Transit news
CONSORTIUM of CAF and Thales has won a $US 451.86m contract from Santiago metro to supply and maintain trains and install communications-based train control (CBTC) on two metro lines under construction in the Chilean capital. CAF, Spain, will supply 115 cars for the new 22.1km Line 3 and 70 cars for Line 6 which will be 15.3km long, while Thales will install CBTC to
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allow the automatic operation of both lines. This part of the contract is worth $US 336.45m while the train maintenance contract makes up the remaining $US 19.1m. Each car will be able to accommodate 260 passengers. Trains will be air-conditioned, and fitted with a passenger information system and CCTV. CAF and Thales say their
offer received the highest number of points in the
technical evaluation of the bids. The other bidders were Alstom, the Rápido 63 consortium of Hyundai and Ansaldo STS, a Japanese consortium of Hitachi and Mitsubishi, and Siemens. Santiago metro has also awarded a joint venture of Arcadis and WorleyParsons a $US 11m contract to provide engineering consultancy services for station design on Line 3.
Montreal unveils first Azur metro train
Taipei inaugurates metro Xinyi Line
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HE president of Taiwan Mr Ma Ying-jeou and the
mayor of Taipei Mr Hau Lung- bin inaugurated Taipei’s MRT Xinyi Line on November 24, nearly eight years after the start of construction. The 6.4km underground line operates an extension of the north-south Tamsui Line, running east from Chiang Kai- shek Memorial Hall to serve Dongmen, Daan Forest Park, Taipei 101/World Trade Center, and Xiangshan. Taiwan Rapid Transit Corporation (TRTC) says aesthetics were a key consideration in the design of the stations, and each of the five stations has a theme which reflects the characteristics of the surrounding area.
The opening of the Xinyi Line is expected to take ridership on the TRTC network to more than 1.8 million passengers per day.
Germany to fund Strasbourg cross- border LRT link
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HE first of 468 new- generation Azur metro cars being built by a consortium of Bombardier and Alstom for Montreal public transport company STM was formally presented to representatives of the government of Quebec and the City of Montreal at Bombardier’s La Pocatière plant in Quebec on November 25.
HE board of Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) voted on November 21 to exercise an option for an additional 365 metro cars from Bombardier as part of its “fleet of the future” programme, taking the total number of vehicles on order to 775.
Bart says the decision to 10 Quebec premier Mrs Pauline
Marois and the mayor of Montreal Mr Denis Coderre took the controls of the first completed train for a run along the plant’s test track. The first vehicles will be
delivered to Montreal in the next few months, and the entire fleet is due to be in service by 2018. The introduction of the nine-car
exercise the option will save around $US 128m because it includes an agreement with Bombardier to accelerate delivery by 21 months and provide five vehicles free-of- charge. The new trains will completely replace Bart’s existing fleet of 669 vehicles. The first of the new trains
sets will allow STM to gradually withdraw its fleet of MR-63 trains, which date back to the opening of the first phase of the network in 1966. The new trains will accommodate 8% more passengers than the MR-63s. The Azur name was selected from more than 6000
suggestions submitted by STM employees and the public.
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from the initial order, which was placed in June 2012, is due to arrive within two years, with the remainder scheduled for delivery between early 2017 and 2021. The vehicles will be assembled at Bombardier’s plant in Plattsburgh, New York, with at least 60% localised content.
ERMAN transport minister Dr Peter
Ramsauer announced on December 9 that the German federal government will provide a ƒ19m grant towards the extension of the Strasbourg light rail network across the river Rhine to Kehl, Germany. The project involves extending Line D 3.9km beyond its existing eastern terminus at Aristide Briande through the port of Strasbourg and across the river on a new bridge to serve Kehl mainline station, before terminating outside the town hall. The total cost of the extension will be around ƒ93m, including ƒ28m for the new bridge, which will also provide a new pedestrian and cycle route between Kehl and Strasbourg. The 1.7km German section of the line will cost ƒ44m. Trams are due to begin
running to Kehl station in mid- 2016, with the final section to the town hall scheduled for completion in 2017.
IRJ January 2014
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