Nagpur Metro will operate every 12 minutes during peak hours, from 5 to 7 p.m., in order to provide better service to commuters, and this will begin on June 6.
The changes would be applicable to Trains start ingex-Lokmanya Nagar, Kasturchand Park and Sitabuldi Inter-change.
Based on ticket sales and study of footfalls, officials of Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) realised that during the in the evening when staff from employees are returning back home, there is a sudden rush of travellers. Hence to ensure faster movement, now instead of a 15 minutes interval a metro service would be available every 12 minutes. Most of the Government offices close by 7 pm and metro officials want to tap the fixed crowd and hence decided on offering maximum convenience.
Due to summer heat, people mostly did not venture out and hence the ridership was a bit low. But now with an occasional cloudy atmosphere, during afternoon and evening hours the ridership has increased.
Apart from that metro service would be available every 15 minutes during the period of 8 to 10.30 am, 3.30 to 5 pm, 5 to 7 pm and 7 to 8 pm to avoid crowding at stations and in trains and offer faster mobility. During other times the metro services would run at every 30 minutes interval.
Also the timings of Nagpur Metro has been increased till 10 pm in the night. In the morning also the first metro service is now available from6.30amonSitabuldi-Khapri-Sitabuldiand Sitabuldi-Lokmanya Nagar-Sitabuldi routes.
