Tram & LRV news – Page 96
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NewsLight rail study in Masqat
OMAN: A feasibility study for a light rail or metro network in Masqat is to be commissioned shortly, according to local press reports. The Ministry of Transport & Communications and the Supreme Council for Planning are to develop proposals for a line which would provide an interchange ...
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Metro Report InternationalFunding approved for Jerusalem light rail extension
ISRAEL: On June 26 the Jerusalem Regional Planning Committee approved a 1·1bn shekel allocation from the Transportation Ministry’s budget to extend the city’s light rail line from Mount Herzl to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Centre. Total spending on the project is expected to be 4bn shekels. Preparatory work has ...
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NewsHannover light rail vehicle assembly underway
GERMANY: Assembly of the first TW3000 high-floor light rail vehicles ordered by Hannover transport operator Üstra has begun at the HeiterBlick factory in Leipzig. The first vehicles will be delivered to Hannover later this year for testing, with revenue services likely to commence in early 2014. In ...
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NewsChemistry tram on tour
POLAND: To celebrate the International Year of Chemistry, Warszawa Trams has been operating a special Chemical Tram, which has been roaming the city’s network making presentations to school children. Staff on the open wagon towed by a decorated works vehicle conducted a range of spectacular experiments, demonstrating ...
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NewsFlexity 2 tram unveiled in Blackpool
UK: Bombardier Transportation launched the first of its Flexity 2 trams in the seaside town of Blackpool on September 8. It is the first of 16 ordered by Blackpool Council in 2009 as part of what Lancashire County Council’s Director of Transport & Strategic Highways, Mike ...
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NewsJerusalem light rail Red Line opens
ISRAEL: The Jerusalem light rail Red Line opened for trial services on August 19, with 40 000 passengers carried on the first day. Travel is free until September 1 because of problems with ticketing equipment. ‘This is a happy day for Jerusalem and its residents’, said Mayor ...
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NewsVossloh to supply Rotherham tram-trains
UK: Vossloh has been selected as ‘lead bidder’ for the supply of rolling stock for the Sheffield - Rotherham tram-train pilot project, Transport Minister Norman Baker told an event organised by the All Party Parliamentary Light Rail Group on July 12. The business case is still being ...
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Metro Report InternationalFirst tram test run in Jerusalem
ISRAEL: A Citadis light rail vehicle made the first test run in Jerusalem on February 24, along a newly-energised 3 km section of track between the depot near French Hill and Ammunition Hill junction. The event was watched by senior officials from the municipality and light rail concessionaire CityPass, along ...
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Metro Report InternationalBombardier signs Berlin tram order
GERMANY: On September 1 Bombardier Transportation announced it had signed the contract to supply Berlin transport operator BVG with 99 Flexity Berlin trams. The order was placed within a framework agreement for up to 210 trams which was reached by Bombardier and BVG in 2006. Testing of ...
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Metro Report InternationalBombardier Transportation signs its largest ever tram order
CANADA: Bombardier Transportation has announced its ‘largest single order ever for light rail vehicles worldwide’, covering 204 trams worth C$851m. Toronto Transit Commission Chief General Manager Gary Webster gave Bombardier the contract award letter on June 26, immediately after a special meeting of Toronto city council which ...
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Metro Report InternationalKeolis to operate Bergen light rail line
NORWAY: The Fjord1 Partner AS consortium led by Keolis has been awarded a seven-year contract with a two-year extension to operate the 9?8 km Bybanen light rail line in Bergen. The operating contract is valued at NKr400m, although this does not take into account the value of ...
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Metro goes light in Madrid
SPAIN: Madrid’s first ‘light metro’ route opened to traffic after two months of trials on May 24, when LRVs began operating over the 5·5 km line between Pinar de Chamartín and Las Tablas in the city’s northern suburbs. By June 20 the Madrid regional government was able to report that ...
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Madrid LRT contracts awarded
SPAIN: The Madrid regional government has selected a consortium of Madrid Metro, the Caja Madrid bank and bus operator Alsa as preferred bidder for a 30-year concession to operate and maintain the light rail route currently under construction between Pinar del Chamartín and Las Tablas (RG 7.06 p377). The winning ...
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La Réunion plans inter-urban link
FRANCE: Lyon-based consultant Semaly has won a contract to study and design an inter-urban ’tram-train’ project on the French island département of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Leader of a consortium with Scetauroute, Thales and Dubus Richez, Semaly is already working on preliminary studies and expects to complete an ...
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Metro Report International
Alstom wins Jerusalem LRT
THIS MONTH is due to see the formal signing of the 30-year concession to build and operate Line 1 of the planned Jerusalem light rail network. On October 28, the Israeli ministries of Transport and Finance announced that the City Pass consortium had been selected for the project, and that ...
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Metro Report International
Jerusalem light rail works start
PREPARATORY works have started along the route of Jerusalem's first light rail line. This follows approval in June by the National Council for Design & Construction of an overall plan that would see eight lines totalling 54 km built in the city. The rights-of-way required for the LRT network are ...
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Metro Report International
Jerusalem LRT shortlist
DETAILS of the two competing bids to build and operate the initial light rail line in Jerusalem were unveiled by the Municipality and the Israeli ministries of Transport and Finance on June 4, which were presented to the inter-ministerial committee that day. Analysis of the tenders is expected to take ...
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Trams return to Croydon
UK: Months of frustration turned to celebrations on May 5 when the first 11 km section of Croydon Tramlink opened between the town centre loop and New Addington. Tramtrack Croydon Ltd’s Chairman Bob Dorey said it was an ‘important day’ when TCL ‘brought trams back to London’, 49 years after ...
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Hudson - Bergen Light Rail opens
USA: April 15 saw the formal inauguration of the first 12·7 km of New Jersey Transit’s $1·2bn Hudson - Bergen light rail network by state Governor Christie Whitman. Services are now running from 34th Street in Bayonne to Exchange Place in Jersey City, and on the short branch from Exchange ...
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Metro Report International
Jerusalem light rail prequalification launched
ISRAEL: The government and the Municipality of Jerusalem issued a formal invitation on December 5 to prequalify for a 30-year concession to build, operate and maintain the city’s first light rail line. Bidding documents were to be available from the Ministry of Transport four days later, with a closing date ...