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Bengaluru Metro: Passengers Were Evacuated At Trinity Station As Doors Failed To Open

Train operations partially came to a halt on the Purple Line of the Bengaluru Metro on Thursday.

by Sanjana Shenoy
Bengaluru Metro: Passengers Were Evacuated At Trinity Station As Doors Failed To Open

On Thursday morning, during peak hours, passengers on Bengaluru Metro’s Purple Line heading from Baiyappanahalli to Challaghatta were in for a nasty shock. When the train reached Trinity Metro Station, the doors failed to open much to the dismay of the passengers the officials who had to manually open the doors to evacuate the passengers. Here’s more to it.

Doors Were Manually Opened At Trinity Station To Evacuate Passengers

As per a report by The New Indian Express, Bengaluru Metro faced a technical snag at Trinity Station. An official release stated that the issue happened at Trinity Station at 9:58 pm am on Thursday. Train service got disrupted. Later, a defective train made its way to a pocket track at Kempegowda Station. Train operations partially came to a halt on the Purple Line of the Bengaluru Metro. Later, they regained normalcy in operations at 11:30 am.

When this defective train reached Trinity Metro Station, the doors failed to open. Passengers were stuck in the train for a while. Later, authorities manually opened the doors and helped passengers alight. BL Yashavanth Chavan, BMRCL Chief Public Relations Officer took to X (formerly Twitter) to alert the public about his mishap at 11:25 am. However, many chided him for giving delayed information.

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Chavan told TNIE that this train had been taken to Kempegowda station by 9.30 am. After this, succeeding trains were permitted to run on these tracks. So, trains ferrying passengers from Challaghatta to Baiyappanahalli weren’t affected. However, due to the delay, the scheduled train timetable could only be followed post 11:30 am.

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Recently, Bengaluru Metro and BMRCL have received a lot of brickbats on social media due to persistent disruptions in operations. On June 2, a fallen tree branch due to rain halted the operation. On May 19 there was maintenance work near MG Road. Then again three suicide attempts this year caused further issues. A technical snag on the Purple Line in February this year during peak hours frustrated passengers as many were office-goers. There was a 4-hour delay.

We hope Bengaluru Metro takes stringent measures to ensure passengers aren’t inconvenienced.

Cover Image Courtesy: Wikipedia (Picture used for representation)

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