Metro news – Page 165
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NewsT2 completes Dijon tram network
FRANCE: Dijon's second tram route entered service on December 8, running for 11·5 km from Valmy in the northern suburbs to Chenôve Centre in the south and serving a total of 21 stops. Three stops in the city centre are shared with the 8·5 km line T1 from the ...
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NewsParis extends orbital tramway
FRANCE: The 14·3 km extension of orbital tram route T3 following the Boulevards des Maréchaux ring road around the eastern side of Paris was opened for revenue service on December 15. This trebles the length of T3, which has been running for 7·9 km across the south of Paris from ...
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NewsRoyal opening launches Casablanca trams
MOROCCO: Casablanca’s first light rail line was officially inaugurated by King Mohammed VI on December 12, in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault. Other guests included the Wali of the Casablanca Region Mohamed Bousaid, Mayor Mohamed Sajid and the Managing Director ...
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NewsKöln light rail extension opens
GERMANY: A 525 m underground extension of Köln light rail Line 5 from Dom/Hauptbahnhof to Rathaus opened on December 9. The extension takes light rail services into the heart of the old town, previously only served by buses. Situated 16 m below the surface, the Rathaus station has a contrasting ...
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NewsLe Havre celebrates tramway opening
FRANCE: An afternoon of celebrations to mark the inauguration of the Le Havre tramway began at 12.12 on December 12. Travel is free until December 16. The Y-shaped network is centred on Place Jenner, with lines running west to Porte Océane through a new 575 m tram tunnel in the ...
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NewsThales wins 'landmark' Indian metro CBTC contract
INDIA: Thales has announced a 'landmark' contract to supply PPP contractor Larsen & Toubro with SelTrac communications-based train control along with integrated communications and supervision systems for the future Hyderabad metro lines 1, 2 and 3, totalling 72 km and 66 stations. CBTC will support driverless operation with onboard attendants. ...
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NewsChinese metro car maintenance joint venture established
CHINA: Bombardier Transportation announced on December 7 that it is establishing a whole-life vehicle maintenance joint venture targeting the Chinese urban rail market. Bombardier and Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Ltd have launched Shentong Bombardier (Shanghai) Rail Transit Vehicle Maintenance Company Ltd to offer ‘specialist rolling stock maintenance, intermediate repairs, overhauls, ...
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NewsPresident backs passenger projects
MEXICO: A package of urban and inter-city rail projects formed one of the 13 policy initiatives announced by President Enrique Peña Nieto immediately after being sworn in on December 1. Projects to be taken forward by the federal Secretariat of Transport & Communications include Line 3 of the Monterrey metro, ...
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NewsDART extends two light rail lines
USA: Dallas Area Rapid Transit began revenue service on two more sections of its expanding light rail network on December 3. The opening of extensions to the Blue and Orange lines brings the total length of the network to more than 135 route-km. A ribbon-cutting ceremony had been held in ...
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NewsEuropean Commission backs regenerative braking R&D
ITALY: The European Commission's LIFE+ programme is to meet 50% of the cost of pilot installation of Alstom's HESOP regenerative energy recovery system on Milano metro Line 3. HESOP is expected to recover almost all of the braking energy, equivalent to about 15% of total traction energy usage, enabling it ...
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NewsAlstom to build new Rio de Janeiro fleet
BRAZIL: On December 3 Alstom signed a contract with Rio de Janeiro commuter concessionaire SuperVia covering the supply of 20 four-car Metropolis EMUs. Representing a total investment of R$300m, the contract will see Alstom undertake final assembly and testing at new plant to be built on a 32 000 m2 ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - December 2012
Mid-America Regional Council has approved the allocation of $17·7m of US federal funding to the planned $100m Downtown Streetcar starter line in Kansas City, Missouri. Lyon tram route T5 was inaugurated on November 17. It uses an existing section of Line T2, plus a new 3·8 km extension from ...
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NewsHamburg U4 opens to HafenCity
GERMANY: Mayor Olaf Scholz inaugurated Hamburg Hochbahn Line U4 linking the city centre with the HafenCity redevelopment area on November 28. Travel is free from November 29 until December 9, when revenue services will begin. Construction of the 4 km underground U4 has taken five years at a cost of ...
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NewsMayor of Moscow commits to tram investment
RUSSIA: Mayor Sergei Sobyanin confirmed his commitment to the future of Moscow's 416 km tram network during a visit to a section of modernised track on Krasnoprudnaya Ulitsa on November 26. 'We are not going to stop the tram traffic in the city', the Mayor said. 'On the contrary, we ...
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NewsT'Trans and Vossloh selected for Santos light rail contract
BRAZIL: Public transport operator EMTU has selected the Tremvia Santos consortium of Trans Sistemas de Transportes (T'Trans) and Vossloh España to supply 22 light rail vehicles for the future SIM network in Santos. Under a contract expected to be worth up to R$284·3m, deliveries would take place between May 2014 ...
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NewsBombardier to supply Dubai airport peoplemover
UAE: Bombardier Transportation has been awarded a 392m dirham contract to design and build an 1·5 km elevated automated peoplemover to link Terminal 1 with the future Concourse 4 at Dubai International Airport. The peoplemover will have a capacity of more than 200 000 passengers/day. Dubai International Airport is being ...
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NewsModular metro traction equipment with emergency rescue capability
CHINA: Alstom Transport and its local partner Shanghai Alstom Transport Electrical Equipment have been awarded a €37m contract to supply traction equipment for 35 six-car trainsets being built for Shanghai Shentong Metro Group by CNR Changchun. Due for delivery in 2014, the 140 motor and 70 trailer cars are needed ...
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NewsHangzhou Metro Line 1 opens
CHINA: Governor of Zhejiang Province Xia Baolong opened Hangzhou's first metro line with a ceremony at Wulin Square station on November 24 Line 1 runs from Xianghu in the south to Linping and Wenzelu in the north, with 41 km of the 48 km route underground. There are 31 stations, ...
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NewsConstruction of Sofia airport metro extension begins
BULGARIA: Minister of Transport & Communications Ivaylo Moskovski and Mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova attended a sod-turning ceremony on November 21 to formally launch construction of the airport extension of Sofia metro Line 1. The extension from Tsarigradsko Shose to the airport will be 5 km long, with four stations. ...
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NewsCAF wins Tallinn tram contract
ESTONIA: Tallinn urban transport operator Tallinna Linnatranspordi has selected CAF for a contract to supply 15 low-floor trams. Deliveries are scheduled to start within 21 months and be completed within 32 months. The 1 067 mm gauge trams will be 2 300 mm wide and equipped for regenerative braking. They ...