Pallabi station to open on 25 January, amid Revised schedule for Metrorail

Staff Reporter :
The country’s first Metrorail will make a stoppage at Pallabi station from January 25.
According to the revised schedule being executed on 25th January, the metro rail will be operating for the next four hours from 8.30am.
Managing Director (MD) of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), MAN Siddique revealed the information during a press briefing at Probashi Kalyan Bhaban in the capital on Monday after reviewing the MRT 6 operation of the first 10 days.
MAN Siddique said that the metro rail will operate from 8.30am instead of 8.00am to 12.30pm from January 25 while the collapsible gate of the stations will be opened at 8:00 am and will be closed at 12:00 pm.
Instead of carrying only 200 passengers per train, authority will try to relax the restriction on the number of passengers after accommodating more commuters, he added.
While addressing the press conference, MAN Siddique said ” currently the trains are running on a limited scale and stopping at two of the nine stations on the 11.73-kilometre route from Uttara-Agargaon. On January 25, Pallabi, the station will start its operation and all of the stations in this section will be functioning by March 26 this year”.
From the 29 December, 2022 to 8 January, 2023, the first 10 days of metro rail operation, around 90,000 passengers used the service while the authorities earned around Tk 8.8 million, DMTCL MD added.
MAN Siddique said,the remaining sections of MRT-6 Agargaon – Motijheel and Motijheel- Kamalapur will be operated by the end of 2023 and 2025 respectively.
It is seen that the trains take 10 minutes to travel from Uttara North to Agargaon. The metro rail fare has been set at Tk 5 per kilometre.
Meanwhile, after a decade long waiting the metro rail has started its partial commercial operation on 29 December, 2022 , a day after the inauguration by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The entire length of the route of MRT-6 is over 21 kilometers from Uttara to Kamalapur and there are 17 stations. A total of Tk 334.72 billion is being spent on constructing the metro rail (MRT-6), where Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) involves most of the project funding.