IRAN: The Tehran metro started running to Mehrabad Airport on March 15, when a branch of Line 4 opened with a station serving Terminals 1 & 2 and one serving Terminals 4 & 6.
The 2·8 km branch runs southwest from a new station at Bimeh, between Meydan-e Azadi and Sharak-e Ekbatan. A shuttle service operates from Bimeh using three-car trainsets with additional luggage space.
The branch was built by Boland Payeh Co under an EPC contract. Test running began on January 10.
IRAN: President Hassan Rouhani attended the opening ceremony for an extension of Mashhad metro Line 1 on February 6. Running southeast from Ghadir to Hashemi Nejad Airport with an intermediate station at Parvaz, the 6 km extension cost €206m to build, which was financed by Mashhad Urban Railway Corp. ...
IRAN: An 18 km extension of Tehran metro Line 3 opened by President Hassan Rouhani and Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on September 22, bringing the southwest-northeast route to 37 km. The new section runs northeast from Shahid Beheshti, where interchange is provided with Line 1, to Ghaem. Of the ...
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 ...
