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The opening of the Green Line of the Dubai Metro has been delayed yet again. The line has already been postponed from April 2010 to August this year, yet the completion of the line has been put back until around...

Siemens: ‘The future of urban transportation is in electric mobility’

Siemens Mobility will be presenting new products and solutions for urban mass transit at the UITP World Congress and Exhibition to be held in Dubai from April 10 to 13, 2011. This year, the international exhibition's slogan is 'Boosting public...

Bombardier ‘redefines the future of urban transport’

Bombardier Transportation will unveil two of its most recent and major innovations in the field of urban mobility this week at the UITP conference in Dubai; the PrimoveCity e-mobility solution and INNOVIA monorail 300 system. Bombardier will explain how its PrimoveCity...

Mid Hants Link rail trial halted due to ‘catastrophic electrical failure’

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Lyon orders 10 trams from Alstom

Lyon's transport authority SYTRAL has awarded Alstom a €58 m contract to supply 10 high capacity Citadis trams. These trams can accommodate up to 400 people and will operate on Lyon's T3 line which links Part-Dieu to Meyzieu. The contract includes options...

Alstom to supply 8 more Citadis Dualis to Pays de la Loire, France

Following two initial orders for 15 Citadis Dualis trainsets in 2007 and 2009, the Pays de la Loire region of France has ordered an additional 8 trainsets worth €27 million. These trainsets will operate on the Nantes – Chateaubriant line. They...

Melbourne puts Alstom’s latest X’Trapolis trains on the rails

Melbourne's Metro put Alstom's latest X'Trapolis trains on its network at the end of February, 2 months ahead of schedule. “The X’Trapolis trains are the safest, most reliable, and best performing in Metro’s fleet according to monthly performance data” explained...

Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project enters ‘Final Design’

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has approved the 7.3-mile Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project to enter into Final Design. This allows the project to be developed from its current 30 percent design to 100 percent design. Final Design is expected...

Bombardier to supply additional low-floor trams to the Rhein-Neckar region, Germany

Bombardier Transportation has received an order from Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV) for 11 new low-floor trams. The latest order, valued at €33 million ($47 million US) is a further option of a contract signed in 1998. The low-floor trams will serve the...

LA Metro begins testing on new Expo light rail line

The Expo Line is nearing completion of construction between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City and will run primarily along Exposition Boulevard. The initial testing will be from 23rd Street Station near the University of Southern California (USC). An empty Metro...

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ORR review leads to 50% reduction in maximum fees for ticket refunds

New rules will mean that from 2 April the maximum fee that train operators and ticket retailers can charge...