Kolkata Metro Connectivity: A Shift in Public Commuting

• The three new stretches of the Kolkata Metro Railway, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 22, have significantly improved Kolkata’s commute.

• The new stretches cover 13.6 km, increasing the total track length to 74 km.

• The East-West corridor (Green Line) from Howrah Maidan to Salt Lake Sector V, Noapara to Jai Hind (airport) on the Yellow Line, and the Beleghata to Hemanta Mukhopadhyay stretch on the Orange Line have significantly reduced the commute time for commuters.

• The East-West Green Line has changed the design of public commute in Kolkata, connecting two of West Bengal’s biggest railway stations, Howrah and Sealdah, as well as the business districts across Howrah, central Kolkata, and Salt Lake.

• Commuters have reported a surge of about 1 lakh passengers across all metro lines since the first Monday after the inauguration.

• The North-South corridor (Blue Line), the oldest line that was started in 1984, saw a surge of about 70,000 passengers on August 25.

• Commuters on the old North-South metro (Blue line) are facing several issues along the route due to the sudden and sharp increase in the passenger load.

• The Metro Railway official dismisses these as “teething issues” and “nothing that cannot be addressed”.

• The Metro Rail is running on eight rakes (coaches) and is working on transitioning to Automatic Train Operation (auto driving mode) in their metros from the Automatic Train Protection (manual driving mode).

• The terminal station of the Blue Line, Kavi Subhash (New Garia), has become non-operational after July 28, when cracks were flagged in the station structure.

• The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) highlights the importance of the influence zone, the area in a 400-500-metre radius of a metro station, as a critical area for the development of the para transit ecosystem.

• Private bus and yellow taxi owners have been worried about the loss of about ₹2,500 a day on each bus route and passengers by 100 to 150 a day since the metros opened.

Kolkata Public Transport Shift is important topic for Civil service exam (WBCS).

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