Urban rail – Page 400
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NewsBybanen light rail line opens in Bergen
NORWAY: A fanfare by Bergen’s FMKV Military Band greeted the inauguration of the city’s first tram line by Queen Sonja on June 22. Accompanied by government ministers, the Queen travelled on one of the fleet of 18 orange and white Variobahn trams from Nesttun to Kaigaten, where she alighted and ...
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NewsDelhi Metro opens Gurgaon extension
INDIA: The section of Delhi Metro Line 2 south from Qutub Minar to HUDA City Centre in the satellite town of Gurgaon opened at 08.00 on June 21 with simultaneous train departures from each end. The opening adds 14·5 km and nine stations to the Delhi Metro network, taking ...
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NewsPreferred bidder chosen for Denver commuter rail PPP
USA: Denver Regional Transportation District selected Denver Transit Partners as preferred bidder for the Eagle P3 commuter rail public-private partnership on June 15. The 46-year design build, finance, operate and maintain contract is expected to be finalised by the end of the year, with the $2·085bn price coming in $300m ...
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NewsGE signalling for Tvärbanan expansion
SWEDEN: Stockholm Transport authority Storstockholms Lokaltrafik has awarded GE Transportation a €36m contract for signalling work as part of the expansion of the Tvärbanan orbital light rail line in the southern suburbs of the capital. The contract announced on June 8 covers the provision of a traffic control centre, lineside ...
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NewsSingapore metro depot design contract awarded
SINGAPORE: Parsons Brinckerhoff has been awarded a contract to provide architectural and engineering design services for a new depot at Tuas, as part of the 7·5 km western extension of the East -West metro line which is under construction for opening in 2015. The depot will have the capacity to ...
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NewsMetrolinx exercises option for 182 light rail vehicles
CANADA: Greater Toronto transport agency Metrolinx awarded Bombardier Transportation a C$770m order for a 182 Flexity light rail vehicles in June 14, immediately after the provincial government announced approval of Metrolinx's C$8·1bn '5 in 10' revised programme to complete five major transport projects in 10 years rather than eight ...
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NewsWabtec awarded Tyne & Wear Metro refurbishment contract
UK: Tyne & Wear Metro operating contractor DB Regio has awarded Wabtec Rail a £25m contract to overhaul the network's 90 two-car trainsets on behalf of local transport authority Nexus. The 'three-quarter life refurbishment' will be undertaken at Doncaster and will run to 2015. It includes corrosion rectification, an ...
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NewsTren Urbano operating contract awarded
PUERTO RICO: Alternate Concepts Inc is to take sole responsibility for operation and maintenance of the Tren Urbano metro in San Juan under a five -year contract worth US$250m. The deal runs to June 2015, replacing the initial five-year contract with the Siemens Transit Team consortium which designed and built ...
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NewsMRT-7 contract awarded
PHILIPPINES: A consortium comprising Marubeni Corp, DMCI Holdings and a local partner has been awarded a US$1·12bn contract by Universal LRT Corp to build and commission the 22 km MRT-7 metro line in Manila. The Department of Transportation & Communications has recommended approval of changes to the project design that ...
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NewsRenovated metro cars return to Bucuresti
ROMANIA: On May 26 two renovated Bucuresti metro cars left the Alstom Transport site at Reichshoffen to start a five-day journey, across Germany, Austria and Hungary, to the workshop of Bucuresti metro operator Metrorex. Alstom is in the process of renovating 15 trainsets manufactured by Astra Vagoane Arad around 20 ...
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NewsContactless payment trial in New York
USA: Three transport agencies have launched a six month trial of a Tap & Go fare payment system on selected train and bus routes in New York and New Jersey. The Metropolitan Transportation Agency, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and NJ Transit have collaborated with MasterCard to ...
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NewsNanjing metro expands
CHINA: Nanjing Metro almost quadrupled the size of its network when it inaugurated a second line and a 25 km southern extension of Line 1 on May 28, increasing route length from 22 km to 85 km and the number of stations from 16 to 57.Line 2 is 38 km ...
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NewsRiyadh monorail contract awarded
SAUDI ARABIA: Bombardier Transportation announced on May 31 that it had won a US$241m contract to supply, install and operate a 3·6 km driverless monorail in the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh. Intended to serve the city’s new financial and business centre which is currently being ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - June 2010
Metrô DF opened Guará metro station in Brasília on May 10 after two years of construction. Guará is located between Arniqueiras and Feira do Guará on the shared section of the Orange and Green lines. Seven stations on Dubai’s 52·1 km Red Line opened on April ...
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Dorion-Rigaud line gets double-deckers
CANADA: On May 25 Joël Gauthier, President & CEO of the Agence Métropolitaine de Transport in Montréal, was joined by Québec officials to witness the start of double-deck commuter services on Montréal’s Dorion-Rigaud Line. Two more trainsets are due to arrive in the next few months. AMT placed a C$386m ...
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NewsSão Paulo metro Line 4 opens
BRAZIL: The initial 3·6 km central section of the Yellow Line between Paulista and Faria Lima was officially inaugurated by Alberto Goldman, Governor of the state of São Paulo, on May 25. Guests were entertained by Japanese taiko drummers Ryukyu Koku Matsuri Daiko at Faria Lima station and the ...
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NewsWashington metro confirms Kawasaki deal
USA: Meeting on May 27 the board of Washington DC metro operator WMATA voted to approve a contract with Kawasaki Rail Car for 428 new vehicles, valued at $886m. Kawasaki was selected through a competitively negotiated procurement, and was judged to be offering the best overall technical proposal and the ...
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NewsBombardier to test wireless trams in Augsburg
GERMANY: The Primove induction-based catenary-free electrification system developed by Bombardier Transportation is to be piloted on the tram network in Augsburg, the manufacturer announced on May 26. Formally unveiled at Bombardier's Bautzen factory in January 2009, Primove uses cable buried beneath the track to produce a magnetic fields which ...
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NewsSecond Avenue Subway tunnelling starts
USA: Tunnelling for the first phase of New York’s Second Avenue Subway project got underway on May 14 when a 485 tonne TBM began boring through Manhattan bedrock south from a launch pit between 96th Street and 92nd Street. The machine will dig two tunnels, each around 2 350 m ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief
Canadian National has sold a section of track west of Toronto Union station to Greater Toronto transport authority Metrolinx for C$168m. It is part of the busiest GO Transit commuter corridor and provides access to a depot. Queensland's Gold Coast rapid transit project team is evaluating expressions of interest from ...
