Its been a week since Kochi Metro was opened to public and already Kochi Metro has set a record.<\/p>\n
The Metro rail has carried 5,30,713 people in its first week and earned an amount of Rs.1,77,54,002, which is better than the first week collection of any metro in India. Kochi Metro recorded an average daily ridership of 66,340 people and an average daily income of Rs.22,19,250.<\/p>\n
Kochi Metro recorded an average daily ridership of 66,340 people and an average daily income of Rs.22,19,250.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On Sunday alone it carried 98,713 people, earning a revenue of `34,13,752.\u00a0Monday\u2019s figures were 98,713 commuters ferried, and Rs. 34,13,752 was received. Average ridership per day in the first week has been 66340 and average income Rs. 22,19,250.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had very good passenger traffic in the evening hours despite the heavy rains almost every day. And the commuters have been well-mannered and supportive. We are thankful to them<\/em>,\u201d, said Elias George, managing director of KMRL to New Indian Express.<\/p>\n
Kochi Metro is the longest first stretch to be commissioned in India which helped it achieve the feat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Kochi Metro is the longest first stretch to be commissioned in India which helped it achieve the feat. The 13-kilometer-long Kochi Metro, which was built at a cost of Rs5,181 crores will have a total of 22 stations, with 11 stations in the first phase, running from Palarivattom to Aluva.<\/p>\n
Kochi is the 8th city in India to get a metro service after Kolkata (1984), Delhi (2002), Bengaluru (2011), Jaipur (2013), Gurgaon (2013), Mumbai (2014) and Chennai (2015.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Its been a week since Kochi Metro was opened to public and already Kochi Metro has set a record. The Metro rail has carried 5,30,713 people in its first week and earned an amount of Rs.1,77,54,002, which is better than the first week collection of any metro in India. Kochi Metro recorded an average daily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":28138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[423,426],"class_list":["post-28137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-kochi","tag-kochi-metro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28139,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137\/revisions\/28139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}