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“The decision will prompt another chunk of about 70,000 commuters to travel on the 12 km route. In 2017-18, it operated around 1.3 lakh train trips.Over the last year, Metro One increased train services from 370 to 382 and then to 396 on weekdays. Since it is the rare east-west connectivity, a larger number of rail commuters switch over their modes by using this line.”Mumbai Metro One began operations in June 2013. During peak hours, the waiting period would be three minutes.The move to increase the services with the help of 14 rakes takes the tally of Metro services up from 396 to 440 on weekdays.The Metro initiated trial runs of the new services from Wednesday.“As of now average 4 lakh commuters are travelling on the corridor on weekdays,” a source in Metro One said. MUMBAI: As petrol and diesel prices keep rising and pinching the pocket, there is good news for people who make the west-east journey on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor by road: Monday will bring an addition of 70,000 persons to the daily carrying capacity on the Metro.The Reliance-Infrastructure-promoted Mumbai Metro One on Thursday announced 44 additional trips in the off-peak hours from Monday, which will eventually reduce the waiting period to five minutes from eight minutes during these hours..