The latest to be added in the list of India’s impressive urban projects are the ‘Metrino’ driverless pods which will carry passengers along Delhi’s skyline, with the project costing an ambitious ₹ 4,000 crore.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari greenlighted the project recently and work for the same will begin in about two months. Explaining the project, Gadkari said that the Metrino is like a rope-way system, which runs on electricity and consists of driverless pods which will transport passengers at a height of 5 to 10 metres above normal traffic.
The pods will run at an average speed of 50 km/hr and will run between designated stations which will be elevated so as to not interfere with the traffic on the highways.
The first phase of the project is slated to be set down between Dhaula Kuan in Delhi to Manesar in Haryana, a stretch of 70 km, to ease the traffic congestion problems in the National Capital Region (NCR).
