Bengaluru: The City is one among the operational metros that have lower ridership than it is required for breakeven.
Bengaluru Metro had Actual Average Daily Ridership (AADR) of 1.48, 3.40, 4.52, 4.89 and 0.96 lakhs only in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21, respectively, against Average Daily Ridership required for breakeven of 7.65, 10.09, 12.32, 13.19 and 18.54 lakhs, respectively, in the same years. Thus, Bengaluru metro has been constantly witnessing low ridership than it is required for breakeven.
Hence, Parliamentary Standing Committee recommended the Ministry to deliberate upon the reasons for low ridership and take concrete steps to increase ridership of all metro projects. It also asked to ensure that ridership estimation which forms the basis for selection of type of metro (conventional or metrolite or metroneo) must be accurate and be realistic to the extent possible.
