A ferry operated by Transdev passes the Sydney Opera House in April 2021. Rick Rycroft/AP
Two French people, polytechnicians and former directors of RER lines, are the linchpins of the contracts won on the island-continent by Keolis and the RATP.
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If the chances of seeing French submarines sporting the colors of the Australian navy now seem to be reduced to nothing, the tricolor champions of mobility have been winning them for ten years almost all the calls for tenders presenting themselves on the island. -continent. Thus the tourists who marvel at sailing across Sydney Bay travel on ferries operated by Transdev, which also manages the tram lines there, as well as some of the buses. The subsidiary of Caisse des dépôts is also present in Brisbane and Perth.
Keolis for its part, in joint venture with a local company, Downer, is the first multimodal operator in the country. Fourteen years after establishing itself there, Keolis operates the Gold Coast tramway, all public transport in Newcastle, trains in Adelaide, bus lines from Queensland to Western Australia, and above all, Melbourne’s largest and oldest tram system, Yarra Trams, in the…
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