Metro news – Page 220
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NewsToronto capital projects deferred
CANADA: A series of Toronto Transit Commission capital investment projects valued at C$548m and scheduled to start in 2012 or later are to be deferred to protect the city’s credit. The Commission agreed to the action at its October 29 meeting, although Chairman Adam Giambrone, who is also a city ...
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NewsFirst London Underground S stock arrives
UK: The first of 58 eight-car trains of S stock being built by Bombardier Transportation for the Metropolitan Line was handed over to London Underground on October 21. Following further testing, the pre-series train is due to enter passenger service in 2010. The majority of testing has been undertaken at ...
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NewsPATH resignalling contracts awarded
USA: The Port Authority Trans-Hudson rail network will be completely resignalled under a US$340m contract authorised on October 22 by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. The contract was awarded to Siemens Team, a consortium led by Siemens Transportation Systems and including Safetran Systems Corp and ...
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NewsFirst contract awarded for Honolulu light rail
USA: A US$482·9m design-build contract for construction of the first 10·5 km of Honolulu’s proposed 32 km elevated light rail line was awarded to Kiewit Pacific Co on October 21. The company’s bid was US$90m under estimates and provides a financially optimistic start to the US$5·3bn project. ...
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NewsKadikoy - Kartal control contract awarded
TURKEY: The Avrasya Metro Grubu joint venture has awarded Thales a €36m contract to supply SelTrac CBTC signalling, communications and control systems for Istanbul's Kadikoy - Kartal metro project. The AMG consortium of Astaldi, Makyol and Gülermak has a turnkey contract to build the 21·7 km 16-station metro on ...
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NewsVAL refurbishment completed
FRANCE: The last of 38 two-car trainsets used on Lille mini-metro Line 1 was returned to the city on October 22 following refurbishment at Alstom’s Petit-Foret plant near Valenciennes, marking the completion of a three-year programme valued at €11m. Under a contract awarded by operator Transpole and the Communauté Urbaine ...
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NewsPesa signs first tram export contract
HUNGARY: Polish rolling stock manufacturer Pesa Bydgoszcz signed a contract to supply the city of Szeged with nine low-floor trams on October 22, its first order for trams from outside Poland. The firm's €16m bid beat a rival offer of €20·6m from Czech supplier Inekon. The first of the ...
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NewsSão Paulo metro resignalling signed
BRAZIL: A €280m contract to upgrade signalling and automatic train control on São Paulo metro lines 8, 10 and 11 was signed by operator CPTM and a consortium of Invensys Rail, Brazilian engineering company Montagens e Projetos Especiais and Spanish telecoms supplier Infoglobal on October 22. Line 8 is ...
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NewsCourt ratifies Warszawa Line 2 award
POLAND: Warszawa City Hall can finally sign the contract with the winning bidder and start construction of its second metro line following the conculsion of legal proceedings. Following an international tendering process, a consortium comprising Italian contractor Astaldi, Gulermak of Turkey and Przedsiebiorstwo Budowy Dróg i Mostów was announced ...
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NewsTramino prototype unveiled
POLAND: Solaris Bus & Coach unveiled its prototype Tramino low-floor tram at the Trako fair in Gdansk on October 14, before the vehicle begins test running with MPK in Poznán. The five-module unidirectional car is 31·9 m long and 2350 mm wide, with 61 seats and space for 116 ...
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NewsDriverless metro car rolled out
SOUTH KOREA: Hyundai Rotem's first driverless light metro car for domestic use was rolled out at the company's Changwon plant on October 15, when Chairman of the National Assembly Chair Kim Hyung Oh took a test ride. The company is supplying 50 driverless metro cars as well as electrical ...
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NewsGreen Line groundbreaking in Sacramento
A groundbreaking ceremony in Sacramento on October 12 marked the start of construction on the first 1·8 km segment of the California state capital's Downtown — Natomas — Airport light rail extension. The US$44m project, now designated as the Green Line, will run north along 7th Street from the H ...
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NewsDe Lijn and Metro de Madrid win UITP marketing awards
INTERNATIONAL: Flemish tram and bus operator De Lijn and Metro de Madrid have been named as winners of this year’s UITP Marketing Awards, announced at the association’s fifth International Marketing Conference. Held in Lisbon on October 7-9, the event was hosted by local operators Carris and Metropolitano de Lisboa.Open to ...
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NewsBrussels’ Flexity trams set off for Vancouver
BELGIUM: At an event hosted by Brussels transport operator STIB on October 12, two Flexity Outlook trams were dispatched on a lengthy voyage to Vancouver, where they are destined to operate a shuttle service during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.The first leg of the journey will take the ...
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NewsMTA capital programme makes progress
USA: The MTA board of directors has approved a draft version of its next five-year capital programme, although the US$28bn plan needs another US$10m to be fully funded. This has now been forwarded to the New York State legislature in Albany for final approval, which MTA officials hope will come ...
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NewsAecom wins Dallas contract extension
USA: Dallas Area Rapid Transit has awarded Aecom Technology Corp a US$19·3m contract extension for a variety of project control, system integration and staff support services on three LRT lines now under construction. The one-year extension, the first of three that are available under a base contract signed in ...
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NewsToronto Airport link gets environmental nod
CANADA: A long-delayed programme to increase commuter service on the Georgetown Line in Toronto, including a link to Pearson International Airport, was given the go-ahead by Ontario Environment Minister John Gerretsen on October 5 but with numerous strict conditions including the use of clean diesel locomotives. Gerretsen attached 18 ...
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NewsFirst LRVs arrive in Norfolk
USA: The first two of 11 S70 light rail vehicles for The Tide arrived in Norfolk, Virginia, on October 6 from the Siemens plant in Sacramento. The cars were shipped by railway and were twice delayed, first by flooding in Atlanta and then by a derailment that blocked a ...
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NewsHangzhou Metro places train order
CHINA: Hangzhou Metro has ordered 48 six-car trains from CSR Nanjing Puzhen to work its first line. The 1·8bn yuan contract was signed on September 27 by Hangzhou Metro Group Chairman Ding Di Gang and CSR’s General Manager.Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, is planning a 278 km network with ...
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NewsTram and signalling agreements signed in Kazakhstan
KAZAKHSTAN: Two co-operation agreements were signed by Alstom CEO Patrick Kron on October 6 within the framework of a Franco-Kazakh business forum held during President Sarkozy’s visit to Kazakhstan.Firstly, Kron signed a memorandum of co-operation with the Mayor of Astana for the creation of a tram network as part of ...