Metro news – Page 73
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Metro Report InternationalMetro standards committee formed
INDIA: The government has established a committee to develop standards for locally-manufactured components to be used in the country’s metro networks. Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the opening of the Delhi Metro Green Line extension on June 25, the establishment of the new committee follows a government decision ...
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Metro Report InternationalCRRC to supply 300 metro cars to Nanjing
CHINA: CRRC Nanjing Puzhen won a contract to supply 50 six-car trainsets to operate on Nanjing metro Line 5 on June 15. Deliveries are due to start by the end of October 2019. The Type A trainsets will have a maximum speed of 80 km/h. The 37·4 km ...
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Metro Report InternationalItalian state railway launches multimodal app
ITALY: State railway FS Italiane launched a nationwide multimodal transport planning app on June 22. Nugo is available for Apple and Android devices. It enables users to plan a door-to-door journey throughout the country and buy one ticket to cover all the required modes. Initially 50 transport companies are ...
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Metro Report InternationalHyundai Rotem wins Taoyuan metro order
TAIWAN: Hyundai Rotem announced on June 26 that it will supply railway systems to the Taoyuan metro Green Line. The 54·2bn won contract includes the supply of 40 two-car driverless trainsets, which the company will assemble at its Changwon plant. These would have an operational speed of 80 km/h. ...
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Metro Report InternationalShenzhen Airport peoplemover contract awarded
CHINA: Shenzhen Airport Co has awarded the CRRC Puzhen Bombardier Transportation Systems joint venture a 453m yuan contract to supply an Innovia 300 automated peoplemover. The 2·6 km line which is scheduled to enter service in 2020 would connect an airside satellite to the airport’s Terminal 3, which opened in ...
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NewsDelhi Metro Green Line extended
INDIA: The 11·2 km western extension of Delhi Metro Line 5 from Mundka to Bahadurgarh City Park was formally inaugurated on June 24, with a ceremony in Bahadurgarh attended by Urban Development Minister Hardeep Puri and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar. Following the official launch, public services began operating ...
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Metro Report InternationalSubway station damaged in 9/11 attacks to reopen in October
USA: Trains on the 1 Subway line in New York are to serve Cortlandt Street station from October 1 for the first time in 17 years. Cortlandt Street was among the closest Subway stations to the site of World Trade Center which was destroyed in the terror attack of September ...
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Metro Report InternationalNew South Wales transport budget announced
AUSTRALIA: The New South Wales government has allocated A$14·4bn towards public transport in its state budget for 2018. A$3bn is going towards the Metro West project to build a second metro line in Sydney. A further A$2·4bn is earmarked for the completion of the first phase of the initial ...
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NewsŠkoda to supply Warszawa metro trains
POLAND: Metro Warszawskie selected Škoda to supply up to 45 trains for both metro lines on June 20. The consortium led by Škoda Transportation and including Škoda Vagonka beat bids from Stadler, CAF, Alstom and a Siemens-Newag consortium. The first six-car walkthrough trainset is to be delivered within 20 ...
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NewsSiemens and Bozankaya roll out Bangkok Skytrain vehicle
THAILAND: The first train that Siemens and Bozankaya are supplying for Bangkok’s Skytrain elevated metro was rolled out at Bozankaya’s Ankara factory on June 19. The train is due to leave the Turkish port of Borusan at the end of June and arrive at the Thai port of Laem Chabang ...
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NewsSiemens to supply London Underground deep tube fleet
UK: Transport for London has selected Siemens Mobility to supply 94 metro trainsets for London Underground’s Piccadilly Line, it announced on June 15. The £1·5bn contract is due to be signed following a 10-day standstill period. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2023 from a factory that Siemens will ...
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Metro Report InternationalBYD to build monorail line in Salvador
BRAZIL: BYD has signed an agreement to build a monorail line in Salvador. The R$2·5bn project is to be built in two phases, with work due to begin in the fourth quarter of 2018. The 20 km coastal route will include a section that crosses the sea en route ...
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NewsNizhny Novgorod World Cup metro extension inaugurated
RUSSIA: An extension of the Nizhny Novgorod metro serving the newly built stadium was inaugurated on June 12, a few days before the start of the FIFA World Cup. Revenue services began the following day. The 2·2 km northern extension of the Sormovsko-Meshcherskaya Line runs from Moskovskaya to Strelka. ...
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Metro Report InternationalMoscow metro gains 18th depot
RUSSIA: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin inaugurated the 18th depot on the Moscow metro on June 11. Likhobory depot is near the northern end of Line 10, which was extended 4·3 km north from Petrovsko-Razumovskaya to Seligerskaya on March 16. The depot is connected to this section with a 1·9 ...
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NewsAdditional funding approved for fifth Milano metro line
ITALY: A metro line to Linate Airport in Milano is due to open in January 2021, Mayor Giuseppe Sala announced at an event organised by lead contractor Salini Impregilo on June 1. The announcement follows the approval of additional funding for the Line M4 metro project. The first section ...
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Metro Report InternationalDhaka metro E&M contract signed
BANGLADESH: Project promoter Dhaka Mass Transit Co signed the ¥55bn railway systems contract for Dhaka metro Line 6 with a joint venture of Marubeni and Larsen & Toubro on June 3. The joint venture will supply ballasted track for the depot and ballastless track to be used elsewhere, eight ...
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NewsDenmark – Sweden cross-border metro project moves forward
EUROPE: København Mayor Frank Jensen and Malmö Mayor Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh announced the formation of a partnership to promote the cross-border Øresundsmetro project at the Fehmarnbelt Days 2018 conference in Malmö on May 28. The Øresundsmetro Executive partnership will be chaired by former Danish Labour Minister Jørn Neergaard Larsen. ...
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NewsBoth Chennai metro lines extended
INDIA: Underground extensions of both lines of the Chennai metro were inaugurated on May 25, adding a total of 7·4 km to the network. The Blue Line was extended by 4·8 km northeast from Little Mount to AG-DMS, with four stations. The Green Line was extended east ...
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Metro Report InternationalNanjing suburban metro network grows
CHINA: Nanjing’s network of suburban metro lines grew with the opening of an east-west route on May 26. Line S7 runs from Wuxiangshan to Konggangxinchengjiangning, where it meets the north-south Line S1, which has itself been extended 1·5 km south from Nanjing Lukou International Airport. Some services run through ...
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NewsSt Petersburg metro Line 3 extended
RUSSIA: A northwestern extension of St Petersburg metro Line 3 was inaugurated on May 26. The 5 km underground extension from Primorskaya to Begovaya includes an intermediate station at Novokrestovskaya on Krestovsky Island. This station serves Saint-Petersburg Stadium, which will be one of the venues of the 2018 FIFA ...