Metro news – Page 231
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Regional tram-trains for SNCF
SNCF's long-standing plans for a sizeable fleet of tram-train cars have made further progress after the company placed an order for 31 Alstom Citadis Dualis dual-mode cars. The €100m order includes an option for a further 169 vehicles, which could ultimately take the value of the contract to €650m. Of ...
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NewsSingapore plans fifth line
THE GOVERNMENT of Singapore has approved plans to build a fifth metro line, Transport Minister Raymond Lim announced at a Land Transport Authority seminar on April 27. Mostly running underground, the 40 km line is to be built in three phases at a cost of S$12bn, and is due to ...
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NewsCharles-de-Gaulle VAL opens
APRIL 4 saw the opening of the 3·5 km automatic shuttle with five stations linking the three airport terminals, RER and TGV stations and remote car parks at Paris Charles-de-Gaulle Airport. End-to-end journey time is 8 min, with trains running every 4 min at peak times. Operated by a fleet ...
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NewsStagecoach wins in Manchester
GREATER Manchester PTE announced on April 3 that it had selected Stagecoach Group as preferred bidder for a contract to operate the 37?km Manchester Metrolink network. Including infrastructure and rolling stock maintenance, the 10-year contract will also cover management of upgrading projects as well as operation of several planned extensions. ...
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NewsToronto's light rail blueprint
CANADA: Toronto Transit Commission has approved plans for approximately 122 km of new light rail route costing C$6bn that, along with the current tram network, would cover much of the city. The seven proposed lines would be completed within 15 years and, in the words of TTC Chairman Adam ...
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NewsHamburger Hochbahn restructures
Hamburger Hochbahn AG is to bring its rail and bus operations together into a single holding company in a bid to accelerate its expansion programme. The firm, which operates a number of regional rail services in partnership across Germany in addition to its Hamburg bus and metro business, hopes ...
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Napoli metro Line 6 opens
ITALY: Prime Minister Romano Prodi attended an inauguration ceremony for Napoli metro Line 6 on January 11, in advance of the start of passenger services on February 4. A successor to various long-delayed tram and light metro schemes, the 1·9 km first phase of Line 6 runs from Mostra to ...
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MTS wins Tel-Aviv metro
IN A CEREMONY on December 31, Israeli Finance Minister Abraham Hirschson, Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz and representatives from the project manager NTA announced that the MTS consortium had been selected as concessionaire to develop the Tel-Aviv light metro Red Line between Bat Yam and Petach Tikvah. Headed by local firm ...
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TTC car contract
TORONTO Transit Commission and Bombardier Transportation formally signed a C$548m sole-source contract on December 21 for the supply of 234 new subway cars for delivery in 2009-11. The 39 six-car sets are intended to replace around 200 cars used on the Yonge - University - Spadina Line, which are now ...
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Orbital metro in RATP development strategy
UNVEILING HIS strategic plan for 2008-12 on October 6, the new President of Paris transport operator RATP Pierre Mongin announced proposals to develop an orbital metro route, about 2 km to 3 km outside the Boulevard Périphérique and paralleling the largely-disused Petite Ceinture railway ring. Known as Métrophérique, the new ...
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Syntegra revives the gearless drive
OFFICIALLY unveiled at InnoTrans 2006, the Syntegra bogie from Siemens is the latest attempt to develop a gearless electric drive. The concept brings together running gear, traction equipment and braking in 'a single mechatronic unit', with fewer mechanical parts than existing bogies. A pair of metro car bogies incorporating Syntegra ...
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NewsThree years on, and the PPP presents a mixed picture
Assessing the performance of its contractors Metronet and Tube Lines during the third year of the Public-Private Partnership, London Underground has highlighted some notable achievements in the maintenance and upgrading of infrastructure and rolling stock. But as major modernisation projects gather pace, LU is concerned that its network is still ...
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More money for Recife
BRAZIL'S FEDERAL Ministry for Cities announced on August 10 that it was releasing a further tranche of funding worth R$30m for Recife's urban rail network. The ministry has agreed to provide a total of R$78m, of which R$38m was released last May. Operator Metrorec is hoping to open the South ...
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NewsTram-train proposed for Cádiz
A DRAFT agreement for construction of a 13·6 km tram-train route connecting the city of Cádiz with the neighbouring communities of San Fernando and Chiclana de la Frontera has been sent to the two municipalities by the Andalucía regional government. The project has been costed at €140·5m excluding electrification, ...
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NewsWaterloo & City on schedule for September 1 re-opening
London Underground's PPP contractor Metronet reports good progress with its programme to upgrade the 2·4 km Waterloo & City Line, which has been closed to traffic since April 1. Track relaying and signalling enhancements will cut journey times and increase capacity between Waterloo and Bank
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NewsBangalore metro launched
INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for the Rs64bn Bangalore metro project on June 24, paving the way for the start of construction in October. 'I hope this project will become a milestone in Bangalore's progress', said the Prime Minister, adding that 'we must start ...
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Reims and Angers choose APS
ON JULY 13 the Communauté d'agglomeration Reims Métropole signed a €1·4bn turnkey contract with the Alstom-led MARS consortium for construction of an 11·2 km light rail line, and for the operation of trams and buses in the city over 30 years from January 1 2008. The Mobilité Agglomération Rémoise ...
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City News July 2006
On June 6 Alstom announced that it had been awarded a €92·5m contract by the Dominican Republic's transport authority Opret to supply 19 three-car Metropolis trainsets for the 14·5 km first metro line in Santo Domingo, which is due to open in 2008.Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and UK Transport ...
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Olympic car order
ON JUNE 13 Docklands Light Railway announced that it had ordered a further 31 articulated cars from Bombardier to accommodate projected demand during the London 2012 Olympic Games. Incorporating an option for nine cars included in the £50m contract for 24 new cars placed in May 2005, the extra 31 ...
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NewsBordeaux tram extensions underway
Less than three years after the first phase of the Bordeaux light rail network was inaugurated, works are well advanced for several extensions which will almost double the length by 2008, reports Chris Heaps