The daily commuters travelling on the Delhi Metro once again faced a torrid time on Magenta Line as the newly-opened section suffered technical issues in signalling affecting train services on Wednesday afternoon.
Magenta Line connects Janakpuri West in Delhi’s western part to Botanical Garden in Noida.” The point (crossovers zone) on the line, as a train departs from Jasola Vihar towards Botanical Garden (down Line) on Magenta Line is showing some signalling issue though physically it’s fine, since 12:05 pm. As a result, trains between Jasola Vihar and Kalindi Kunj stations are running on restricted speed of 25 kmph as a part of “fail-safe mechanism between these two stations leading to minor bunching of trains,” asaid a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) official.
“The overall services on Magenta line are normal and authorised automatic speed in affected section will be restored as soon as the issue is sorted out”, the DMRC said.
Many passengers took to twitter to share their experience. “Technical delays make traveling by metro very unpredictable. And this are happening more often now a days! #magentaline,” a passenger, Rakesh Kamal, tweeted.
Another passenger wrote, “Took 1 hour from Kalkaji Mandir to Jasola Vihar Shaheen Bagh. Technical fault in Magenta line.”
When The Pioneer asked the DMRC about any permanent solution the problem that is causing quite daily in the various stretched of the Delhi Metro, “Whenever technical snags delay or disrupt the services, every effort is made to find out the reasons behind the disruptions and come up with the necessary solutions. It must be appreciated that even with a massive network of 317 kilometres, 231 statuiosn and about 280 train sets, DMRC still maintains an overall punctuality of over 99 per cent in its services,” said Anuj Dayal, Executive Director (Corporate Communications).
On Wednesday, a technical snag was occurred on the yellow line at Jor Bagh metro station at around 6 pm on the train going towards Vishwadiyala. Apart from this, last week, services on the Blue Line were affected for two consecutive days due to signalling issues.
