WARSAW Tramways announced on November 22 that Pesa Bydgoszcz has submitted the best offer for a contract to supply a fleet of 45 bidirectional low-floor LRVs with a five-year warranty.
SAN FRANCISCO Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) has launched a review of system operations with a view towards introducing limited-stop services as well as the splitting and joining of trains on certain routes.
THE Chinese city of Hangzhou launched commercial operations on its first metro line on November 24, when the governor of Zhejiang province Mr Xia Baolong officially inaugurated the 48km Line 1 in a ceremony at Wulin Square station.
SHANGHAI Shentong Metro Group has awarded Alstom and its local joint venture Shanghai Alstom Transport Electrical Equipment (Satee) a €37m contract to supply new traction equipment for trains operating on Shanghai Metro lines 3 and 4. The work is due to be completed by 2014.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has appointed Siemens to equip 230 rail vehicles operated by SBB Passenger, SBB Cargo, RegionAlps, Ferrovienord and SBB Infrastructure with onboard ETCS equipment.
THE long-awaited launch on December 9 of Fyra high-speed services between Amsterdam and Brussels using AnsaldoBreda V250 trains may be delayed.
A GROUNDBREAKING ceremony was held in Sofia on November 21 to mark the start of construction on the eastern extension of metro Line 1 from Tsarigradsko Shose to Sofia Airport Terminal 2.
ROTTERDAM Electric Tram (RET) has sold 44 redundant type T metro sets built by Düwag in 1980-84 to the Turkish city of Bursa, where they will be used on the growing Bursaray light metro network.
BELGIAN National Railways (SNCB) is to cut 193 services when the 2013 timetable year starts on December 9, a move being implemented as part of the operator's financial recovery plan.
THE Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development has agreed to lend the Serbian government €25m to finance the first phase of construction work on the long-delayed Belgrade Central station.
