French envoy visits Metro depot

LUCKNOW: You will get to board a Metro every seven minutes . This is the time gap decided between two trains by the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation . This gap, called headway time, would be gradually reduced depending on the increase in Metro traffic . The first Metro is expected to start running in a month's time.

The Metro would stop for 30 seconds at every station to allow passengers to board and deboard. This is the standard time for most of the metros in the country. In October 2016, LMRC had planned to keep the headway time at 4.5 minutes and begin the commercial run with six trains. But now it plans to start the commercial run with four train. "Since there would be fewer train initially the time gap would be more. It would be reduced gradually depending on the increase in Metro traffic and arrival of more train sets," said an LMRC official.

LMRC has received four train sets of four coaches each to begin Metro's run on the priority corridor - Transportnagar to Charbagh. The fifth train was dispatched for Lucknow on June 9, while the sixth train would also arrive soon. LMRC officials said more coaches would arrive as the north-south corridor would near completion. Twenty trains are scheduled to run on the 23-km north-south corridor from Amausi airport to Munshipulia, which would be ready by March 2019.

