Unlock 4: Hyderabad Metro resumes services after five months

Name: Unlock 4: Hyderabad Metro resumes services after five months
Uploaded: 07 Sep 2020, 12:55:32 PM
Duration: 02:27
Channel: TIMESOFINDIA.COM

| Sep 07, 2020, 12:55:32 PM | TNN

After a gap of more than five months, the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) welcomed passengers on Monday morning. The Metro, which had suspended its services in March due to Covid-19 lockdown reopened with a series of measures such as limited passengers, ensuring fresh air inside the trains, restricting entry without face masks, thermal scanners and sanitisers among others to enable commuters to adhere to Covid-19 social distancing protocols. As the Red Line or Corridor One between LB Nagar and Miypur will become functional on Monday with trains every five minutes between 7am and 12noon and 4pm to 9pm, the Hyderabad Metro Rail will ferry only 300 passengers which is one third of its carrying capacity for the three-coach trains, with alternate seating arrangement to ensure social distancing. Stations in containment zones - Gandhi Hospital, Bharat Nagar, Moosapet, Musheerabad and Yousufguda will be closed until further notice.