Hyderabad Metro Rail has completed its sixth year of commencement of commercial operations on November 28 in a relatively quiet fashion amid the hectic election campaign for Telangana Assembly elections that had come to an end.
Daily ridership is nearly touching the five lakh mark with an average of about 4.80 lakh people travelling across the three routes under phase one of the project: Red Line – LB Nagar (29 km) to Miyapur, Blue Line – Nagole to Raidurg and Green Line (29 km) – JBS to MGBS, Imlibun (11 km) of a total of about 69 km of elevated routes across the dense traffic corridors.
The routes were opened in phases across a three-year period after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the presence of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, has opened the inaugural stretch from Nagole to Miyapur via Ameerpet of 30 km in 2017 after work began on April 2012. Almost a year later, the Ameerpet to LB Nagar stretch was opened on September 24, 2018, Ameerpet to HiTec City was opened on March 20, 2019 and HiTec City to Raidurg stretch was opened on November 29, 2019. The final pending line moving into the Old City – JBS (Jubilee Bus Station) to MGBS – (Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station) was opened on February 2020.
