Transit news Beijing metro expansion continues
Sydney to lease Velez-Malaga’s CAF LRVs
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HE first phase of Beijing Metro Line 14 opened on May 5 with the start of commercial services on the 12.4km section from an interchange with Line 10 at Xiju to Zhanggouzhuang station in the southwestern district of Fengtai.
The new line is operated by Beijing MTR Corporation, a joint venture between MTR Corporation, Beijing Capital Group, and Beijing
Istanbul invites bids for Line M6 trains
Directorate invites bids from individual companies by July 15 for a fleet of 21 six-car trains for operation on the new Line M6 which is being built as the second metro line on the Asian side of the city.
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The driverless trains, which must be in service by 2015, will have wide inter-car gangways. The trains must have 15% Turkish content apart from the first two sets. The 20km Line M6, which will be entirely underground, is being built from Üsküdar, where it will connect with the Marmaray rail link under the Bosphorus, via Ümraniye to Çekmeköy and will have 16 stations. A ƒ563.9m contract was awarded in March 2012 to Dogus Insaat ve Ticaret and work started on the project later that month. The line is scheduled to open in May 2015.
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Infrastructure Investment Corporation which already runs Line 4 and the Daxing Line. The initial phase has seven stations, including Garden Expo Park (pictured), which will serve the 9th China International Garden Expo, which opened on May 18. Civil works began in 2010 and the line was built by Beijing Infrastructure Investment Corporation. Beijing MTR is responsible for
LSTOM unveiled the first completed Metropolis train for Chennai metro last month at its Lapa plant in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Chennai Metro Rail placed a
ƒ243m order with Alstom in 2010 for 42 four-car 25kV ac trains, which will enter service on the initial 45.1km two-line phase in 2014-15.
The first train was due to arrive in Chennai at the beginning of this month and will undergo a four-month
ATAR Rail has signed a design-build contract with a consortium led by Impregilo, Italy, for the Red Line North section of the Doha metro network.
The contract covers the
construction of the 13km stretch of the Red Line from Mushaireb to Education City, which will have seven stations. The line will run in
electrical and mechanical systems as well as rolling stock under a PPP concession, which includes a 30-year operating term. This contract is worth around Yuan 15bn ($US 2.4bn), about 30% of the total cost of the project. When it is completed in 2016, Line 14 will stretch for 47.3km from Zhanggouzhuang in the west to Shangezhuang in the northeastern district of Chaoyang.
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programme of testing and commissioning.
The first nine trains are being built at Lapa, while the remaining 33 sets will be assembled at the new Sri City facility in Tamil Nadu, Alstom’s first rolling stock assembly plant in India. Alstom has trained 65 Indian staff in Brazil in preparation for the transfer, and assembly is now underway on the first domestically-produced vehicles.
two parallel 6.17m-diameter tunnels. Impregilo has a 41.25%
HE council of Velez- Malaga has approved plans to lease three CAF Urbos 2 LRVs, acquired as part of the Spanish town’s abandoned light rail project, to Sydney for use on the Metro Light Rail line, which is currently being extended. The Velez-Malaga light rail line was the first modern tram system in Andalusia, but it closed in June 2012 after just six years of operation because of the town’s inability to fund an annual operating deficit of more than ƒ1.6m over a total budget of ƒ2.6m.
The council now expects to
recover more than ƒ280,000 per year with the lease, which will be carried out with CAF acting as intermediary. However Velez-Malaga will be left with a bill of ƒ600,000 per year to cover the amortization costs of the fleet. In August 2012 CAF was
awarded a contract worth around ƒ15m to supply six new and four leased LRVs to Sydney, three of which will come from Velez-Malaga. The total cost of
construction and rolling stock for the 4.7km line amounted to more than ƒ40m, and its break-even point was calculated at 1.14 million passengers per year in a town with less than 80,000 inhabitants.
Although ridership reached 900,000 in 2007, demand plummeted as the economic situation worsened and the system carried less than 700,000 passengers in its final year of operation.
Contract signed for Doha metro Red Line North Q
share in the consortium, which also includes SK Engineering & Construction and Galfar Engineering & Construction. Impregilo says the contract is worth ƒ1.7bn, which includes ƒ630m for planning and civil works and ƒ1.1bn for preparatory works, electrical
and mechanical systems, and architectural works at the five intermediate stations. The stations at Mushaireb and Education City will be constructed by a consortium led by Yapi Merkezi, Turkey under a separate contract. Jacobs Engineering, United States, has been appointed as engineering manager for the project.
IRJ June 2013
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