ANTIN Infrastructures in a joint venture with Icamap and Borletti Group has offered €953m to acquire Grandi Stazioni Retail from Italian State Railways (FS) and Eurostazioni, which FS says is the best of the four offers it has received.
THE Pakistan government has approved a $US 8.2bn project to upgrade the 1872km Karachi - Peshawar main line by 2021, 85% of which will be funded by a concessionary loan from China the terms of which will now be negotiated.
TRANSPORT for London (TfL) and Twitter have initiated a pilot to offer automatic alerts to passengers in the event of severe delays on London Underground and TfL rail services.
A full-size mock-up of a Metropolis train for lines 4, 5 and 6 of the Riyadh metro was presented in the Saudi capital by Alstom on June 8 to the governor of Riyadh, Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and the transport minister HE Suleiman Al Hamdan.
POWERLINES Group, Austria, has been awarded a contract by CCE Elektrik, Turkey, to supply overhead catenary components for electrification of new light rail lines in the Turkish cities of Izmir and Izmit.
SINGAPORE's Land Transport Authority (LTA) is exploring two alignment options for the proposed 50km east-west Cross Island Line (CRL) in the island state's Central Catchment Nature Reserve (CCNR) due to concerns over ground conditions.
TESTING began on the first completed section of Delhi metro Line 8 (Magenta Line) Delhi metro network on June 8, when the first low-speed test runs took place on a 3.5km section between Kalindi Kunj depot and Okhla Vihar station.
THE premier of the Canadian state of Ontario Mrs Kathleen Wynne visited the site of the future Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station in York on June 6 to mark the completion of tracklaying on the Toronto-York Spadina subway extension.
THE government of the Brazilian state of São Paulo announced on June 7 that TC-Linha 4 Amarela, a consortium of Comsa and Tiisa Infraestrutura e Investimentos, has been selected to complete the second phase of metro Line 4.
THE board of Sound Transit has unanimously approved changes to the Sound Transit 3 Draft Plan (ST3), bringing light rail extensions included in the strategy forward by 2-5 years and adding further new lines to Renton, Kirkland, and North Seattle.
