another batch is allowed.
This was done in the background of the Covid situation,” said one CISF personnel.
While some commuters appreciate the government’s decision, some said the authorities should make provisions to manage the crowd of outside stations.
“The Metro Authority and CISF personnel cannot manage the crowd properly.
People encourage each other, rely on each other, defeating all the purpose of Covid’s behavior,” Kavish said 38 years old.
Meanwhile, serpentine queues and waiting times to enter the metro station that sometimes stretch longer than travel.
Alone returned in Delhi on Wednesday, along with massive crowding at the bus stop during rush hour because Level 1 of the Covid response response action plan (GRAP) was enforced.
To set the number of passengers inside the station and the train to ensure the corresponding behavior of Covid, the DMRC only stores 444 out of a total of 712 gates on the open network.
It also asks for passengers to travel only if it is important and save extra time for travel.
DMRC has deployed 15 flying teams to ensure that the safety protocol is maintained.
“Not everyone has the luxury of working from home and because private offices are allowed to open, people like me have no choice but to go to work.
I can’t afford to buy the Metro and the bus allow very little passengers,” said Rajesh friend, a resident of capashera.amit Bhatt, Executive Director (Integrated Transportation) in WRI India, said something must be done to reduce the demand for public transportation now and push more people to work remotely, excluding them whose job requires them to come out in the field.
“In a global experience, there are no empirical studies that say that public transport has helped spread Covid,” he said.