BMRCL officials said services on the Green Line were affected between 7:12pm and 8pm. Four trains were held at other station platforms, and all passengers were evacuated.
The BMRCL team announced on Tuesday morning that green line services would be affected due to a technical glitch at Rajajinagar metro station. Services would be only available between Nagasandra to Yeshwanthpur and Sampige Road to Silk Institute Metro Stations on the green line. Single-line operations were being done for metro train operations on the green line between Yeshwanthpur and Sampige Road Metro Stations to reduce the inconvenience to metro passengers. Meanwhile, due to the snag, thousands of commuters were affected.
Around 1.78 lakh rode the Metro last month; no plans of reintroducing
tokens
About 35 per cent of the passengers have returned to using Metro services provided by the
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) compared to the daily 4.5 lakh ridership recorded during the pre-Covid days. On average, 1.55 lakh people travelled every day on the green and purple lines in February, which is the highest ever since the
BMRCL resumed operations in September last year. Officials, however, have no immediate plan to re-introduce the token system.
According to the ridership figures, the average daily ridership in January was 1.15 lakh and saw a