Sharjah’s sky pods to zip you through city at 120kmph

Sharjah’s sky pods to zip you through city at 120kmph

Once Sharjah's sky pods start running at its average speed of 120-125kmph, the emirate's commuters will be able to travel across a distance of 2.4km in less than 60 seconds. These pods are not only fast, they are also set to be cheaper than any other traditional transport system currently available in the world, according to Oleg Zaretskiy, chief executive of uSky Transport, one of the two firms behind the innovation. These sky pods, however, will still have to undergo many more regulatory requirements before any commercial launch, but work is progressing as far as testing is concerned. Initial safety trials are complete and the four-seater sky pods operating on string rail technology currently travel at a speed of 40kmph while hanging from a nascent track of 400 metres. In the pipeline is a longer test track set to start operations ahead of Expo 2020 in October. "The first project will come up in Sharjah in the UAE. These tracks will be incorporated in the local network as well. We have two 2.4km tracks that are a work in progress. One, we intend finishing around October-November before Expo 2020 and the other 2.4km we want to finish by May 2022,“