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August 3, 2020 | Metros

Building Dubai Metro’s Route 2020

Dubai Metro’s $US 2.9bn Red Line extension was inaugurated on July 8 and will open in September, four years after construction started. Alstom vice-president Müslüm Yakisan tells Oliver Cuenca how it was managed.

July 27, 2020 | News

Covid-19 offers ‘best opportunity for decades’ to reshape public transport - study

THE Covid-19 pandemic is an opportunity to shape more sustainable, resilient and human-centric urban mobility systems with many cities and transit authorities primed and ready to embrace the challenge, a new study presented by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and consultancy Arthur D Little has found.

July 9, 2020 | Infrastructure

Dubai metro inaugurates extension to Red Line

DUBAI metro inaugurated its $US 2.9bn, 15km Red Line extension at a ceremony on July 8 attended by ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

June 16, 2020 | Metros

New trains for Doha Metro delivered

QATAR Rail (QR) received the first two new trains for Doha Metro from an order for 35 from Kinki Sharyo on June 12.

April 9, 2020 | Policy

UIC/UITP call for rapid deployment of exception measures to maintain public transport

FOUR associations are calling on governments to take exceptional measures to maintain public transport services for essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure their survival.

April 7, 2020 | Middle East

Israel electrification programme accelerated as ETCS Level 2 tested

ISRAEL Railways (IR) has successfully extended electrification of the A1 Link to Tel Aviv Hashalom and Tel Aviv Savidor/Central stations and begun tests on the section on April 5, just days after announcing plans to revise and accelerate its network electrification programme.

April 6, 2020 | Middle East

Etihad Rail Stage 2 construction ramps up

ETIHAD Rail has launched construction on package B of stage 2 of the UAE’s national railway development project, a 216km section which includes links to Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi, Khalifa Port and Industrial City of Abu Dhabi.

March 23, 2020 | Metros

UITP publishes guidelines for operators to combat coronavirus

THE International Association of Public Transport (UITP) has published guidelines to help operators deal with the coronavirus outbreak.

March 23, 2020 | Infrastructure

Vossloh awarded UAE Package 2A turnouts and fasteners contract

A joint venture between China State Construction Engineering Corp and South Korea’s SK Engineering & Construction has awarded Vossloh a contract to supply turnouts and rail fasteners for Stage 2 of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) rail project.

March 20, 2020 | Middle East

Saudi Arabia to halt all public transport for 14 days

SAUDI Arabia says all public transport services will shut down with effect from 06.00 on March 21 in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

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