All Metro articles – Page 231
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Angers confirms light rail plan
MAYOR OF Angers Jean-Claude Antonini announced on February 10 that the city had decided to adopt steel-wheeled technology for its north-south light rail line, after a study found that rubber-tyred alternatives were insufficiently proven. The 16th largest city in France hopes to get planning approval for the 12 km route ...
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NewsRubin moves into testing phase
Germany's first fully-automatic metro is on course to open in 12 months' time. After seven years of studies and development work, the first trainset has already started trial running in Nürnberg
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Shenzhen opens two lines
CONFETTI-GUN salutes and loud cheers greeted the opening of China's latest metro on December 28, when Guangdong Party Secretary Zhang Dejiang inaugurated the first two lines in Shenzhen. Under construction since March 2001, the 21·8 km first phase has cost 11·5bn yuan. Line 1 runs east-west from the KCR border ...
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NewsIndustry divided by screen door debate
ONE OF THE biggest questions facing metro operators considering the conversion to automation is how to ensure safety at station platforms and/or detect obstructions on the track. The UITP metros conference in Nürnberg included a round table on the use of platform screen doors. Opening the debate, Holger Albert from ...
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Automation by stealth
CHINA: This year Hong Kong MTR Corp will open its seventh line, and the first to be fully-automated. The 3·4km Disneyland Resort Line (DRL) will connect the Hong Kong Disneyland theme park at Penny’s Bay on the south coast of Lantau Island with the new Sunny Bay station on the ...
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Moscow opens Expo monorail
DEMONSTRATION services began running on Russia's first monorail on November 20, following the award of an operating certificate earlier in the month. According to Moscow Deputy Mayor Petr Aksenov, revenue service on the 8·6 km elevated line will start early in 2005. Connecting Timiryazevskaya metro station in the north of ...
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MTR branches out
ON DECEMBER 3 Hong Kong MTR Corp signed a formal agreement to build and operate Beijing metro Line 4, which is due to open in time for the 2008 Olympics. MTRC is taking a 49% stake in the project, as will the state-owned Beijing Capital Group; the remaining 2% will ...
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LA awards Gold Line contract
LOS ANGELES Metropolitan Transportation Authority has awarded a $600m contract to Eastside LRT Constructors for construction of the 9·6 km East Los Angeles extension of the Gold Line. The deal was signed by MTA CEO Roger Snoble on June 1, following the approval of a $491m Full Funding Grant Agreement ...
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Estram arrives in Eskisehir
The Turkish city of Eskisehir will get its first light rail services this month, with the opening of the 16·2 km Estram network
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Gold Line to grow
PUBLIC consultation began last month on plans to extend the Los Angeles Gold Line east from Pasadena to Montclair. This would follow the 9·6 km extension from Union Station to East Los Angeles, on which work is expected to begin this year. A Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Foothill ...
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Property deal will fund Tehran Line 4
A US$836m contract for construction of Tehran Metro Line 4 was signed on May 15 by the Managing Director of Tehran Urban & Suburban Railway Co, Mohsen Hashemi, and the Managing Director of China North Industries Corp, in the presence of the city's Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Norinco was selected ...
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Safetram addresses crashworthiness of trams and light rail vehicles
An EU-funded three-year research programme to develop cost-effective structural safety improvements for trams and light rail vehicles has produced two modular bodyshell designs
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Urban rail news in brief - May 2004
Argentina: The contract to build the 2·9 km extension of metro Line A from Primera Junta to Nazca (RG 4.04 p186) was signed in Buenos Aires on April 12. Civil works began 10 days later, with new stations expected to open at Pu? n and Carabobo in 2007 and at ...
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Darling launches light rail NET
SECRETARY of State for Transport Alistair Darling and the Lord Mayor of Nottingham Brent Charlesworth joined the ceremonies on March 8 to mark the completion of the UK's latest light rail network. Revenue services on Nottingham Express Transit Line 1 began at 06.00 the following morning. The 14 km ...
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Beijing metro accords
CONSTRUCTION of a fourth heavy metro line in Beijing is to be undertaken by a private-sector consortium including Hong Kong MTRCorp, which recently signed a concession in Shenzhen (RG 2.04 p65). The Chairman of Beijing Capital Group Liu Xiaoguang revealed on March 4 that the company had reached an agreement ...
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Kinetic energy storage wins acceptance
The ability of KESS to support line voltage, regenerate braking energy and provide uninterrupted supplies at stations has now been demonstrated on urban railways in London, New York, Lyon and Tokyo
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Addis Abeba plans interurban light rail
PROPOSALS are being developed for a 100 km rapid transit link between Addis Abeba and Nazareth to relieve transport problems in the Ethiopian capital. Public transport patronage has increased by 43% since 1986, with local buses now handling more than 600000 passengers a day. Although described as light rail, the ...
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Lausanne to join the automated metro club
Construction of Switzerland's first driverless metro is now expected to start in the spring
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NewsThird-rail trams across the Garonne
France's ninth modern tram network began carrying passengers in December, and work is getting underway on the first of seven extensions. Chris Jackson looks at Bordeaux's innovative surface-contact power supply
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West Rail opens to passengers
FULL COMMERCIAL service on Hong Kong's West Rail was due to start at 14.00 on December 20, after a formal opening ceremony had taken place that morning at Kam Sheung Road station. KCRC Chairman Michael Tien announced the opening date on December 12 following six weeks of fault-free ghost ...