chennai the suburban trains in chennai ferried 348 lakh additional passengers on the weekend due to the bus strike in tamil nadua statement from the chennai railway division said data on the sold unreserved ticket booking system showed a surge of 202 lakh passengers on january 6 saturday and 138 lakh passengers on january 7 sunday as compared to the data for the same period last year according to the system 14 lakh extra passengers travelled on january 5 that was the first day of the bus strike there was a marginal increase in the tickets sold on the uts mobile app which crossed 24000 on january 5 nearly 28000 bookings were made on the app on saturday while 32000 bookings were made on it on sunday