MOSCOW celebrated the completion of another new stretch of metro line on January 31, when the city's deputy mayor for urban development and construction Mr Marat Khusnullin inaugurated the 3.5km western section of Line 8 from Park Pobedy to Delovoy Tsentr.
URBAN Transport Solutions (UTS), a joint venture of CAF and Russia's Sinara Transport Machines unveiled a mock-up of its proposed new-generation metro car for Moscow Metro at the city's All-Russia Exhibition Centre earlier this month.
THE 5km southern extension of Moscow metro Line 7 from Ryazanskiy Prospekt to Zhulebino was inaugurated on November 9 by the chairman of the Moscow Department of Construction Mr Andrey Bochkarev and Moscow Metro president Mr Ivan Besedin.
SIEMENS and Russian Machines have announced that they intend to submit a joint bid in a tender for new trains for the Moscow metro, which is due to be issued by the end of the year.
RUSSIAN car builder Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) and its partner Bombardier have today unveiled at the Hannover Fair models of a new metro train and a new LRV which they are developing jointly for Russia.
THE mayor of Moscow Mr Sergei Sobyanin has revealed plans to build 250km of metro lines during the next few years in the Russian capital, and for the first time, most of them will be constructed above ground.
SIX CEOs from some of Europe's leading capital city public transport operators gathered in Rome today and signed a declaration calling for European governments to invest in public transport as a means of kick starting the European economy.
RUSSIA's anti-trust watchdog has ordered the city of Moscow to stop taking bids for a $US 300m contract to supply 120 LRVs and to re-tender.
BOMBARDIER has today signed cooperation agreements with Russian rolling stock supplier Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) to jointly develop and market metro and light rail vehicles for customers in Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
DOMODEDOVO Trans Development (DTD) has revealed ambitious plans for a 214km light rail network that will link Moscow's expanding southern outer suburbs, and connect Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports.
