New Delhi: Many Delhi Metro commuters faced a harrowing time on Sunday when they were left stranded on its Blue Line, with hundreds of them waiting at a single station for about 40 minutes.
Despite the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC’s) intimation that there will be “slight” inconvenience in the Metro services on December 25, the commuters were not quite prepared for the travails which they faced while going to offices, or meeting friends on Christmas.
A couple of them deboarded the train at the same station for fresh air, since the prolonged delay caused the train to be filled to the rafters, and many thought it better to wait outside the coach than inside.
Scores of others followed suit. They deboarded the train at the R.K. Ashram Marg Station, choosing to go with some other mode of transport.
Poor managed planning added to the pains of the passengers when the train which were supposed to go till Indraprastha left passengers stranded at Barakhamba Station, asking everyone to disembark. “This had happened last week too. I need to send prasad (holy offering) to my hometown Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, how will I able to do that in time as my deliverer is due to leave soon,” Gopikrishna, a devotee at Ayyappa temple in R.K. Puram, said.
Sunil Sehgal, who owns a shop in Sadar Bazaar, said that he had to let go of five Metro trains at R.K. Ashram before he boarded one, only to deboard that two stations later.
The DMRC had issued an advisory on Friday that Metro services will be affected slightly owing to track maintenance work between Indraprastha and Yamuna Bank Stations, between 12 to 3 p.m.
