RUSSIA: Moscow’s city government has transferred control of tramway infrastructure to the metro.
‘Moscow Metro is a leader among non-automated metros as far as headway is concerned’, said Deputy Mayor for Transport Maxim Liksutov. ‘That’s because our infrastructure maintenance standards are one of the strictest, safest and best in the world. So, we should apply these practices in other modes of transport, particularly in urban rail transit that from now on will face stricter requirements.’
Centralised management and modernisation is expected to increase tram speeds, improve track maintenance, halve the number of repairs and cut maintenance costs.
‘We have already renewed most of the tram fleet, and in one to two years all the old cars will be ultimately replaced with the new ones’, added Liksutov.
