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Daily obstruction commuters from Erode to Tiruppur and Coimbatore submitted a petition to Tiruppur MP K. Subbarayan astatine Perundurai connected Sunday (June 21, 2026), urging him to intervene and guarantee the punctual cognition of rider bid services.
In their representation, the passengers said they depended connected 2 Mainline Electric Multiple Units (MEMU) services for commuting to workplaces and acquisition institutions. Train No. 66607 (Palakkad Town MEMU) departs from Erode astatine 7 a.m., portion Train No. 66601 (Erode–Coimbatore MEMU) leaves astatine 7.30 a.m.
The commuters alleged that the trains were often delayed to let explicit services scheduled aboriginal to pass, resulting successful stoppages without awesome clearance and delays successful being brought to the level astatine Erode. Consequently, the services often departed 40 minutes to an hr down docket and scope their destinations late, they said.
The passengers besides requested that Train No. 66607–66608 (Palakkad Town MEMU), which is not operated connected Thursdays, beryllium tally connected that time arsenic well.
Stating that repeated representations to the Salem Railway Division had failed to output results, the commuters said the delays had caused sizeable hardship to regular passengers. They urged the MP to instrumentality up the substance with the railway authorities.
Mr. Subbarayan received the petition and assured the passengers that helium would instrumentality steps to code the issue. The commuters besides thanked the MP for his involution with railway officials aft the Railway Protection Force (RPF) sought to registry cases against passengers who staged a obstruction roko astatine Ingur connected May 22, demanding enactment connected the issue. They said his efforts helped forestall the registration of cases against the protesters.
