Long queues of Delhi Metro commuters were seen outside various metro stations in the national capital on Wednesday morning, a day after new restrictions were put in place by authorities in view of rising COVID-19 cases in Delhi. The new travel restrictions include running of Delhi Metro trains with only 50% seating capacity and no provision for standing for commuters. While the new Delhi Metro travel restrictions came into force with immediate effect, soon after the DDMA announced the new guidelines, the passenger queues in the morning time, when metro services are used by several office-goers, were seen getting longer at some of the metro stations such as Akshardham, Laxmi Nagar, among others, according to a PTI report.<\/p>\n
Amid a spike in coronavirus cases in the national capital following the emergence of the new Omicron variant, on Tuesday, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal had declared a \u2018yellow alert\u2019 under which schools, colleges, gyms and cinemas shall be closed, while shops dealing in non-essential items will open on odd-even basis. Besides, metro train and bus services in the city will run with 50% of the seating capacity. The Delhi Metro network\u2019s current span is approximately 392 kilometres with 286 metro stations (including the Noida\u2013Greater Noida Metro Corridor as well as Rapid Metro in Gurgaon).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Long queues of Delhi Metro commuters were seen outside various metro stations in the national capital on Wednesday morning, a day after new restrictions were put in place by authorities in view of rising COVID-19 cases in Delhi. The new travel restrictions include running of Delhi Metro trains with only 50% seating capacity and no provision for standing for commuters. While the new Delhi Metro travel restrictions came into force with immediate effect, soon after the DDMA announced the new guidelines, the passenger queues in the morning time, when metro services are used by several office-goers, were seen getting longer […]<\/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":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459346","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=459346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}