Metro smart card for feeder buses

New Delhi, February 18

To ensure last mile connectivity to its commuters, the DMRC has now integrated “common mobility card” in its feeder buses and few of the parking lots of the Delhi Metro network.

The metro smart card users who commute by feeder buses can use the cards for making payment to travel. The Metro is currently running a fleet of more than 200 feeder buses in the city covering over 40 routes spanning across different lines of the Metro network. currently, around two lakh people  daily avail the feeder bus services.

The common mobility card can now also be used at parking lots of 13 stations to pay parking charges: Vishwavidyalaya, Saket, Karkarduma, Dilshad Garden, Akshardham, Patel Chowk, Kashmere Gate, Rohini Sector (18, 19), Shastri Park, NHPC Chowk, Mewala Maharajpur, Old Faridabad and Sector 28. This service will be extended to cover all the parking lots in the coming months.

DMRC has also updated the software in the Hand Held Terminal (HHT), the device that is used to read the card and deduct the amount, in feeder buses. The new software will simplify the ticketing process in the feeder buses and will also save time in the ticketing transaction. The minimum and maximum fare of the feeder buses is Rs 5 and Rs 15 respectively.

In the past weeks, DMRC has taken up a host of measures to ensure a comfortable travel to its commuters. — TNS