Metro news – Page 150
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NewsStockholm light rail extension opens
SWEDEN: Regular services on a 7 km extension of Stockholm's Tvärbanan light rail line north from Alvik to Solna Centrum began on October 28, following opening celebrations and free rides the previous day. The extension includes a 0·8 km tunnel. It adds seven stops to the line, with two providing ...
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NewsFirst Škoda tram on its way to Konya
TURKEY: The first of 60 trams for Konya left Škoda Transportation’s Plzen factory in the Czech Republic on October 29, almost seven months after the €104·7m contract was announced. The 100% low-floor Type 28T vehicle is based on 31 trams ordered by Miskolc in Hungary. The five-section tram is ...
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NewsHo Chi Minh City metro Line 5 funding secured
VIETNAM: The Ho Chi Minh City Management Authority for Urban Railways has announced that three foreign organisations will help to finance metro Line 5. The Asian Development Bank will provide US$500m, the European Investment Bank €150m and the Spanish government €200m. The remainder will come from the Vietnamese government’s ...
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NewsMelbourne’s B-Class trams to be refurbished
AUSTRALIA: Public Transport Victoria is investing A$4·4m to refurbish Melbourne’s B-Class trams, which make up a quarter of Yarra Trams’ fleet. The work will be completed early next year and aims to increase the capacity of each two-section tram by seven to nine passengers. This will be achieved by ...
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NewsWarszawa orders short trams
POLAND: Tramwaje Warszawskie has selected Pesa to supply 30 low-floor trams to the Polish capital for 185·4m złoty. Pesa beat offers from Solaris, CAF, Škoda Transportation and Stadler. At 20 m long, the unidirectional three-section trams from Pesa’s Jazz family will be shorter than most of the Warszawa fleet. ...
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NewsDubai metro contract extended
UAE: Serco Group announced on October 24 that it had extended its contract with Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority to operate and maintain the metro network. The five-year extension is worth £355m and will run to September 2019, with an option to extend it further to 2021. Serco has ...
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NewsTyne & Wear Metro launches door safety campaign
UK: A campaign to encourage passengers not to obstruct train doors has been launched on the Tyne & Wear Metro. This includes a specially-commissioned animation 'Use your brain near a train' which is being published via social media. The campaign has been launched in response to recommendations made by ...
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NewsSantiago metro lines 3 and 6 E&M contract awarded
CHILE: A consortium of Eurovia subsidiary ETF and Colas Rail has been awarded a €150m contract to build and maintain track and catenary on lines 3 and 6 of the Santiago metro. ETF's share is 55% The contract covers 75 track-km and 15 track-km in two depots. Once built, ETF ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - October 2013
A study has found that the number of pedestrians in central Jerusalem has increased by 46% since the opening of the tramway in 2011. Delhi Metro Rail Corp has invited tenders for the supply of 75 standard gauge cars for the Kochi metro. On behalf of the state ...
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NewsSalvador metro Phase II PPP contract awarded
BRAZIL: Bahia state government and CCR signed a 30-year public-private partnership concession worth R$4bn for Phase II of the Salvador metro on October 15. The contract covers a 5·6 km extension to Line 1 from Pirajá to Acesso Norte, and preparation to extend the line 3·6 km to Águas ...
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NewsZürich suburban light rail line approved
SWITZERLAND: The federal government has approved the proposed 13·4 km Limmattalbahn light rail line which would link the Zürich suburbs of Altstetten, Dietikon and Killwangen-Spreitenbach. The project is backed by the cantons of Zürich and Aargau, which would pay 75% and 25% of the estimated SFr670m cost; a third of ...
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NewsFortaleza awards East Line contract
BRAZIL: A consortium of Acciona and Cetenco Engenharia has been awarded a R$2·3bn contract to build the Fortaleza metro East Line. The 12·4 km East Line will have 12 stations, of which 11 will be underground. It is expected to carry 400 000 passengers/day, and will provide interchange with ...
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NewsMidland Metro unveils first CAF tram
UK: Birmingham City Council leader Sir Albert Bore unveiled the first of 20 CAF Urbos 3 trams for the Birmingham – Wolverhampton Midland Metro line at Wednesbury depot on October 16. The tram had been delivered from CAF’s Zaragoza factory in two sections on low-loaders, with a sea crossing ...
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NewsBursa circular tramway opens
TURKEY: The Bursa tramway opened on October 12, with trams running anti-clockwise around the single-track circular route in the city centre. The 6·5 km line has 12 stops, including two interchanges with the Bursaray light metro network. The line was built by COMSA under an €8m contract that covered ...
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NewsWork starts on Jaipur metro Phase IB
INDIA: Work on Phase IB of the Jaipur metro started on October 1. The short extension from Chandpole to Badi Chaupar will include 1·4 km of bored tunnel and 400 m of cut-and-cover tunnel. The Indian office of Taiwanese company Continental Engineering Corp is to undertake this ...
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NewsWork starts on Jakarta metro
INDONESIA: A groundbreaking ceremony for Jakarta’s first metro line was held at Dukuh Atas on October 10, led by Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo. ‘After 24 years of dreaming to have an MRT, some may even have forgotten it. Finally the dreams of Jakarta residents will come true’, said Widodo. ...
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NewsHyderabad metro car prototype on show
INDIA: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has unveiled a prototype of the new metro cars which Hyundai Rotem is to supply for the Hyderabad metro under an Rs18bn contract signed in 2012. The stainless steel prototype is half the length of the cars ordered, which would ...
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Metro Report InternationalSiemens to supply Inspiro trains for the Riyadh metro
SAUDI ARABIA: Siemens has announced details of the trainsets and control technology it is to supply for Riyadh metro lines 1 and 2. Siemens is part of the BACS consortium with Bechtel, Almabani General Contractors and Consolidated Contractors Co which the Arriyadah Development Authority selected for the €7·5bn contract to ...
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NewsTram looks ahead to avoid collisions
GERMANY: A Flexity tram operated by Frankfurt transport company VGF is to be fitted with an experimental optical sensor system designed to reduce the risk of collisions with road vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians and small objects such as footballs. The technology has been developed by Bombardier Transportation and image processing specialists ...
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NewsBudapest fare collection contract awarded
HUNGARY: Budapest transport authority BKK has appointed T-Systems Hungary and subcontractor Scheidt & Bachmann to supply a modern fare collection system. Announcing the deal on October 9, Scheidt & Bachmann said it would be one of the biggest fare collection installations for a single operator in central and eastern Europe. ...