Key Points
Travelling in the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) Green Line or Corridor Two from Jubilee Bus Station (JBS), Secunderabad, to Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station (MGBS), Imlibun, with 10 stations for about 11 km, is like a picnic with enough space inside the three coach trains even during the peak hours...
In comparison, Red Line (Corridor One) running between Miyapur and LB Nagar runs full while the Blue Line (Corridor Three) between Nagole and Raidurg is also packed to capacity with the metro rail authorities struggling to deal with the peak hours rush in the morning and nights even with increased frequency of short distance trips from Mettuguda towards Raidurg...
If the Red Line has a daily ridership of about 2.50 lakh passengers, Blue Line has a ridership of about 2.18 lakh, whereas, on the Green Line, it is about 25,000 only even when it traverses through some of the busiest thoroughfares of the twin cities snaking through the dense residential colonies, educational institutions, movie theatres, markets, hospitals and so on...
Opinions vary - there are passengers regularly travelling on the metro line, pointing out the time lag between two trains defeating the very purpose of running the metro service of providing quick public transport and maintaining punctuality...
Metro Rail authorities say the frequency has been increased from 6-8 minutes on the Green Line when the service was launched and later to 8-20 minutes between peak and non-peak hours due to poor patronage, with reasons cited being parallel bus and MMTS services plus affordability...
