Delhi Metro's ridership did not witness any noteworthy jump owing to the odd-even scheme's implementation yesterday, which was the first full-fledged working day after it came into force.
Although at 28,19,657, the figure was a good two lakh above the average daily ridership of 26 lakh, metro officials say it was nothing unusual as every first working day of the week sees such large passenger volume.
As per official data, three of the last five working Mondays saw more passengers travelling on the network than yesterday. On December 21, ridership had touched 28,88,128.
On Blue Line (Line 3/4), considered as one of the most busiest corridors, four of the five Mondays had saw more ridership. On December 21, it was 10,61,814 as opposed to yesterday's 10,09,105.
The 51-km-long section connects Noida City Centre and Vaishali to Dwarka Sector 21.
Yesterday, a picture showing a jam packed Rajiv Chowk metro station went viral on social media prompting Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Chief Mangu Singh to clarify that it was an old image.
"Delhi Metro was successful in handling the expected huge rush on all its lines, on the first working Monday of the year. All necessary measures were already planned in advance and were in place to manage any additional rush of passengers. All lines and stations were thoroughly monitored throughout the day," DMRC said in a statement.
During the 15-day odd-even trial, DMRC has planned to run 70 additional trips daily taking the total figure to 3,192 to handle passenger rush.
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The ridership till 8 PM rose by nearly 2 lakh to 21,26,515 lakh as compared to Tuesday last.
However, today's figure was less than that of yesterday when it stood at 28,19,657.
DMRC also provided line wise break up, as per which, the most busiest Blue and Yellow corridors had respective ridership of 7,68,775 and 7,60,840. The Airport Express Line ridership stood at 30,365.
