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route for the proposed City Rail Link (CRL), which will extend the existing suburban line underground to create a new link under the city centre. The CRL will comprise a 3.5km tunnel running from Britomart under Albert, Vincent and Pitt Streets, then beneath Karangahape Road and the Central Motorway Junction before rising to join the western line at a triangular junction near Mount Eden. Stations are planned at Aotea, Karangahape Road, and Newton on the new line, with a new Inner West Interchange station on the western line south of Dominion Road. The section between Britomart and Aotea will use cut-and-cover construction, while the remainder of the new line will run in twin-bore tunnels at depths of up to 45m, which will be excavated
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UCKLAND Transport has unveiled the preferred
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using tunnel boring machines. The total cost of the CRL is expected to be around $NZ 2.23bn ($US 1.79bn), including $NZ 259m for the acquisition of additional emus and $NZ 108m for associated improvements to existing infrastructure. Auckland Transport will
Korean city opens automatic light metro
start consultation with local property owners this year and start formal planning processes to designate the land required. Planning will take three years, and construction would take around five years to complete. Auckland Transport hopes to commission the link in 2020-21.
awarded Strukton Rail two new contracts to maintain infrastructure on the 106km Stockholm metro network and the 65km narrow-gauge Roslagsbanan. Strukton already provides
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infrastructure maintenance services on these lines, but under the new contract it will assume overall responsibility for maintenance of signalling systems, power supply, and track. Strukton will also take
HE first automatic light metro using Siemens’ Val system opened on July 2 in the Korean city of Uijeongbu, 20km north of Seoul. Line 1, which is U-shaped and elevated, is 11km long and has 15 stations. There is an interchange with Line 1 of the Seoul metro at Hoeryong. The line will be operated automatically without drivers enabling services to be provided for 20 hours a day. Trains will run at 205-second intervals with the objective of
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carrying 3400 passengers per hour per direction. The line is expected to carry 32 million passengers a year rising to 55 million by 2040, and two extensions are planned. The line has been
constructed as a PPP. Siemens was the main contractor for the turnkey project, with GS, Korea, responsible for the civil works. Siemens supplied a fleet of 15 two-car Val 208 NG trains, and was responsible for the train control system, the control centre, and the depot.
with Russian rolling stock supplier Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) to jointly develop and market metro and light rail vehicles for customers in Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
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Yekaterinburg by Russia’s prime minister Mr Dmitry Medvedev, Bombardier president Mr André Navarri, and Mr Oleg Sienko, CEO of UVZ.
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OMBARDIER has signed cooperation agreements
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The line will double the number of people able to reach a city station within 30 minutes. The journey time between New Lynn and Aotea will be reduced from 51 to 23 minutes, while Manukau Centre - Karangahape Road will fall from 1h 1min to 42 minutes.
SL awards Stockholm maintenance contract
over several functions previously managed by SL, including infrastructure inspection, long-term investment and maintenance planning, and monitoring of some CCTV systems. A number of SL employees will transfer to Strukton under the new arrangements. The new contracts will run for a minimum of five years from 2013, and the deal will be worth SKr 3bn ($US 447m) if SL exercises options to extend the term to nine years.
Bombardier and UVZ sign urban rail deal
developed under the partnership will be designed to meet the needs of operators such as Moscow Metro, which is set to invest heavily in new trains over the next decade as it renews its fleet and expands
its network. Bombardier also announced last month that it has signed an agreement with CSR Puzhen, China, to licence a variant of its Flexity 2 LRV. The 10-year licence will allow CSR Puzhen to build and sell 100% low-floor LRVs throughout China.
IRJ August 2012
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