All Metro articles – Page 199
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NewsMarseille metro extended
FRANCE: Line 1 of Marseille’s rubber-tyred metro was extended to La Fourragère on May 6. Construction of the 2·5 km extension from La Timone, with intermediate stations at La Blancard, Louis Armand and Saint-Barnabé, started in September 2005 and cost €417·5m.The new service to the predominantly residential western suburbs ...
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NewsTramwaje Warszawskie signs EBRD loan
POLAND: Tramwaje Warszawskie signed a loan agreement with EBRD on May 11 which will provide up to 200m zloty towards the operator’s 3·2bn zloty investment programme. EBRD will provide 50% from its own funds with the rest syndicated to commercial banks. The programme includes buying 186 trams to replace part ...
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NewsToronto orders more Rockets
CANADA: Toronto Transit Commission on May 6 approved an order for another 186 Rocket subway cars from Bombardier. The cars will be formed into 31 six-car trainsets, 21 of which will replace life-expired rolling stock. The other 10 sets will equip the Spadina subway extension to York, which is now ...
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NewsTracklaying completed on Dublin tram extension
IRELAND: Sparks flew in Dublin on May 5 when the final piece of track was welded in place on the Luas Line B1 Cherrywood tram extension. On hand to witness the occasion, which took place at the Brewery Road bridge in Sandyford, were Councillor Marie Baker, Chairperson of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown ...
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NewsTube Lines purchase brings London Underground PPP to a close
UK: Transport for London announced on May 7 that it had reached an agreement to buy London Underground infrastructure PPP contractor Tube Lines from its shareholders. The £310m deal is set to be completed by June 30, with Tube Lines becoming a subsidiary of the transport authority. Ferrovial subsidiary Amey ...
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NewsCBTC trials on New York’s Flushing Line
USA: New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has awarded Kawasaki Rail Car an $87·1m contract for 23 new R188 subway cars equipped with communications-based train control; delivery is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2012. The R188 is designed for use on Division A of the New York City Transit network, ...
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NewsMore metro stations opened in Dubai
UAE: A further seven stations entered service on Dubai’s driverless metro network on April 30, taking the total number in operation to 18.The newly-opened Red Line stations are Emirates, Airport Terminal 1, Al Karama, Emirates Towers, Dubai Internet City, Dubai Marina and Ibn Battuta. A further three – GGICO, ...
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NewsWork starts on Praha metro extension
CZECH REPUBLIC: Praha Mayor Pavel Bém, city councillor Radovan Šteiner, Praha Public Transport Co Director General Martin Dvorák and other officials launched work on a 6 km western extension of Praha metro Line A on April 12, by laying a foundation stone at the site of Červený Vrch station. The ...
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NewsShanghai now the world's longest metro
CHINA: The departure of the first train on Shanghai metro Line 10 at 09.00 on April 10 signalled several significant achievements. The start of trial operation on Line 10, exactly 15 years to the day after the inauguration of the first section of Line 1, makes Shanghai's metro network the ...
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NewsEMUs arrive in Izmir
TURKEY: CAF has delivered the first two of 22 three-car air-conditioned EMUs which will work the reconstructed suburban lines from Izmir to Menderes and Aliaga - an 80 km network with 32 stations. The €123m order was placed by Izban, a joint venture of state railway TCDD and Izmir Metropolitan ...
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NewsEntertainment by tram
AUSTRALIA: A 2·8 km western extension of Adelaide's Glenelg tram route from City West to the Entertainment Centre at Hindmarsh opened on March 22. The route is worked by 11 Bombardier Flexity Classic low-floor trams and six recently-acquired Alstom Citadis 302 five-section trams originally built for Madrid's Metro Ligero network. ...
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NewsFirst tram arrives in Edinburgh
UK: On April 27 City of Edinburgh Council Leader Jenny Dawe received a key to the first of 27 low-floor CAF trams that will eventually work the light rail network being developed in the Scottish capital.The seven-module bi-directional tram was transported by road across Europe to Edinburgh in three sections, ...
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NewsBergen Bybanen gets the green light
NORWAY: The first phase of the 9·8 km Bybanen light rail project between Bergen town centre and Nesttun is due to be opened by Queen Sonja on June 22. The government has given its go-ahead for plans to extend the line to Rådal, and the project will now be reviewed ...
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NewsHung Hom station design revealed
CHINA: Atkins has released its preliminary designs for the new station to be built at Hung Hom as part of the Shatin – Central Link project. When SCL is completed in 2019, Hung Hom will become a key interchange to East Rail and West Rail services on MTR’s north-south and ...
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NewsEast London Line reopens
UK: The East London Line was formally inaugurated by Mayor of London Boris Johnson at Dalston Junction station on April 27. Accompanied by Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy, and Managing Director of London Rail Ian Brown, the Mayor travelled to Dalston Junction by train from Shoreditch High Street.Johnson praised Transport for ...
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NewsEdmonton South LRT Extension opens
CANADA: The second and final phase of Edmonton's South LRT Extension opened on April 24, with celebrations at the two new stations and free rides until 18.00. Revenue service began the following day.The first phase of the South LRT Extension opened in April 2009, extending the Edmonton Transit System light ...
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NewsGurgaon metro turnkey contract awarded
INDIA: Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon Ltd has awarded Siemens Mobility a turnkey contract to build a 6·1 km metro line with six stations. The elevated route will link the business and residential district of Gurgaon to Delhi’s metro network at Sikanderpur on Line 2. Siemens is due to hand over the ...
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NewsA Cable Liner with a view
ITALY: Travellers arriving in Venezia by car, bus or cruise ship can now enjoy panoramic views of the city as they travel by cable-hauled shuttle to the main transport hub at Piazzale Roma.An 870 m long automated peoplemover installed by Doppelmayr and Siemens connects the port, car park and other ...
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NewsRiga receives its first ForCity
LATVIA: A Skoda 15T ForCity 100% low-floor articulated tram made its first trial run in Riga on April 15. The three-section unidirectional car, which arrived in the city on March 30, is 31·4 m long and 2 500 mm wide with 60 seats and space for 260 standees. The tram ...
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NewsBarcelona’s driverless metro extended to Badalona
SPAIN: On April 18 the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya José Montilla inaugurated a 3·4 km section of the new automated metro Line 10 between Gorg and Bon Pastor, with intermediate stations at La Salut and Llefià. Services on the initial 4 km section of Line 9 from Can ...