Lucknow Metro achieves milestones of 3.50 Crores Ridership in 4 Years of Metro operations

It’s a moment of immense pride for Lucknow Metro as it touched the cumulative ridership figure of 3.50 crore today on 13.10.2021 making it a proud moment for everyone associated with Lucknow Metro. 

  • This important achievement is also special because since its commencement of services on 5th September, 2017 on the 8.5 km long ‘Priority Section’ from ‘Charbagh to Transport Nagar’, Metro continues to win the hearts of Lucknowites becoming an integral part of their day to day life.

On this remarkable achievement, Shri Kumar Keshav, MD, UPMRC congratulated the entire team of Lucknow Metro & said,” I thank the people of Lucknow for their love, faith and support since its inception and I assure you that Lucknow Metro will keep providing its world class services to the public in future also. On this historic feat of reaching 3.50 crore ridership figure fills our hearts with a feeling of pride and instills confidence in us to perform even better to meet the expectations of our commuters. We aim to provide a green mobility system for safe, smart, convenient, affordable & eco-friendly travel.”

  • At present keeping in view of Covid-19, Lucknow Metro is taking every possible step to ensure a safe metro journey to the public while ensuring best sanitisation measures and physical distancing inside both metro premises and trains. 
  • As a result of these strenuous efforts, ridership of Lucknow Metro has been steadily rising since reopening of Metro services on 9th June, 2021.
  • With daily ridership of 51,000, Lucknow Metro has been able to recover around 80 percent of daily ridership which is so far the fastest ridership recovery in comparison to any other metro services in the country.

Source: UPMRC-Press Release