Metro news – Page 226
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Tren Suburbano inaugurated
MEXICO: The first 20 km of a planned suburban rail network in Mexico City was inaugurated on June 2, following three weeks of fare-free trial operations. Known locally as El Tren Suburbano, the line links the former inter-city terminus at Buenavista with Cuautitlán in the north, using an existing right-of-way ...
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NewsFunding boost for Manchester
UK: In a statement to the House of Commons on June 9, Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly 'granted programme entry' to the first business case requesting support from the Transport Innovation Fund for a major programme of local transport enhancements. This was submitted in July 2007 by the Association of Greater ...
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NewsEdmonton light rail vehicle unveiled
CANADA: The first of 37 Siemens SD160 cars ordered to double the fleet size in advance of the opening of Edmonton's South Line light rail extension was publicly unveiled on June 23. The €77m contract was awarded to Siemens in October 2005, partly funded through fuel taxes. The first ...
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GE to resignal Rotterdam metro
NETHERLANDS: Rotterdam transport operator RET has selected GE Transportation to undertake the resignalling of the city's 55 km two line metro network. GE said the €62m contract is the company's largest-ever rail signalling order and its first full-scale metro project in Europe. Work will begin in early 2009 to ...
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NewsMexico City metro Line 12 contract awarded
MEXICO: A US$1·7bn contract to build metro Line 12 in Mexico City has been awarded to a consortium led by construction firm Empresas ICA and including Alstom and Carso Infraestructura y Construccion. Running entirely underground, the 24 km Line 12 will have 22 stations serving the southern portion of ...
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NewsRefurbished tram back in Sofia
BULGARIA: The first of 18 Sofia trams to be modernised under a €13·6m contract with Inekon has returned to service in the Bulgarian capital. The 1 009 mm gauge three-section T8-700IT tram has been rebuilt from a twin-section T6M-700 with the insertion of a 360 mm entrance height centre section ...
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NewsCádiz tram-train contract
SPAIN: The Andalucía regional government has awarded Sacyr and Prinur a contract worth €52·8m to undertake civil and track work on the 5·8 km San Fernando - Caño Zurraque section of the tram-train route linking Cádiz with Chiclana de la Frontera. Work on this section with eight stops is due ...
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Melbourne to re-let franchises
AUSTRALIA: The Victorian state government has called for expressions of interest to operate its urban rail services from 2009. The suburban trains are presently run by Connex Melbourne, and the Yarra Trams network is operated by the Metrolink joint venture of Transdev and Transfield Services Ltd. Both franchises expire next ...
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Urban rail news in brief - June 2008
Madrid Metro has unveiled the first of 36 Series 9000 trainsets that are to be introduced on Line 6 by 2011, part of an order for 52 units placed with AnsaldoBreda for €450m. The upgrade of Line 6 has included the construction of new traction substations and a new station ...
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Santiago trackwork
CHILE: Balfour Beatty plc announced on May 14 that its Chilean subsidiary had been awarded contracts worth a total of £37m to undertake tracklaying on two extensions to the Santiago metro. Under a contact worth £10·2m, work on the 3·8 km section of Line 1 from Escuela Militar to Los ...
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Dallas assembles kit cars
USA: Dallas Area Rapid Transit has begun adding low-floor sections to its 115 KinkiSharyo light rail vehicles under a programme to be completed in 2010. The number of seats is increased from 75 to 100 on the 'Super Light Rail Vehicles', the first of which will begin carrying passengers shortly. ...
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Tokyo metro line inaugurated
JAPAN: Ceremonies were held at Shinjuku-3chome station on June 13 to mark the inauguration of Tokyo Metro Line 13. Now officially known as the Fukutoshin Line, the 8·9 km north-south route connects the districts of Ikebukuro, Shinjuku and Shibuya on the western side of the Japanese capital. There are ...
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St Petersburg to buy low-floor trams
RUSSIA: Petersburg Tram Mechanical Factory is to supply 45 trams to St Petersburg Tramways under a contract won following a competitive tender. The contract, which was expected to be formally signed during May, is worth 645m roubles, under which PTMZ would supply the operator with a further 29 model 71-134 ...
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Moscow sets out metro development plan
RUSSIA: Moscow Metro General Manager Dmitry Gaev has revealed plans for further expansion of the network over the period from 2010 to 2015. Gaev hopes to see a further 130 km built by 2015, of which 60 km is already included in the city's budget. Funding for the remainder will ...
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Frankfurt LRV handed over
GERMANY: Frankfurt Transport Authority VGF has taken delivery of the first of 146 Flexity Swift light rail vehicles which are being built by Bombardier. A further 11 will be supplied from the Bautzen factory this year, with deliveries continuing until autumn 2015. The bi-directional vehicles have been custom ...
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First section of Delhi metro Phase 2 opens
INDIA: The first extension built under Delhi Metro Rail Corp's Phase 2 expansion programme was inaugurated on June 3, and began carrying passengers the following day. The 3·1 km elevated extension eastwards from Shahdara to Dilshad Garden brings the length of Line 1 to 25·1 km with 21 stations. ...
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Mexico's Tren Suburbano inaugurated
MEXICO The first section of a planned suburban rail network in the capital was officially inaugurated on June 2.
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Riga buys Skoda trams
LATVIA: Riga urban transport authority SIA Rigas Satiksme has awarded a €51·7m contract to Skoda Transportation for the supply of 20 low-floor trams. The contract was formally signed on May 23, following an international tender launched in December 2007. The 1 524 mm gauge trams will be based on Skoda's ...
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Santiago metro orders extra trains
CHILE: Metro de Santiago has exercised an option for a further 36 cars to operate its steel-wheeled Lines 4 and 4A in the Chilean capital.
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Washington's rubbish idea
DEBRIS: Collectors have been installed to keep the rails at two stations on Washington's Red Line free from litter and newspapers. Air flow from train movements blows the discarded papers into the collectors, from where staff can remove rubbish before it is blown into the tunnels. 'These debris collectors will ...