All Light Rail articles – Page 77

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    News

    Omsk presents first low-floor tram

    2016-11-14T14:45:00Z

    RUSSIA: The first low-floor tram in Omsk was presented on November 8 to mark the 80th anniversary of trams in the city. The partly low-floor single section tram uses a Belkommunmash AKSM-62103 car body that the Omsk tram operator fitted with overhauled trucks from a UKVZ KTM-5 tram. ...

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    News

    Paris Line T9 tram order

    2016-11-10T14:00:00Z

    FRANCE: Ile-de-France regional transport authority STIF has awarded Alstom a €70m framework contract to supply 22 Citadis X05 trams to operate on the future Line T9 in the Paris region. The order includes options for up to 68 additional trams for lines T9 and T10. Deliveries are due to ...

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    News

    Novosibirsk tram extension inaugurated

    2016-11-09T14:30:00Z

    RUSSIA: Novosibirsk Mayor Anatoly Lokot and Governor of Novosibirsk Oblast Vladimir Gorodetsky attended a ceremony on November 9 to inaugurate a 1 km extension of the city’s tram network. The extension between Poselok Yuzhniy and Chistaya Sloboda in the southwest of the city has three stops. It is part ...

  • Alstom has been awarded a €52m contract to supply 23 trams to Caen.
    News

    Caen orders Alstom trams

    2016-11-08T16:21:00Z

    FRANCE: Alstom has been awarded a €52m contract to supply 23 trams for the 16·8 km three-route tramway being built in Caen. The Citadis X05 trams are to be delivered from mid-2018 for entry into service in September 2019. The contract announced on November 8 includes options for up to ...

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    News

    Tampere tram project formally approved

    2016-11-08T12:21:00Z

    FINLAND: Tampere city council has voted to build a tram network, with 41 in favour and 25 against. The 23·5 km standard gauge route would link the city centre with Sampola, where branches would continue to the University of Tampere and Hervanta. In 2015 the city selected ...

  • Samsung C&T has pulled out of a project to build a light rail line in Seoul.
    Metro Report International

    Samsung C&T pulls out of Seoul light rail project

    2016-11-07T18:21:00Z

    SOUTH KOREA: Samsung C&T has pulled out of a project to build a light rail line to connect the Wirye New Town residential area of southeast Seoul with the Sinsa-dong business area of Gangnam District. The company told Metro Report International that it had decided to withdraw owing to ‘a ...

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    News

    First short Flexity Basel enters service

    2016-11-07T11:55:00Z

    SWITZERLAND: The first five-section Flexity Basel tram entered revenue service on Route 3 of the city’s tram network on November 4. From next year it is expected to enter service on routes 15 and 16. In 2012 transport authority BVB ordered 61 Flexity trams from Bombardier for SFr255m. The ...

  • HKL has selected Škoda Transportation subsidiary Transtech to supply 29 trams for the Raide-Jokeri line.
    News

    Transtech to supply trams for Helsinki orbital route

    2016-11-04T05:34:00Z

    FINLAND: Helsinki transport operator HKL has selected Škoda Transportation subsidiary Transtech to supply 29 trams for the future 25 km Raide-Jokeri orbital light rail line which is to be built to link Itäkeskus with Keilaniemi in Espoo. HKL is to order the vehicles by exercising part of an option for ...

  • Berlin city transport operator BVG has approved a €3·1bn metro and tram procurement programme.
    News

    €3·1bn Berlin fleet renewal programme approved

    2016-11-02T15:29:00Z

    GERMANY: The supervisory board of Berlin city transport operator BVG approved a €3·1bn metro trainset and tram procurement programme running until 2035 at its meeting on October 31. This decision enables BVG to call the first tenders under the fleet expansion and renewal programme, which could eventually cover 700 large-profile ...

  • San Diego Metropolitan Transit System has awarded Siemens a contract to supply a further 45 light rail vehicles.
    Metro Report International

    San Diego orders Siemens LRVs

    2016-11-01T15:18:00Z

    USA: San Diego Metropolitan Transit System has awarded Siemens a contract to supply a further 45 light rail vehicles from late 2018. Announcing the contract on November 1, Siemens said the low-floor S70 LRVs would be built at its Sacramento plant. They will feature a redesigned centre section to improve ...

  • The new cars would replace the older high-floor vehicles on Belgium's coastal tramway.
    News

    CAF preferred for De Lijn trams

    2016-11-01T10:59:00Z

    BELGIUM: CAF has been selected as preferred bidder to supply 146 low-floor trams for De Lijn, at an estimated cost of €320m, the Vlaanderen transport operator announced on October 31. De Lijn invited bids last year for its largest ever procurement, covering three builds of 32 m long cars to ...

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    Metro Report International

    Minneapolis orders Siemens S70s to work Southwest LRT

    2016-10-28T07:48:00Z

    USA: The Twin Cities’ Metropolitan Council has selected Siemens to supply its third generation of light rail vehicles, to operate the 23·5 km Southwest LRT linking Minneapolis and Eden Prarie. Met Council announced on October 26 that it had issued a Limited Notice to Proceed authorising Siemens to begin engineering ...

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    News

    Fokstrot tram deliveries to Moscow resume

    2016-10-27T11:04:00Z

    RUSSIA: Deliveries of Pesa Fokstrot trams to Moscow resumed on October 25, when 10 trams were shipped from Pesa’s factory in Bydgoszcz to the Russian capital. Operator Mosgortans signed a contract in 2013 for 120 Fokstrot trams to be supplied by Pesa in co-operation with Uraltransmash. Following the steep ...

  • The trams were previously in service in Toshkent.
    News

    Samarkand receives trams

    2016-10-25T13:22:00Z

    UZBEKISTAN: Preliminary works for the construction of a tram line in Samarkand began on October 16 with the removal of grassed median strips on some roads. The 8 km first phase of the route would connect the city’s main railway station with Sat-Tepo and is due to enter service ...

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    Metro Report International

    Public inquiry for Line 3 extension in Saint-Etienne

    2016-10-25T05:00:00Z

    FRANCE: A public inquiry is being held from October 17 to November 21 in order to consider plans to extend Line 3 of the 1 000 mm gauge tram network in Saint-Etienne. Developed following initial public consultation that took place between June 2015 and May 2016, the route would run ...

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    News

    Granada light rail operator selected

    2016-10-24T14:21:00Z

    SPAIN: The Andalucía regional government has selected the Avanza Metro de Granada joint venture as preferred bidder for the contract to operate the city’s 15⋅9 km light rail route. As well as Spanish public transport operator Avanza, the joint venture comprises Tuzsa, operator of the bus and light rail networks ...

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    Metro Report International

    Dallas Blue Line extension opens

    2016-10-24T12:44:00Z

    USA: A 5 km southern extension of Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Blue Line light rail route opened on October 24. It runs between Ledbetter and the University of North Texas at Dallas, with an intermediate stop at Camp Wisdom. ‘Southern Dallas is our city’s greatest opportunity for growth’, said ...

  • Three consortia have submitted bids to prequalify for a revised design-build-finance-maintain concession to build the planned 12·5 km tram route in Liège.
    Metro Report International

    Liège tram prequalification restarts

    2016-10-21T08:00:00Z

    BELGIUM: Three consortia have submitted bids to prequalify for a revised design-build-finance-maintain concession to build the planned 12·5 km tram route in Liège. The three proposals opened on October 12 were submitted by: Alstom with BAM PPP PGGM;CAF, Colas and DIF; Škoda Transportation with Vinci, CFE and Meridam. Société Régionale ...

  • Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have issued a request for qualifications seeking parties interested in a contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Hurontario Light Rail Transit project.
    Metro Report International

    Hurontario light rail request for qualifications issued

    2016-10-19T09:58:00Z

    CANADA: Infrastructure Ontario and Greater Toronto transport agency Metrolinx have issued a request for qualifications seeking parties interested in a contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the planned Hurontario Light Rail Transit project. The 20 km line to the west of Toronto would run from Port Credit GO ...

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    Metro Report International

    T4 extension gets underway in Paris

    2016-10-19T08:41:00Z

    FRANCE: Ceremonies were held to the east of Paris on October 18 to mark the start of work on the 6·5 km tram-train route T4 extension to Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil. Participating in the event were Valérie Pécresse, President of the Ile-de-France region, and Minister of Cities, Youth & Sport Patrick ...