FRANCE: Alstom has signed a framework contract with Lyon transport authority Sytral for the supply of Citadis trams.
The initial €40m firm order covers 11 trams to operate on Route T4. The first vehicle is due to be delivered at the end of 2019. Final assembly will take place at Alstom’s La Rochelle factory.
The 100% low-floor vehicles will be 43 m long with capacity for 300 passengers. They will be equipped with air-conditioning, CCTV and audio-visual passenger information.
FRANCE: Lyon tram route T6 was inaugurated on November 22. The 6·7 km route has been built as an end-on eastern extension of route T1. Running from Debourg, where interchange is provided with metro Line B, to Hôpitaux Est-Pinel, T6 serves 14 stops and offers an end-to-end ...
FRANCE: Announcing details of Sytral’s Avenir Metro programme at a press conference on April 3, President Annie Guillemot unveiled the design of the future metro trainsets ordered from Alstom for deployment on metro lines B and D. Insisting that ‘investment is a top priority’ for Sytral, she explained that the ...
FRANCE: Lyon transport authority Sytral has awarded Alstom a €91m contract to upgrade signalling for driverless operation on two lines of the Lyon metro. Alstom will supply its Urbalis 400 CBTC to Line B, which is due to be converted to driverless operation at the end of 2019. It ...
