The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has rounded up the year 2020 in a set of four photographs.
In a Twitter post shared by the DMRC, Delhi Metro shared these four images on December 25. “2020 in 4 photos. # 2020Rewind, read the tweet.
The four photos try to re-see how things changed while traveling in the Delhi metro before and after the covid-19 pandemic.
While the first photo captures a busy Delhi metro station full of commuters, the next two images capture an empty station and a train rake during the national shutdown to stop the spread of covid-19 in the country.
The final photo captures how travel in the Delhi metro has changed once lockdown restrictions were lifted and social distancing rules went into effect to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Metro has officially entered its adulthood by completing 18 years of service.
“Operations on the Delhi Metro network reached adulthood today, as DMRC completed 18 years of commencing passenger operations since 2002. On December 24, 2002, operations on the Shahdara-Tis Hazari section of 8.4 kilometers in length were marked and passenger services began the following day, “said a press release issued by the DMRC.
With a 390 kilometer network spanning 11 lines, the Delhi Metro ranks among the largest metro networks in the world.
According to the DMRC, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will designate the country’s first fully automated driverless train service on the 37km Magenta line (Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden) and will also launch a fully operational Common National Mobility Card for Airport travel Express Line on December 28.
The expansion of the network has also been one of the fastest in the world, with more than 380 kilometers of new lines added since 2002. During the pre-COVID times, around 65 lakh of weekday trips were made in the What Delhi metro does is the backbone of mass transportation in the National Capital Region.
Currently, around 350 trains operate on the Delhi metro system for 18 hours a day and make more than 5,000 trips through the network’s 285 stations, maintaining a constant punctuality of more than 99.9 percent.
In March, Delhi Metro services were stopped for the first time to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, when large-scale renovation work was carried out on the Dilshad Garden-Rithala Red Line corridor, the oldest corridor in the DMRC. Subsequently, as of September 7, 2020, services were resumed in a phased manner following all COVID protocols.
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