18 new services delight suburban commuters


Never once in his 15 years as a train commuter has 33-year-old U Shyam Sundar missed a suburban train from Minjur station, 30km north of Chennai. But the struggle to get into a train, he says, has become harder over the years because of an increasing number of commuters. The announcement of 18 more suburban trains in Wednesday's railway budget has made tens of thousands of commuters like Sundar happy.

That the budget also proposed 13 new trains, including four passenger trains, besides extending six and increasing the frequency of four, bodes well for the state.

Passengers are not much worried that the suburban tickets will cost more, say by 50 paise for a commute from Tambaram to Chennai Beach, but they do hope that the waiting time between trains will now come down. At present, the average waiting time is 10 minutes, with the shortest interval being two minutes and the longest 18. The average time may now come down to eight minutes, said a railway official, as each train will run four or five services a day.......Read More

 

Source: Times of India


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