Seven new AFC Gates installed at DMRC’s Rajiv Chowk station

Seven new AFC Gates installed at DMRC’s Rajiv Chowk station

Seven new fare collection gates have been installed at Delhi Metro’s Rajiv Chowk station to facilitate smooth exit of passengers deboarding from Yellow Line trains which run between Jahangirpuri and Gurgaon’s Huda City Centre

New Delhi: Seven new fare collection gates have been installed at Delhi Metro’s Rajiv Chowk station to facilitate smooth exit of passengers deboarding from Yellow Line trains which run between Jahangirpuri and Gurgaon’s Huda City Centre.

These additional gates – which had to be installed by cutting a portion of the station area – is aimed at reducing congestion in the area which takes one towards F-Block of Connaught Place, which registers maximum outflow, Metro said.

In this regard, Delhi Metro had previously opened the Viewers Gallery, the unpaid area of the busy intersection, to allow its passengers to move over the tracks of Blue Line without crossing the foot-over-bridge.

However, it has very few takers as of now.

“These additional gates will facilitate smooth and swift exit of passengers of Yellow Line (Line-2) from the station without getting into the way of Blue Line (ie, Line-3 Dwarka Sec-21 to Noida City Centre) passengers within the paid area and vice versa and will avoid unnecessary criss-crossing while interchange,” a Metro statement said.

Adequate signages have been installed to guide passengers towards these gates, it said. With these new installations, the number of Automatic Fare Collection gates at Rajiv Chowk has gone up to 46, the maximum for any station in the entire Metro network.

“It has been observed that generally 70 per cent of the passengers land up at the Dwarka-side platform and then cross the over-bridge to go towards the Noida/Vaishali platform. The move is aimed at facilitating smooth movement of passengers from one side of the station to another and to avoid unnecessary congestion inside the paid area,” said Delhi Metro Rail Corporation in a press statement.