Kolkata: Metro on Friday recorded 3,27,515 footsteps, almost half of the number of daily passengers registered in the pre-pandemic age.
The average commuter of 6.2 lakh to 6.5 lakh traveling in the south South Metro every day before the Coronavirus novel was first beaten and the service was suspended in the locking March 2020.
When continued after hiatus 178 days on September 14, 2020, only 21,336 Who drives a city transportation route that has resumed with 110 services.
The highest number of passengers recorded by the North-South 32km line before the second wave break 61 days from May 15 was 2.50.713 on February 19, when 240 services were operated.
The authorities have now been happy that passengers violated the 3 lakh mark on Friday, when 256 services were operated in both directions Kavi Subhas-Dakshineswar corridor.
With a celebration in the corner, Metro officials expect a steep increase in daily footsteps from next week.
To accommodate the Puja Buyer Rush, the Metro will add 10 more services from Monday, taking daily total services to 266.
It will be as high as the carrier in the pandemic period since March 2020.
Before Pandemic, the 288-year-old Metro Daily Fleet.
September 3, also on Friday, the Metro has violated a 2.5 lakh mark, and it was within 50 days after the service continued after the second wave of rest.
In the previous task of the resumption of post-covid, the operator needed five months to reach a historical milestone.
On September 4, 2.57,453 riding at 240 trains.
In fact, officials said, they have witnessed a sharp increase in the number of commuters since the service continued on July 16 after hiatus 61 days due to the second wave.
The train remained chock-a-block from the first day after the second break, with 1,28,957 people traveling with 192 services.
Rush has encouraged the authorities to immediately add 28 more trains and extend the clock.
It seems that it appears as the most meaningful and cheapest way of traveling, said an official.
One can travel 32 km from the north of the north, from Dakshineswar to Kavi Subhas, for Rs 25.