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Mike Ballinger, LRTA TramForward, explores the fascinating gathering of metre-gauge urban and interurban rail services in eastern Switzerland...Courtesy: Tramway and Urban Transport
After a varied and at times difficult history, the metre-gauge network in the town on Brandenburg’s eastern border is looking forward to fleet renewal. Tony Streeter reports. Courtesy : Tramways and Urban Transport
Mike Russell reports from one of Russia’s most progressive tramways, recently equipped with new low-floor rolling stock...Courtesy of Tramway and Urban Transport
Tony Streeter explores the tramway in this forward-looking Saxon city, the home of an ambitious and developing TramTrain programme with planned growth over a multi-decade plan...Courtesy: Tramway and Urban transport
With significant milestones for both the MAX light rail and Streetcar service, TAUT explores the complex history of urban rail service in Oregon’s largest city.
Serving a thriving city closely associated with optical pioneer Carl Zeiss, Jena’s metre-gauge tramway will soon welcome a new fleet of modern low-floor cars. Courtesy : Tramway and Urban Tramways
It quickly became clear what a positive effect the tram system had had on each of the very differently planned sectors of the city and on the city as a whole. Initially, the aim was to look at the recently completed new tram system in...
The latest funding package would cover half the cost of a further nine trams. In 2015 LVB selected Solaris to supply five trams for €7•7m, with options for a further 36. The first tram from the base order is due to arrive in Leipzig...
The first of 15 Type Pt trams which Tramwaje ?l?skie acquired second-hand from Frankfurt-am-Main has been unveiled following an extensive modernisation.
Helsinki City Transport (HKL) has signed a long-term loan agreement with the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) to procure 40 new trams for the city.
Siemens is to supply six hybrid battery-powered versions of its S70 light rail vehicles for Charlotte’s Gold Line extension.
Izmir - New Trams for Extensions
Izmir New Trams for Extensions
Helsinki - Espoo Extension
Tallinn Airport Tram Extension
The Dutch Government sued over air quality Aug 2016
St Petersburg's fast trams order
Asian Capacitors, a break through with out street over head
Romanian update July 2016
Australia, Gold Coast: 14 Million Passengers July 2016
Brazil: Rio Olympic Games Tram July 2016
Perth Australia: Light Rail Reviewed: Aug 2016
QATAR: The designs for the future Doha Metro cars and Lusail Light Rail Transit vehicles were unveiled by national railway project promoter Qatar Railways Co
China: Qindao Hydrogen Services Opens
Canberra Spanish trams to run to GunGahlin
The board of Metrotenerife Spain has approved the start of tendering for a 2•5 km extension of tram Route 2 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
FRANCE: The municipality of Caen has confirmed its intention to develop a three-line light rail network by converting it's Guided Bus to a Tramway for opening by the end of 2019
NETHERLANDS: The rebuilt Den Haag Centraal station was officially inaugurated by Mayor Jozias van Aartsen and State Secretary at the Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment Sharon Dijksma during a day of celebrations on February 1
A summary of new trams ordered for Dublin, Lyon. and the Gold Coast
The Australian Government is providing A$95m for the construction of the Gold Coast light rail Stage 2, connecting the Gold Coast to Brisbane. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk...
Rolling stock companies bidding to be part of Canberra's tram network are planning state-of-the-art technology and European design, with similar models to the Gold Coast and Sydney networks. Bids from the two consortiums are being...
With Malcolm Turnbull now in the prime minister’s chair, Adelaide could get the green light on rail projects. Australia just experienced a change in government without an election when the ruling Liberal Party ousted Prime Minister...
Malcolm Turnbull's ascension to prime minister means Gold Coast's light rail extension will be completed in time for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Local member Steven Ciobo confirmed on Thursday the federal government had reached an...
THE GOVERNMENT HAS resurrected the Metro North plan to link Dublin city centre with the airport and Swords. The relaunched project should be finished by 2026, it was announced today as part of the government’s capital investment...
Where does this boom come from? The success of the Polish recovery is clearly down to the connectivity provided by the tram Arguments in all of the cities are almost completely identical: trams can transport much more passenger than for...
Bulgaria's capital is grassing over some of its tram lines as part of a programme to make the city greener. An initial 60m (197ft) stretch of the "green rails" has already opened in Sofia's Ruski Pametnik Square. Architects hope the new...
Tourism and Commonwealth games Minister Kate Jones says the light rail system has revolutionised public transport on the Gold Coast. "Gold Coast residents and visitors alike have embraced the G:," she says. "We've created jobs, reduced...
Kaohsiung, July 22 (CNA) Kaohsiung began a week-long test of the country's first light rail system on Tuesday with an eye toward holding a passenger trial run in the second half of August, the southern Taiwan city's Mass Rapid Transit...
Imagine for a minute a George Street devoid of cars, with sleek granite paving spanning the entire boulevard and trees shading pavement cafes as pedestrians wander from boutique to boutique. Every four minutes a light rail tram would roll...
Luxtram and manufacturer CAF have revealed the design of the new trams being built for Luxembourg ‘s first modern light rail network. CAF has developed the styling of its Urbos tram with designers Eric Rhinn, Michel Leonardi and Isabelle...
São Paulo’s state governor has signed a 20-year public transport operating contract, which includes the new VLT light rail system, with the BR Mobility Santos consortium. The PPP operating contract is worth $5.6 billion (€1.63...
HIROSHIMA--An inspirational symbol, one of the few remaining streetcars that survived the August 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been repainted its original gray and blue colours to mark the 70th anniversary of the world’s first use...
We have heard it all before here in the UK how wrong they are A before and after comparison Light rail is "too disruptive." The city's transport needs "could be accommodated much more cheaply by buses." The tram line would remove too many...
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Redevelopment has agreed to provide a Tenge 2.5bn ($US 13.4m) loan to fund the modernisation of the 86km tram network in Pavlodar, a city of 330,000 people in northwest Kazakhstan.
THE detailed construction schedule for Sydney's CBD and South East light rail line was released on May 28, with major city centre works on the 12km route scheduled to start on October 23 2015
Houston's Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (Metro) celebrated the opening of two new light rail lines over the weekend of May 23.
COMMERCIAL services began operating on Marseille's third light rail line on May 30 with the opening of the 1.2km branch to Place Castellane, which extends the network into the south of the city.
STADTWERKE Ulm (SWU) signed a €32m contract with Siemens on May 22 for 12 Avenio M low-floor LRVs as part of a project to expand the German city's metre-gauge tram network.
PLANS to extend Budapest metro Line 4 east from its current terminus at Keleti have effectively been abandoned after the municipal government voted instead to expand the city's tram network. Under the new proposals a new tram line will be...
Tuesday 28 April 2015 17.00 BST Last modified on Wednesday 29 April 2015 15.46 BST The financial cost of air pollution in Europe stands at more than $1.6tn (£1.5tn) a year, a study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has found,...
Shanghai has placed a €72 million order with Alstom’s Chinese joint venture for 30 new Citadis trams – becoming the first Chinese city to adopt the technology. Shanghai Alstom Transport Co (SATCO), a joint venture between Alstom and...
Much of Queen St would be closed off to motor vehicles under latest scheme by transport planners. Cars may be squeezed out of Auckland's main street as the city's transport authority looks to modern trams to move growing throngs of...
Mosgortrans has begun trialling a new prototype tram model from Stadler Minsk ahead of a possible introduction to the city’s light rail fleet . The three-car ‘Metelitsa’ is one of several new trams being tested in the Russian capital...
The first track segment of a new VLT light rail system in Rio de Janeiro has been laid. A 400-metre section of track has been installed on General Luiz Mendes de Morais street in the city’s Santo Christo district.
Leipzig City Transport (LVB) has placed a framework order with Solaris for up to 41 Tramino light rail vehicles
Societe des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB), Brussels’ public transport authority, placed its first order for 46 Flexity Outlook trams in 2003. This has been followed up with several additional options.
Bombardier has been awarded two new contracts for light rail vehicles from the Dusseldorf (Rheinbahn AG) and Cologne transport authorities (KVB).
Krakow City Transport (MPK) has begun testing its new energy-efficient Solaris trams. A three-month trial phase is now underway on the city’s line 1.
Financial close has been achieved on the €1.4 billion CBD and South East Light Rail line in Sydney. The ALTRAC Light Rail consortium, previously called Connecting Sydney, will deliver the new 12-kilometre tram system from Circular Quay...
Milwaukee’s Common Council has voted in favour of building its downtown light rail line. Phase one of the city’s streetcar network is expected to cost $123.9 million. Ground breaking is scheduled to take place later this year and the...
Ile-de-France transport authority STIF has obtained the declaration of public utility for the proposed T9 tram line in Paris. The declaration is a necessary step in the project’s development which will allow STIF to potentially begin...
An Arup/Rambøll joint venture has been charged with designing a new double-track light rail system in Copenhagen.
WSP and Ramboll are to draw up detailed plans for a new dual-track light railway linking Helsinki and Espoo. The 25-kilometre system will connect the Itäkeskus district in Helsinki and Keilaniemi in Espoo, partially replacing the...
Edinburgh City Council is to consider the case for extending its tram network to Leith. Leith had been included in original plans for the light rail system but the length of the line was scaled back after the project ran into funding...
RATP Dev has been awarded a seven-year contract to operate two light rail lines in Valenciennes. The contract covers the entire Transvilles public transport network including bus and light rail
QATAR: Siemens' Simmering plant in Austria has completed the first of the Avenio light rail vehicles for the Education City People Mover System, an 11•5 km catenary-free tramway which is being built to serve the Qatar Foundation for...
Hanover’s public transport operator, Üstra Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe (Üstra), is finally set to put its new light rail fleet into service
Astana is getting ready to launch a light rail tramline with up to 50 trams before 2017, Interfax-Kazakhstan reports citing Tramway Strategy Manager of Alstom Loic Dubois. “There is a project called light rail tramline for Astana. It...
The fascinating history of the capital of the Democratic Peoples's Republic of Korea and its diverse tramway operation Tramways & Urban Tramways December 2014
Old but not old-fashioned, short but not insignificant, Sait-Etienne's tramway has grown from from a surviving fragment as part of the city's much-needed economic revival Tramways & Urban Tramways November 2014
Estonia's only tramway in the midst of infrastructure and awaiting new trams after years of reliance of second-hand rolling stock Tramways & Urban Tramways Oct 2014
Linz; The network exemplifies this Austrian city being the the EU's biggest public transport users by head of population Tramways & Urban Tramways November 2013
Fleet problems created unwelcome news for Scandinavia's largest tramway. A report from Sweden's second city where service nevertheless been maintained on this impressive system Tramway & Urban Tramways Oct 2013
Nuremberg in northern Bavaria is one of Germany's great transport centre and we have a look at the changed role of trams in the city'd own network Tramways & Urban Tramways September 2013
A population of around 407,00 makes Szczecin the seventh largest in Poland. After years of declining infrastructure and vehicle quality, the tramway is receiving much needed new investment through EU project funding Tramways & Urban...
UAE: The first tram line in Dubai was officially inaugurated on November 11 by the Crown Prince, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
An update to Budapest Tramways Renaissance, Restructuring resources and perceptions, renewal and expansion
FRANCE: Paris tram Route T8 entered service on December 16, following four weeks of trial running without passengers
USSIA: The city of Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan inaugurated a 6•1 km extension of its 1 524 mm gauge tram network on December 12.
Rebuilding Lille’s historic tramway followed the introduction of the world’s first fully automatic metro The main city of Nord-Pas de Calais region, Lille is France’s fourth largest urban area (Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine)...
A bustling city of magnificent architecture in an interesting setting, Brno also has a long-established tramway – the Czech Republic’s first – intensive trolleybus operations and rolling stock displaying equal measures of variety.
In a small city with a dramatic history and attractions to match, Potsdam’s long-established tramway owes much to the changes of recent years.
Proposed Light Rail Network map
Perth - Western Australia
A presentation and update given to the Applrg's visit to Alicante May 2012 by Senior Francesc Sabate Villaret FGV on a fact finding vist 23rd May 2012
Over $4 billion in investment around light rail in Dallas. Property value increases of 25% in Minneapolis. Over 600% return on investment for light rail spending. These figures are not flukes, just examples of the amazing possibilities...
This report documents real estate development patterns along three recently constructed light rail transit lines in the United States. This topic is important for local planning practitioners, transit agencies, community members and other...
An update and comparison of the rise and rise of the French Light Rail systems compiled by Mr Graham Jellett, Regional Officer LRTA Pages 5 - 9 are significant comparators.
A light hearted look and listen to a French system almost built http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCjAyz-IGuo&feature=related
2010: The tide of new tramways continuesA closer look at the new tramways opening in 2010, plus the ones that could have been and the reasons for their delays. Mike Taplin2010: The tide of new tramways continues The article in the February...
2010: The tide of new tramways continues The article in the February issue of Tramways & Urban Transit showed that in addition to 136 new tramways opened since 1978, another 45 were under construction.
As well as being a political and economic power base, Italy’s second-largest city is also famed for fashion and its passion for football. Exam the large and varied tram operation, part of a complex public transport network.
A model tramway for the smaller city It is often assumed that only very large cities and urban centres can ever justify a light rail system, but in Europe and beyond, many smaller cities are building new tramways and reaping the benefits.
Kassel’s tram-train system has transformed public transport in the region. With other cities starting to take an interest in the concept, it is no wonder people from around the world are making the journey to central Germany.
On time under two years AND under budget Trams greatly exceed numbers in the first week of service • 31 km double line tram (18,75 miles) • 48 stations. • 60 minutes travel time from first to last terminal. • Commercial speed of...
Schöneiche and Woltersdorf, They are curiosities on the edge of Berlin – a pair of tramways that are very different, yet linked by history and management.
The program is now completed for our study visit to Denmark where we will visit three different light rail systems in different stages of completion. When we visit the cities, Aarhus will have been operating for a while. Odense will have...
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