Metro's Blueline operations suspended due to dust storm

Services shut for one and a half hour, resumes with a six minute gap between trains

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Sonam Saigal | May 6, 2011



With gusts of windling blowing dust across Delhi on Friday afternoon, the Delhi metro shut operations on its Blueline for a hour and half as visibility fell to two kilometres during the duststorm.

Services on the Dwarka-Noida line were suspended around 5pm even as commuters crowded the 44 stations on thye line.

A Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) official said, “The blueline was interrupted by rainfall and some unfavourable weather conditions in the evening between 5pm to 5.30pm. There was only a half an hour halt in the line and after that the metro arrives after every 5-6 minutes.”

Commuters however, still await the metro at 7.30pm on one of the stations.


 

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