Metro news – Page 122
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NewsMTR plans musical instrument registration scheme
CHINA: Plans for a registration scheme which would allow large musical instruments to be carried on the Hong Kong metro network have been announced by MTR Corp. Current rules say that items of luggage must not exceed 1 300 mm along any one side, a limit which was brought in ...
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NewsDenver orders Siemens LRVs
USA: Denver Regional Transportation District has awarded Siemens a $110m contract to supply 29 SD 160 light rail vehicles. The LRVs are to be built at Siemens’ factory in Sacramento and are due to be delivered in early 2018. The latest order would bring RTD’s fleet of LRVs to ...
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NewsMumbai starts work on two metro lines
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stones for two metro lines in Mumbai on October 11. The northern section of Line 2 would run 18·5 km south from Dahisar to DN Nagar with 17 stations. The estimated cost is Rs49·9bn and ridership is expected to be 407 ...
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NewsIzmit orders Durmazlar trams
TURKEY: Kocaeli municipality signed a €19·7m contract with Durmazlar on October 5 for the supply of 12 trams for the Akçaray line in Izmit. The trams will be 32 m long, 2 650 mm wide and 3·3 m high, with capacity for 300 passengers. They will have a maximum ...
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NewsNice selects Alstom trams for Line 2
FRANCE: Métropole Nice Côte D’Azur has selected Alstom Transport to supply 19 trams for the second tram route in Nice. The €91m contract announced on October 12 includes 12 years of maintenance and options for up to 18 more trams. As the surface sections of the route will have ...
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NewsGold Coast light rail Stage 2 secures federal funding
AUSTRALIA: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced on October 11 that the federal government will provide A$95m for the construction of Gold Coast light rail Stage 2. Turnbull’s predecessor Tony Abbott refused to provide federal funding for urban rail projects, but was replaced as Prime Minister on September 15. All ...
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NewsDART awards fare collection system contract
USA: Dallas Area Rapid Transit has awarded Vix Technology a $30m contract to implement and manage a new fare collection system. Vix Technologies will supply its Easy & Open product, an account-based, payment industry standards-compliant fare collection platform designed for scalability and ease of integration with other systems. Passengers will ...
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NewsHerzog Transit Services signs Kansas City Streetcar operating contract
USA: Herzog Transit Services has signed an operations and maintenance agreement with KC Streetcar Authority and the City of Kansas City, Missouri. The fixed-price agreement covers operations and maintenance for the first five years of passenger service on the Kansas City Streetcar, which is due to start in 2016. ...
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NewsFunding approved for Paris projects
FRANCE: Meeting on October 7, the board of Ile-de-France transport authority STIF unanimously approved a framework agreement to fund the extension of Paris metro Line 11 by 6 km from its current terminus at Mairie des Lilas to the RER Line E station at Rosny-Bois-Perrier. Costing a total of €1⋅3bn, ...
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NewsKuwait metro and rail procurement to begin next year
KUWAIT: Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects says that it has appointed new advisers for the planned Kuwait City metro and expects to start procurement in the first quarter of 2016. Plans for a metro were first announced in 2006. Expressions of interest were invited in 2012, but the project ...
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NewsMinneapolis seeks more LRVs
USA: Twin Cities regional authority Metropolitan Council has invited expressions of interest for the supply of up to 77 new light rail vehicles to operate the expanding network in Minneapolis and St Paul. Proposals are due by December 18 for an initial order of 27 cars with options for ...
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NewsYerevan metro to receive upgrade loans
ARMENIA: The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and the European Investment Bank are to provide loans of €7m each for the third metro rehabilitation project in Yerevan. A further €7m is to be sought from another international donor. The project would involve refurbishment of the depot, substations, power ...
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NewsMarseille metro to become driverless
FRANCE: Marseille Provence Metropole approved plans to convert its two-line metro to driverless operation on September 25. As the current fleet dating from the opening of the two lines in 1977 and 1984 is coming to the end of its service life, a decision was taken to replace the ...
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NewsPanamá City metro Line 2 breaks ground
PANAMA: President Juan Carlos Varela and Metro de Panama Director Roberto Roy officially launched construction of the second metro line in the capital on October 5. The timetable for construction is 44 months. The line is being built by the Línea 2 consortium of Odebrecht and FCC. A consortium ...
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NewsUrumqi metro orders trains
CHINA: Urumqi Urban Rail Group Co has signed a contract with CRRC subsidiary Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co for the supply of 27 six-car trainsets for the city’s first metro line. The Type A trainsets would have four motor and two trailer cars, and a maximum design speed of 80 ...
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NewsDublin revives Metro North plans
IRELAND: Plans for a partly-underground high-capacity light rail line from central Dublin to the airport and northern suburbs are to be revived, the government said when announcing a €3·6bn seven-year public transport spending programme for 2016-22 on September 29. The line would run 16·5 km from St Stephen’s Green in ...
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NewsSamsun orders Durmazlar trams
TURKEY: Samsun Metropolitan Municipality announced on October 1 that it had awarded Durmazlar a €12·3m contract to supply eight trams. These are required to augment the current fleet of 21 for the opening of the 14 km extension of the route from Gar to Tekkeköy to the southeast of the ...
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NewsBursa begins LRV testing
TURKEY: The first two vehicles for the T2 extension of the Bursaray light metro network in Bursa are now on test. Bursa Metropolitan Municipality has ordered 12 Silkworm light rail vehicles from Durmazlar as part of the extension project, following an order for 60 LRVs placed at the start ...
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NewsLucknow metro chooses Alstom trains and signalling
INDIA: Lucknow Metro Rail Corp has awarded Alstom a €150m contract to provide rolling stock and signalling for the future line. Announcing the contract on October 5, Alstom said it would supply 20 four-car Metropolis trainsets from its Sri City factory in Andhra Pradesh. The trains will be air-conditioned ...
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NewsLondon Underground energy recovery trial proves successful
UK: Transport for London has announced that the ‘world first’ installation of Alstom's Harmonic & Energy Saving Optimiser inverting substation energy recovery technology on a metro line has proved successful. As well as feeding energy regenerated by braking trains back into the traction power supply, HESOP can return power ...