The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi has helped Bengaluru’s Namma Metro to get a record-breaking footfall of 4.58 lakh on Friday. Earlier records were of 4,53,744 and 4,52,563 on August 14 and April 5, 2019, respectively. Talking about the money, BMRCL collected Rs 1.09 crore as revenue with the Green Line collecting more (Rs 54.81 lakh) than the Purple Line (Rs 54.25 lakh) in a single day.
Commenting about the reason for this, a BMRCL official said the high footfall could be because of the long weekend due to Gowri Habba and Ganesha Chaturthi. “We had converted 22 of our 50 trains to six-car trains, while others still operate with 3 cars each as usual. All trains will get six coaches by March 2020,” he added.
BMRCL shared this on its Twitter handle and thanked everyone for this achievement.
BMRCL has recorded its highest ridership on 30/08/2019 standing at 4,58,238, breaking the earlier records of 4,53,744 on 14/08/2019 & 4,52,563 on 5/04/2019. We thank our commuters, who are our patrons in achieving these milestones and looking forward to serve them with pleasure.
— ನಮ್ಮ ಮೆಟ್ರೋ (@OfficialBMRCL) August 31, 2019
Seeing this, netizens gave their suggestions to improve the services
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Improve your service…it is overcrowded
— Reveal Secrets (@real1manzoor) September 1, 2019
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https://twitter.com/Dadakalander/status/1167983226465374209
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Pls keep this handle active and don't tweet once in a blue moon.
Citizens cannot accept a lax SM A/c.— Sudhir (@sudhir21271) August 31, 2019
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Thanks @cpronammametro hopefully you will complete the rest of metro work as early as possible
— Vinod Shreenivas (@VinodShreenivas) August 31, 2019
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https://twitter.com/Mouli84794243/status/1167702980105097219
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Good, but you need to upgrade on the services proportionately. Can’t cramp more number of commuters in a 3 coach train
— Sathya (@Sathya_rkoppa) August 31, 2019
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Sir, the hardship faced by daily commuters have you understood. It's like cattles on a train. No increase in frequency in the green line. No six regular six coach trains. Autos menace at Banashankari and yelechenahhalli what are u doing about it.
— Rk (@RAGURAMKV) August 31, 2019
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