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NewsMünchen transport gets €135m investment
GERMANY: München transport operator MVG has announced plans to invest €135m in its metro and tram networks during the coming year. Around €70m will go on metro improvements, including the modernisation of Hauptbahnhof and Marienplatz U-bahn stations and signalling at Scheidplatz. Other projects will include upgrading the power supplies to ...
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NewsTrial services begin on Lima metro
PERU: More than a quarter of a century after work began on Lima’s first metro, trial services on the full 22 km Tren Eléctrico line between Villa El Salvador and Miguel Grau began on January 9. There was a limited free service for the first month, with revenue operation expected ...
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NewsShenyang metro opens second line
CHINA: Revenue services on Shenyang metro Line 2 between Santaizi and Quanyunlu began on January 9, serving business facilities being developed along the city’s ‘Golden Corridor’. Work on the 21∙8 km north-south route with 19 stations began in 2006. Line 1 had opened in September 2009. The capital expenditure on ...
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NewsLondon Tramlink takes delivery of Stadler cars
UK: The Tramlink light rail network in south London has begun taking delivery of six Stadler Rail Variotrams which Transport for London ordered in August 2011 at cost of £16∙3m.The first of the 32 m long five-section 100% low-floor air-conditioned trams underwent trial running in the German city of Chemnitz ...
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NewsTaipei Xinzhuang Line extension opens
TAIWAN: The 8∙2 km southern branch of Taipei’s Xinzhuang Line from Daqiaotou to Fu Jen University in New Taipei City was opened by Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin and New Taipei Mayor Eric Chu on January 5. Full revenue services are expected to begin in February, after a month of ...
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NewsOlsztyn chooses Newag trams for new line
POLAND: A consortium of Newag and Modertrans has been selected as preferred bidder to supply cars for the tramway being developed in Olsztyn, beating bids from Solaris and Pesa Bydgoszcz. Newag and Modertrans are to supply city transport operator MPK Olsztyn with 15 trams at a cost of 113·6m z?oty, ...
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NewsBuenos Aires city government takes control of metro
ARGENTINA: The Buenos Aires city government has taken over control of the Subte metro network from the national government after an agreement was signed by Mayor Mauricio Macri and Minister of Planning Julio De Vido on January 3. Daily operations are managed by operator Metrovías, but the city will now ...
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NewsHelsinki metro automation ambitions are scaled back
FINLAND: Helsinki metro operator HKL announced last month that the contract for Siemens to automate the city’s metro line could not be fulfilled due to cost and technical factors. Following two days of discussions, the scope has been scaled back and Siemens has offered a discount on the €100m ...
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NewsTesting underway on first section of Salvador metro
BRAZIL: Test running on the first 6∙5 km section of Salvador metro Line 1 between Lapa and Acesso Norte began on December 22. Testing is scheduled to continue until April, when a free passenger service will be introduced until the start of commercial services in June. The line will serve ...
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NewsHo Chi Minh City metro design and supervision contract
VIETNAM: Ho Chi Minh City's Management Authority for Urban Railways has awarded the design, tender documentation and site supervision services contract for metro Line 2 to a consortium of Pöyry, ILF Beratende Ingenieure, Obermeyer Planen + Beraten and local partner Tedi South. The design and documentation phase is scheduled to ...
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NewsFirst C Stock trains enter service in Hong Kong
CHINA: Hong Kong MTR put its first C Stock trains into passenger services on the Kwun Tong Line on December 7. MTR awarded CNR Changchun a HK$1·1bn contract to supply 10 eight-car trainsets in December 2008, the first time it had ordered metro trains from a manufacturer on the Chinese ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - January 2012
Metro Bilbao has completed a programme to add a fifth trailer car to 13 Series 500 and all nine Series 600 trainsets, using vehicles ordered at a cost of €32m. Infrastructure work costing €26m included depot lifting equipment and changes to signalling software. The first of 60 MI09 double-deck ...
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NewsMoscow metro expansion plans announced
RUSSIA: The Moscow city government has announced plans to build a further 98 km of metro over the next nine years, taking the total network to 400 km and adding 44 stations at an estimated cost of 344bn roubles. Of this, 75 km and 36 stations would be completed by ...
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NewsBeijing metro lines open
CHINA: The first phase of Beijing metro Line 9 and two other extensions were opened on December 31, with over 126 000 passengers carried on the first day. The three routes are officially being operated as a trial service for the fist 12 months, pending formal approval. The new lines ...
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NewsShenyang to build 65 km tram network
CHINA: Shenyang municipality signed an agreement with CNR Corp on December 1 for the development of a 40bn yuan tram network. The 65 km five-line network will connect Taoxian Airport, Shenyang South high speed rail station, National Games Village and Olympic Sports Centre. Segregated surface alignments are planned, with grassed ...
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NewsCrenshaw/LAX light rail line gets go-ahead
USA: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been given the green light by the Federal Transit Administration to proceed this year with the $1∙7bn Crenshaw/LAX light rail line running between the Expo Line on Exposition Boulevard and the Green Line at Aviation/LAX. Metro had already invited proposals in December ...
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NewsCroydon tram on test in Chemnitz
UK: The first of six Stadler Variobahn trams ordered to increase capacity on the Tramlink network in south London underwent testing in the German city of Chemnitz during December. Stadler won its first UK contract in August 2011, when Transport for London announced a £16·3m order for six Variobahn trams ...
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NewsSilicon Valley BART extension contract awarded
USA: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has awarded a joint venture of Skanska, Shimmick Construction and Herzog Contracting Corp a $772m contract to build the 8∙6 km Berryessa Extension of the BART metro network south from Warm Springs Station in Fremont to north San Jose.The extension will include two stations ...
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NewsTrams are getting even greener
AUSTRIA: Technische Universität Wien is heading a consortium of Wien transport operator Wiener Linien, Siemens, Vossloh Kiepe, Rail Tec Arsenal and Schig which is undertaking research into operating strategies and design modifications which could lower the energy consumption of trams. Launched in March 2010 and backed by Austrian research agency ...
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NewsVision 2020 to expand Montreal's public transport
CANADA: Metro expansion and the electrification of commuter routes lie at the heart of a C$168bn strategic plan to improve Montréal’s public transport which has been announced by Agence Métropolitaine de Transport. Vision 2020 contains three metro projects; a Blue Line extension east towards Anjou, a northern extension of the ...