KOLKATA: Metro breached the 6-lakh passenger count on the North-South corridor on Monday, recording 6,20,832 footfall. The maximum count was recorded at Dum Dum at 78,197, followed by Esplanade at 50,330 and Rabindra Sadan at 42,257. The last time the 6-lakh figure was breached was in March 2020, when 6,13,542 passengers took a Metro ride, before the Covid lockdown was declared.
In contrast, the truncated East-West Metro that operates between Salt Lake Sector V and Sealdah carried 40,229 passengers on Monday.
Metro officials said the rush of puja shoppers had helped the North-South Metro regain its pre-pandemic demand though operation hours were slightly less than that in pre-Covid times. The passenger count is expected to go up from Panchami, when pandal-hopping starts.
