RUSSIA: The City of Moscow awarded Ust-Katav Car Plant a 1·1bn rouble contract to supply 67 trams on January 29. Deliveries are scheduled to be completed by October 1.
The single-car trams will be 16 m long with space for 125 passengers. They will be 35% low-floor, to provide access for passengers with limited mobility.
RUSSIA: Moscow City Government's transport department has selected a consortium of Uralvagonzavod and Bombardier Transportation for a contract to supply 120 low-floor trams to modernise the capital's extensive tram network. After an earlier bidding process was cancelled in mid-2012, a second call for tenders was announced in October, with bids ...
USA: Automatic train operation has resumed on the Washington DC metro after a 15 year gap. ATO was installed when the metro opened in 1976, but it was turned off following a fatal collision in June 2009. This was caused by a track circuit failure that ...
USA: New York MTA has approved a $1·27bn firm order for a further 435 Kawasaki Rail Car R211 Subway cars, including 80 R211T cars with open gangways. This takes the total number of R211 cars ordered under the 2018 framework agreement to 1 610, of which ...
