Metro mobility5/27/2023 ![]() The metro has also brought a new kind of visibility in the city. “Delhi” starts at the ends of the lines where “hinterlands” become hubs. This is true for people living in Delhi, but also for those who come from further afield, from Meerut or Rohtak, for instance. This reach creates new opportunities for people, as well as a new experience of time. It is the reach of the metro that is transformative, the way it can cut a one-hour journey to 20 minutes, but also create new spatial imaginary where Badarpur can be connected to Majlis Park or Seelampur to Huda City Center. For a metro to have a real impact, to create metro mobility, you need many lines and stations. This is also why Delhi’s metro is unique in India. Mobility is key to one’s right to the city. Who gets to be mobile and who doesn’t is a question of power. Mobility is about movement, but it is also about social change. The metro was becoming more than an object it was an experience of metro mobility. “Delhi” was being remade with the addition of each station and line. The city was expanding before our very eyes and in our bodily movements through urban space, as we sensed the expansion each time we took the metro to Noida or Gurgaon or Mundka. I no longer saw the metro as merely an object to study, but rather as a circulation in which to be moved along. This idea of a moving city represents how my research shifted by the time phase three was being built. I think of these alternatives as “metro mobility.” This movement represents just a slice - about 5 per cent of trips in the city - but gives a sense of the possibility of a truly moving city. Even 20 years on, the metro is not going to create social equality, but it provides some alternatives to being stuck. It not only creates a new form of mobility through urban space and over time, but also across a large swathe of the working and middle class of the city. People across classes enter a new social contract on the metro. Service reductions require a notification six months prior to activating those changes.Also Read | 20 years of Delhi Metro: The train that arrived with the promise of liberating women ![]() With standby trips, riders book as usual, but a reservationist will make contact the day before a ride to confirm the trip and give the pickup time.Įxisting standing orders in areas affected by the service area change will not be subject to the change. While riders in these areas will still have access to Metro Mobility service, service will change.įor customers who have booked a trip to or from an affected area, after November 28 some of those trips could go on standby. Maps outlining new weekday, Saturday and Sunday services have been released. Some trips that currently aren’t on standby will be in the future. Proposed are new hours of operation in some areas. Metro Mobility has announced service area changes that start on November 28.
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