From the 2nd of July, Friday, the Hyderabad metros would run at different timings. During the recent lockdown in Telangana, the Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) authorities reduced the times of operation of the trains.
During the imposed lockdown in May and June 2021, the HMRL was running metros in between 7:00 A.M., to 09:45 A.M. Later, due to the less number of footfall, the HMRL temporarily suspended operations. The HMRL, which used to have a footfall of 80,000 to 1,00,000 per day, witnessed only 4,000 people in a day during the imposed lockdown.
However, a week after the end of the lockdown, on the 1st of July, Thursday, the HMRL authorities announced new extended timings of metros.
Starting today, the last metro would leave the terminal at 9:45 P.M., and would reach the destination at 10:45 P.M. In addition, the metro rail services would begin from 7:00 A.M.
K.V.B. Reddy, the Director of the Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Hyderabad Metro Rail said, “The revised timings will be effective from Friday.”
Meanwhile, the HMRL authorities asked all the passengers to follow all the guidelines of the Wuhan virus, also known as the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19.)
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the HMRL suffered a huge loss. In the 2020 lockdown, the HMRL was said to suffer losses of Rs. 300 crores. In addition, another major hit to the Metro Rail operator was in May and June in 2021, when the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Government imposed a complete lockdown.
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