CHENNAI: As commuters begin to crowd the 600 suburban train services which resumed after lockdown restrictions were relaxed, crowd control has become a Herculean task, apart from train delays, slow and inefficient ticket issuing and inadequate amenities on the three suburban routes. While travelling is relatively trouble-free on Beach-Tambaram route, commuters face inconvenience on a daily basis on the Central\/BeachTiruvallur and Central\/Beach-Gummidipoondi routes.
\nTOI looks at four solutions that are crucial to make travel smoother in the city\u2019s most popular mass transit system.
\nExclusive team to manage suburban services
\nA few years ago, a bureaucrat incharge of Chennai metro rail was spotted alone at one of the stations. He had reached by a train, walked quietly past the staff, checked the platforms, ticket turnstiles, escalators and other facilities. Those who recognised him, stood up while others just went about their work. He took a few photos and quietly walked out of the station to his car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CHENNAI: As commuters begin to crowd the 600 suburban train services which resumed after lockdown restrictions were relaxed, crowd control has become a Herculean task, apart from train delays, slow and inefficient ticket issuing and inadequate amenities on the three suburban routes. While travelling is relatively trouble-free on Beach-Tambaram route, commuters face inconvenience on a daily basis on the Central\/BeachTiruvallur and Central\/Beach-Gummidipoondi routes. TOI looks at four solutions that are crucial to make travel smoother in the city\u2019s most popular mass transit system. Exclusive team to manage suburban services A few years ago, a bureaucrat incharge of Chennai metro rail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}