FRANCE: Phase 1 of Lyon’s fourth tram line entered service on April 20. Linking Jet d’Eau to Feyzin, the €185·3m line T4 is 10 km long with 18 stops, and is operated by 13 Citadis trams.
Sytral, the city’s transport authority, was one of the first to choose Alstom’s Citadis design, purchasing 47 cars for lines T1 and T2 in 1998; a further 13 were procured in 2005 for Line 3. With the opening of T4, the fleet has now grown to 73 and a further three cars will arrive by 2013.
A JOINT agreement between the French government, Rhône-Alpes region, the département of the Rhône and the Greater Lyon authority together with SNCF and RFF paves the way for the renewal of three regional lines to the west of Lyon. The agreement, signed at a ceremony at Lyon Saint-Paul station ...
TURKEY: Minister of Transport & Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu has announced plans to launch tickets which can be used on all rail and metro lines in Istanbul built and operated by the ministry, and eventually on public transport across Turkey. The roll-out would start on the Marmaray, ...
USA: The Operation Lifesaver safety campaign has expressed concern over an increase in illegal ‘Subway surfing’, where people ride on the outside of metro trains, and New York City Transit has deployed drones to back up a publicity campaign developed with teenagers to tackle the problem ...
