THE first of 19 metro trains being supplied by CRRC Corporation to Izmir arrived in the Turkish city on September 10.
A consortium of Ineco, Spain, its Mexican subsidiary Inecomex, Spain’s infrastructure manager Adif, and Cal y Mayor y Asociados, Mexico, have been awarded a contract to supervise the construction of an extension to Line 12 of the Mexico City metro.
HONG Kong’s MTR Corporation held a ceremony on September 8 to mark the breakthrough of the 11km Tai Wai - Hung Hom tunnel section of the Shatin to Central Link (SCL) metro project.
TEL Aviv’s Metropolitan Mass Transit System (NTA) has invited bids by November 10 for a consultant to conduct a feasibility study for a high-capacity metro line connecting the northern and southern suburbs of Tel Aviv.
THE first of 300 Bombardier R179 cars ordered by New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the subway B Division was unloaded at 207th Street yard in Upper Manhattan on September 6.
CHINA’s top economic planning authority the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) confirmed on September 6 that it has given the go-ahead for the first phase of the metro network in Baotou, the largest city in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.
CROWN Prince of Dubai Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed laid a foundation stone on September 5 to officially launch construction on the Route 2020 metro link to the site of Expo 2020.
CHINA’s first driverless subway line, the Yanfang line in Beijing will begin operations at the end of 2017 according to a report on August 29.
ANKARA Metro Line M4 from Atatürk Cultural Center to Gazino in Keçiören, has been completed 12 years after the foundations were laid in 2004, and Turkish prime minister, Mr Binali Yildirim announced on August 31 that the line would open at the end of the year.
HONOLULU leaders and US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) officials reached an agreement on the Honolulu metro project on August 30 in which the 32km line will be built all the way to Ala Moana as planned rather than being cut back to Middle Street, but without additional federal funding.
