Urban transport modes – Page 306
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NewsPresident backs passenger projects
MEXICO: A package of urban and inter-city rail projects formed one of the 13 policy initiatives announced by President Enrique Peña Nieto immediately after being sworn in on December 1. Projects to be taken forward by the federal Secretariat of Transport & Communications include Line 3 of the Monterrey metro, ...
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NewsDART extends two light rail lines
USA: Dallas Area Rapid Transit began revenue service on two more sections of its expanding light rail network on December 3. The opening of extensions to the Blue and Orange lines brings the total length of the network to more than 135 route-km. A ribbon-cutting ceremony had been held in ...
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NewsEuropean Commission backs regenerative braking R&D
ITALY: The European Commission's LIFE+ programme is to meet 50% of the cost of pilot installation of Alstom's HESOP regenerative energy recovery system on Milano metro Line 3. HESOP is expected to recover almost all of the braking energy, equivalent to about 15% of total traction energy usage, enabling it ...
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NewsAlstom to build new Rio de Janeiro fleet
BRAZIL: On December 3 Alstom signed a contract with Rio de Janeiro commuter concessionaire SuperVia covering the supply of 20 four-car Metropolis EMUs. Representing a total investment of R$300m, the contract will see Alstom undertake final assembly and testing at new plant to be built on a 32 000 m2 ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - December 2012
Mid-America Regional Council has approved the allocation of $17·7m of US federal funding to the planned $100m Downtown Streetcar starter line in Kansas City, Missouri. Lyon tram route T5 was inaugurated on November 17. It uses an existing section of Line T2, plus a new 3·8 km extension from ...
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NewsHamburg U4 opens to HafenCity
GERMANY: Mayor Olaf Scholz inaugurated Hamburg Hochbahn Line U4 linking the city centre with the HafenCity redevelopment area on November 28. Travel is free from November 29 until December 9, when revenue services will begin. Construction of the 4 km underground U4 has taken five years at a cost of ...
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NewsMayor of Moscow commits to tram investment
RUSSIA: Mayor Sergei Sobyanin confirmed his commitment to the future of Moscow's 416 km tram network during a visit to a section of modernised track on Krasnoprudnaya Ulitsa on November 26. 'We are not going to stop the tram traffic in the city', the Mayor said. 'On the contrary, we ...
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NewsT'Trans and Vossloh selected for Santos light rail contract
BRAZIL: Public transport operator EMTU has selected the Tremvia Santos consortium of Trans Sistemas de Transportes (T'Trans) and Vossloh España to supply 22 light rail vehicles for the future SIM network in Santos. Under a contract expected to be worth up to R$284·3m, deliveries would take place between May 2014 ...
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NewsBombardier to supply Dubai airport peoplemover
UAE: Bombardier Transportation has been awarded a 392m dirham contract to design and build an 1·5 km elevated automated peoplemover to link Terminal 1 with the future Concourse 4 at Dubai International Airport. The peoplemover will have a capacity of more than 200 000 passengers/day. Dubai International Airport is being ...
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NewsModular metro traction equipment with emergency rescue capability
CHINA: Alstom Transport and its local partner Shanghai Alstom Transport Electrical Equipment have been awarded a €37m contract to supply traction equipment for 35 six-car trainsets being built for Shanghai Shentong Metro Group by CNR Changchun. Due for delivery in 2014, the 140 motor and 70 trailer cars are needed ...
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NewsHangzhou Metro Line 1 opens
CHINA: Governor of Zhejiang Province Xia Baolong opened Hangzhou's first metro line with a ceremony at Wulin Square station on November 24 Line 1 runs from Xianghu in the south to Linping and Wenzelu in the north, with 41 km of the 48 km route underground. There are 31 stations, ...
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NewsConstruction of Sofia airport metro extension begins
BULGARIA: Minister of Transport & Communications Ivaylo Moskovski and Mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova attended a sod-turning ceremony on November 21 to formally launch construction of the airport extension of Sofia metro Line 1. The extension from Tsarigradsko Shose to the airport will be 5 km long, with four stations. ...
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NewsCAF wins Tallinn tram contract
ESTONIA: Tallinn urban transport operator Tallinna Linnatranspordi has selected CAF for a contract to supply 15 low-floor trams. Deliveries are scheduled to start within 21 months and be completed within 32 months. The 1 067 mm gauge trams will be 2 300 mm wide and equipped for regenerative braking. They ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - November 2012
The Swiss government has approved plans to extend Bern tram Line 9 to Kleinwabern and build a new line from Ostermundigen to Köniz; the state will contribute up to SFr74·4m. A 3·4 km extension of Daegu metro Line 2 from Sawol to Yeongnam University with four stations opened on ...
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NewsEIB signs loan for Cairo metro extension
EGYPT: The European Investment Bank signed the €200m first tranche of a €600m loan to part-fund construction of the third phase of Cairo Metro Line 3 on November 14. Phase III will add 17·7 km and 15 stations to the network, and according to EIB is intended to enhance access ...
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NewsParis tram route T1 goes west
FRANCE: The 5 km western extension of Paris tram route T1 from Saint-Denis to Asnières-Gennevilliers – Les Courtilles was opened by the capital’s public transport operator RATP on November 15. Running through the outer suburban districts of Saint-Denis, Ile-Saint-Denis, Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Gennevilliers and Asnières-sur-Seine, the extension adds 10 more stops to ...
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NewsMore trains ordered for Paris metro Line 14
FRANCE: Ile-de-France transport authority STIF and Paris transport operator RATP have awarded Alstom a firm order to supply additional MP05 metro trainsets in 2014-15. The six-car rubber-tyred trains are required for a 5·8 km northern extension of the automated Line 14 from Saint-Lazare to Mairie de Saint-Ouen which is scheduled ...
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NewsSão Paulo Yellow Line contract awarded
BRAZIL: Power supplies, communications and other systems for the second phase of São Paulo's automated metro Line 4 are to be supplied by a consortium of Alstom (72·4%) and Thyssen-Krupp under a contract awarded by metro operator CMSP and announced on November 12. Installation is due to be completed ...
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News'Flying seagull' transport interchange planned for Istanbul
TURKEY: Hakan Kiran Architecture and Dutch engineering consultancy Royal HaskoningDHV have signed a memorandum of understanding for the design of the Kabatas Seagull Transportation Hub, an interchange between tram, funicular, bus and ferry services on the European side of Istanbul. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has appointed the architectural practice to design ...
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NewsAnsaldoBreda wins Miami Metrorail train contract
USA: Miami-Dade County Commissioners gave Miami-Dade Transit the formal go-ahead on November 8 to award AnsaldoBreda a $300m contract to supply a fleet of metro cars to replace the current Budd stock on the Metrorail network. The air-conditioned coaches are to have 'an elegant exterior and interior design', with bicycle ...