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Transportation Authority (MTA) says that extending the 7 Subway line beneath the Hudson River from Manhattan to New Jersey is viable, less than a year after the project was dismissed by the then MTA chairman Mr Joe Lhota. The No 7 Secaucus
Extension Feasibility Analysis Final Report, carried out by Parsons Brinckerhoff, states: “The extension of the 7 Subway would result in the first trans-Hudson tunnel connection that would provide direct rail access from New Jersey, not only to the West Side of Manhattan, but also to the East Side and multiple locations in Queens. It would provide needed capacity
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across the Hudson River and advance the broader goal of enhancing regional connectivity.” According to the report,
the project meets many of the objectives of the Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) commuter rail tunnel cancelled in October 2010 and would help to accommodate sustained growth in trans-Hudson traffic, which is forecast to increase by 38% by 2030. The proposed Jersey extension would run from 11th Avenue/West 34th Street, currently under construction as part of the extension from Times Square, through new tunnels under the Hudson and the Palisades to reach an interchange with NJ Transit and Amtrak Northeast
Salt Lake City makes Trax for the airport
Corridor services at Secaucus Junction, New Jersey. The journey time between Secaucus and 34th Street would be eight minutes, while Grand Central would be reached within 15 minutes. The study suggests daily ridership on the extension would reach around 128,000 passengers in both directions in 2035. Some of these will be existing rail passengers although the line is also expected to attract significant traffic from ferries and cars. No capital costs have been given for the project, and the study says these would be developed at the next stage of analysis, the advanced planning phase, together with a refined engineering design and construction schedule.
Fast metro link for new Beijing Airport
N EXPRESS metro is to be constructed from Beijing South station to the Chinese capital’s new airport which will be built in the southern district of Daxing. The line will be 37km long with a journey time of 30 minutes. Construction of the Yuan 70bn ($US 11.3bn) airport is due to start next year and should be completed in 2018. It will have six runways for commercial flights and a seventh for military use. The airport is forecast to carry 45 million passengers a year initially, rising to 70 million by 2025 and will relieve Beijing Capital airport which handled 82 million passengers last year and is expected to reach saturation within two years.
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ARAGOZA celebrated the opening of the final phase of a 6.9km extension of its first light rail line on March 26 after four years of work and an investment of ƒ400m.
The latest section of Line 1 to open is the 5.2km stretch from Plaza de Pilar Murallas to Avenida de la Academia and follows previous extensions of 816m from Gran Vía to Plaza de España which opened in October 2012 and an 844m
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ALT Lake City inaugurated the latest phase of its Trax light rail network on April 13, when a free preview service gave residents their first chance to travel on the 9.7km line to Salt Lake International Airport.
Commercial services began the following day on the six- station line, and initially operate at 15-minute intervals on weekdays and 20 minutes at weekends with a journey time of around 20 minutes. The Airport Trax service operates as an extension of the existing Green Line, running
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from Arena station in the city centre and following North Temple through the western suburbs of the city to reach the airport station, which is sited just east of Terminal 1. Ridership is initially expected to be around 4600 passengers per day, increasing to 10,000 per day by 2015 and 14,000 per day by 2030. The $US 235m project is one of the final phases of Utah Transit Authority’s Front Lines 2015 programme, which was launched in 2006 to expand the light rail and commuter rail networks by 112km.
HE mayor of Nice Mr Christian Estrosi has confirmed that the French city plans to complete the first phase of its second light rail line by 2017. The 11.3km Line T2 will
link Airport Terminal 2 and Nikaia Administrative Centre in the west with Jean Médicin in the city centre. In order to minimise the impact of construction in the city centre and offer shorter journey times, the eastern end of the line will be in tunnel with underground stations at Alsace Lorraine and Jean Médicin, which will be an interchange with Line 1. Around 210,000 people live or work within 500m of the 17 stations, and the line is
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section to César Augusto and Plaza del Pilar which opened in December.
Line 1 includes a 3.2km catenary-free stretch in the city’s historical centre between Gran Vía and La Chimenea. The second phase of Line 1 adds 14 stations to the 11 on the inaugural 5.9km stretch which opened in April 2011 and runs north from Mago do Oz to Plaza Aragon in the city centre.
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expected to carry around 80,000 passengers per day. The journey time between the airport and Jean Médicin will be 26 minutes. The ƒ650m project is fully funded, with ƒ52.8m coming from the French government, ƒ50m from the Alpes- Maritimes General Council, ƒ26m from the Provence- Alpes-Côte d’Azur regional government, and up to ƒ12.6m from the airport operator. Preliminary construction will begin at the end of this year, and excavation of the access shafts to the underground stations will begin in mid- 2014. Commissioning of the first phase is scheduled for late 2017.
IRJ May 2013
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