After resuming services on most of its Line under Stage-I of the graded resumption from 7th to 10th September, the Delhi Metro will now resume services on Magenta and Grey Line.
Anuj Dayal, Executive Director of DMRC said that the timings for running the services on Lines re-opened till 11th September 2020 under both stage-I as well stage-II will be for 6 hours each in the morning (from 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM) and evening (4:00 PM to 10:00 PM) with broadly the same frequency which used to be before lockdown.
“These service timings will remain valid only for 11th September only and normal timing of services throughout the day from 6:00 AM to 11:00 PM will become applicable from 12th September 2020 onwards on all lines when the last Line of Delhi Metro network i.e Airport Express Line from New Delhi to Dwarka Sec-21 (22.7 KM/6 stations) is made operational under Stage-III, the last stage under graded resumption plan of Metro services,” he said.
“On Sundays (Starting from 20th September onwards) the services will commence at 8.00 AM from all such sections which had this practice in vogue before the lockdown also. However, on this Sunday, i.e., 13th September, the services on these lines will commence at 6 AM as per the existing schedule,” he said.
Magenta Line runs from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden (37.5 KM/25 stations) and Grey Line from Dwarka to Najafgarh (4.3 KM/3 stations) from Friday under Stage-II.
All lines of the Delhi Metro network comprising 349 KM and 253 Metro stations will be fully operational once again from 12th September which were closed since 22nd March 2020 owing to the national lockdown imposed by the Government due to the ongoing pandemic.
Owing to new norms of social distancing in place now which has significantly reduced the number of persons to be carried in a train, DMRC has also decided to run the peak hour frequency of trains from 8 AM to 8 PM.