After a gap of 168 days (Break due to the preventive measure of lockdown imposition against the raging coronavirus pandemic), the Metro Rail Services in the Chennai Metro City resumed today - Monday, 7th September.
The Chennai Metro Rail Service is all set to resume from 7th September.The first train of resumption of services will be from New Washermanpet to the Chennai Airport.
To assess step by step the process of how the passengers would be handled for the sake of social distancing inside trains and inside the stations, CMRL would begin trials from 3rd September.
In line with the home ministrys guidelines, the TN state government has fully lifted the restrictions regarding the operations of the metro trains in Chennai city.
After the lock down gets lifted in Chennai, CMRL or Chennai Metro Rail Limited would start metro train operations in Chennai city after it gets green light from the state government.
In the future, after the lock down gets lifted, CMRL would be running metro trains only every 10 minutes in the peak hours and only every 15 minutes in the non peak hours.
