THE first completed metro cars for the Jakarta MRT project arrived at the Japanese port of Toyohashi on March 1 in readiness for shippment to Indonesia.
PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) has awarded a contract to Siemens to equip Line 14, which is being extended under the Grand Paris project, with a new communications-based train control system (CBTC).
THE City of Buenos Aires has launched a tender through metro authority Sbase for a concession to operate the metro network in the Argentinean capital for 12 years from January 2019.
MADRID Metro has completed a €6.1m project to equip all 301 of its stations and 10 depots with low-energy LED lighting.
THE mayor of Moscow Mr Sergey Sobyanin and Russia’s special presidential representative for environmental protection Mr Sergey Ivanov attended a ceremony on February 26 to mark the inauguration of the first completed section of the Large Circle Line (Line 11).
GREATER Vancouver Transportation Authority (Translink) announced on February 22 that it is bringing forward the acquisition of new trains for the SkyTrain automated metro network with the acquisition of 28 Hyundai Rotem cars for the Expo and Millennium lines.
MITSUBISHI Electric has delivered wayside and onboard radio equipment for the first deployment of Communciations-Based Train Control (CBTC) on the Tokyo metro network.
SOCIÉTÉ du Grand Paris (SGP) has awarded the first of three civil engineering contracts for four work packages on lines 14 North, 16 and 17 South of the Grand Paris automated metro network to a group led by Eiffage Civil Engineering under a €1.84bn deal.
PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) and Ile-de-France Mobility have awarded a €157m contract to Alstom for an additional 20 MP14 rubber-tyred metro trains for operation on Line 11.
BAKU Metro has awarded Metrowagonmash, Russia, a contract to suppy two five-car metro trains for the 37km 1520mm-gauge network in the Azerbaijani capital.
