Second thoughts at Roissy

BACK in 1992 Aéroports de Paris rejected a Fr410m bid from Matra to build a rubber-tyred driverless VAL mini-metro to ferry passengers between terminals at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport. Instead ADP chose Soulé’s SK-6000 cable-powered peoplemover, but after a lengthy testing period decided this was not sufficiently reliable. It called a halt ...

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