Eight years after trams returned to its streets, Nottingham has embarked on a major expansion of its light rail network. Keith Barrow explores how the city is using bold funding methods to develop a high-quality public transport network.
IN a split 3-2 vote, the city council of Anaheim, California, has approved a proposal for the construction of a 5.1km starter light rail line serving, among other points, the original Disneyland.
A 10-year agreement was signed in Beijing on October 17 between AnsaldoBreda and China Northern Rolling Stock subsidiary CNR Dalian licensing the Italian company's Sirio low-floor LRV for production in China.
THE first of 12 high-capacity Citadis 402 LRVs for Lyon was formally handed over to Rhône-Lyon Joint Transport Authority (Sytral) president Mr Bernard Rivalta by Mr Hubert Peugeot, vice president, business development and sales for Alstom France, outside the city's Part-Dieu station on October 18.
THE first of 24 Flexity Classic LRVs was officially handed over today by Bombardier to Krakow Transport Authority (MPK) in the presence of the city's mayor Mr Jacek Majchrowski. This follows the unveiling of this new design at InnoTrans in Berlin in September.
THE Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for a design, build, finance, operate and maintain public-private partnership contract for the initial phase of the region's light rail project.
FULL commercial services began today on the first light rail line in the Argentinean city of Mendoza. The Green Line runs for 12.5km along the alignment of a former heavy-rail line between Mendoza Station and General Gutiérrez in the suburb of Maipú.
STATE-owned Belarusian mechanical engineering company Belkommunmash will ship three type 843 LRVs to Saint Petersburg by the end of the year, company representatives have confirmed.
BAHRAIN is aiming to complete its rail masterplan which includes mainline connections to neighbouring GCC countries Saudi Arabia and Qatar as well as plans for metro, light rail, and monorail systems by the end of the year, the country's minister of transport Mr Kamal Ahmed confirmed this week. These would be the first railways to built in Bahrain with the plans due to be realised by 2030.
PLANNING approval has been granted by the Australian state government of New South Wales for the start of construction on the North West Rail Link, a 23km line to Rouse Hill to Epping via Castle in the northwest Sydney suburbs.
