DMRC to continue service more or less as during odd-even plan

Delhi Metro, which ran 70 additional trips during the odd-even scheme in the city, will continue with the arrangement put in place to manage a surge in the number of its commuters due to vehicular restrictions.
The 15-day car rationing pilot plan implemented to cut air pollution ended today.
The average daily ridership of the metro services, between January 1 and January 13, stood at 27.5 lakh as opposed to the usual 26 lakh, indicating a marginal impact of the scheme that took thousands of cars off the city's roads.
The ridership in this period was also around 2.50 lakh more than that in the corresponding period in January last year.

Metro had increased the number of daily trips to 3,192, resulting in a marginal increase in the frequency of its services. Out of its fleet of 220 trains, it used 198 trains daily to achieve the target.
"The frequency of metro trains after the odd-even drive will more or less be on the same pattern as that followed from January 1-15," a DMRC spokesperson said.

"Metro authorities will do dynamic monitoring of the system constantly to ensure that essential maintenance needed for the trains periodically are carried out in the depots to ensure their reliability," he said.
During the post odd-even scheme period, the only changes were in the form of reduction in one train each from Yellow Line and Red line during inter-peak hours (11 AM - 5 PM) and one train from Blue Line during evening peak hours (5 PM - 8 PM).

During peak hours, 55 trains and 64 trains would be run on two of metro's busiest corridors, Line 2 (Huda City Centre to Samaypur Badli) and Line 3/4 (Dwarka Sec 21 to Noida City Centre/ Vaishali) respectively.
Accordingly, the highest train frequency on Blue Line (Line 3/4), that connects Dwarka to Noida City Centre, would be 2 minutes 30 seconds (between 9-10 AM). The same would be 2 mins 18 secs on Line 2, that connects Samaypur Badli to Gurgaon's Huda City Centre.
During inter-peak hours, trains would run at an interval of 2 minutes 42 seconds on Blue Line while the same would be 2 mins 40 secs on Yellow Line, a slight improvement over the existing timings.

At 29,77,674, January 11 (last Monday) saw the highest ridership during this period, according to official data released by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).
The two Sundays, exempted from the scheme, in the intervening period had ridership figures of 19.5 lakh and 21.7 lakh respectively.
Delhi Metro breached the 30 lakh ridership barrier in May last year and which further rose to 32 lakh mark on August 28, the highest ever ridership recorded so far.