Mumbai local trains see highest ridership since pandemic onset

STORY: Mumbai local trains see highest ridership since pandemic onset DATELINE: March 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:16 LOCATION: MUMBAI, India CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the train station 2. various of people taking on the train 3. various of the train leaving STORYLINE: Commuters are now returning to Mumbai local trains, nearly two years after the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a virtual abandonment of the country's largest suburban transport network. Latest statistics show that the average daily ridership of Mumbai local trains has exceeded 6 million, which is the highest since the COVID-19 outbreak. The pre-COVID ridership was around 8 million a day. Daily ridership on the Mumbai suburban network once fell to about 1 to 1.5 million or even lower, after the country was hit by COVID-19 in early 2020 and imposed pandemic control restrictions. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Mumbai, India. (XHTV)