Metro news – Page 203
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NewsGalileo takes the tram
GERMANY: Halle city transport operator Havag has begun testing an intelligent real-time passenger information system based on Galileo satellite navigation technology. As Galileo is not yet fully functional the tram trial is using simulated satellites to provide location data. An onboard computer uses this to drive passenger information systems, which ...
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NewsDelhi metro opens first standard gauge line
INDIA: Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit officially opened Delhi metro’s first standard gauge line on April 2. They flagged off a train at Inderlok station on Line 5 before taking a ride as far as Paschim Vihar.The 15·1 km corridor from Inderlok ...
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NewsPesa selected to supply EMUs to Warszawa
POLAND: Pesa signed a 281·8m złoty contract with suburban operator Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa on March 26 to supply 14 electric multiple-units for the Warszawa - Grodzisk Mazowiecki line.The specification had been changed for the second round of tendering from one long single unit to a pair of shorter units. The ...
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NewsTram testing starts in Rabat-Salé
MOROCCO: The first Citadis low-floor tram for the Rabat-Salé light rail network started trial running on a 2 km test track in the Hay Karima district of Salé on March 30. Alstom signed a €90m agreement in May 2008 to supply 22 pairs of Citadis trams to work the Société ...
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NewsDriver training tram
SLOVAKIA: DP Bratislava has taken delivery of the last of 35 Tatra K2S two-car articulated trams to be heavily rebuilt by Skoda subsidiary Pars Nova Sumperk to extend their lives by 10 to 15 years. The steel-bodied metre-gauge trams, originally built as Type K2 by CKD Tatra in 1975-83, have ...
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NewsGold Coast light rail attracts six bidders
AUSTRALIA: Six consortia have expressed interest in the PPP contract to design, build, operate and maintain phase I of the Gold Coast rapid transit project. The 13 km corridor from Griffith University to Broadbeach is due to open in 2014.The bidders are: GCSmartmove comprising Ansaldo STS, SMRT ...
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NewsThree consortia shortlisted for Panamá City metro
PANAMA: Three international consortia have prequalified to bid for the contract to build Panamá City’s first metro line. They are: CIMA, comprising Acciona Infraestructuras, Misubishi Corp, MHI, CAF and Constructoras ICA of Mexico; Línea Uno, comprising Construtora Norberto Odebrecht and Fomento de Construcciones ...
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NewsDB takes over Tyne & Wear Metro
UK: DB Regio Tyne & Wear Ltd formally took over responsibility for operating the local electric network around Newcastle and Sunderland on April 1. The concession agreement runs for seven years with an optional two-year extension, with regional transport authority Nexus paying the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary a fee based on ...
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NewsMiskolc selects Sirio trams
HUNGARY: Miskolc city council has chosen AnsaldoBreda to supply 31 Sirio low-floor trams for the city’s tram network, following the evaluation of four bids submitted in February. Offers were also received from Skoda, CAF and Siemens.AnsaldoBreda will supply two prototypes by January 31 2012. The Italian manufacturer will then deliver ...
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NewsMTR West Island Line progresses
CHINA: Hong Kong's MTR Corp has awarded the Gammon-Nishimatsu WIL Joint Venture a HK$4·75bn contract to build 2·2 km of running tunnel for the West Island Line project along with two intermediate stations at Sai Ying Pin and Hong Kong University.Gammon had already won a HK$1·3bn contract to build Kennedy ...
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NewsKawasaki preferred bidder for Washington metro
USA: Kawasaki Railcar has been nominated as preferred bidder to supply up to 748 new cars for the Washington metro network. Kawasaki’s offer was presented to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority board of directors on March 25 but a vote to approve the contract was postponed, as board members ...
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NewsPink champagne in Reims
FRANCE: The first of 18 Alstom Citadis trams for Reims’ 11·2 km light rail line went on display in front of the city’s cathedral on March 26. The event was presided over by Adeline Hazan, the Mayor of Reims and president of Reims Métropole, and Christian Messelyn, president of concessionaire ...
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NewsMumbai's beautiful butterfly emerges
INDIA: The first metro train to be built in China for India was shipped from Shanghai on March 23. BOT concessionaire for the Versova - Andheri - Ghatkopar line, Mumbai Metro One, had specified bright colours inside and out, and manufacturer CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock described the first ...
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NewsWarszawa airport rail link train order signed
POLAND: The city of Warszawa's suburban rail operator SKM signed a 299m zloty contract with Pesa Bydgoszcz for 13 high-capacity 27WE Elf electric multiple-units on March 16. The units will be delivered from mid-2011 for use on services to Fryderyk Chopin Airport, which is to be linked to the ...
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NewsOlsztyn to develop tram network
POLAND: Olsztyn city council has decided to build a modern tram network, which will be the first new network to be opened in Poland since trams were introduced in Czestochowa in 1959. Heart of the project is a 7·3 km double-track route running from the main PKP station at Dworzec ...
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NewsTiger grants to boost urban rail
USA: Several urban rail investment projects will benefit from federal stimulus funding from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act as part of the TIGER grants package announced by Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. In total, 51 projects have been selected for the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery programme which is ...
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NewsDebrecen tram contracts
HUNGARY: On March 11 Mayor of Debrecen Lajos Kósa signed a 7·5bn forint contract with the ATK-Debrecen consortium for construction of the city’s second tram line, between Debrecen Plaza and Doberdo Street. The work is expected to take two years to complete. When the project was approved in April ...
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NewsCapital Metro opens at last
USA: Capital Metro’s Red Line commuter rail route between Austin and Leander opened for revenue service on March 22, two years later than originally anticipated. There was no formal inaugural ceremony or ribbon cutting at any of the nine stations. Running northwest from the Texas state capital, the line is ...
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NewsSão Paulo metro still expanding
BRAZIL: The Inter-American Development Bank announced a US$481m loan to the state of São Paulo for improvements to metro Line 5 on March 10. The loan has a 25-year term, with a four and a half years grace period and a LIBOR-based interest rate.The IDB funds will be used to ...
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NewsLondon Underground PPP funding gap
UK: London Underground is considering its options, including 'legal remedies', after PPP Arbiter Chris Bolt directed on March 10 that work to maintain and upgrade the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines in the seven and half years of Review Period 2 from July 1 2010 should cost £4·46bn. LU ...