All Light Rail articles – Page 59
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Metro Report InternationalFirst Milwaukee Streetcar delivered
USA: Brookville Equipment Corp delivered the first of five trams that it is supplying to Milwaukee on March 27. The three-section bidirectional Liberty Modern Streetcar is 20·4 m long and 2 600 mm wide with capacity for 150 passengers including 32 seated. Due to open in mid-2018, the ...
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NewsSecond tram line opens in Izmir
TURKEY: The Konak tram line in Izmir opened to passengers at 10.00 on March 24. Travel is free for the first 45 days. The 12·8 km route runs from Fahrettin Altay metro station in the west to Halkapınar metro and Izban station in the east via Konak metro station ...
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Metro Report InternationalWiener Lokalbahnen inaugurates new depot
AUSTRIA: On March 21 light rail operator Wiener Lokalbahnen inaugurated a new depot at Inzersdorf south of Wien city centre. Following 26 months of work, the 6 500 m² facility brings together more than 200 operations and maintenance staff. There are 1 720 m of depot and stabling tracks, ...
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NewsTramwaje Śląskie selects Pesa to supply more trams
POLAND: Tramwaje Śląskie has selected Pesa as preferred bidder to supply 35 multi-section trams to operate on the network centred on Katowice. The Bydgoszcz-based supplier is to supply 27 65·5% low-floor bidirectional trams 25 m long, and eight 74·1% low-floor unidirectional trams 32 m long. The shorter trams are ...
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Metro Report InternationalBrookville to supply trams to Portland
USA: Portland City Council approved the purchase of two trams to operate on Streetcar routes A and B on March 21. The vehicles from Brookville Equipment Co are to enter service in 2020. The vehicles are being ordered as an option on a contract signed between Brookville and Seattle’s ...
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NewsMore TW3000 LRVs ordered for Hannover
GERMANY: Hannover city transport operator Üstra has ordered a further seven TW3000 light rail vehicles from a consortium of Kiepe Electric and Alstom. Niedersachsen Land transport agency LNVG is financing 50% of the €19·4m cost and Üstra is paying €462 000 from its own funds. The balance is being ...
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NewsOuargla tramway inaugurated
ALGERIA: Minister of Public Works & Transport Abdelghani Zaalane inaugurated a tram line in Ouargla on March 20. Construction of the 9·7 km route with 16 stops was undertaken by a consortium of Rover Alcisa, Elecnor and Assignia Infrestructuras under a €228m contract awarded in 2013. The Cital ...
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Metro Report InternationalCharlotte’s LYNX Blue Line extended
USA: The LYNX Blue Line in Charlotte almost doubled in length on March 16 with the inauguration of a 15 km extension from 7th Street to UNC Charlotte Main. The northwestern extension adds 11 stops and includes a 300 m tunnel. The Blue Line is now 31·1 km long, ...
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NewsRail Baltica tram feasibility study commissioned for Tallinn
ESTONIA: Rail Baltica project promoter RB Rail and the Ministry of Economic Affairs & Communications have awarded Egis Rail a €171 000 contract to undertake a feasibility and technical study for proposed a tram connection from the future Rail Baltica station in the Ülemiste area of Tallinn to the Vanasadam ...
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NewsÖskemen tram operations suspended
KAZAKHSTAN: Tram operations in Öskemen were suspended on March 12, after debts accumulated by operator Takhami Put led to a limiting of the traction electricity supply. The 16·5 km, 1 524 mm gauge network dating from 1959 operated four routes. The fleet consisted of 31 Type 71-605 ...
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Metro Report InternationalSound Transit picks expansion partners
USA: Seattle-Tacoma transport authority Sound Transit has selected the South County Transit Partners joint venture of Mott MacDonald and SNC-Lavalin to provide project management services for the 11·5 km light-rail extension from Angle Lake to Federal Way. Expected to open in 2024, the southern extension of the existing line from ...
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Metro Report InternationalEdinburgh tram extension shortlist
UK: City of Edinburgh Council announced on March 13 that it had prequalified four bidders for a contract to build the proposed tram extension to Newhaven. The 4·6 km eastern extension from York Place to Leith and Newhaven was originally to have been built as the part of the ...
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NewsFirst Innsbruck Regionalbahn LRV rolled out
AUSTRIA: The first Flexity light rail vehicle for Innsbruck’s Regionalbahn project left Bombardier’s factory in Wien on March 12. It is expected to enter service in June on Innsbruck’s metre-gauge network. The city of Innsbruck, the Land of Tirol and transport authority IVB signed a contract in December 2015 ...
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Metro Report InternationalContactless payment to be rolled out to Sydney light rail
AUSTRALIA: Cubic Transportation Systems is to expand its open payment trial in Sydney to include light rail and the entire ferry network, the company announced on March 12. Transport for New South Wales began a contactless ticketing trial on the Manly Ferry service in July 2017 using open payment ...
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Metro Report InternationalItalian transport funding approved
ITALY: The Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport allocated €190·9m for urban rail projects in seven cities on March 7. €40m has been earmarked for the upgrade of the Milano – Limbiate interurban tram line. Milano Municipality is contributing a further €103m towards the modernisation of the route, which was ...
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NewsModertrans and Tramwaje Śląskie sign single-section tram contract
POLAND: Tramwaje Śląskie has placed an order for 10 single-section trams from Modertrans. The contract signed on March 8 is worth 29m złoty excluding VAT, and is co-funded by the EU. Modertrans is to deliver the eight unidirectional and two bidirectional vehicles to operate on the network centred on ...
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NewsEskişehir ForCity tram delivered
TURKEY: Škoda Transportation has delivered the first of 14 ForCity Classic trams that it is supplying to Eskişehir. The metre-gauge tram is to undergo 2 000 to 3 000 km of dynamic testing in Eskişehir, with some of the fleet also being tested on the Bratislava network. Škoda ...
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NewsPrivate operator begins services on St Petersburg fast tram route
RUSSIA: Passenger services on the initial phase of the fast tram route in St Petersburg began at 07.00 on March 7, making it the city’s first to be operated by a private operator. Travel is free until the end of the month. The 4·2 km section of the planned ...
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NewsBern tram project funding approved
SWITZERLAND: Voters in Bern have approved the canton’s financial contribution towards the construction of a new tram line to Ostermundigen. The planned 4·2 km line with 12 stops would link Viktoriaplatz in the centre of Bern with Ostermundigen in the east. This would replace most of the existing bus ...
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NewsDoha Msheireb Downtown tramway to open this year
QATAR: A 2 km circular tramway is under construction in Doha’s Msheireb Downtown area with opening planned for September. The tramway will serve a ‘smart city’ which is being developed at cost of US$5·5bn by the Qatar Foundation’s Msheireb Properties business with the aim of reviving Doha’s ...