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Automated Metro trains miss 3 in 10,000 stops. Watchdog deems them unsafe.

Metro planned to bring faster, smoother automated trains to the system’s Green Line this weekend. But the agency is being blocked by its safety watchdog, which said the rail system cannot expand ...
Railway Technology

Alstom to deliver automated metro trains for Lille’s modernisation project

A Lille metro trainset being assembled at Alstom’s Valenciennes-Petite Foret facility. Credit: Alstom/Samuel Dhote. Alstom has secured a €210m ($217.2m) contract to supply 15 additional automated ...
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ALSTOM SA: Alstom to supply fifteen additional metros equipped with the new Urbalis Fluence signalling and automated control system to the Lille metropolitan area, in France

20 January 2025 – Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, will supply the Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL) with fifteen additional 52-metre long new-generation automated metro ...
NBC Washington

Metro safety watchdog raises concerns about near collision and station overruns

Two eye-opening reports released Tuesday are raising concerns about safety on Metro. One details how two trains came within 400 feet of a head-on collision, and another could delay automatic train ...