- Australia’s transport minister Andrew Constance and Premier Galdys Berejiklian inaugurated Sydney’s new fully automated driverless
metro train service. - The trains are designed by French company Alstom, and were manufactured in Sricity, Andhra Pradesh, India under the ‘
Make in India ’ initiative.
French major Alstom built this train at Sricity facility in Andhra Pradesh, as a part of Make in India initiative. As many as 22 such trains from India, will run as a part of a new metro line in Sydney.
Australia’s transport minister Andrew Constance and Premier Galdys Berejiklian inaugurated Sydney’s new fully automated driverless metro train service.
The trains were designed in France and assembled in India, with contribution from Alstom’s facilities in Australia, Brazil,China and Belgium, $4.
The Sricity facility has already supplied 22 six-car Metropolis trains to Sydney. It is a $4 which has manufacturing facilities from multinational companies like Cadbury, Pepsico, Kelloggs, Danieli and Isuzu.
Metro projects in India
In India, very few cities have metros. And only Delhi’s magenta metro line has driverless features.
Apart from Delhi, metros run in nine other cities like --- Kolkata, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Mumbai, Chennai, Jaipur, Kochi, Hyderabad, and Lucknow. And, not many of them are profitable.
E. Sreedharan, India’s Metro Man, $4 that Delhi metro was under ₹350 billion debt. The state government in the meanwhile had proposed free travel in metro for women.