Macau’s Light Rapid Transit (LRT) recorded the highest passenger volume of the year in October, with a daily average of 2,600 passengers riding the overhead train last month.
The October figure from Macao Light Rapid Transit Corporation signaled a slight pickup in passenger volume since July when some 1,100 passengers using the public transport daily on average.
The LRT service, which only covers Taipa for now, was halted last October to give way for a high-voltage cable replacement project. Transport officials then blamed a 124-kilometre-long cable for continual malfunctions and glitches in the Taipa line, whose construction cost at least MOP10.8 billion.
It reopened to the public in April this year, with only an average of 1,700 passengers using it on a daily basis during that month.
The Public Works Bureau is now working on an additional line, a 7.7-kilometre extension to the 9.3-kilometre-long Taipa line that will stretch through the reclaimed Macau New Urban Zone A.
Construction work on it is expected to take 1,500 workdays to complete.
Authorities believe that a daily average of 137,000 passengers would rely on the East Line to commute to work.
