HYDERABAD: Commuters on the city metro may soon see a shorter waiting time between trains. This, after the signaling works up to Hi-tec City are completed, according to Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited managing director N V S Reddy.The Hyderabad metro currently caters to 1.8 lakh paid passengers on a daily average, with the L B Nagar-Miyapur stretch seeing the maximum passenger traffic, according to metro officials. While the total number of paid passengers hovers around 1.8 lakh, footfalls touch 2 lakh on a daily basis, with stations interchange stations - L B Nagar, Miyapur and Ameerpet - seeing the maximum movement.“The Miyapur to L B Nagar stretch of the Hyderabad metro rail has seen very good patronage. During peak hours, based on demand, we have regularly been running trains at a frequency of one train every 3.15 minutes on the Miyapur-L B Nagar route. Once services are extended upto Hi-Tec City, trains will run on shorter frequencies on other metro stretches as well. As of now, fullfledged Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) system is in place between Miyapur and L B Nagar. Once this is extended up to Hi-Tec City, all signaling issues will be solved,” said Reddy.“Between Miyapur and L B Nagar, we currently run trains at a frequency of 3.15 minutes during the peak of peak hours, 6.30 minutes during peak hours and 8 minutes during nonpeak hours. Between Nagole and Ameerpet, 12 trains are being run at a frequency of 6.30 minutes during peak hours and eight minutes during nonpeak hours. A total of 284 trips are made by 21 trains between Miyapur and L B Nagar while 266 trips are being made by 12 trains daily on the Ameerpet-Nagole route, thus bringing the total number of trips to 550 per day,” he added.According to HMRL managing director N V S Reddy, it is still too early to determine whether completion of the Hi-Tec City stretch of the metro will be delayed since various alternatives to the traffic diversions earlier imposed in the Cyberabad region are now being studied.“We will carry out junction and other improvement works at identified locations and see how the traffic is behaving. Metro construction work and the traffic will have to move simultaneously. Experiments are currently at the trial stages. After a few days, we will take a call on whether to bring the traffic restrictions back in place or explore other alternatives,” he said.