THE National Economic and Development Authority of the Philippines has approved the sole private-public partnership offer to build, operate and maintain an extension to LRT1 in Manila.
LIMMATTALBAHN has issued a call for tender for contracts to manage the tendering and realisation of the civil works and railway technology elements of a SFr 715m ($US 797m) project to build a 13.4km light rail line in the Limmat Valley of the Zurich area.
A CONSORTIUM of Qatari Diar Vinci Construction (QDVC) and Alstom was awarded a €2bn design-build contract by Qatar Railways for the Lusail light rail project at a ceremony in Paris on June 23 attended by President François Hollande of France and Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Tani, Emir of Qatar.
A STUDY by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) of urban public transport usage in the European Union (EU) between 2000 and 2012 shows that ridership has now recovered since the slump in 2009.
THE government of the Australian state of New South Wales has committed $A 9bn ($US 8.35bn) to current and future heavy and light rail projects in its 2014-15 budget, including more than $A 1.5bn this year.
SPANISH rolling stock manufacturer CAF is to assemble LRVs for Budapest in Hungary under a contract concluded recently with the Hungarian government.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at Union Station in St Paul, Minnesota, on June 14 to mark the official opening of the Metro Transit light rail Green Line, which links St Paul with the neighbouring city of Minneapolis.
TRANSPORT for Greater Manchester (TfGM) will launch public consultation on July 4 on the planned 5.5km western extension of the Metrolink light rail network to Trafford Park.
THE City of Chesapeake, Virginia, is to submit a formal request for funding to Hampton Roads Transit for the extension of The Tide light rail line from the neighbouring city of Norfolk.
LUXEMBOURG moved a step closer to starting work on its first light rail line on June 4, when the Chamber of Deputies of the Grand Duchy approved legislation authorising construction of the first phase of the Luxtram network.
