<p class="title rtejustify">Journey by Namma Metro will get comfy from March onwards, as 25 of the 50 trains will have six coaches, allowing passengers some breathing space during peak hour journeys.<br /><br />The announcement was made by officials after Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy flagged off the third six-car train at Vidhana Soudha Metro Station on Thursday. Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) Managing Director Ajay Seth said the six-car trains will help them deal with the peak hour rush.<br /><br />While a three-car train can accommodate 950 passengers, its six-car counterpart can carry 1850 people. BMRCL is in the process of adding three intermediate cars to the existing three-car trains to enhance their capacity.</p>.<p class="title rtejustify">Seth said two more six-car trains will be introduced next month and one of them will be deployed on the Green Line (Nagasandra-Yelachenahalli) for the first time. “The peak hour traffic on Green Line is 10000 passenger compared to 19000 passengers on the Purple Line (Byappanahalli-Mysore Road). However, considering the commuters’ demand, we will introduce it by the end of December,” he said.<br /><br /><strong>All trains to have 6-cars by end of 2019</strong><br /><br />The BMRCL official said Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) is likely to supply all the intermediate coaches by August. “By March we will have 25 six-car trains. All the 50 trains will have six cars by the end of next year,” he said.<br /><br />Asked whether six cars would be enough to handle the traffic in future, Seth said the coupling of cars was based on a technical design which limits Namma Metro to a six-car model. “Instead of increasing train capacity, we are grappling with the idea of increasing the frequency to 2 minutes,” he said.<br /><br />The daily ridership of Namma Metro has been climbing steadily with the introduction of big trains. While the average ridership has neared 4 lakh per day, last month’s festive rush saw the number reaching 4.49 lakh on October 17.</p>.<p><strong>ALSO READ</strong></p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/delay-metro-work-prolong-703152.html" target="_blank">Slow metro work prolong commuters’ ordeal on Mysuru Rd</a></p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/waiting-metro-stations-painful-702308.html" target="_blank">Namma Metro: painful wait at stations for elders, women</a></p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/namma-metro-phase-2-cost-may-699961.html" target="_blank">Namma Metro Phase 2 may cost 32K cr</a></p>
<p class="title rtejustify">Journey by Namma Metro will get comfy from March onwards, as 25 of the 50 trains will have six coaches, allowing passengers some breathing space during peak hour journeys.<br /><br />The announcement was made by officials after Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy flagged off the third six-car train at Vidhana Soudha Metro Station on Thursday. Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) Managing Director Ajay Seth said the six-car trains will help them deal with the peak hour rush.<br /><br />While a three-car train can accommodate 950 passengers, its six-car counterpart can carry 1850 people. BMRCL is in the process of adding three intermediate cars to the existing three-car trains to enhance their capacity.</p>.<p class="title rtejustify">Seth said two more six-car trains will be introduced next month and one of them will be deployed on the Green Line (Nagasandra-Yelachenahalli) for the first time. “The peak hour traffic on Green Line is 10000 passenger compared to 19000 passengers on the Purple Line (Byappanahalli-Mysore Road). However, considering the commuters’ demand, we will introduce it by the end of December,” he said.<br /><br /><strong>All trains to have 6-cars by end of 2019</strong><br /><br />The BMRCL official said Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) is likely to supply all the intermediate coaches by August. “By March we will have 25 six-car trains. All the 50 trains will have six cars by the end of next year,” he said.<br /><br />Asked whether six cars would be enough to handle the traffic in future, Seth said the coupling of cars was based on a technical design which limits Namma Metro to a six-car model. “Instead of increasing train capacity, we are grappling with the idea of increasing the frequency to 2 minutes,” he said.<br /><br />The daily ridership of Namma Metro has been climbing steadily with the introduction of big trains. While the average ridership has neared 4 lakh per day, last month’s festive rush saw the number reaching 4.49 lakh on October 17.</p>.<p><strong>ALSO READ</strong></p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/delay-metro-work-prolong-703152.html" target="_blank">Slow metro work prolong commuters’ ordeal on Mysuru Rd</a></p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/waiting-metro-stations-painful-702308.html" target="_blank">Namma Metro: painful wait at stations for elders, women</a></p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/namma-metro-phase-2-cost-may-699961.html" target="_blank">Namma Metro Phase 2 may cost 32K cr</a></p>