Hyderabad: Responding to Telangana Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao’s recommendation, in response to passenger requests, the Hyderabad Metro rail has announced to revise the timings of the metro service from Wednesday.
“From 10th November onwards, the first train starts at 6 am and the last train starts at 10:15 pm, reaching all terminating stations around 11:15pm,” the L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail wrote in a tweet.
The decision came about after KT Rama Rao responded to a passenger, Abhinav Sudarsi’s concern on Twitter.
Abhinav Sudarsi tweeted a series of photographs and videos to the Minister and wrote, “People reached the Metro stations by 6 am and since Metro trains begin services at 7 am, have to wait for one hour. Trying to reach office any sooner by taking cabs was a costly option since cabs charged more in the early hours.”
“Senior Citizens are having 2 be squeezed & sandwiched amongst the rest of the crowd, kindly do the needful & start Hyderabad Metro by 6AM to avoid this kind of congestion & inconvenience 4 ur Citizens!,” he further remarked.
He subsequently brought up the issue with NVS Reddy, Managing Director of the Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited. The concern was considered and passed on Tuesday.