Chennai: When the celebration season began and more people began to return to work from their office, daily footsteps on the Metro train crossed one lakh on Wednesday – the highest since the train service on June 21 after relaxation.
In August, daily protection was 73,356, which was 64% of the average patronage of pre-covid daily 1.16 lakh.
Even though passengers touched one lakh reached 88% of the pre-covid daily average, it was still only 100% of the passenger estimation for the 45km phase-1 corridor.
On Wednesday, a total of 1.02, 855 people traveled to the Metro train throughout the phase-1 extension corridor and phase-1 54km.
CMRL officials associated the increase in footsteps to the festival buyers, visitors to the office, students returned to schools and colleges and air passengers flying in and out of the city.
“If this continues, we hope to touch the pre-covid number soon,” said an official.
In July, an average of 59,553 people traveled every day.
Officials said Metro Middle Metro, which is an underground interchange, airport, Thirumbalam, High Court, Guindy and Metro Alandur station have become attractive towers of an attractive crowd between 3,250 and 7,300 passengers every day since September.
Despite opening a new 9 km line in North Chennai, which is expected to increase protection of up to 30%, the metro train in the city still has a small portion of passengers estimated during the project’s initial stages.
While the passenger connects it at a high minimum ticket rates, experts blame it in poor last connectivity.
“We also operate trains only with 50% residential,” said an official.
“The cabin and sharing of the car that we operated for the last connectivity was stopped because our train and train service were also suspended during locking.
After some returns and trains also operate with full residence, we will start the job to bring a taxi back or share a car as standard connectivity mode Last at all stations, “officially added.