LIMAK Construction, Turkey, signed a €224m contract on July 28 to build a 4.5km metro line in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.

CHENGDU added a northeast - southwest line to its metro network on July 31 with the start of trial operation on the initial phase of Line 3 (Magenta Line) from Chengdu Junqu General Hospital to Taipingyuan.

THE first class 345 Aventra commuter EMU for London’s east-west Crossrail link was unveiled to the press by Bombardier and Transport for London (TfL) at Bombardier’s Derby plant on July 29.

LIMA metro Line 1 is set to benefit from a significant increase in capacity under an addendum to the concession contract between the Peruvian government and the GyM-Ferrovias consortium, which was signed on July 11 by Peru’s minister of communications and transport Mr José Gallardo Ku and consortium chairman Mr Gonzalo Ferraro.

BULGARIA’s minister of transport, information technology and communications Mr Ivaylo Moskovski and Mr Stoyan Bratoev, managing director of Sofia metro operator Metropolitan, inaugurated the 1.3km southern extension of metro Line M2 from James Bourchier to Vitosha on July 20.

DALIAN Locomotive and Rolling Stock, a subsidiary of China’s CRRC Corporation, has rolled out the first of 15 trains for the initial phase of the metro network in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos.

A study of fully-automated driverless metros conducted by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) says that the length of such lines is expected to increase from 789km today to 2200km by 2025.

A 20-year plan to invest £1bn in metro and regional rail services around Newcastle and Sunderland was approved by the leadership board of the North East Combined Authority (Neca) on July 19.

BUDAPEST Transport Company (BKV) has issued its first call for tenders for the rebuilding of metro Line 3.

DESIGN studies for the next-generation of New York subway trains and refurbished stations were revealed as part of the $US 27bn Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) five-year capital programme, which was unveiled by New York state governor Mr Andrew Cuomo at Brooklyn Transit Museum on July 18.