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NewsSmartphone ticketing targets special events
USA: Mobile ticketing specialist Masabi has launched a smartphone app to enable San Diego Trolley passengers to buy day passes for special events in the city. Branded MTS mTicket, the Cloud-based mobile ticketing and fare collection application can be downloaded from either the Apple iTunes store or Google Play for ...
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NewsKraków plans three-line metro network
POLAND: The city of Kraków’s spatial planning team has published a study for a three-line metro, which has been endorsed by Mayor Jacek Majchrowski. The report targets construction to start in 2018 if the city authorities approve financing estimated at 3bn złoty. A significant part of this ...
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NewsLondon Underground depot upgraded to maintain new trains
UK: London Underground has completed a £180m modernisation of its Neasden depot to provide facilities for the routine maintenance of Bombardier Transportation S Stock trainsets used on the Metropolitan Line. BAM Nutall undertook the civil, mechanical and electrical works for the depot modernisation, Thales was responsible for signalling including ...
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NewsHong Kong awards SCL Phase 1 signalling contract
CHINA: MTR Corp has awarded Thales a HK$642·5m contract to install communications-based train control on the first phase of the Shatin – Central Link. ‘Extending and upgrading a heavily-used network without impacting on our customer service is a challenging task. We look forward to having Thales’s team with their ...
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NewsLine 2 opens in Alacant
SPAIN: Line 2 of the Alacant tramway opened on September 4, connecting Sant Vicent del Raspeig with the rest of the network. Speaking at the opening ceremony, President of Valencia Generalitat Alberto Fabra said that the new route ‘makes the city much more sustainable, ecological and comfortable for its citizens’. ...
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NewsRed Line funded in Maryland’s $1·5bn transport package
USA: Construction of Baltimore’s east-west Red Line light rail route is expected to get underway in 2015, following the announcement of a $1·5bn transport investment programme by Maryland’s Governor Martin O’Malley on September 4. This is intended to support schemes totalling $4·4bn included in Maryland Department of Transportation’s draft six-year ...
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NewsAlstom to refurbish Baltimore light rail vehicles
USA: Maryland Transit Administration has selected Alstom to overhaul the fleet of light rail vehicles operated in Baltimore. The signature of the $150m contract was announced on September 3. Alstom is to renew propulsion systems, automatic train control, CCTV, air-conditioning units, doors, seating and carpets to each of the ...
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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, ...