Hyderabad Metro Rail, which ran its services till 2 a.m. for the convenience of New Year revellers, saw as many as 4.60 lakh passengers making use of the facility. It is 40,000 more than what the mass public transport system had carried ever since it launched operations in November 2017 and without any significant incident, said metro rail officials on Wednesday. “We usually carry about 4.10-4.20 lakh passengers a day in the two metro corridors in operation — Miyapur to L.B. About 2.68 lakh passengers, used the Corridor One facility (29 km) and about 1.91 lakh used Corridor Three (28 km),” he explained. Word is that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will be requested to inaugurate this second corridor as it will effectively complete the first phase of metro rail project of about 68 km from the originally envisaged 73 km.

Source: The Hindu January 01, 2020 18:56 UTC