Maintenance to slow down Vaishali Metro

NEW DELHI: Passengers travelling between Yamuna Bank and Vaishali by Metro will have to wait for trains a little longer than usual on Sunday. The Delhi Metro said on Friday that it has scheduled maintenance work on the stretch that afternoon.

“To undertake planned track maintenance work, train services between Yamuna Bank and Vaishali Metro stations of Blue Line will be run on single line for two hours only on Sunday,” a statement from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation said.

The maintenance work will be done between 12.30 pm and 2.30 pm. As a result, train services will be provided at a frequency of around 15 minutes instead of seven minutes as per the Sunday timetable.

However, the train services on the majority of the section of Blue Line i.e, from Dwarka Sec 21 to Noida City Centre will continue as per the normal scheduled time table throughout the day.

“To ensure that there is no inconvenience to commuters during this period of two hours, the Delhi Metro has made special arrangements on the section including deployment of additional customer facilitation agents and security staff for crowd management and other necessary assistance to commuters at important stations of Yamuna Bank and Anand Vihar.

“Announcements will also be made at the stations and inside the trains about destination of trains and respective platforms for change over during this period,” the statement added.

DMRC said the work cannot be done at night “due to ambient temperature constraints”.