The number of average daily passengers on Mumbai locals has gone down from 80 lakh to 39 lakh. Three weeks after local trains were opened for the general public in Mumbai, the number of passengers remains less than half that of the pre-pandemic daily average at less than 40 lakh.

“Since February 1, the number of passengers on Central Railway Mumbai has remained between 16 lakh and 23 lakh with the highest on February 17 at 23.58 lakh. On Western Railway Mumbai the highest number of passengers has been around 18.16 lakh on February 15. But more or less on an average the figures have remained less than 40 lakh, which is the half way mark of the normal suburban railway crowds,” a senior railway official said.