All Light Rail / Tramway articles – Page 15
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Utah Transit Authority (UTA)
TRAX light rail line opened 1999, now serves 50 stations. See Salt Lake City network map. The Mid-Jordan (17 km, 10 stations) and West Valley (8 km, 4 stations) TRAX extensions opened on August 7 2011, the airport line on April 13 2013 (9·7 km, 6 stations), and the Blue ...
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Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)
First line opened 1987. Three-line network serving 60 stops. See San José network map. From December 28 2019 the branch from Ohlone-Chynoweth to Almaden (1·8 km, 2 stops) was closed, with services restructured. The network is now operated as three routes; services from the Winchester (southwest) and Santa Teresa (southeast) ...
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Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)
First line opened 1979; network comprises two main routes serving six branches with 38 stations. See Atlanta network map. The original line designations (on compass point directions) were replaced by line colours in October 2009. Atlanta Metro LineDirectionkmstaopenedlast extendedfromto Red north-south 14·7 5 1981-12-04 2000-12-16 North ...
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Astana Light Metro
Work began on the 1520 mm gauge north-south route on July 4 2011 (41·8 km, 27 stops), but was cancelled in 2014. In 2015 an agreement was signed with Chinese contractors, with construction restarting in 2017 but stopping again in 2019 with the city authority again putting the project on ...
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Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA)
City-centre distributor tramway opened 1993 using vintage streetcars. Service was suspended in June 2014, pending renovation of trams, with reopening of the Main St line (3·2 km, 13 stops) in April 2018. The Riverfront Loop and Madison Ave lines remain suspended but are expected to reopen in 2020-21. Address1370 Levee ...
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Los Angeles Metro
Heavy metro opened 1993; two lines serving 16 stations. First light metro line opened 1990; now four lines serving 87 stations. See Los Angeles network map. Routes have previously been referred to by name, colour or letter, but with recasting of services around the opening of the Regional Connector ...
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Stadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main mbH (VGF)
First line opened 1884. First U-Bahn tunnels opened October 4 1968. Complex system of conventional tram network, much upgraded to run as light metro. See Frankfurt am Main network map. An extensive programme of upgrading of the city’s tram network from the late-1960s has created sections of pre-metro standard infrastructure. ...
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Port Authority of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh)
Opened 1984. Two-line network serving 53 stops. Pittsburgh Light Rail (The T) was formed by upgrading two existing trolley routes to LRT standards, reopening in 1984 with a 1·8 km city centre tunnel section to Penn Station completed the following year. In 1999 work began on rebuilding the Overbrook line, ...
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San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)
First line opened 1912. Operates as six-line network. See San Francisco network map. SFMTA runs the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), which is a tramway system that has been part-upgraded to light rail standards. This includes a 10 km city-centre partly two-level tunnel (BART trains use the lower level between ...
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Stadtwerke Oberhausen AG (STOAG)
First tram line opened 1897, but all closed 1963-74. New single modern line opened 1996 with 13 stops. See Oberhausen on the Rhein-Ruhr network map The initial section of Oberhausen’s modern tramway, extending Mülheim’s Route 112 at Landwehr via Oberhausen Hauptbahnfof to Sterkrade opened on June 1 1996. It is ...
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VBG Verkehrsbetriebe Glattal AG
Regional light rail network serving the Glattal valley area north of Zürich; 13 km, 20 stations. See Zürich network map. VBG’s first route formed an extension of VBZ Zürich Line 11, opening to Auzelg on December 10 2006 (3·0 km, 4 stops). The route north from a junction on this ...
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Wiener Lokalbahnen AG (WLB)
Opened 1873. Single route serving 36 stations. See Wien network map. The Badner Bahn interurban line runs from Wien Oper south to Baden (Josefsplatz). Between Oper and just south of Meidling at Schedifkaplatz it uses Wiener Linien infrastructure (power supply at 600V DC), south of which the supply voltage rises ...
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Rheinbahn AG
First tramway opened 1896. Network now comprises 11 ‘Stadtbahn’ light rail routes via one of the two cross-city tunnels, and 7 conventional street tram lines with some segregated track. See both Düsseldorf city network map and Rhein-Ruhr regional network map. The first tunnel section opened in 1981, with the main ...
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Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (SSB)
Established in 1868, first electric tram in 1895. Network comprises 15 routes (25 km in tunnel) serving 206 stations, plus a funicular and a rack line. See Stuttgart network map. The city’s conventional tram network has been progressively upgraded and converted from metre to standard gauge. It is now a ...
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Üstra Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG
First line opened 1872, upgraded to Statbahn from 1975; network now comprises 12 routes with 196 stops. See Hannover network map. The first of three cross-city tunnels was opened in 1975 (A: northeast–southwest), since when two further routes (B: north–south, and C: northwest–east) have been added. There is now 18·6 ...
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Maryland Transit Administration (MTA)
First metro line opened 1983, light rail opened 1992. Network comprises single metro route with 14 stations, and light rail line with 33 stations. See Baltimore network map. The metro line running northwest from the city centre is branded Metro SubwayLink. It opened to Reisterstown Plaza in November 1983, ...
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Sidi Bel Abbès Tramway
Opened 2017, Algeria’s fourth tram system. Single line serving 25 stops. The line runs from Les Cascades to the east of the centre via the university to the new north station, from where it returns south via the city centre (crossing the line to Les Cascades) and continuing southwest to ...