Title - FIRST IN 28 YEARS Five-minute Metro services from today

Metro Railway will start running services at fiveminute intervals from Tuesday. For a start, these services will be available for an hour each in the mornings and evenings. Those who board trains from Mahanayak Uttam Kumar (Tollygunge) need not fret. They will get six dedicated trains at five
minute intervals, an official said.
    “This will be a great moment for us. This will be the first time in our 28-year history that we will run trains at five-minute intervals. Trains will run from Mahanayak Uttam Kumar to Dum Dum at five-minute intervals from 8.45am to 9.15am. Trains will start running at fiveminute intervals from Kavi Subhas from 10.56am. This will continue till 11.56am. The five-minute services will resume in the evening at 6pm and continue till 7pm,” said Protyush Ghosh, DGMG, Metro Railway.
    In the reverse direction, trains will start running at fiveminute intervals from Dum Dum at 10.02am. This schedule will continue till 11.02am. The evening schedule will be the same as from Kavi Subhas.
    At present, Metro runs 270 services a day. As there are no plans to increase the number of services for the moment, trains will be less frequent during the afternoon to compensate for the five-minute schedules in the mornings and evenings. “We have checked and found out that there aren’t many passengers during this period and people won’t be inconvenienced if we run trains at seven-minute intervals. As and when we increase the number of services and depending on the patronage, we shall increase the frequency even during non-peak hours for the convenience of commuters,” Ghosh said.