All Metro articles – Page 70
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Metro Report InternationalFortaleza metro construction contract awarded
BRAZIL: The state of Ceará has awarded Spain’s Sacyr Engineering & Infrastructure and Brazilian company Ferreira Guedes a 48-month contract to build Phase 1 of the 12·4 km East Line of the Fortaleza metro within a budget of R$1·47bn. The route from Tirol-Moura Brasil station to the depot located beyond ...
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Metro Report InternationalTrial operation begins on first Urumqi metro line
CHINA: Trial passenger operation on the initial phase of the first metro line in the western city of Urumqi began on July 9. The 16·5 km Line 1 runs entirely underground from Balou in the city centre to the international airport, with 12 stations. CRRC Zhuzhou has supplied 27 Type ...
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Metro Report InternationalAlstom awarded Sydney metro maintenance contract
AUSTRALIA: Metro Trains Sydney has awarded Alstom a 15-year contract to maintain the 22 six-car Metropolis automated trainsets, Urbalis 400 CBTC and point machines which the company is supplying for the 36 km Sydney Metro Northwest project. Alstom is to deploy its HealthHub maintenance platform, which is designed around condition-based ...
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NewsÎle-de-France funds initial Grand Paris fleet
FRANCE: Île-de-France Mobilités confirmed on July 11 that it had allocated €680m to fund 53 driverless metro trains for the initial phases of the Grand Paris Express project. Representing the first tranche of orders expected to be worth up to €1·3bn, the funds cover the purchase of 30 six-car trainsets ...
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Metro Report InternationalTaipei Metro Line 7 railway systems contract awarded
TAIWAN: Taipei City Government’s Department of Rapid Transit Systems has awarded a consortium of Alstom and local engineering and contracting company CTCI the €378m rolling stock and railway systems contract for Taipei Metro Line 7 Phase 1. Announcing the contract on July 10, consortium leader Alstom said its €220m share ...
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Metro Report InternationalContactless ticketing rolled out across Milano metro
ITALY: Milano transport operator ATM introduced account-based contactless bank card ticketing across the metro network on June 29. All 113 stations are now equipped with card readers at ticket gates that accept MasterCard and Visa contactless bank cards. Fares are valid for 90 min after touching in, so can ...
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Metro Report InternationalLagos Blue Line metro agreement
NIGERIA: Alstom has signed a letter of intent to work with Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority on the Blue Line metro project. The ‘head of agreement’ was signed when France’s President Macron visited the France-Nigeria Business Forum in the city on July 4, and a definitive contract is expected to ...
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Metro Report InternationalSiemens to supply Taoyuan Green Line E&M systems
TAIWAN: Siemens is to supply electrical and mechanical systems for the Green Line automated metro project in Taoyuan. The line is to be built under a turnkey contract which the city government has awarded to a consortium of Siemens, local construction company BES Engineering and South Korea rolling stock supplier ...
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NewsFirst Thomson-East Coast Line train arrives in Singapore
SINGAPORE: The first Thomson-East Coast Line train has arrived at Mandai Depot near the northern end of the line after being unloaded at Jurong Port. Land Transport Authority ordered 91 four-car driverless trainsets from a consortium of Kawasaki Heavy Industries and CSR Qingdao Sifang in 2014 under a S$749m ...
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Metro Report InternationalDalian metro Line 2 extended
CHINA: A one-station extension of Dalian metro Line 2 was inaugurated on June 28. The 3·1 km underground extension runs from Dalian Airport to Xinzhaizi, where interchange will be provided with the future Line 4. Line 2 is now 25·8 km long with 21 stations. The first ...
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Metro Report InternationalElizabeth Line maintenance trains on test
UK: Three maintenance trains for the Elizabeth Line are being tested ahead of delivery to London later this year. Linsinger is testing an MG31 UK rail milling train between Salzburg and Linz. The 48 m long vehicle assembled at Linsinger’s Steyrermühl factory in Austria will be transported by road ...
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NewsWarszawa tests increased metro frequencies
POLAND: Metro Warszawskie tested running Line 1 trains at 2 min headways during the morning peak on June 27. The operator expects that extending the east-west Line 2 at both ends would generate more ridership not only on that line, but on the north-south Line 1 as well. It ...
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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 ...