Urban transport news from the Americas – Page 6
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New York’s first walk-through Subway trains unveiled
USA: New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority unveiled the first walk-through R211 Subway trainset at Coney Island Yard in Brooklyn on February 3. The open gangway cars are being supplied by Kawasaki Rail Car as part of a January 2018 order to pilot the use of such ...
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Calgary Green Line Delivery Partner contract awarded
CANADA: The city of Calgary has awarded the Delivery Partner contract for the light rail Green Line to the CSIX Partners consortium. The Green Line will cover an 18 km route from Shepard to Eau Claire with 13 stops. The consortium comprises ...
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Sepulveda Transit Corridor programme management contract awarded
USA: Los Angeles Metro Transportation Authority has appointed Anser Advisory to support development of the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project. This aims to provide a metro or monorail through the natural barrier of the Santa Monica mountains which lie between the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles’ ...
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Belo Horizonte metro development concessionaire appointed
BRAZIL: A concession to operate, manage and extend the Belo Horizonte metro has been awarded to Comporte Participações.
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Philadelphia launches mobile ticketing for up to five people
USA: Philadelphia transport operator SEPTA has launched a mobile ticketing pilot programme, offering families and occasional travellers the ability to purchase a QR code ticket for up to five people travelling together using its smartphone app. Key Tix is not intended to replace SEPTA’s Key Cards, but ...
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East San Fernando Valley light rail construction management contract awarded
USA: Los Angeles County MTA has appointed a joint venture of Arcadis and Mott MacDonald as construction management support services consultant for the East San Fernando Valley light rail project. The contract announced by the AMM joint venture on January 17 and ...
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Progressive design-build model for Scarborough Subway Extension development
CANADA: Infrastructure Ontario and Toronto area transport agency Metrolinx have appointed the Scarborough Transit Connect consortium as Stations, Rail & Systems development partner for the Scarborough Subway Extension project. Scarborough Transit Connect comprises applicant leads Aecon Infrastructure Management and FCC Canada, design prime team member Mott ...
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Next Santo Domingo metro trains to feature design enhancements
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Santo Domingo metro operator OPRET has awarded Alstom a contract to supply a further 10 three-car Metropolis trainsets.
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New York MTA picks elevated light rail for Brooklyn – Queens Interborough Express
USA: New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has selected light rail as the chosen mode for a passenger service in the Bay Ridge freight corridor serving Brooklyn and Queens.
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Quito metro inaugurated for preview visits
ECUADOR: Quito metro Line 1 has been formally inaugurated ahead of the start of services, with official ceremonies including a blessing by the archbishop. ‘The history of Quito will be told as before and after the arrival of the metro’, said Mayor Santiago Guarderas Izquierdo, with ...
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Phoenix airport peoplemover extended and trains lengthened
USA: Passenger services on a 4 km extension to the PHX Sky Train automated peoplemover system at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Arizona began on December 20.
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Chicago track renewals contract awarded
USA: Chicago Transit Authority has awarded Kiewit Infrastructure a $105m contract covering the first phase of track renewals on the Forest Park branch of the metro network’s Blue Line. Phase one includes reconstruction of the trackbed between UIC-Halsted and Illinois Medical District stations, which runs in the ...
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Reconstruction of Toronto’s Bloor-Yonge metro station funded
CANADA: Funding has been finalised for a major expansion of TTC’s Bloor-Yonge station, the busiest on the Toronto metro network. The scheme is valued at C$1·5bn, which is to be funded via a three-way split between the city, provincial and federal governments. The expansion work is aimed ...
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Ottawa light rail inquiry makes 103 recommendations
CANADA: There were persistent failures in leadership and communication during development of Ottawa’s light rail project, with the city and PPP concessionaire Rideau Transit Group losing sight of the public interest, according to a public inquiry report which makes 103 recommendations to fix problems and ensure they ...
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Brasília tram line to be developed as PPP concession
BRAZIL: Proposals for the development of a 15 km tram line in Brasília through a public-private partnership have been unveiled by Valter Casimiro, Secretary of Transport & Mobility at the government of the Federal District. The line would run along W3 Road through the core of ...
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Boston Green Line reaches Medford
USA: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority opened the Medford branch of its Boston light rail Green Line Extension for revenue service on December 12. Several hundred travellers gathered to ride the first southbound service formed of two articulated LRVs which departed from the ...
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‘Dinky’ train study recommends combined light rail and bus route
USA: Development of a combined light rail and bus corridor is proposed in a study into the future of NJ Transit’s ‘Dinky’, a 4·3 km branch which connects Princeton Junction on the Northeast Corridor with Princeton.
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Initial service begins on San Francisco’s Central Subway
USA: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has launched a free weekends-only introductory service on the Central Subway, ahead of the extension of T Third Line light rail services into the tunnel from January.
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Glassboro – Camden link design contract awarded
USA: The South Jersey Transit Partners joint venture of AECOM and STV has been awarded a contract to support the pre-construction phase of the Glassboro – Camden diesel light rail project in New Jersey. The long-proposed 29 km line would use an ...
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Ontario Line driverless train, railway systems and operating contract awarded
CANADA: Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have formally awarded the Connect 6ix consortium the Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations & Maintenance contract for the 15·6 km Ontario Line metro project in Toronto. The consortium was named preferred bidder for the design, build, finance, operate and maintain contract in ...