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New Metro feeder bus service

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will start a new feeder bus service from Indraprastha metro station from Thursday.

The route will cover Delhi Secretariat, Raj Ghat, Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Hospital, G. B. Pant Hospital, Ranjit Singh flyover, Barakhamba Road, Modern School, Mandi House, Pragati Maidan, Appu Ghar Gate No. 2, Crafts Museum and back to Indraprastha metro station.

Five buses will run on this 10-km route with a 10-minute frequency. The feeder buses will be run on an experimental basis on the route for now.

“At present, 44 feeder buses are plying on six different routes. The buses run with an average rider-ship of 30 passengers per trip. The Metro has already short-listed 36 feeder bus routes for which 419 buses are required. At present, buses from Shastri Park, Pitampura, Janakpuri, Rohini West and Vishwavidyalaya metro station are running successfully and other routes will start gradually as more buses are manufactured,” said a DMRC official.

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