Metro news – Page 122
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NewsAlmaty metro extends west
KAZAKHSTAN: President Nursultan Nazarbayev opened a western extension of the Almaty metro line on April 18. The 2·7 km extension takes the line from Alatau to Moskva with an intermediate station at Sayran. Construction started in 2011. Two further extensions are planed: a 3·1 km section from Moskva ...
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NewsHydrogen-fuelled double-deck tram on test
UAE: The first of a fleet of fuel cell powered double-deck heritage-style open-top trams is now undergoing tests on the initial section of a line which will serve Emaar Properties’ Downtown Dubai development. Emaar says the tramway will operate between 16.00 and midnight on weekdays and from 15.00 to 23.00 ...
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NewsMetro cars arrive in Baku
AZERBAIJAN: Alstom has delivered three trainsets for the Baku metro. Baku Metropoliten signed the order on May 12 2014. The trains, branded Oka, are based on Metrowagonmash’s Class 81-760B design and are composed of four motor cars and one trailer. They are expected to enter passenger service ...
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NewsIstanbul opens Line M6
TURKEY: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Mayor Kadir Topbaş attended the opening of Istanbul metro’s Line M6 at 17.00 on April 19. The 3·3 km line runs east from Levent station on Line M2 to Boğaziçi Üniversitesi/Rumeli Hisarüstü with two intermediate stations. The line has an initial capacity of ...
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NewsDoha tram feels the heat
QATAR: Testing is underway at the Rail Tec Arsenal climate chamber in Wien to verify that the 19 Avenio trams which are being built by Siemens for the Education City People Mover in Doha will be able to cope with the extreme heat and high humidity found in Qatar. ...
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NewsToronto subway extension contract
CANADA: Toronto Transit Commission has awarded Bechtel Canada Co a contract worth ‘up to C$80m’ for project management of the Spadina subway extension to York, it announced on April 13. The contract runs until March 31 2018 and will see Bechtel staff join an integrated team with TTC. The ...
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NewsGreen metro substation
INDIA: Delhi Metro’s first ever ‘green’ electrical receiving substation has been put into operation at Faridabad, as test running started on the 13·9 km elevated Badarpur – Faridabad section of Line 6 on April 12. Construction started in September 2013 and the substation was completed in February 2015. It ...
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NewsGhana studies light rail and inter-city PPPs
GHANA: The minister responsible for public-private partnerships, Dr Rashid Pelpuo, has appointed New York investment bank Chesterfield Faring to devise a request for proposals for PPP contracts to develop a light rail line in Accra and an inter-city link between the capital and Kumasi. The elevated light rail line would ...
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NewsDallas Streetcar opens
USA: The Dallas Streetcar was officially opened at 09.00 on April 13, with a ceremony attended by city council member Scott Griggs and Dallas Area Rapid Transit President Gary Thomas. Passenger service began at 11.30. The 2·6 km standard gauge route links Oak Cliff in the southwest of the ...
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NewsDubai Expo 2020 metro extension approved
UAE: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai, approved a 15 km extension of Dubai metro’s Red Line on April 11. The Route 2020 project would build a branch of the Red Line from Nakheel Harbour & ...
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NewsBangkok Sukhumvit Line extension contracts
THAILAND: Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand has signed four contracts for the construction of the northern extension of the BTS Skytrain Sukhumvit Line from Mo Chit to Ku Kot. Italian-Thai Development signed a 15·3bn baht contract for civil works on the 12 km Mo Chit – Saphan Mai ...
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NewsTrams start serving Toulouse airport
FRANCE: Trams started serving Toulouse Blagnac Airport on April 11 with the opening of Route T2. The 2·4 km branch leaves the T1 route at Ancely and has two intermediate stops at Nadot and Daurat. T2 services run to the southern terminus of the original tram route at Palais ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - April 2015
Wi-fi has been rolled out across the whole of the Moscow metro network. Voters in Oberhausen have rejected a proposal to extend tram Route 105 to connect the Essen and Oberhausen networks. US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has proposed a regulatory framework to increase the responsibilities of ...
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NewsShanghai places first Chinese Citadis tram order
CHINA: Shanghai Songjiang Tramway Investment & Operation Co has awarded the Shanghai Alstom Transport joint venture of Shanghai Rail Traffic Equipment Development Co (60%) and Alstom (40%) a €72m contract to supply 30 Citadis trams for use in the Songjiang suburb of Shanghai. Announcing the order on April 9, Alstom ...
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NewsClearing the air
SPAIN: The Improve Life project to assess and improve air quality in metro stations and trains has been launched in Barcelona. The EU’s LIFE programme is funding 50% of the €0·8m cost, and the results are to be made available to other operators so that the recommendations can be applied ...
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NewsLondon Overground concession expressions of interest invited
UK: Transport for London has invited expressions of interest in the next concession to operate London Overground inner-suburban passenger services. The current contract held by the London Overground Rail Operations Ltd joint venture of MTR Corp and Arriva expires on November 12 2016. The new concession is planned to run ...
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NewsMadinah public transport programme consultant appointed
SAUDI ARABIA: AlMadinah AlMunawwarah Development Authority has appointed Louis Berger as programme management office consultant for the implementation of the AlMadinah AlMunawwarah Public Transportation Programme, which the professional services consultancy says is ‘one of the most ambitious transportation infrastructure initiatives in the Middle East.’ The aim of the MPTP is ...
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NewsPrime Minister opens Praha metro extension
CZECH REPUBLIC: Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and Mayor Adriana Krnáčová opened a 6·1 km western extension of Praha metro Line A from Dejvická to Nemocnice Motol on April 6. Revenue services began at 15.00. The extension has intermediate stations at Bořislavka (previously proposed as Červený Vrch), Nádraží Veleslavín and Petřiny, ...
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News‘Groundbreaking’ approach to light rail maintenance agreed
NETHERLANDS: Utrecht province’s tramway agency Regiotram Utrecht and Strukton Rail signed a new contract for maintenance of the Utrecht sneltram infrastructure on April 1. The contractor said the ‘groundbreaking’ maintenance concept would be ‘the first of its kind in the Netherlands.’ Strukton Rail has a five-year contract to maintain the ...
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NewsFaiveley Transport awarded Kochi metro train contracts
INDIA: Alstom Transport has awarded Faiveley Transport a series of contracts to supply onboard equipment for the 25 three-car Metropolis trainsets its Sricity plant in Andhra Pradesh is to build for the Kochi metro under a €85m contract awarded in October 2014. Faiveley’s contracts have a total ...