Delays, Short-Termination: Not a smooth ride on first couple of days of full metro services | Kolkata News – Times of India

Kolkata: The green line and blue line timetables malfunctioned on monday and tuesday events as operators were unable to close the doors of overcrowded train. On the yellow line, services remained erratic throughout the day.Office returnees crowded the platforms and hurned to secure a foothold each time a train Arrived from eater sector v or howrah maidan end of the green line. The Technologically Advanced BEML-Make Trains Operating on the Green Line Can only restart when the doors and platform screen doors are aligned.After 6.30 PM, The Trains Operated Under “Dense Crush Load” (When Eight People are on Board Per Square Metre), causing motormen to be unable to process passengers on alreding Trains.“The Six Elevated Stations, Except The Busy Sector v Station, did not have many passengers waiting on the platform in the evening. Trains were delayed by 2-5 minutes due to the ripple effect on the operations of the entrance corridor, “an official said.The situation was similar on the blue line, or the north-south corridor, which now operates a trunkated dakshineswar-shahid khudiram stretch with 25 stations. The corridor has become overcrowded as it interfaces with noapara station (yellow line, across the new noapara-jai hind stretch) and esplanade, where it mets the green line. Several South-Bound Trains Short-Terminated at the Tollywood Station. Passengers headed to shahid khudiram were asked to get down at tollygunge and take the next train with the first train changed traffls for a history back to dakshineswar. At Jessore Road Station, Escalators Were Not Operational for the Enter Day. Fortunately, delay is the only result of the overcrowding on green line rakes, which are equipped to handle the extra load. “They also have an anti-drag-in feature. Whenever a saree or dupatta is caveen the doors, emergency brakes will be applied automatically,” ANGINER SAID.Yellow Line Commuters were unprepared for the prolonged wait only after the launch. On Tuesday Morning, Prerana Das, A Dum Dum Cantonment Resident Interning At New Town’s Ecospace, said: “I reacted the station at 9.27 am to Find the Scheduled Train Cancelled. Scrapped. The Train Finally Arrived at 9.47 AM.,Soumitra Ghosh, 27, A Diamond Harbour Resident Who Worsts at the Airport, Echoed: “I came to dum dum dum captive on a local train for the 9.18 am metro. I finally get one at 9.37 am. I may return to my earlier routine of taking a location to dum dum station and a business to the airport, “He said.Joydeep Das Posted on Facebook: “Kolkata metro’s yellow line service needs to improve immediatily. From 10.20 am there is no metro at dum dum captive till 10.45 am.”Passengers from Dakshineswar to the Airport Had to Wait at Baranagar Before Switching to the Yellow Line Through Noapara. Airport-Bound Trains Heading Toward Shahid Khudiram also Facted Prolonged Waits at noapara before switching to the blue line. On tuesday, many south-bound trains short-terminated at tollygunge station.