Metro news – Page 23
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Metro Report InternationalManagement changes follow Washington metro recertification failure
USA: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority General Manager & CEO Paul J Wiedefeld retired with immediate effect on May 16 and Chief Operating Officer Joe Leader has resigned. The departures came after the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission identified lapses in train driver recertification. An investigation by ...
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Metro Report InternationalChina: Express metros serve growing conurbations
As Chinese cities continue to expand, a new generation of express metro lines has emerged to serve the medium-distance niche between classic urban metros and high speed lines. Toma Bačić investigates.
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Metro Report InternationalHong Kong’s East Rail Line cross-harbour extension opens
CHINA: Services on the cross-harbour extension of Hong Kong’s East Rail Line began on May 15 after an inauguration ceremony the previous day. The extension enable passengers from the Northeast New Territories and Central Kowloon to travel directly under Victoria Harbour to the core business district ...
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Metro Report InternationalJohor Bahru – Singapore RTS independent certification contract awarded
ASIA: Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport and Singapore’s Land Transport Authority have appointed a consortium of Systra, Minconsult and Bureau Veritas as independent verification and validation agent for the Johor Bahru – Singapore Rapid Transit System metro. The consortium will undertake assessment and verification to ensure that ...
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Metro Report InternationalPurple officers to tackle harassment on the Barcelona metro
SPAIN: A project providing specially trained ‘purple officers’ to promote zero tolerance of sexist or LGBTI-phobic violence, encourage respectful coexistence and assist victims of harassment has been launched by Barcelona metro operator TMB and Santa Coloma de Gramenet council. This is an ...
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Metro Report InternationalKyiv Metro seeks European help as it rejoins UITP
UKRAINE: Kyiv Metropoliten needs help from the western European transport industry to modernise its technology and operating practices, despite the conflict with Russia, the municipal transport operator’s Head of Metro Viktor Braginskyi told the IT-Trans conference in Karlsruhe on May 10. Reflecting on his experience of ...
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Metro Report InternationalBerlin U-Bahn cars under construction
GERMANY: The construction of eight pre-series Type J and JK trainsets for the Berlin U-Bahn has started at Stadler’s Pankow factory in the north of the city.
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Metro Report InternationalItalian metro and tram projects allocated funding
ITALY: The national government has allocated a total of €4·7bn from the 2022 national budget to fund metro construction in Milano, Napoli, Torino, Genova and Roma, and tram projects in Roma. In Milano, €180m has been allocated for the western extension of metro Line 1 from ...
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Metro Report InternationalGuangzhou opens Line 7 western extension
CHINA: The western section of Guangzhou metro Line 7 was opened for revenue service on May 1, running for 13·8 km from Guangzhou South Railway Station to Meidi Dadao and serving eight stations. Construction began in 2016, and tunnel boring got underay ...
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Metro Report InternationalThird metro line opened in Fuzhou
CHINA: Fuzhou metro Line 5 opened on April 29, running 22·4 km from Ancient Luozhou Town to Jingxi Houyu with 17 stations including an interchange with Line 2. Main construction began in September 2017. Services are operated at headways of 8 min ...
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Metro Report InternationalShaoxing metro Line 1 extended
CHINA: A 26·3 km southern extension of Shaoxing metro Line 1 from China Textile City to Fangquan with 18 stations opened on April 29, taking the line to 47·1 km and 28 stations. Shaoxing started planning a metro network in 2011, and the construction plan was ...
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Metro Report InternationalSolar panels installed at Washington metro stations
USA: A joint venture of SunPower and Goldman Sachs Renewable Power has begun installing photovoltaic solar panels over the car parks at the Washington DC metro’s Anacostia, Southern Avenue, Cheverly and Naylor Road stations. The first site at Anacostia is expected to generate electricity equivalent to ...
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Metro Report InternationalMünchen orders more C2 U-Bahn trains
GERMANY: Following a European tender München municipal utility company SWM has ordered a further 18 six-car Type C2 metro trains from Siemens Mobility. They are to be supplied from the Siemens Mobility factory in Wien in 2024-25, with the bogies produced at the company’s Graz plant. ...
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Metro Report InternationalWarszawa metro train delivered
POLAND: The first of 37 trainsets being built for the Warszawa metro by Škoda Transportation was delivered to the capital on April 25, ahead of dynamic testing and certification which is expected to be completed within three months. Part-funded by the EU, ...
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Metro Report InternationalSecond ‘pop-up metro’ battery train arrives in the USA
USA: British company Vivarail has sent a second two-car battery multiple-unit produced from former London Underground vehicles to the USA, where shareholder Railroad Development Corp will use the unit to demonstrate its ‘pop-up metro’ concept for providing ‘lower cost, lower risk, faster start’ passenger services on ...
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Metro Report InternationalGrand Paris Express Line 17 viaduct contract awarded
FRANCE: A consortium of NGE Génie Civil, NGE Bâtiment, NGE Fondations, Cimolai and Guintoli Grands Projets has been awarded a €327·9m contract to build a 5·5 km elevated section of Grand Paris Express automated metro Line 17 between Gonesse and Tremblay-en-France, to the north of Paris. ...
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Metro Report InternationalMitre supports Washington Metro safety development programme
USA: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is working with specialist not for profit organisation Mitre to strengthen its safety management systems. Over the course of the three-year contract Mitre will assess Metro’s safety culture, develop a plan to improve data analytics, and deploy a confidential voluntary ...
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Metro Report InternationalRennes rolls out EMV contactless payment on STAR transport network
FRANCE: Conduent Transportation has implemented a contactless EMV open payment system on the STAR public transport network in Rennes, which is operated by Keolis and used by 353 000 passengers/day. More than 1 500 validators with integrated EMV contactless payment functionality have been installed on the ...
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Metro Report InternationalPalma metro extension approved
SPAIN: Plans to extend the Palma metro 1·4 km from Universitat de les Illes Balears west to the Parc Bit science and technology area have been approved by the regional government. An invitation to tender is expected to be issued soon. The project is budgeted at ...
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Metro Report InternationalGrand Paris Express Line 18 tunnelling contract awarded
FRANCE: A consortium of Ferrovial, Spie Batignolles Génie Civil and Spie Batignolles Valérian has been awarded a €438m contract to build a section of Grand Paris Express automated metro Line 18. The contract announced on April 11 includes boring 6·7 km of tunnel between Saint-Quentin Est ...