Chennai Metro Rail saw footfall over 96.7 lakh in June

CHENNAI: The Chennai Metro Rail witnessed 96.75 lakh passengers in June. In May, the footfall was 90.14 lakh. June recorded the highest single-day ridership of over 3.77 lakh.

Further, the CMRL press note detailed that 48.83 lakh passengers used the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC), 19.28 lakh used single-journey paper QR, 1.27 lakh passengers used online QR, and 2.03 lakh passengers used the static QR for ticketing in June.

To boost ridership, the CMRL offers a 20 per cent discount on all ticketing (travel card, mobile QR code ticketing - single, return, group tickets and QR trip passes, WhatsApp, Paytm and PhonePe).

Passengers can now also book their tickets through the CMRL WhatsApp ticketing System (+91 83000 86000) and Paytm.