CHENNAI (Metro Rail News): Chennai Metro Rail will be operational on the Poonamallee-Vadapalani section of Phase II network at 6 a.m. from October 23. According to The Hindu report, Vadapalani and Poonamallee sections had the passengers demanding for train timings and frequency to be improved urgently. After the inaugural last week, the timings on this route formerly were 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Whereas passengers wanted the same timings of the Phase I network from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Passengers also demanded the extension of the last service till 11 p.m. along with shorter intervals of 6 to 7 minutes at peak hours instead of the present 10 minutes.

Chennai Metro Phase II was initially set to start services on the timings mentioned above on a 10 minutes interval, however due to the increasing traffic of passengers on this route people complained about the frequency of the train and demanded 10 mins time to be reduced to 6 to 7 minutes.

CMRL revised timings to provide convenience to passengers 

According to CMRL’s statement in a release “The revised timings are intended to provide greater convenience to passengers and to facilitate early-morning travel towards Vadapalani and Poonamallee,”.

Adhering to the remarks received from the passengers the timings for this train service are set to 6 a.m. from October 23.

Chennai Metro Phase II was inaugurated on 11th October by the honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the presence of the respected Chief Minister Vijay Joseph. 

The Chennai Metro Rail was designed for Unattended Train Operation (UTO), without supervision, but will initially run in Automatic Train Operations (ATO) with two supervisors on board to oversee this operation.

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