Metro comes up with instructions for passengers
The Statesman | 9 September 2025The board having a list of what commuters and visitors could do in the metro premises and what they couldn’t is based on similar lines like those installed at railway stations. Written in English, Hindi and Bengali, it urges commuters and visitors to stand in queues, limit baggage to 15 kg, stand on the left side of the escalator while moving, move away from escalators immediately after alighting, make way for the physically challenged, abstain from drunken and unruly behaviour among other list of do’s.
According to a metro official, the instruction boards are being installed at various stations of the city metro network. “The boards have been put up for general awareness of the people as it is there at railway stations,” said an official. “It is for making commuters aware of what are the do’s and don’ts for them at metro station premises,” he added.
Meanwhile, the city metro carried more than 49 lakh passengers across lines in the last week of August between 25 August and 31 August. A total of 49.18 lakh passengers are said to have travelled in all the corridors of Metro Railway during that week.
With markets being flooded with Puja shoppers and the surge in the count, the metro authorities are anticipating the number to touch 50-lakhs. Out of these, more than 8.07 lakh passengers travelled in the metro on 1 September, 7.86 lakh on 4 September and more than 7.13 lakh on 6 September. According to the Kolkata Metro railway office, on an average, 7.49 lakh commuters travelled daily in the first six days of September so far. In Green Line too, more than 2 lakh passengers were carried on 1 September and 4 September.
