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NewsNew York MTA awards $2∙9bn Penn Station Access contract
Photo: Amtrak USA: New York MTA has awarded a 63-month design and build contract to a joint venture Halmar International and RailWorks for work on the Penn Station Access programme. To be completed within a budget of $2∙9bn, the programme covers the four-tracking of a 30 ...
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Metro Report InternationalPTC reaches Naugatuck valley
USA: Working with Connecticut Department of Transportation, Metro-North Railroad has completed the installation of signalling and Positive Train Control on the Waterbury Branch. The single-track line had been the last section of MNCR still relying on manual block operation, and its resignalling completes the roll-out of ...
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NewsIndian companies to co-operate to target global opportunities
INDIA: Rolling stock manufacturer BEML and consultancy RITES have signed a memorandum of understanding to to explore and jointly bid for opportunities in the metro sector and rolling stock export market. RITES will provide design, engineering, marketing and any other support that may be required for ...
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NewsATACS to support ATO on Tokyo suburban routes
JAPAN: East Japan Railway has confirmed plans to install its ATACS radio-based train control on Tokyo suburban lines over the next decade, in order to support an expansion of driver-only and automatic train operation.
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Metro Report InternationalMadrid metro extension contract awarded
SPAIN: Madrid municipality has awarded Azvi-Cotodisa Obras and Servicio-Obras Subterráneas a 22-month, €92m contract to extend metro Line 3 by 2∙5 km from Villaverde Alto to El Casar in Getafe.
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Metro Report InternationalOslo T-Bane CBTC contract awarded
NORWAY: Oslo transport operator Sporveien has awarded Siemens Mobility a €270m contract to install communications-based train control to replace legacy signalling systems on the capital’s 94 km five-line T-Bane metro network and provide 25 years of maintenance. The Trainguard MT CBTC will support attended automated operation ...
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Metro Report InternationalSiemens Mobility wins Digital Train Control Frankfurt CBTC contract
GERMANY: Frankfurt transport operator VGF has selected Siemens Mobility for the Digital Train Control Frankfurt contract to replace the conventional train control systems on its U-Bahn and tram networks with communications-based train control. Wireless digital communications between the control system and the vehicles will enable services ...
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Metro Report InternationalTramway and cable cars proposed to relieve Andorra’s roads
ANDORRA: Construction of a light rail line is proposed in a study commissioned by the government to consider options for reducing unsustainable growth in road traffic. The tramway would run from Sant Julià de Lòria to Escaldes-Engordany, with three connecting cable car links to the airport, ...
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NewsBattery power to extend Dublin commuter services as Alstom wins DART fleet renewal
IRELAND: Alstom was formally confirmed as supplier of up to 750 suburban multiple-unit cars for Iarnród Éireann as part of its DART+ Programme on December 13, having been named preferred bidder in June.
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Metro Report InternationalKarlsruhe Kombilösung tram tunnels inaugurated
GERMANY: The cross-city tram tunnels in Karlsruhe were opened for revenue service on December 11, with Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe operating its first trams through the link from 14:30 and its regional partner Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft starting the following day. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there was ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransport for London bans e-scooters following fires
UK: Privately-owned e-scooters and e-unicycles will not be permitted on Transport for London services or premises from December 13, as a result of safety concerns following fires at Stanmore and Parsons Green on the London Underground network. A review by TfL found that defective lithium-ion batteries ...
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Metro Report InternationalRostov-na-Donu tramway expansion plan
RUSSIA: Plans are being developed for a major modernisation of the Rostrov-na-Donu tram network and the construction of extensions to new residential districts as part of a transport strategy for 2035 which has been adopted by the city council. The programme would ...
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Metro Report InternationalNizhny Novgorod metro extension contract
RUSSIA: Sole bidder Mosproekt-3 has been awarded a contract to extend the Nizhny Novgorod metro’s Avtozavodskaya Line 3 km underground from Gorkovskaya station to Sennaya. This will be the first urban rail extension funded via a government infrastructure loan, with an initial 8·3bn roubles allocated. The ...
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Metro Report InternationalMoscow Metro opens its longest extension
RUSSIA: The 21 km Mnevniki – Kakhovskaya southwestern section of Moscow Metro’s Bolshaya Koltsevaya ‘Big Circle’ Line 11 was opened on December 7, with President Putin joining via video link. Mostransproekt director Vladimir Titov said this was the longest section of the Moscow metro network to ...
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Metro Report InternationalTel Aviv Metro network management contract awarded
ISRAEL: Tel Aviv metro project promoter NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit Systems has awarded its network management contract to the METAV consortium of Egis and local partner Gadish Group. METAV will act as chief consultant to NTA during the development of the proposed €40bn three-line network totalling ...
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Metro Report InternationalKaliningrad tram fleet renewal agreed
RUSSIA: An order for 16 PKTS 71-921 Corsair trams for the metre-gauge network in Kaliningrad is to be financed by Sberbank’s leasing subsidiary under a 2·9bn rouble leasing deal running for 10 years from their delivery at the end of February 2022.
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Metro Report InternationalSzeged tram-train service inaugurated
HUNGARY: The country’s first public tram-train service between Szeged and Hódmezővásárhely has started revenue service ahead of the introduction of a full timetable in January.
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NewsGO Transit BiLevels to be overhauled
CANADA: Transport authority Metrolinx has awarded Alstom a C$171m contract for the mid-life overhaul and refurbishment of 94 BiLevel commuter coaches used on GO Transit commuter serves in the Toronto area. The two-year programme is to be carried out at Alstom’s Thunder Bay plant where the ...
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Metro Report InternationalDelhi metro train refurbished
INDIA: Mid-life refurbishment has been completed on the the first of the 70 trainsets supplied for Delhi Metro Phase I in 2002-07. Work on an initial 10 trainsets is being undertaken by Escorts Ltd Railway Equipment Division and Naledi Rail Engineering with ...
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Metro Report InternationalGrade separated junction opens in Chicago
USA: Chicago Transit Authority has opened a grade-separated junction north of Belmont station, the first major improvement to be completed as part of its $2·1bn Red and Purple Modernisation Phase One project. Designed and built by a joint venture of Fluor Corp and Walsh Construction Co, ...