All Light Rail articles – Page 53
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NewsŠkoda sole bidder to supply 22 trams to Plzeň
CZECH REPUBLIC: Škoda Transportation has emerged as the sole bidder in a tender to supply 22 trams to operated in its home city of Plzeň Transport operator PMDP is likely to purchase Škoda’s ForCity Smart model. The bid came in at KC1·1bn excluding VAT.
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Metro Report InternationalOrange County Streetcar construction contract awarded
USA: Orange County Transportation Authority has awarded Walsh Construction Co a $220·5m contract to build the OC Streetcar line. Construction of the 6·7 km route between Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center and Harbor Boulevard in Garden Grove is due to begin later this year for opening in 2021. ...
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Metro Report InternationalMore E-Class trams ordered for Melbourne
AUSTRALIA: The Victoria state government announced on September 18 that it had ordered 10 more E-Class trams from Bombardier for A$83m. Bombardier is already supplying 80 low-floor trams from its Dandenong factory under previously placed orders; the 70th of these is expected to arrive in the next few weeks.
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NewsConsultation opens on Sheffield Supertram’s future
UK: South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive has launched a public consultation on the future of the Sheffield Supertram network. Running from September 24 to November 5, the consultation presents three options for the future of the network after Stagecoach Supertram’s operations and maintenance concession comes up for renewal in ...
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NewsMessina tram in danger of closure
ITALY: Messina Mayor Cateno De Luca announced on September 15 that the city’s tram line would close by June 2019. De Luca, in power since June, cited loss-making as the reason for closure of the line, which was inaugurated in 2003. He intends to replace the route with ...
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NewsReplacement Liège tram PPP concession awarded
BELGIUM: Opérateur de Transport en Wallonie has selected the Colas-led Tram’Ardent consortium as preferred bidder for a revised concession to design, build finance and maintain the long-planned tram route in Liège, the regional transport authority announced on September 19. The consortium brings together Colas Projects, Colas Belgium, Colas Rail and ...
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Metro Report InternationalAutomated tram demonstrated in Potsdam
GERMANY: Fully-automated driving of a conventional tram was successfully demonstrated by Potsdam transport operator ViP and Siemens Mobility on September 18 with a special test run for delegates to the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin. Demonstrations are due to continue until September 21. Under the joint research and development project, ...
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NewsŠkoda ForCity Classic tram enters service in Eskişehir
TURKEY: The first of 14 trams that Škoda Transportation is supplying to Eskişehir entered revenue service on September 17. Škoda won a €26m contract in September 2016 for the supply of its ForCity Classic low-floor trams for the metre-gauge network. The unidirectional five-section trams are 30·1m long and 2 ...
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NewsBrno to receive tram kits
CZECH REPUBLIC: Krnovské Opravny a Strojírny was the sole bidder for a framework contract to supply tram kits and assembly tools to Brno tram operator DPMB. KOS, a member of the Alliance TW Team along with Pragoimex and VKV Praha, bid KC1·1bn excluding VAT to supply bodyshells and bogies ...
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NewsFrankfurt to test trams for parcel delivery
GERMANY: Frankfurt am Main transport operator VGF announced on September 17 the start of a pilot project to deliver parcels using dedicated trams. The parcel trams, some with cargo trailers, would run without passengers at quiet times on the network. The parcels will be delivered to ‘microdepots’ that are ...
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NewsMilano tram network reaches Rozzano
ITALY: A southern extension of Milano tram Route 15 was inaugurated on September 8. The 1·7 km extension with five stops links Viale Romagna with Rozzano Via Guido Rossa. The municipalities of Milano and Rozzano agreed to build the extension in 2003. The €14·8m cost was met by the ...
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NewsAlstom to supply more trams to Lyon
FRANCE: Alstom has signed a framework contract with Lyon transport authority Sytral for the supply of Citadis trams. The initial €40m firm order covers 11 trams to operate on Route T4. The first vehicle is due to be delivered at the end of 2019. Final assembly will take place ...
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NewsŠkoda selected for Ostrava tram contract
CZECH REPUBLIC: Tram operator DP Ostrava announced on September 7 that it had selected Škoda Transportation to supply 40 low-floor trams for KC1·9bn. Stadler, CAF and Inekon also bid, but did not comply with the terms of the tender. Deliveries of the ForCity Smart vehicles are due between September ...
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NewsCatenary-free tram delivered to Kaohsiung
TAIWAN: The first test runs on the second phase of the Kaohsiung tramway are scheduled to get underway later this month, after the first tram arrived the port of Keelung from Alstom’s La Rochelle site in France on September 2. Revenue services are planned for 2019. In January 2017 China ...
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NewsOdyssey tram unveiled
UKRAINE: On September 4 Odesa transport operator Odesmiskelektrotrans unveiled the first of six Odyssey-branded partially low-floor trams which it ordered from local supplier Vagonoremontni Maisterni in June. It is the 17th in a series of trams with bodies designed by Pragoimex and produced by Polytechnoservis to be assembled locally since ...
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Metro Report InternationalVancouver light rail and metro funding announced
CANADA: Federal and provincial funding for the Surrey – Newton – Guildford Light Rail Transit and Broadway Subway projects in Vancouver was announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier of British Columbia John Horgan Federal on September 4. The national government is to contribute C$1·37bn towards ...
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NewsSpårväg City tram link opens in Stockholm
SWEDEN: A short but significant extension of Stockholm tram Route 7 was opened for revenue service at 11.30 on September 3. Adding 560 m of double track and one stop, the extension from Sergels Torg to T-Centralen provides interchange to the city’s three metro routes and the cross-city suburban railway, ...
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Metro Report InternationalSecond tram line opens in Suzhou
CHINA: The second tram line in the city of Suzhou opened on August 31, having been under construction since December 2014. The 17·2 km Line 2 starts at Longkang Road where there is an interchange with Line 1, and then runs via Hogfu Road to Suzhou New District Railway ...
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Metro Report InternationalNew York seeks funding to build Brooklyn light rail
USA: Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio has confirmed the city’s intention to develop a modern light rail route serving districts of Brooklyn and Queens which are poorly served by the Subway network. Issuing a statement on August 30, De Blasio said that an environmental impact study would begin ...
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NewsMetre-gauge lines in Gmunden connected at last
AUSTRIA: A link enabling through running between the Gmunden tramway and the Traunseebahn local railway opened on September 1, with the inauguration celebrations being followed by two weeks of free travel. Services run from Gmunden station to the town centre every 15 min, continuing over the railway to Vorchdorf every ...