RUSSIA: Yekaterinburg city authorities announced plans for a second metro line on May 21. The east-west line would link Verkh-Isetskaya with Kamenye Palatkiy, running through Ploshchad 1905 goda where interchange with the north-south Line 1 would be provided.
The city is to spend 150m roubles for planning and design this year. Construction is due to start in 2016, with opening scheduled for 2018. The estimated cost is 80bn roubles.
RUSSIA: On May 19 the Moscow city council owned Mosinzhproyekt signed an agreement with China Railway Construction Corp and China International Fund for the construction of 150 km of metro lines with more than 70 stations in Moscow. The plans include a metro line serving the New Moscow urban ...
RUSSIA: Nizhny Novgorod city authorities announced on January 17 that construction of the Sormovskaya Line extension to Strelka will begin in April. Construction is expected to cost €261m. A further extension from Strelka to Meshcherskoye Ozero is also planned, as well as a northern extension of the Avtozavodskaya Line ...
RUSSIA: The first Neva metro cars manufactured by the recently formed joint venture of Škoda Transportation and Kirovsky Zavod have entered service in St Petersburg. The joint venture won an order for 54 metro cars for 3·2bn roubles, which will run in six-car formations. Deliveries are planned to run until ...
