All Light Rail articles – Page 72
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Light rail plans progress in Wiesbaden
GERMANY: The municipality of Wiesbaden has approved €3·4m of preliminary planning work for the city’s first tram route. The Land of Hessen is providing €465 000. When complete, the Citybahn light rail line would link Wiesbaden to the existing metre gauge tram network in the neighbouring city of Mainz ...
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Metro Report International
Parramatta light rail project scope revised
AUSTRALIA: New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian and NSW Transport & Infrastructure Minister Andrew Constance announced the preferred route for the revised Parramatta light rail project on February 17. The first phase is now expected to link Westmead with Carlingford via central Parramatta and Camellia, replacing the existing single-line ...
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Lund tram project breaks ground
SWEDEN: A groundbreaking ceremony on February 15 marked the start of work on the tram project in the city of Lund. Contractor Skanska is building the 5·5 km route with nine stops, which will connect Lund Central station and the science village. Opening is due in September 2019. ...
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Metro Report International
First Waterloo LRV leaves Bombardier factory
CANADA: The first light rail vehicle for the ION light rail project in the Region of Waterloo left Bombardier’s Thunder Bay plant on February 15. Delivery is expected to take 10 to 12 days. The project promoter aims to unveil the vehicle to the public in April at an ...
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Kano light rail contract signed
NIGERIA: Kano state’s Ministry of Works, Housing & Transport has signed the commercial contract for the construction of a four-line light rail system in the city of Kano, China Railway Construction Corp announced on February 11. The US$1·85bn contract was signed by the state government and a consortium of ...
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Lille pursues airport tram link
FRANCE: The construction of a 10 km light rail line between Lille and Lesquin Airport via Ronchin is expected to go ahead during the period of the city’s next public transport operating concession, according to the President of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, Damien Castelain. Under development ...
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Metro Report International
Second phase of Rio de Janeiro tramway opens
BRAZIL: The second phase of the VLT Carioca tramway in Rio de Janeiro opened for trial operation on February 6. Revenue service was meant to begin a week later, but has been postponed. The initial section of Line 2 links Praça XV (Barcas) in the east with Saara, serving ...
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Metro Report International
Prototype snow-clearing tram on test in Moscow
RUSSIA: Moscow tram operator Mosgortrans began testing a prototype maintenance vehicle designed to clear snow from tram tracks on February 13. Testing is to continue for one year. The 10·5 m long bidirectional vehicle, branded Rost, has been supplied by Tikhoretsk-based TMZV. It is equipped with a rotating brush ...
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Tramino XL presented in Leipzig
GERMANY: The first Solaris Tramino XL was presented to the public in Leipzig on February 11, and is on display until February 19 at the Leipziger Messe. In February 2015 Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe selected Solaris to supply five trams for €7·7m, with options for up to 36 more. LVB exercised ...
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Metro Report International
New tram and bus washing plant inaugurated in Kraków
POLAND: City transport authority MPK Kraków officially inaugurated a new tram and bus washing plant at its Nowa Huta depot on February 8. This replaces a washing plant commissioned in the 1980s, which was unheated and could therefore not operate all year round. The new plant is heated and ...
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Trams delivered to Nizhny Tagil
RUSSIA: Uraltransmash has delivered 30 trams to Nizhny Tagil. Three are already in regular service, with the remaining 27 expected to enter service by the end of February. The partly low-floor Type 71-407 trams are being purchased under a seven-year leasing deal with Sberbank Leasing. The total cost is ...
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Pesa to supply more trams to Łódź
POLAND: Pesa submitted the best offer to supply 12 trams to Łódź, city transport operator MPK Łódź announced on February 10. The Bydgoszcz-based supplier is to supply five-section trams from its Swing family for 99·6m złoty, with deliveries due to be completed before the end of September 2018. ...
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CAF delivers first Luxembourg tram
LUXEMBOURG: The first tram for the line under construction in Luxembourg City arrived in the early hours of February 9 from CAF’s factory in Zaragoza. CAF is supplying 21 Urbos trams under an €83m contract signed in 2015. Nine are required for the first section of the line, which ...
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Tatra-Yug to supply trams to Alexandria
EGYPT: Alexandria Passenger Transportation Authority signed a contract on February 6 for Tatra-Yug to supply 15 trams. The Ukrainian manufacturer beat Stadler and CRRC to win the order; three other bidders did not make it to the second round. To be used on Alexandria’s 32 km standard gauge network, ...
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Lugano tram-train project receives regional funding
SWITZERLAND: The Grand Council of Ticino has approved SFr1·5m towards the first phase of a tram-train project serving Lugano. This follows the approval of SFr300m by the Federal Council in November. The first phase, planned to open in 2020, would build around 4 km of new double-track alignment to ...
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Metro Report International
Oklahoma City Streetcar breaks ground
USA: Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the city’s streetcar project on February 7. A joint venture of Herzog and Stacy & Witbeck is building the line, with ADG, Jacobs Engineering, Aecom and SOJ providing consultancy services. Opening is scheduled for December 2018. The ...
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Metro Report International
Toronto Pearson transit hub proposed
CANADA: Greater Toronto Airports Authority has announced plans for a regional transit centre to be developed at Toronto Pearson International Airport. GTAA says that more than 300 000 people work in the area around the airport, making it the second-largest employment zone in Canada. However, poor public transport options ...
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Metro Report International
Tram to link La Serena and Coquimbo
CHILE: A public consultation is being held for the proposed construction of a tramway linking the centres of La Serena and Coquimbo. Tenders are due to be called in the second half of this year, and work could begin by the end of the year, with opening expected in 2021-22. ...
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Porto approves two metro extensions
PORTUGAL: Meeting on February 7, the board of Metro do Porto SA approved plans to build two extensions to the city’s light metro network. Running for a total of 9∙2 km and expected to cost €287m to build, the extensions would be used by over 33 000 passengers day, according ...
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Metro Report International
Hamilton light rail RFQ issued
CANADA: Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have issued a request for qualifications for a contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a light rail line in Hamilton. A request for proposals is expected in mid-2017. The 11 km east-west B-Line would link Queenston Circle and McMaster University, serving 14 ...