Urban rail – Page 336
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NewsLuxembourg tram funding approved
LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg city council has approved funding for a tram line and the creation of operating company LuxTram. The cost of the project is expected to be €345·78m, of which two-thirds will come from the central government and one-third from the city council. This is to cover studies, infrastructure ...
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NewsG:Link trams inaugurated
AUSTRALIA: Revenue services began running on the G:Link light rail line on July 21, making Queensland's Gold Coast the first new entrant to the country's tram club for more than a century. The line had been officially inaugurated the previous day by state Transport Minister Scott Emerson and local MP ...
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NewsJeddah metro design contract awarded
SAUDI ARABIA: The government signed a contract with Systra on July 17 for preliminary engineering designs for the Jeddah metro. The value of the 20-month contract is 276m riyals. Last year the Council of Ministers approved a 45bn riyal transport plan for the city, which includes a three-line light ...
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NewsFirst Braunschweig Tramino delivered
GERMANY: The first low-floor Tramino tram for Braunschweig arrived in the early hours of July 18 from the Solaris Bus & Coach factory in Poznań. The second and third vehicles are to arrive in the following two weeks, with the remaining 15 trams due by the end of the year. ...
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NewsMTR selected to operate Crossrail services
UK: Transport for London named MTR Corp (Crossrail) Ltd as preferred bidder for the Crossrail operating concession on July 18. The £1·4bn contract will run for eight years from May 2015, with an option for a further two years. TfL will make payments to the concessionaire with a nominal value ...
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NewsSan Francisco to replace LRV fleet
USA: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority has recommended the purchase of up to 260 S200 light rail vehicles from Siemens Industry. The 15-year contract would be worth $1·2bn when it is formally awarded later this year, following approval of the SFMTA board on July 15. Siemens beat a rival ...
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NewsPorto Alegre train maintenance contract awarded
BRAZIL: Porto Alegre metro operator Trensurb has awarded CAF Brasil Indústria e Comércio a R$79·7m contract to maintain its fleet of 25 trainsets for five years. The contract covers preventive and corrective maintenance of the four-car trainsets. Trensurb plans to invite tenders soon for the maintenance of the 15 ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - July 2014
Korea Engineering & Construction has signed a memorandum of understanding to undertake a feasibility study for a 13·6 km light rail line in Davao City on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. A 1·8 km extension of Minsk metro Line 1 from Petrovshchina to Malinovka opened on ...
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NewsPalermo tram unveiled
ITALY: The first tram for Palermo was officially launched by Mayor Leoluca Orlando on July 14. The vehicle ran from the Roccella depot to Scaffa Square, where it was presented to the public. Transport authority AMAT ordered 17 100% low-floor Flexity Outlook trams from Bombardier Transportation in 2006 for ...
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NewsBratislava orders 30 ForCity Plus trams
SLOVAKIA: Bratislava transport authority DPB has excercised an option for Škoda Transportation to supply a further 30 ForCity Plus trams and provide 15 years of maintenance support. The order covers 15 bi-directional Type 30T trams for delivery in late 2015 at a cost of €39·3m, and 15 unidirectional Type 29T ...
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NewsRussia One tram prototype revealed
RUSSIA: An unusually-styled prototype tram was unveiled at the Innoprom 2014 industrial exhibition in Yekaterinburg on July 9. Branded Russia One or R1, it has been developed by the Uraltransmash tram manufacturing subsidiary of defence and rolling stock supplier Uralvagonzavod, in partnership with design agency OKB Atom. According to the ...
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NewsContractors prequalify for Makkah metro civil works
SAUDI ARABIA: The Mayor of Makkah Osama Al Bar has announced that 10 of the 16 international consortia which expressed interest in the two civil works contracts for Phase 1 of the city’s metro project have prequalified to submit tenders. Civil works contracts 1 and 2 are expected to be ...
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NewsNanjing opens two lines
CHINA: Nanjing metro Line 10 and suburban line S1 to the airport opened on July 1. Line 10 was built as a 15·9 km Olympic Stadium – Yushanlu extension of Line 1’s 5·7 km Andemen – Olympic Stadium branch, which it has now absorbed. Line 10 has one elevated and ...
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NewsTransport projects allocated Growth Deal funding
UK: A number of transport schemes are included in the government’s Local Growth Fund allocations announced on July 7. Local Enterprise Partnerships formed by English local authorities and businesses were able to bid for money from the fund to spend on match-funded projects which are intended to support their local ...
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NewsHuawei awarded Addis Abeba light rail telecoms contract
ETHIOPIA: Huawei has been awarded a contract to provide its Mass Transit eLTE communications technology for the Addis Abeba light rail project. Huawei will provide fixed and wireless communications to support applications including telephony, SCADA, fare collection and IP-based video surveillance. The north–south and east–west lines totalling 31 km ...
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NewsAarhus selects light rail contractors
DENMARK: A consortium of Stadler and Ansaldo STS has been selected as preferred bidder for a turnkey contract to build and equip the first stage of the Aarhus light rail scheme. Project promoter Aarhus Letbane I/S expects to sign the contract ‘before the summer’, following more than a year of ...
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NewsKeolis and Amey win Docklands Light Railway franchise
UK: On July 4 Transport for London named the Keolis Amey Docklands joint venture of Keolis (70%) and Amey Rail (30%) as the winner of the new franchise to operate and maintain the Docklands Light Railway automated light metro. The contract runs from December 7 2014 until April 2021, ...
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NewsEuskoTren orders CAF trainsets
SPAIN: EuskoTren has awarded CAF a €150m contract to supply 12 electric trainsets for the future Bilbao Metro Line 3, and 16 to replace existing Series 200 and 300 units. Each of the metre-gauge electric multiple-units will have three 17 m long cars, giving a total capacity of 296 passengers ...
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NewsTwo Polish tram openings
POLAND: An extension of Toruń’s tram network to the Bielany residential district and Nicolaus Copernicus University opened on June 24. The 1·7 km extension was built by Budimex at a cost of 49·5m złoty, including five stops, a turning loop and upgrades to existing tracks. It is the first extension ...
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NewsBlind passengers study new trams
POLAND: Tramwaje Śląskie and disabled persons’ training institute Alfa Prim have organised workshops to enable blind and partially-sighted people to familiarise themselves with the operator’s new Pesa Twist trams, which have a different layout to previous vehicles. The events were held at the tramway’s Zawodzie depot, where users could ...
