Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) has been running three extra trips between Ameerpet and Raidurg, two extra trips between Mettuguda and Raidurg during morning peak hours and another four extra trips between Ameerpet and Nagole daily during evening peak hours daily on the Blue Line or Corridor Three of Nagole to Raidurg to deal with office rush.
“With these extra trips, we are having trains for every 2.45 minutes during the morning office rush hours between Ameerpet and Raidurg,” informed managing director N.V.S. Reddy. The cumulative ridership daily is now about 3.78 lakh, still below the pre-COVID peak when the patronage was over four lakh, with the Red Line or Corridor One between L.B. Nagar and Miyapur topping the charts with 2.12 lakh riders a day.
This is followed by the Blue Line with 1.63 lakh riders a day and the Green Line or Corridor Two between Jubilee Bus Station (JBS) and MGBS – Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station, Imlibun at 20,834 riders.
