Commonwealth Games tickets to have foils for Metro travel

Tickets for the venues of the Commonwealth Games, to be held here from October 3-14, will have special foils to enable people to travel by the Delhi Metro system.

This means that visitors to the venues will not have to purchase separate tokens for travelling by the Metro trains.

A spokesman for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said the Games tickets, which would be date, venue and event-specific, would have two detachable foils for up and down journey by the Metro.

These foils will have the same unique serial numbers, which will be mentioned on the games ticket and will be valid for that venue and date only, he said.

The manual gates at the stations will be used for the entry and exit of the commuters holding these Games tickets. Guards and volunteers from DMRC will verify the foils by perforating them and will collect them from the commuters at the exit station.

In addition to the common ticketing facility, the DMRC will also bring out a special Commonwealth Games booklet to provide all the necessary information to the commuters during the games. It will not only carry information about the various Metro corridors and stations, but will also have details about the various tourist and shopping attractions of the city along with their Metro connectivity.

The booklet will also have information about the city’s hotels, railway stations, emergency numbers and so on.

According to the spokesman, the Metro will provide connectivity to 10 out of the 11 Games venues: the Games Village, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi University, Thyagaraj Complex, Siri Fort Sports Complex, National Stadium, Indira Gandhi Sports Complex, Talkotora Indoor Stadium, Yamuna Sports Complex and R K Tennis Complex.

The 125-km Metro, which carries 1.1 million commuters, will grow to 190 km and 2 million commuters when the entire network becomes operational by September this year ahead of the Games.

NNN