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NewsTours Line A gets underway
FRANCE: Celebrations were held in Tours on August 31 to mark the inauguration of the country’s 25th modern tram network. The city’s Mayor Jean Germain was joined for the inauguration by Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls and Heath & Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine, as well as representatives from ...
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NewsLong load on the road
BELGIUM: Specialist heavy and abnormal load transport company Van der Vlist is delivering new trams to Brussels from Bombardier Transportation's Brugge plant. The seven-section Flexity Outlook T4000 trams for city transport operator STIB are almost 44 m long and 2 300 mm wide. For transport from the factory they ...
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NewsSiemens to supply traction equipment for Guangzhou trams
CHINA: Siemens has announced its entry into the Chinese low-floor tram market with a contract to supply drive components for seven low-floor trams which CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co is to supply to Guangzhou. Siemens is to supply propulsion and vehicle control, braking and auxiliary systems, as well as ...
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NewsBangkok metro extension contract
THAILAND: General contractor CH Karnchang Public Co has awarded Alstom a €14m contract covering track, third rail power supplies and a depot for an extension of Bangkok’s Sukhumvit Line, also known as the Green Line. In April Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand awarded CH Karrnchang a 2·4bn baht ...
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NewsOn-tram wi-fi on test in Manchester
UK: Transport for Greater Manchester has begun providing free wi-fi on a Metrolink light rail vehicle in a trial which could lead to the entire fleet being equipped. The equipment has been supplied Icomera. Tram 3054 has been specially branded for the trial. 'Passengers can help us try out the ...
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NewsPerth light rail funding
AUSTRALIA: Western Australia’s 2013-14 budget has allocated A$432m over four years for construction of the 22 km Metro Area Express light rail line, serving the inner north, central west and eastern suburbs of Perth. The mostly-segregated route would run south from the Polytechnic West Balga Campus in Mirrabooka, following ...
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NewsTokyo Waterfront metro line proposal
JAPAN: Tokyo’s Koto Ward is expected to present plans in September for a metro line serving the city’s waterfront area. To be operated by Tokyo Metro, the 5·2 km line would link Toyosu station on the Yurakucho Line with Sumiyoshi on the Hanzomon Line via Toyocho on the Tozai ...
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NewsFirst Sun Link streetcar is on its way
USA: The first light rail vehicle for the Modern Streetcar line in Tucson has started its journey from the United Streetcar factory in Clackamas, Oregon. It will spend five days travelling on a special flatbed trailer to the Arizona city, after which it will be reassembled and undergo four to ...
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Metro Report InternationalRiyadh metro project management contracts awarded
SAUDI ARABIA: The winners of two contracts to oversee design and construction of Riyadh's US$22·5bn six-line metro network were formally announced by Arriyadh Development Authority on August 27. The Riyadh Metro Transit Consultants joint venture of Parsons, Egis and Systra has won a US$556m project management contract covering lines 1 ...
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NewsMoscow metro awards contract for expansion works
RUSSIA: Mosinzhproekt has won a 564bn rouble contract to build 70 km of lines and 33 stations on the Moscow metro. The company, owned by Moscow city council, was the only bidder that qualified. Bidders were required to have completed metro projects worth more than 40bn roubles in the ...
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NewsKyiv metro gets new station and trains
UKRAINE: A test train ran to the new southern terminus of Kyiv metro Line 2 at Teremki on August 23. The 1·4 km extension is due to open for passenger service in October. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov visited the new station and boarded the test train, one of a ...
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NewsLos Angeles fare collection support contract extended
USA: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has extended its support services contract with Cubic Transportation Systems for six years. The contract covers the repair and maintenance of fare collection equipment and back-office technology for processing smart card data for Metro and 10 regional operators. The extension is worth ...
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NewsMoscow metro maintenance contract
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro has awarded Metrowagonmash a 30-year contract to maintain 248 Type 81-760/761 metro cars which were supplied in 2012. The Transmashholding subsidiary will take over the metro’s Novogireyevo depot under the contract, which requires 232 cars to be available for service. In a separate development, ...
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NewsHelsinki starts automated metro tests
FINLAND: Three Helsinki metro M100 trainsets equipped for automatic operation by Siemens started test running on August 21. Final approval was given by TÜV Rheinland. The trains will initially retain a driver on board, before drivers are phased out between late 2015 and the end of 2016. The first ...
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NewsMaking TRAX for Draper
USA: The final stage of Utah Transit Authority’s FrontLines 2015 light rail expansion project has opened. Regular service on the 6·1 km Blue Line extension to Draper Town Center started on August 18, following the official inauguration two days earlier. The three-stop extension runs south from Sandy Civic Center, ...
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NewsWaterloo signs light rail vehicle contract
CANADA: Bombardier Transportation announced on August 21 that it had signed a C$66m contract to supply 14 Flexity Freedom light rail vehicles to the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. The trams will be used on the 19 km Stage 1 of the ION light rail line that is scheduled to open ...
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NewsLondon Tramlink orders more Stadler trams
UK: London Tramlink has awarded Stadler Pankow a firm order to supply a further four Variobahn trams for the light rail network centred on Croydon. The additional Variobahn cars trams are to be built at Stadler's plants in Berlin and are scheduled to enter service from 2015. The £10·2m contract ...
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NewsBuenos Aires metro extension opens
ARGENTINA: Revenue services on a 1·6 km extension of Buenos Aires metro Line B began on August 15. Inaugurated by Mauricio Macri, head of the Buenos Aires city government, the extension from De Los Incas/Parque Chas to Juan Manuel de Rosas has one intermediate station at Echeverría. Opening ...
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NewsShenyang tramway opens
CHINA: The Shenyang tramway opened on August 15, in time for the 12th National Games being held in early September. Revenue service is to begin on September 15, with free travel in the interim. Lines 2 and 5 are fully open, and Line 1 is partly open. Line 3 is ...
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NewsHouston light rail extensions have more funding approved
USA: Congress has approved $189m for two light rail projects in Houston, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County announced on August 12. Half of the money will go towards the North/Red Line extension and the other half towards the Southeast/Purple Line. The funding is part of the $900m Full ...
