All Metro articles – Page 111
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NewsIași completes tram line modernisation
ROMANIA: The latest section of the Iași tram network to be modernised reopened on September 1. Trams on the 10 km east-west route between Pasaj Nicolina and Tătărași Sud can now run at up to 35 km/h, up from 25 km/h previously. The upgrade work cost €10m. On October ...
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NewsBeijing to start metro expansion work
CHINA: Construction is due to start this month on five metro expansion projects in Beijing, including three new lines. The east-west Line 3 would connect Dongcheng with Chaoyang on a 22 km alignment with 14 stations. The 29·6 km Line 12 would follow an east-west route to the ...
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NewsFTA announces TOD grants
USA: The Federal Transit Administration announced grants totalling $19·5m from its Transit-Oriented Development Planning Pilot Program on September 14. The funding will go towards detailed planning in 17 metropolitan areas. ‘Transit-oriented development is critical to the success of new projects and to the economy of the local communities they ...
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NewsMünchen orders more Avenio trams
GERMANY: München utility body SWM has selected Siemens as preferred bidder to supply 22 low-floor trams. The €70m contract is to be signed following a 10-day standstill period. Starting in mid-2017, Siemens is to deliver nine two-section, nine three-section and four four-section Avenio trams. Operator MVG envisages that on ...
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NewsYaroslavl plans fast tram lines
RUSSIA: Yaroslavl tram operator Yargorelektrotrans has announced plans for two fast tram lines. A feasibility study is expected to be completed soon. One route would link the main line station to the airport, southeast of the city. The other would be a north-south route intended to serve the city’s ...
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NewsVorgebirgsbahn electrification contract
GERMANY: Häfen & Güterverkehr Köln has awarded SPL Powerlines Germany a contract to install electrification equipment as part of the doubling of 2·1 km of single track line between Brühl and Badorf on the Vorgebirgsbahn inter-urban light rail Line 18 between Köln and Bonn. The work began this month ...
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NewsParis Line 18 contract awarded
FRANCE: Société du Grand Paris has awarded the Linéov Group consortium of SNC-Lavalin, Algoé and Transamo a project management assistance contract for Paris metro Line 18. The contract covers both the construction and operation phases. Linéov Group will advise SGP on project management, and oversee all the contractors and ...
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NewsPortland opens Orange Line
USA: Portland light rail operator TriMet inaugurated the MAX Orange Line between Portland and Milwaukie on September 12. The 11·7 km route is operated as a southern extension of the existing Yellow line. Startling at SE Park Avenue in north Milwaukie, the route runs north to OMSI before crossing ...
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NewsNew York opens Subway Line 7 extension
USA: New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority inaugurated an extension of the Subway’s 7-Flushing Line on September 13. The 2·4 km extension runs west from 42 Street/Times Square before turning south to reach a new station at 34 St-Hudson Yards. ‘This station is the centrepiece of an ambitious plan to ...
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NewsSan Jose LRVs return to service in Sacramento
USA: The first of 21 light rail vehicles to be refurbished by Siemens for Sacramento Regional Transit District is scheduled to re-enter service during September, operating on the Blue Line extension to Cosumnes River College which opened in August. The high-floor LRVs were originally built by Canada’s Urban Transportation ...
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NewsCrossrail EMU bodyshell on test
UK: A test bodyshell for the Class 345 electric multiple-units ordered for London’s Crossrail project has been assembled at Bombardier Transportation’s Derby plant, where it is being used to refine the design and manufacturing techniques ahead of full production of the 594 cars for 66 nine-car trainsets. 'This assembled body ...
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NewsFinch West light rail RFQ issued
CANADA: Infrastructure Ontario and regional transport authority Metrolinx have issued a request for qualifications seeking interest in the estimated C$1bn contract to design, build, finance and maintain the Finch West Light Rail Transit project in Toronto. The project includes 11 km of segregated light rail line along Finch Avenue West ...
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NewsMTR’s Stockholm metro contract extended
SWEDEN: Stockholm transport authority SL exercised an option on September 8 for MTR Stockholm to continue to operate the city’s metro network for a further six years. The subsidiary of Hong Kong’s MTR Corp began operating the network in November 2009 under an eight-year contract. This has now been extended ...
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NewsUrban rail news in brief - September 2015
Istanbul Ulam has called tenders for 75 four-car trainsets to operate on the future Line M7. The first three sponsors for Kuala Lumpur’s Station Naming Rights Programme are AirAsia, Bank Rakyat and Suez Capital. Nippon KOEI has carried out a feasibility study for a 35 km metro ...
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NewsTokyo peoplemover to receive lightweight train
JAPAN: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has completed a five-car Model 330 automated rubber-tyre light metro trainset which is expected to enter service on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Nippori-toneri Liner peoplemover next month. The cars have an unpainted double-skin aluminium body structure which is designed to be around 1·5 tonnes lighter ...
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NewsAlstom completes Dublin tram overhaul
IRELAND: Alstom has completed the 300 000 km overhaul of 26 Citadis 402 trams supplied in 2009 for Dublin’s Luas light rail Green Line. This follows completion last year of the 600 000 km overhaul of the original batch of Citadis 401 trams which are now concentrated on the Red ...
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NewsEdmonton opens northern Metro Line
CANADA: Revenue services on the second light rail route in Edmonton began running on September 6, when the capital of Alberta inaugurated the Metro Line serving the north of the city. Built at a cost of C$665m, around $90m below budget, the 10 km Metro Line diverges from the existing ...
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NewsPurple Line trains set sail for Bangkok
THAILAND: The first of 21 three-car metro trainsets being built by East Japan Railway’s J-TREC business for Bangkok’s Purple Line was shipped from Yokohama on September 7. The entire fleet is scheduled to arrive in Thailand by January, and revenue services on the 23 km Purple Line running from ...
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NewsPrime Minister opens Delhi metro extension to Faridabad
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the 13·9 km southern extension of Delhi metro Line 6 (Violet) from Badarpur to Escorts Mujesar in the satellite city of Faridabad on September 6. This takes the metro over the border from the capital territory into the state of Haryana. Revenue services began ...
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NewsMetro trains to feature ‘elephant tusk’ inspired lighting
INDIA: Kochi Metro Rail Ltd has revealed the future appearance of the 25 Metropolis trainsets which are to be supplied by Alstom Transport’s s Sricity plant. Alstom’s Design & Styling department at Saint-Ouen in France collaborated on the design with KMRL and Tata Elxsi, which devised the livery. Their brief ...