All Light Rail articles – Page 72

  • The Citybahn would connect with the existing tram network in Mainz.
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    Light rail plans progress in Wiesbaden

    2017-02-17T16:33:29Z

    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

    2017-02-17T11:02:30Z

    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

    2017-02-16T15:19:05Z

    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. ...

  • Bombarider Transportation has shipped its first vehicle for the Waterloo ION light rail project.
    Metro Report International

    First Waterloo LRV leaves Bombardier factory

    2017-02-16T09:59:07Z

    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 ...

  • 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 (photo: Jonathan Riddell/CC BY-SA 2.0).
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    Kano light rail contract signed

    2017-02-15T14:51:19Z

    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

    2017-02-15T09:02:00Z

    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

    2017-02-14T15:06:52Z

    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 ...

  • TMZV has supplied a prototype snow-clearing tram to Mosgotrans.
    Metro Report International

    Prototype snow-clearing tram on test in Moscow

    2017-02-13T15:26:48Z

    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 ...

  • Solaris has delivered the first Tramino XL to Leipzig.
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    Tramino XL presented in Leipzig

    2017-02-13T14:28:12Z

    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

    2017-02-13T11:59:38Z

    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

    2017-02-13T10:33:13Z

    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 ...

  • Pesa previously supplied 32 trams to Łódź (photo: Ryszard Piech).
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    Pesa to supply more trams to Łódź

    2017-02-13T09:42:31Z

    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. ...

  • Luxembourg City has ordered 21 trams from CAF.
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    CAF delivers first Luxembourg tram

    2017-02-10T14:45:33Z

    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 ...

  • The contract between Alexandria Passenger Transportation Authority and Tatra-Yug was signed in Egypt on February 6.
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    Tatra-Yug to supply trams to Alexandria

    2017-02-10T10:09:00Z

    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, ...

  • Lugano tram-train services would use the existing Ferriovie Luganesi Line S60.
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    Lugano tram-train project receives regional funding

    2017-02-09T12:50:43Z

    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

    2017-02-08T15:05:40Z

    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

    2017-02-08T14:08:50Z

    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

    2017-02-08T14:01:11Z

    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

    2017-02-08T11:51:24Z

    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 ...

  • The proposed Hamilton light rail line would be 11 km long.
    Metro Report International

    Hamilton light rail RFQ issued

    2017-02-06T15:13:21Z

    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 ...