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NewsTranscend selected as Crossrail Programme Partner
UK: Crossrail Ltd is expected to sign a contract worth £100m shortly appointing the Transcend joint venture to the critical role of Programme Partner. The members of Transcend are AECOM, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group. The choice of Transcend as preferred bidder was announced on March 11, when Crossrail’s Land ...
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NewsCanarsie CBTC goes live
USA: New York City Transit reached a milestone in its programme to introduce automatic train operation on February 24, when it activated the final stage of the communications-based train control system on the L-Canarsie subway line. This route was selected as the pilot for CBTC when NYCT decided in ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - March 2009
A Request for Proposals has been issued inviting contractors to build the first 10·5 km section of the Honolulu Rapid Transit line between West Oahu and Farrington Highway. Future contracts will be awarded for seven stations, track, vehicles, traction power and train control systems as well as a depot and ...
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NewsCaracas metro renovation underway
VENEZUELA: Metro de Caracas is investing BsF4bn to refurbish Line 1 between Propatria and Palo Verde. The route now carries more than 1·5 million passengers on a working day, and the metro must meet an anticipated demand of 3 million passengers a day in 2014. The programme, which began in ...
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NewsHouston awards light rail expansion contract
USA: Houston's Metropolitan Transit Authority board of directors voted unanimously on March 4 to award a $1·46bn design, build, operate and maintain contract covering the construction of four more light rail lines to the HRT joint venture headed by Parsons Transportation Group. Following from the city's initial light rail ...
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NewsFour bids to build Dublin Metro North
IRELAND: The Railway Procurement Agency received four tenders on February 27 for the PPP contract to build and maintain the 18 km Metro North light rail line from St Stephen's Green in central Dublin to the airport, Swords and Belinstown. The bids reflect a substantial decrease in construction costs, ...
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NewsBrussels buys more Boa metro trains
BELGIUM: Brussels transport operator STIB signed a contract for an additional six metro trains with Spanish rolling stock supplier CAF on February 25, with an option on a further seven. The order is an extension of the original contract for 15 of the Boa trains which was signed in ...
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NewsAndalucian tram projects
SPAIN: Plans to build three new tram systems in Andalucía are progressing. Following signature of an agreement between the mayor of Chiclana and the Andalucian Minister of Transport on February 2, a €51·4m tender will shortly be launched for the 3·5 km seven-station Chiclana section of the Bahía de Cádiz ...
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NewsUniversity link funded
USA: A full-funding grant agreement for the 5·1 km University Link light rail extension in Seattle was signed by Sound Transit and the Federal Transit Administration on January 15. This provides federal funding to cover 40% of the $1·9bn cost, conditional on a $127m increase in the contingency reserve to ...
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NewsIstanbul extends
TURKEY: Four more stations were opened in Istanbul on January 30, when heavy metro Line M2 was extended to 15 km. Sishane lies to the south of Taksim, and Sanayi Mahallesi, ITU Ayazaga and Atatürk Oto Sanayi are north of 4 Levent. End-to-end journey time is 25 min. The extensions ...
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NewsDelhi metro car delivered by air
INDIA: The first of 424 Bombardier metro cars for Delhi arrived in India onboard an Antonov Airlines AN-124-100M high capacity freight aircraft on February 26. The 45 tonne, 22·5 m long and 3·2 m wide metro car had been moved by road from Bombardier's Görlitz plant in eastern Germany ...
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NewsBilbao Line 3 tendering launched
SPAIN: Basque infrastructure authority Euskal Trenbide Sarea has launched a tender to construct the first phase of Bilbao metro Line 3 between Etxebarri and Txurdinaga, which includes 2·1 km of tunnel and two new stations, with a budget of €65·5m and an execution period of 45 months. Offers were to ...
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NewsLos Angeles light rail advances
USA: A light rail vehicle was towed along the 9·7 km Gold Line Eastside Extension from Los Angeles Union Station to Atlantic Boulevard and Pomona Street on January 27 to check clearances. The $898m extension is on course to open this summer, under budget and several months ahead of schedule. ...
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NewsDubai strengthens safety regulation
UAE: The Dubai Roads & Transport Authority signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK Office of Rail Regulation on February 9. The agreement followed RTA’s successful co-operation with ORR to assess and certify safety on Nakheel’s Palm Jumeirah Monorail, which is due to start revenue service in April this ...
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NewsMetrotranvía deal signed
ARGENTINA: Mendoza governor Celso Alejandro signed a 62·4m pesos contract with the Ceosa-Sogesic joint venture to build the 13 km Metrotranvía line on February 11. To be completed in 360 days, the work includes reconstruction and regauging of the former San Martín line from 1 676 mm to 1 435 ...
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NewsBangalore Metro extension given the go-ahead
INDIA: Bangalore Metro’s Phase 1 extension was given the go-ahead on January 30. The Rs17·6bn project includes a 5·6 km northern section from Yeshwanthpur to Hesaraghatta Cross with six elevated stations and a 3·7 km extension from RV Road Terminal south to Puttenahalli Cross with three elevated stations. The work ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - February 2009
With a view to starting operations towards the middle of this year, work is now underway on the 72m pesos Ferrourbano project to restore 11·5 km of metre-gauge infrastructure for use by passenger services between Rodríguez del Busto and the Mitre and Belgrano stations in the city of Córdoba in ...
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NewsAutomating Brazil’s busiest metro lines
BRAZIL: Work is starting on the resignalling of lines 1, 2 and 3 of the São Paulo metro under a €280m contract awarded in July 2008, paving the way for the introduction of automatic train operation. Chris Jackson discusses the programme with Alstom Transport’s Customer Director Rosangela Tsuruda and Project ...
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NewsShanghai metro goes racing
CHINA: Construction began in mid-December on the second phase of Shanghai Metro Line 11, which will connect the city to the Formula One motor racing circuit in Anting Town. The 21 km Phase II will start from Huashan Road in Puxi, passing through Changning, Xuhui and Pudong en route to ...
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NewsSkoda trams to Wroclaw
POLAND: City transport operator MPK Wroclaw has selected Skoda Transportation to supply a further 28 trams. The 268m zloty contract is expected to be signed in March, with the trams to enter service between November 2010 and October 2011. They will be similar to the Skoda 16T type which ...