CANADA: Toronto Transit Commission has ordered 10 more six-car Rocket metro trainsets from Bombardier Transportation.
The C$160m contract is an option on orders in 2006 and 2010 that total 420 cars. These are being built at Bombardier’s Thunder Bay factory, and the first entered service on the Yonge-University Line in mid-2011.
The trainsets have a crush-load capacity of nearly 1 200 passengers and a maximum speed of 88 km/h.
CANADA: The first of 420 new Rocket subway cars being built for Toronto Transit Commission by Bombardier will enter revenue service on the Yonge-University line in June, according to TTC. The first four cars have been undergoing testing for several months, and more are now being delivered from Bombardier’s ...
CANADA: Spanish infrastructure group FCC has been awarded a €304m contract to build a 4·5 km section of the planned 8·6 km northwestern extension of Toronto’s Yonge — University — Spadina subway line. Expected to open in 2015, the extension runs from Downsview to Vaughan Corporate Centre in the regional ...
CANADA: Greater Toronto transport agency Metrolinx awarded Bombardier Transportation a C$770m order for a 182 Flexity light rail vehicles in June 14, immediately after the provincial government announced approval of Metrolinx's C$8·1bn '5 in 10' revised programme to complete five major transport projects in 10 years rather than eight ...
