Bhopal Metro Updates: The Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MPMRCL) has revised the timings and reduced the number of services on the Orange Line ‘priority corridor’ between Subhash Nagar depot and AIIMS following a sharp decline in metro ridership. Initially, around 2,800 passengers used the metro daily in the first week, however, ridership has since dropped sharply.
According to a report by The Times of India, the new schedule was implemented from Tuesday, January 6. Metro services, which earlier began at 9:00 am, will now start at 12:00 noon. The number of daily services on the Orange Line has also been reduced from 17 to 13.
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Bhopal Metro Update: Revised Services and Timings
Under the revised plan, seven services will operate from AIIMS and six from Subhash Nagar. Each train will run at an interval of 75 minutes.
Timings:
- Services from AIIMS will operate from 12:00 pm to 7:30 pm.
- Services from Subhash Nagar will run between 12:40 pm and 6:55 pm.
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Bhopal Metro: Impact Of Revised Schedule On Passengers
The revised schedule, introduced on Tuesday, had a visible impact from the very next day. On Wednesday, the first day of implementation, the metro recorded 434 passengers across 13 services, marking a sharp decline from the earlier daily average.
“The timetable was revised after evaluating ridership patterns, to align services with actual commuter demand,” an official from the Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Limited said, as quoted by The Times of India.
The Orange Line was inaugurated on December 20, marking Bhopal’s entry into India’s expanding Metro network. The priority corridor spans approximately seven kilometres and includes eight operational stations.