Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited & L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad have announced on Tuesday that the L.B. Nagar terminal station on Corridor One - Miyapur to L.B. Nagar has crossed the Ameerpet interchange station in having the highest passenger footfall with both entry and exit being 30,000 a day.
Top stations used by passengers are: LB Nagar -- entry - 14,145, Ameerpet -- 13,974, Miyapur -- 10,603, Uppal -- 9,719, KPHB -- 9,269 and JNTU -- 8,493 as on Monday when the total number of passengers on all the trains have been 1. 90 lakh of which 1.77 lakh are paid passengers.
Corridor One has became operational last month and it is carrying upto 1.25 lakh passengers a day with trains being run at 3.5 minutes frequency during the peak hours, 6.5 minutes when the rush is slightly less and eight minutes during the non-peak hours in this section, according to HMR MD N.V.S. Reddy. L&TMRH MD & CEO K.V.B. Reddy informed that every day 248 trips are being run on Corrdior One while it is 266 trains on the partially opened Corridor Three - Nagole to Ameerpet.
Altogether 550 trips are being undertaken by the metro trains in the twin directions and the number of passengers on Corridor Three is about 50,000 now. Metro rail authorities are running 21 three coach trains between L.B.Nagar (29 km) and Miyapur and 12 three-coach trains between Nagole to Ameerpet (17 km) everyday thereby running 33 trains in total. The duo along with other senior metro rail officials, including Chief Operating Officer Anil Kumar Saini and others participated in a coordination meeting held at HMR Bhavan. The officials discussed the passenger rush, amenities and other issues of the transport system. They were of the opinion that barring a few complaints, the passengers have been having a good run in the metro trains in the 46-km. made operational and appealed to the citizens to make use of the services extensively.
