MIAMI-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organisation (MPO) adopted a resolution on April 21 endorsing the Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (Smart) plan, which envisages the construction of six new urban rail lines in Miami-Dade County.

SIEMENS delivered the last of 60 Avenio low-floor LRVs for The Hague Tramways (HTM) to the Netherlands on April 22.

TRAMS returned to Birmingham New Street station for the first time since the early 1950s in the early hours of April 24, when a CAF Urbos LRV was used for the first test run on the newly-completed section of the Midland Metro from Bull Street to Stephenson Street.

A 1.8km southern extension of Strasbourg light rail Line A from Lixenbuhl to Illkirch-Graffenstaden was inaugurated on April 23.

THE City of Calgary announced on April 18 that an underground alignment has emerged as the most viable option for the city centre section of the LRT Green Line in the first stage of evaluation for the core part of the project.

POLISH public transport operator MPK Poznan has awarded local tram builder Modertrans a contract to supply 10 additional Moderus Beta vehicles for its standard-gauge tram network.

LONDON Luton Airport (LLA) has announced plans to build a peoplemover between the airport terminal and Luton Airport Parkway station to replace the existing bus link.

QATAR Railways (QR) has unveiled the designs for the Doha metro and Lusail light rail vehicles, which are due to enter service in 2020.

THE city government of Moscow has announced plans to order 50 new LRVS for Roubles 5bn ($US 74m) by the end of the year, with similar orders expected to be placed in each of the next five years.

A new fleet of low-floor LRVs for Krasnodar will be assembled in the Russian city under a letter of intent signed on April 14 by the city's mayor Mr Vladimir Evlanova, CEO of public transport operator KTTU Mr Alexei Knyazev, and the president of PC Transport Systems Mr Feliks Vinokur.