46% Metro Commuters Spend Up To 30 Mins Just To Reach Station: Survey
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Nagpur: Around 46.3% of Nagpur Metro's passengers spend between 10 and 30 minutes or more simply to reach a station before even boarding the train, a RITES primary survey revealed.
The data has also been used for the city's Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP) shows how last-mile connectivity continues to remain a major hurdle for the project.
While ridership numbers speak of acceptance, the time taken to access stations paints a different picture.
Around 33% of passengers spend 6–10 minutes reaching their nearest station, while 20.4% manage it within 5 minutes.
A significant 15.9% spend 11–15 minutes, and nearly 28.6% take as long as 15–30 minutes.
Nearly 2% of commuters take over 30 minutes.
Altogether, about 46% of total passengers invest up to half an hour merely to get to a station.
The survey findings also reveal that a majority, 59.3%, of passengers rely on the Metro for work and business trips, underlining its role as a daily transport backbone for the city's working population. Students account for 13.7% of the ridership, while 26.9% travel for other purposes.
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In terms of frequency, the system has clearly emerged as a daily mode of travel, as 91.1% of passengers use the metro every day. The rest — barely 3.2% weekly, 2.9% monthly, and 2.9% occasionally.
The survey also notes that cost is not a barrier for most commuters. A massive 86.7% of passengers spend less than Rs10 to reach their Metro station, while just 0.6% spend over Rs50. This makes it clear that the real challenge is not affordability but accessibility.
Experts suggest that unless Nagpur Metro addresses the bottlenecks of feeder services, pedestrian access, and parking facilities, the issue of prolonged station access time will continue to dampen its efficiency.
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