UNB: Commuters are able to use the metro rail for 12 hours from 8:00am to 8:00pm from yesterday. Nazmul Ahsan Bhuiya, deputy project director (DPD) of Metro Rail, said from yesterday the metro rail started to operate from 8:00am to 8:00pm on the Uttara-Agargaon route.
As per the new schedule, weekly closure of the metro rail was changed from Tuesday to Friday yesterday. The 12 hours of the new schedule were split into four segments. Trains will run every 10 minutes from 8:00am to 11:00pm (peak hours), every 15 minutes from 11:01am to 3:00pm (off-peak), every 10 minutes from 3:01pm to 6:00pm (peak), and every 15 minutes from 6:01pm to 8:00pm (off-peak), he added. Earlier, the operating hours of Dhaka Metro Rail was from 8:00am to 2:00pm.