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Chennai:  The  Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) plans to upgrade its app and add interesting features. Commuters who feel suffocated inside a coach due to poor air conditioning will soon be able to inform the metro official via the app. The upgraded app will help commuters to register their likes and dislikes while commuting in Chennai Metro. CMRL is coming up with a feature in the app where riders will be star their experience. The app will help rate amenities offered by the metro and this will give real-time feedback to metro authorities. The existing app will soon be upgraded by CMRL with new features and interfaces. As per CMRL officials, the app will have a set of ten questions. These will be around various facilities offered within the metro and at the station. Commuters can rate them between 1 to 5 – as poor, good and best. There are various services commuters will be able to rate. These include: The timely arrival of the train Functioning of AC in train and o...

Kochi: Travelling in metro will now come with an added feature – an exquisite air-conditioned bed space dormitory. Yes, you are reading it right, Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) has opened India’s first dormitory facility at MG Road Metro Station. This is first of its kind initiative taken by a metro body offering world class accommodation at pocket friendly rate. This will be a bed space dormitory with air-conditioned facility. The dormitory will be operated and managed by Peters Inn. The project was inaugurated jointly by by Kochi Mayor Soumini Jain alongside MLAs S Sharma, V D Satheeshan, Hibi Eden, P T Thomas as well as former MLA Dominic Presentation and KMRL MD APM Mohammed Hanish. The facility will be available at MG Road Kochi Metro Station. The dormitory comes with loads of features like free Wi-Fi, security cameras, lockers and check-in and check-out facility round the clock. This will be a fully air-conditioned dormitory which people can use at economical rents....

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), which has made a significant contribution in facilitating people to travel in Delhi, has made a new record. Actually, Delhi Metro has installed India’s longest escalator ever. This escalator is installed at the Janakpuri West Metro station of Magenta Line. So far, the Escalator located at Terminal 2 of Mumbai Airport is the longest in India, with a length of 11.6 meters. At the same time the length of the Escalator at Janakpri West Metro station is 15.6 meters. According to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation spokesperson, its height is as much as a 5-story building. With the opening of new section between Kalkaji Mandir Metro and Janakpuri West , this escalator will start functioning. Janakpuri West Metro Station gets India’s largest Escalator (Image: TOI) The spokesman said that this work was not so easy. A special crane was procured for it to be made, which weighed 250 tons. Explain that this escalator is 17 meters below ...

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), which has made a significant contribution in facilitating people to travel in Delhi, has made a new record. Actually, Delhi Metro has installed India’s longest escalator ever. This escalator is installed at the Janakpuri West Metro station of Magenta Line. So far, the Escalator located at Terminal 2 of Mumbai Airport is the longest in India, with a length of 11.6 meters. At the same time the length of the Escalator at Janakpri West Metro station is 15.6 meters. According to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation spokesperson, its height is as much as a 5-story building. With the opening of new section between Kalkaji Mandir Metro and Janakpuri West , this escalator will start functioning. Janakpuri West Metro Station gets India’s largest Escalator (Image: TOI) The spokesman said that this work was not so easy. A special crane was procured for it to be made, which weighed 250 tons. Explain that this escalator is 17 meters below ...

New Delhi: In a bid to provide seamless journey to the commuters, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is going to upgrade the ticketing technology and has invited the expression of interest for implementation of EMV (Europay, MasterCard, and Visa) and RuPay based open loop ticketing in DMRC... Click here to see more https://goo.gl/THhKbF