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Delhi Metro tackles overcrowding & frequency points on Crimson Line by including 2 coaches per practice, easing commute for hundreds amidst metropolis’s bustle.
Delhi is among the most populated cities and is at all times on the go. Amidst all that hustle and bustle, the Delhi metro is a lifesaver for commuters, particularly with regards to battling the town’s infamous visitors woes.
It is among the hottest and most popular public transports within the Capital, which is now affected by frequency points. Beforehand, all trains on the oldest route, the Crimson Line (Rithala-New Bus Adda Ghaziabad), ran with six coaches, which was inadequate to deal with the rise within the variety of travellers.
So, the Delhi Metro determined to resolve this concern by including two extra coaches to every of the trains, just like the Blue and Yellow traces of the Delhi Metro. After which, the trains on the Crimson Line began working with eight coaches.
Nonetheless, the frequency of trains nonetheless stays a serious concern on this route, because the Crimson Line hall is among the busiest routes of Delhi Metro and is affected by a low frequency of metro journeys, as reported by Jagran English.
In 2018, the Delhi Metro Rail Company (DMRC) ordered greater than 120 coaches for the Blue, Crimson and Yellow traces. All of those coaches arrived in Delhi in 2021. These coaches have been initially positioned in trains on the blue and yellow traces. Thereafter, the work to transform the 34.55-kilometer-long Crimson Line metro into eight-coach trains started in November 2022.
The Crimson Line of the Delhi Metro presently operates with as many as 30 trains, and over 14 of those have been transformed into eight-coach automobiles by June final 12 months. The additional coaches have been then added to 23 extra metro trains on this line over the last 9 months.
Presently, 37 metro trains alongside this route have been transformed into eight coaches, and a complete of 74 extra coaches have been added to those. A metro coach has seats that will accommodate roughly 50 passengers.
Nonetheless, a metro coach can carry round 350 passengers. Subsequently, with the addition of two additional coaches, 600–700 extra passengers will have the ability to journey in a metro on the Crimson Line.
The time hole on weekends between two trains throughout peak hours is 3 minutes and 21 seconds from Dilshad Backyard to Rithala, in keeping with the Delhi Metro. Nonetheless, this surpasses 4 minutes throughout off-peak hours.
The Delhi Metro Rail Company additional acknowledged that this time hole would possibly exceed as much as 5 minutes on weekends, reported Jagran English.
