lakhs of commuters travelling on the Noida line will soon get respite from crowded trains. Soon eight-coach trains will be inducted on the corridor. According to the Delhi Metro Chief Mangu Singh, the four-coach trains on the corridor will be converted into six-coach ones before August 15 and thereafter, process to covert them into eight coaches will begin. By the end of this year, 31 out of 71 trains which operate on this corridor will be converted into eight-coach ones.
After commencing the process of converting the trains on the Yellow line (Jahangirpuri to Huda City Centre) corridor into eight coaches, Delhi Metro will soon start preparations to induct eight-coach trains on the Noida City Centre/Vaishali to Dwarka Sector 21 corridor. The move will benefit lakhs of commuters of Blue line, which is the busiest Metro corridor. leaving Airport link, Delhi Metro records an average daily footfall of 23.5 lakh. Out of this, 9.25 lakh passengers commute on the Noida and Vaishali lines on an average daily. Due to the steep ridership on the two lines, commuters are forced to jostle for space in the packed trains. The induction of eight-coach trains will help increase the commuters’ convenience and will help tackle ever increasing rush on the two lines.
In order to provide space and relief to the commuters, Delhi Metro was scheduled to induct eight-coach trains on the Gurgaon and Noida lines, which are the busiest lines of the Delhi Metro network that record a combined daily footfall of over 13 lakh passengers daily.
Singh said that in the last one and a half year, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has added 127 coaches to the trains on the Gurgaon and Noida corridors. “Trains on the Jahangirpuri to Huda City Centre corridor are underway to get converted into eight-coach ones. Out of 60 trains operational on this corridor, 37 will be converted into eight-coach trains by this year end,” he added.
DMRC chief further said that out of 71 trains on the Dwarka-Noida-Vaishali line, 68 trains have been converted into six-coach trains from the four-coach ones.