ALSTOM announced on December 7 that it will supply 20 extra six-car MP14 trains to Il-de-France Transport Authority (Stif) and Paris Transport Authority (RATP) for €163m, as part of the modernisation of Line 4 of the Paris metro.

BOMBARDIER announced on December 5 that French National Railways (SNCF) has ordered 52 additional Francilien suburban EMUs for services on Transilien lines J and L from Paris Saint Lazare.

THE French Senate approved draft legislation on November 7 authorising the implementation of the CDG Express airport rail link to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.

A consortium of Alstom and Bombardier is now the only bidder in the running for a contract to supply up to 371 new trains for the Paris RER network after CAF was eliminated from the competition.

CONSTRUCTION of the extension of Paris tram-train line T4 to Montfermeil was officially launched on October 18 with a groundbreaking ceremony in Clichy-sous-Bois, which was attended by France’s minister for cities, youth affairs and sport Mr Patrick Kanner, Ile-de-France regional president Mrs Valérie Pécresse, president of the département of Seine-Saint-Denis Mr Stéphane Troussel, and Mr Alain Krakovitch, president of SNCF Transilien.

THE board of Ile-de-France transport authority (Stif) has issued the greenlight for the start of work on the next 29km phase of the €25bn Grand Paris orbital express metro project following a meeting in Paris on October 5.

SOCIÉTÉ du Grand Paris (SGP), the public company managing planning and construction of the €25bn Grand Paris orbital express metro network, has awarded two contracts with a total value of €414m for civil works on Line 15 South.

PARIS Transport Authority (RATP) and Nokia have successfully completed the first trial of 4G LTE telecommunications technology on a portion of the Paris Metro Line 14, demonstrating that a single network can be used for all operational communications for a train.

THE board of Île-de-France transport authority Stif has approved a €2.1bn 15-year plan for the modernisation of the group of Transilien suburban lines east of Paris together with improvements to the eastern section of RER Line E.

SOCIÉTÉ du Grand Paris (SGP), the public company responsible for managing planning and construction of the €25bn Grand Paris orbital express metro network, says it will issue invitations to tender this week for the first major construction contracts for Line 16.