Blue Line snag irks commuters again
New Delhi: Delhi Metro commuters, largely office-goers, on Thursday faced hardship, as services on its Blue Line were delayed for over two hours due to a technical snag.
Blue Line connects Dwarka Sector-21 in Delhi and Noida Electronic City, along with a branch line to Vaishali.
This is the second time this week when the entire Blue Line has been impacted by a glitch.
On June 6, a large number of commuters on the Blue Line had faced hardship as services across the corridor were impacted for nearly an hour and a half due to a technical snag caused by a bird hit. On Thursday again, the DMRC tweeted around 7:25 AM to alert commuters.
"Blue Line Update Delay in services between Dwarka Sector 21 and Noida Electronic City/Vaishali. Normal service on all other lines," it tweeted.
The normal services could only be resumed after over two hours on the corridor. The DMRC again tweeted at 9:43 AM that "normal services have resumed". In between, the Delhi Metro had updated on its Twitter handle the cause of the snag.
"There has been damage to the Over Head Electrification wire due to flash over by an external object between Yamuna Bank and Indraprastha. Repair work is being done on a war footing. Update on restoration shall be provided soon. The inconvenience is regretted," it said. Being the morning hour, many of these commuters were office-goers or businessmen who were on way to Connaught Place or other important commercial hubs located near the Blue Line network.
Several of them took to Twitter to share about the hardships faced and some even tagged Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Puri and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and sought effective redressal of such issues.
"Another day but the same news... don't tell us about the hindrance. Inform this to our offices that won't understand the issues we're facing due to the repeated delayed service of blue line," wrote a commuter and Twitter user @_monukumar.
Another commuter, @vikek2020 said: "@Secretary_MoHUA @HardeepSPuri @ArvindKejriwal please take suitable action. People
are still recovering from the pandemic and such situations decrease the productivity of office goers".
