Metro news – Page 230
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NewsBergen signs Variobahn order
THE CITY of Bergen has signed a previously-announced €35m contract ordering 12 Variobahn trams from Stadler Pankow, with an option for a further 20. Closure of the deal was confirmed on January 29 by Stadler, which will be responsible for maintaining the cars for eight years. Similar to ...
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NewsNanjing Metro places €85·5m train order
A CONSORTIUM of Nanjing CSR Puzhen Rail Transit, Alstom Transport and the SATEE joint venture of Alstom and Shanghai Electric Group has won a €85·5m contract to supply a further 126 trains for Nanjing Metro Line 1. The partners will supply 21 six-car Metropolis trainsets for an 18 km ...
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NewsMilanese run København Metro
WITH EFFECT from January 1, the København Metro is being managed by Inmetro Srl, a newly-formed joint venture of Ansaldo Trasporti Sistemi Ferroviari (49%) and Milano urban transport operator Azienda Trasporti Milanesi (51%). The Danish capital's automatic metro has been run by the Metro Service consortium of Ansaldo STS and ...
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NewsAirport casts pods in future transport role
UK: Construction is proceeding rapidly on elevated guideways for a 3·8 route-km T-shaped 'personal rapid transit' line which will connect the future Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow airport with a car park for business class passengers from 2009. The terminal is due to open a year earlier in 2008, ...
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Santo Domingo metro delivery
THE FIRST three-car Metropolis trainset for the metro line under construction in Santo Domingo left Alstom's factory in Barcelona on December 14. The ship delivering the train is expected to dock in the Dominican Republic in early January. Transport authority OPRET announced the award of a €92·5m contract for ...
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Urban rail news in brief - December 2007
Algeria: CNIM has won a contract to supply 23 escalators for eight underground stations being built by Vinci Construction Grands Projets on the 11 km first phase of the Alger Metro. Opening of the line between Haï El Badir, Hamma and Tafourah Grande Poste is planned for 2009. Thales announced ...
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NewsParis projects prosper despite diversity
Over the past 15 years Paris has opened four orbital light rail lines, providing links between the city's radial metro and RER corridors. But the four routes exhibit a high degree of technical incompatibility, reports Harry Hondius
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NewsMarseille builds a network
To ensure that 95% of its residents are no more than 25 min and a single change away from the centre, the French city of Marseille is building a light rail network and extending its metro, as Laurent Charlier reports
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NewsNice: Trams return to the Côte d'Azur
The first of three planned tram lines in Nice on the Côte d’Azur is due to be opened by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on November 24, restoring urban rail services to the city after a gap of 55 years. Murray Hughes reports
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NewsManchester plays catch-up with Metrolink expansion
A £102m renewals blitz that includes replacement of 24 km of track on the original Altrincham and Bury lines is a prelude to a major expansion of Manchester's light rail system that will begin in earnest next year. Nick Kingsley reports
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NewsNexus funds Metro re-invigoration
TYNE & WEAR Passenger Transport Authority has put in place the funding for Phase 1 of its 20-year Metro Re-invigoration programme. Taking two years to complete, Phase 1 is costed at £56·1m. The UK Department for Transport has given 'initial approval' to a £14·3m scheme to replace 249 ticket vending ...
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Napoli awards €426m metro Line 6 contract
ANSALDO STS was awarded a €426m contract by the Napoli local authority on September 28 for the construction of the Mergellina to Municipio second phase of the city’s metro Line 6. Completion of the 3·1 km underground extension is planned for 2012. The Ansaldo Trasporti Sistemi Ferroviari subsidiary of Ansaldo ...
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NewsAirport extension completes København Metro
CROWN PRINCE Frederik of Denmark opened an extension of København Metro line M2 to Lufthavnen station at the city’s airport on September 28, marking the completion of the two automated light metro lines envisaged in the initial scheme finalised by development authority Ørestadsselskabet in 1996. The Prince ...
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NewsUfa tramway rehabilitation
RUSSIA: Inekon Group is to undertake track, level crossing and vehicle upgrades for the tram network in the Russian city of Ufa. Under a contract worth €2·2m, four Type T3M trams with Cegelec IGBT-based traction equipment are to be delivered to the city, the first of which left for Russia ...
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Delhi orders 340 Movia cars
BOMBARDIER Transportation has won a €427m contract to build 340 of its Movia cars to operate Phase 2 of the Delhi Metro. The deal was announced on July 19, and deliveries are due to start towards the end of 2008 with completion of the order in 2010 before the Commonwealth ...
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NewsLondon's PPP unravels
IT TOOK five years to create the immensely complex Public-Private Partnership under which Tube Lines and Metronet Rail assumed full responsibility for maintaining and renewing infrastructure and trains on the London Underground for 30 years, starting in 2003. In return they were promised an Infrastructure Service Charge of around £1bn ...
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Hong Kong merger bill approved
THE PLANNED merger of Hong Kong’s metro operator MTR Corp and the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corp moved a step closer on June 8, when the Rail Merger Bill was approved by the region’s Legislative Council. The bill puts in place the legal framework needed to implement the merger of the state-owned ...
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NewsVariotrams chosen for Bergen
STADLER Pankow has been selected to supply 12 low-floor Variotrams for the 10 km Bybanen light rail line in Bergen, which is scheduled to open in 2010. The initial contract covers technical and cosmetic design of the vehicles, as well as the acceptance process with the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate. The ...
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NewsParis T3 forms a green corridor
Running along the boulevards from Pont du Garigliano to Porte d'Ivry, RATP's third light rail route is expected to bring about a 25% reduction in road traffic while doubling the capacity offered by existing bus services. An extensive tree planting programme aims to create a green corridor along busy streets
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NewsPhase 3 agreed in Bordeaux
WITH WORK now well underway on Phase 2 of the city's light rail programme (RG 4.07 p188), the greater Bordeaux authority has agreed to call tenders for consultancy contracts worth up to €28m covering studies and project supervision for Phase 3. Expected to cost a total of €342m, this would ...