THE Finnish City of Tampere has signed an agreement with Pöyry, YIT and VR Track to implement the city’s €238.8m light rail project, with the Finnish government funding 70% of the infrastructure cost.
Rio de Janeiro was set to open the next phase of the Porto Maravilha light rail network as IRJ went to press, and as Kevin Smith reports, it is already proving a successful legacy project of the 2016 Olympic Games.
THE government of the German state of Saxony has allocated Leipzig City Transport (LVB) €7.3m to fund 50% of an order for nine Solaris Tramino LRVs.
SPANISH engineering consultancy IDOM has completed a feasibility study into the construction of a 21km light rail line in Guatemala City.
THE first Silkworm low-floor LRV for the initial phase of the light rail network in the Songiang district of Shanghai was delivered on November 21 in readiness for the start of testing on Line T2.
GLASGOW City Council announced on November 24 that it has set out proposals to build a direct tram-train link between Glasgow Airport, Paisley, and Glasgow city centre.
THE mayor of the Czech city of Ostrava Mr Tomáš Macura announced on November 22 that Stadler has been selected as preferred bidder for a Koruna 1.4bn ($US 55m) contract to supply 40 low-floor LRVs to the city’s public transport operator DPO.
THE first of 15 Warrior low-floor LRVs being built for the Danhai light rail network in New Taipei City was unveiled at the Taiwan Rolling Stock Company (TRSC) plant at Hukou on November 16.
POLISH tram manufacturer Modertrans unveiled its first 100% low-floor tram, the Moderus Gamma, at its plant in Poznan on November 18.
BRITAIN’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (Raib) has published an interim report into a fatal accident at 06.07 on November 9 involving an LRV which derailed and overturned on the approach to Sandilands Junction on the Croydon Tramlink network south of London.
