Metro news – Page 97
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NewsFlexity Wien design presented as series production begins
AUSTRIA: Transport Leader for Wien city council Ulli Sima, Wiener Linien CEO Günter Steinbauer and Bombardier Austria CEO Christian Diewald presented the design for the Flexity Wien tram on October 12 to mark the start of series production at Bombardier’s Wien plant. Wiener Linien awarded Bombardier a €431m contract ...
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NewsKeolis’ Lyon operations contract to be renewed
FRANCE: Incumbent operator Keolis announced on October 7 that it had been selected by transport authority Sytral to operate public transport in Lyon for a further six years. The contract, due to be signed in the coming weeks, followed almost two years of negotiations and will come into effect ...
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NewsWork resumes on Napoli metro Line 7
ITALY: Construction work has restarted on metro Line 7 in Napoli, having been suspended in 2012 due to financial constraints. The occasion was marked by a ceremony at the unfinished Monte Sant’Angelo station on September 20, attended by President of the Campania region Vincenzo De Luca and ...
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NewsLima metro Line 2 train shipped
PERU: The first trains for Lima metro Line 2 were shipped from the port of Salerno in Italy on August 16 by shipping company Hapag-Lloyd. Each 17·6 m long car, weighing 35 tonnes was loaded onto the Cerinthus by crane. The journey to the Peruvian port of Callao is expected ...
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NewsFirst Honolulu metro phase 2 contract awarded
USA: Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation announced on July 19 that it had awarded a contract for the next phase of the city’s light metro line to a joint venture of Shimmick Construction, Traylor Bros and Granite Construction. Worth $874·8m, the design-build contract covers 8·4 km of elevated alignment ...
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NewsMontréal automated light metro proposal unveiled
CANADA: Proposals for the development of a 67 km automated metro eparate from the existing metro in Montréal have been unveiled by CDPQ Infra, a subsidiary of public pension and insurance investor Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec that was established last year to study infrastructure projects suggested by ...
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NewsSantiago takes delivery of driverless metro train
CHILE: The first of 37 driverless trainsets that CAF is supplying for lines 3 and 6 of the Santiago metro was unloaded at Valparaíso port on April 6. In November 2013 a consortium of CAF and Thales won a US$451·9m contract to supply rolling stock and signalling for the ...
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NewsEurotem rolls out Antalya tram
TURKEY: The Eurotem joint venture of South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem and Turkish company Tüvasaş rolled out its first tram for Antalya at its factory in Adapazari on April 4. Eurotem won an order for 18 trams in August 2015. Due to be delivered to Antalya between April and November, ...
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NewsSuzhou Line 2 trams ordered
CHINA: CRRC Nanjing Puzhen is to supply 18 five-section 100% low-floor trams to operate the second tram line in Suzhou. Škoda Electric is to supply electrical equipment through its Chinese joint venture Škoda Kingway Electric. Škoda had previously supplied traction equipment to power cars for the Suzhou metro. ...
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NewsMore Leonardo metro trains ordered for Milano
ITALY: Milano transport operator ATM is to purchase a further 15 Leonardo trainsets for metro Line M2 at a cost of €109m. The order announced on March 29 forms an option on a €220m contract signed with AnsaldoBreda (now Hitachi Rail Italy) in 2012 for 30 six-car trainsets with ...
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NewsNew York MTA receives largest ever investment
USA: New York MTA has been allocated $27bn in the New York state budget plan announced on March 31. This is the largest ever investment in the MTA. The funding includes $1bn for construction of the second phase of the Second Avenue Subway extension to East Harlem, as well ...
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NewsLørenbanen opens in Oslo
NORWAY: Metro operator Sporveien Oslo restructured its network of services with effect from April 3, following the opening for revenue service of the 1·6 km Lørenbanen connection. Officially inaugurated by the Mayor of Oslo Marianne Borgen, Environment & Transport Commissioner Lan-Marie Berg and Governing Mayor Raymond Johansen, the underground ...
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NewsAntalya light rail extension on test
TURKEY: Test running started on the Antray light rail extension in Antalya on April 3. The extension to Expo 2016 and the airport is due to open for passenger service on April 22. This is the first extension of the city’s light rail network since the initial line opened ...
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NewsAmpang Line extended further
MALAYSIA: A 6·5 km southern extension of Kuala Lumpur’s Ampang Line opened on March 31, adding four stations. The latest section to open, between Kinrara BK5 and Bandar Puteri, is the second phase of the 11-station elevated extension to Putra Heights. The first four stations, from Sri Petaling to ...
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NewsLongest tram enters service in Budapest
HUNGARY: March 31 saw the entry into passenger service of what is claimed to be the longest tram in the world. The 55·9 m long nine-section CAF Urbos tram is in operation on the recently modernised Route 1 in Budapest, and will be joined by 11 more by mid-year. ...
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NewsKlang Valley Line 2 underground contractor chosen
MALAYSIA: Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit announced on March 31 that it had selected MMC-Gamuda to build the underground section of Klang Valley MRT Line 2, also known as the SSP Line. MMC-Gamuda beat China Railway Group and China Communications Construction Co for the 15·47bn ringgit contract. This is ...
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NewsParis suburban fleet to be renewed
FRANCE: Ile-de-France transport authority STIF has asked SNCF and RATP to prepare technical and financial plans, including timescales, for a wholescale renewal of the Paris suburban and RER fleet which could see 700 trainsets replaced or refurbished by 2021 at a cost of €8∙5bn. At its meeting on March ...
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NewsTIFIA loan to fund Chicago L cars
USA: Federal Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced on March 30 that the Federal Transit Administration had agreed a $255m low-interest loan to Chicago Transit Authority under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance & Innovation Act. This will partially fund the operator’s next generation of metro trainsets. Earlier in the month CTA awarded ...
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NewsToshkent tram network to close
UZBEKISTAN: Toshkent Mayor Rakhmonbek Usmonov announced on March 29 that the city’s 87·8 route-km tram network is to close by the end of the year. The former tracks will be used to provide additional road space, which the city authorities hope will reduce traffic congestion. Tram services are to be ...
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NewsLIRR triple-tracking design contract awarded
USA: A consortium of AECOM and Gannett Fleming has been awarded a $7m contract to undertake environmental assessments and community engagement as preparatory work begins to construct a third track over the 15·8 route-km Floral Park – Hicksville section of the Long Island Rail Road commuter rail network.The northerly LIRR ...