MUMBAI: Ridership on Mumbai Metro, which operates on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor, has reached the 2-lakh mark for the first time since the pandemic began, but it is still well short of the pre-Covid numbers — 4.5 lakh per day.
After the Covid-19 outbreak, the metro line remained non-operational for 211 days. When services resumed on October 19, Metro One registered ridership of merely 12,738, which gradually grew to over 1 lakh on the weekdays in February-March. Once again, in April-May, due to restrictions imposed during the second wave of Covid, weekday ridership dropped below 50,000.
An official from Mumbai Metro One Private Ltd (MMOPL) said, “In the beginning of December 2021, weekday ridership improved to around 2 lakh, with the highest ridership [since the outbreak] of 2,02,536 on December 7.”
