Brussels, 02/09/2013 (Agence Europe) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has recently committed to granting a loan of €300 million to Lille Métropole (northern France) to modernise and increase the capacity of its metro - the world's first driverless metro system.
The €610-million project aims to upgrade and improve the service on the metro by doubling the rolling stock on line 1, with the main aim of substantially increasing the capacity of the two light automated vehicle lines.
The...