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The Chennai Metro Rail is yet to implicit the installation of Ticket Vending Machines (TVM) and Card Readers successful the signifier II agelong from Poonamallee to Vadapalani.
Even arsenic the agelong awaits inauguration and enactment connected astir each the facilities has been completed, these 2 amenities are yet to beryllium installed successful immoderate stations on this stretch.
Eleven stations from Poonamallee to Vadapalani — a 14.6-km agelong that is simply a portion of the signifier II project’s corridor 4 (Poonamallee to Light House) — are acceptable for operation.
Those preferring to commute from these presumption tin acquisition a National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) oregon a mobile/paper QR codification ticket.
The Ticket Vending Machines assistance commuters recharge their NCMC cards oregon get a insubstantial QR ticket, portion Card Readers amusement their balance.
The TVMs inactive clasp relevance successful Chennai Metro Rail stations arsenic galore commuters, particularly one-time travellers, acquisition insubstantial QR tickets for their journey. Data amusement that successful the past 5 months, 19%-21% of those travelling successful Chennai Metro Rail trains bought azygous travel insubstantial QR tickets oregon tokens.
According to officials of the Chennai Metro Rail Limited, the TVMs person been installed successful 4 of the 11 stations truthful far. “The remaining machines volition beryllium delivered successful a week, and fixed earlier the extremity of June,” an authoritative said.
It is to beryllium noted that the TVMs successful the 54-km signifier I and signifier I hold web were hardly utilized owing to a big of problems specified arsenic issues with currency acceptance and alteration dispensation, non-acceptance of cards, and snags.
“Since the TVMs successful the signifier I web weren’t adjuvant connected galore occasions, commuters were forced to basal successful queues astatine the counter. Such issues shouldn’t hap successful the caller machines. But it is bittersweet that adjacent aft each these months, the machines person inactive not been installed successful the Poonamallee-Vadapalani stretch,” a root said.
