Hyderabad Metro Rail ridership has risen to about 3 lakh passengers a day across the three traffic corridors, but it is still one lakh away from the peak of four lakh passengers a day witnessed in the pre-COVID times.
The highest number of passengers are in Corridor One or the Red Line Corridor of L.B. Nagar to Miyapur with 1.55 lakh passengers daily followed by 1.30 lakh in the Corridor Three or the Blue Line between Nagole to Raidurg and lastly, the Green Line of Corridor Two with 15,000 passengers running between Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station (MGBS)-Imlibun and Jubilee Bus Station (JBS) in Secunderabad.
Hyderabad Metro Rail Managing Director N.V.S. Reddy informed on Wednesday that the frequency of the trains has been increased with rising footfalls, with the Red Line having a train for every 4.30 minutes and on the Blue Line trains, which run every 5 minutes, frequency has been brought down to 4.30 minutes from Friday last.
