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China approves 22 urban rail projects Sound Transit breaks ground on Seattle
C HINA’s National
Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced on September 5 that it has approved plans for 22 urban rail projects. The list includes the first
three lines of the Shijiazhuang metro network, which is expected to account for 30% of all public transport trips in the city by 2020. Line 1 will be 23.9km long with 21 stations and will be completed by 2016 at a cost of Yuan 16.7bn ($US 2.6bn). Construction will begin in 2015 on Line 2, which will be 16.2km long with 17 stations. The Yuan 11.5bn project will be completed by 2020. The Yuan 14bn Line 3 will be 19.5km long with 15 stations, and construction will start in 2013 with commissioning scheduled for 2018.
In Suzhou, Line 2 will be extended by 15.6km with 13 stations at a cost of Yuan 9.9bn, while the NDRC has
also approved the 11.1km western extension of Line 4. Hangzhou will add a second line to its metro network at a cost of Yuan 22bn (including rolling stock), while Changchun will start construction soon on the 20.5km, Yuan 12.8bn Line 2, which will be completely underground with 17 stations. The NDRC has approved Guangzhou Line 7 (18.6km, Yuan 9.5bn), and the Yuan 11bn Chengdu Line 3, which will run underground for 20km with 15 stations. The city will also extend Line 1 to the south at a cost of Yuan 4bn. Ningbo will extend the east- west Line 1 by 23.5km east to Changjiang Road with eight new stations in a Yuan 7bn investment.
The NDRC has approved Qingdao metro Line 2, which will be 29.7km long with a 27.6km underground section. The Yuan 17.6bn line will have 27 stations, all but one
of them underground, and construction is expected to take five years.
The rapid expansion of the Shenzhen metro is set to continue with the construction of the Yuan 25.5bn, 30.3km Line 7 from Nanshan to Luohu, and the 51.7km Line 11, an express line with 17 stations, 13 of which will be underground. Tianjin will start work on Line 5, a Yuan 25.8bn, 33.6km line with 28 stations which will take four years to build. The 56.1km Line 6, a Yuan 39.8bn project, has also been approved.
Xian has been given the go- ahead to build the 38.4km Metro Line 3 at a cost of Yuan 18bn. The 24-station line will have a 26.7km underground section and an 11km elevated section.
In addition, the NDRC has
approved further urban rail projects in Taiyuan, Lanzhou, and Xiamen.
Dijon inaugurates first light rail line
site of the future Roosevelt station in Seattle on August 17 to mark the start of construction on Sound Transit’s Northgate Link, a 6.9km light rail extension from Husky Stadium to Northgate. The $US 2.1bn extension
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will run mostly underground, serving one of the most congested transport corridors in the region. Work is initially focusing on demolition in the Roosevelt area, and Sound Transit will award a contract next year for the construction of the twin-bore 6km tunnel from just north of Roosevelt station to University of Washington station. Tunnelling will begin in 2014 and the line will open in 2021. The Northgate Link will operate 20 hours a day, offering a 14-minute journey time between Northgate and the city centre.
Quito Metro Line 1 studies complete
completed technical studies for the first metro line in the Ecuadorian capital Quito. Tendering is already
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underway on the initial phase of the project and preliminary construction is due to start in November. Construction of the 22km tunnel should start in August 2013 and the 15-station line will open in 2016. The line is expected to carry 400,000 passengers per day, with a journey time of around 30 minutes between the two termini.
Photo: Erkethan T 10
HE FRENCH city of Dijon inaugurated its first light rail line on September 1, with a weekend of free rides preceding the start of full services on September 3. Line T1 has 17 stations and
runs for 8.5km from Dijon’s mainline station in the west to Quetigny Centre in the east.
A second 11.5km line, T2, will open on December 8 linking a park-and-ride station at Valmy with the city centre and Chênove, sharing tracks with Line T1 on the central section between République and Foch.
Alstom has supplied a fleet of 33 Citadis 302 low-floor
LRVs, which were procured in a joint contract with the city of Brest, signed in September 2009. Each 32.7m-long bi- directional vehicle seats 48 passengers, with 152 standees. The two lines will be operated by Keolis and are expected to carry up to 85,000 passengers per day.
Half of the $US 1.38bn budget is being financed by international institutions including the European Investment Bank, the Latin American Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. The remaining funds will come from the municipality and from loans provided by the Ecuadorian Social Security Bank, and from suppliers.
IRJ October 2012
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