Kolkata: suspend the token system after the third wave of Covid, the Metro has seen a sharp decline in motorists over the past few days.
Against the average number of 4-lakh commuters last week, the North-South corridor brought almost 1.5 lakh fewer people lately.
On Wednesday, he recorded 2,34,811 footsteps and on Tuesday, 2,40,949.
On Monday, 2,17,858 people took the metro because only smart card holders were allowed to travel.
Since Monday, the Metro has attracted a token system, reducing work day operating hours starting at 9:30 to 21:00 along with the stretch of Kavi Subhas-Dakshineswar, which is a collapsed lane.
As a result, there was a 2-lakh fell this week, with contrast to Christmas Eve, when the Metro violated a 4.5 lakh mark, four days after the utility reached 4 lakh marks.
Ridership fell on Friday even when the Covid case rose.
On New Year’s Eve, the metro brought 3.64,539 with 276 services, especially the number of Christmas Day passengers 4.33,619 with only 230 services.
Protyush Ghosh, DGM, Metro Railway, said, “We attract tokens precisely because we want fewer people to take the metro, in accordance with 50% of the state government hats, adding,” we will continue like this until the government revised the guidelines.
“Metro is currently running 270 trains from Monday to Friday instead of 276, following limiting induced by Covid the state government which only allows it to teach 50% of ordinary daily passengers.