Transit news Hangzhou opens first metro line
Ecuador secures EIB loan for Quito metro
UROPEAN Investment Bank vice-president Mrs Magdalena Álavarez Arza and Mr William Vásconez, undersecretary for public finances for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Finance signed a $US 260m loan agreement in Luxembourg on November 29 which will finance the construction of the first metro line in Ecuador’s capital city Quito.
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HE Chinese city of Hangzhou launched
commercial operations on its first metro line on November 24, when the governor of Zhejiang province Mr Xia Baolong officially inaugurated the 48km Line 1 in a ceremony at Wulin Square station. Construction began in March 2007 on the 31-station line,
ARSEN & Toubro, the Indian contractor
which links Linping in the north with Wulin Square in the city centre and Xianghu in the south. The Yuan 22bn ($US 3.53bn)
project has been implemented as a PPP and the line is operated by the Hangzhou MTR joint venture, which comprises MTR Corporation (49%) and Hangzhou Metro
Thales will supply its
Group Company (51%). The joint venture is
responsible for the mechanical and electrical element of the project including the rolling stock which equates to an investment of Yuan 8.3bn. CSR Puzhen has supplied a fleet of 48 six-car trains for Line 1 styled by MBD Design, France.
responsible for construction of the initial phase of the Hyderabad metro has awarded Thales a contract worth around Rs 7.4bn ($US 134.3m) to provide CBTC and integrated communications and supervision systems on all three lines.
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This will be the first commercial CBTC deployment in India, covering the whole phase 1 network totalling 71km, which is due to be completed by 2017.
HE City of Ottawa announced on December
SelTrac CBTC technology, and trains will initially run in automatic train operation mode with minimum headways of 90 seconds, although the system will support eventual migration to unattended train operation. The first stage of Line 1 is due to open in March 2015 and further sections will be commissioned at roughly three-month intervals to complete the first phase by December 2017.
The network is being built
5 that it will recommend the Rideau Transit Group consortium as preferred bidder for the contract to design, build, finance, and maintain the city’s first modern light rail line, to be named the Confederation Line. The consortium, including ACS Infrastructure Canada,
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Dragados, SNC-Lavalin, EllisDon, Veolia, and Alstom, has submitted a $C2.1bn ($US 2.1bn) fixed-price bid for the project, which involves building a 12.5km line from Tunney’s Pasture in the west of the city to Blair in the east, with a 2.5km tunnel beneath the city centre. The line will have 13 stations, and services will operate at minimum
by Larsen & Toubro under a 35-year design, build, finance, operate and maintain PPP contract awarded by the Andhra Pradesh state government in September 2010. The metro will be operated and maintained by Keolis, and Hyundai Rotem will supply the train fleet. Thales has also confirmed that it is bidding for the contract to supply automatic fare collection systems in Hyderabad and for CBTC provision on the third phase of the Delhi metro network.
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headways of 1min 45sec. Alstom will supply 30 49m- long Citadis low-floor LRVs which will accommodate up to 300 passengers. Subject to approval by the council, the contract is due to be signed in February. Construction will be completed in October 2017 and commercial services are expected to start in May 2018.
Spanish construction group Acciona Infrastructure was awarded the phase 1 contract for the 22.5km line at the beginning of November and preliminary construction works are now underway at several locations in the city. The phase 2 contract is currently being tendered and covers construction of tunnels, 13 of the 15 stations, and electrical and mechanical systems. Tunnelling work is due to begin next August and the line will open in the third quarter of 2016.
Casablanca light rail line inaugurated
Casablanca’s first light rail line on December 12. The 31km line links Casablanca’s eastern and southwestern suburbs with the city centre and has 48 stations.
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Alstom has supplied 74 Citadis LRVs. The 64m-long double units are able to carry 606 passengers, while the line has the capacity for 250,000 passengers a day. Services will run at 4min 45s intervals during peak periods, reducing to 8min 30s headways off-peak. Alstom was also responsible for the power supply and signalling which will give LRVs 75% priority over road vehicles at intersections.
The line will be operated by Casa Tram headed by RATP Dev in partnership with Moroccan Deposit and Management Fund and Transinvest. Casa Tram has contracted Alstom to maintain both the vehicles and the infrastructure.
IRJ January 2013
ING Mohammed VI of Morocco inaugurated
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