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Stockholm Rebuilds City Lrt Connections THE INTERNATIONAL LIGHT RAIL MAGAZINE www.lrta.org www.tautonline.com MAY 2019 NO. 977 STOCKHOLM REBUILDS CITY LRT CONNECTIONS Sweden’s capital invests in the future with new urban rail links Berlin confirms 2035 transport plan Cuenca’s VLT opens to the public Cambridge metro is ‘value for money’ Florence Stuttgart £4.60 T2’s opening and A metro approach plans for the future to light rail safety 2019 ENTRIES OPEN NOW! SUPPORTED BY ColTram www.lightrailawards.com CONTENTS The official journal of the Light Rail Transit Association 170 MAY 2019 Vol. 82 No. 977 www.tautonline.com EDITORIAL EDITOR – Simon Johnston [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOr – Tony Streeter 174 [email protected] WORLDWIDE EDITOR – Michael Taplin [email protected] 184 NewS EDITOr – John Symons [email protected] SenIOR CONTRIBUTOR – Neil Pulling WORLDWIDE CONTRIBUTORS Tony Bailey, Richard Felski, Ed Havens, Andrew Moglestue, Paul Nicholson, Herbert Pence, Mike Russell, Nikolai Semyonov, Alain Senut, Vic Simons, Witold Urbanowicz, Bill Vigrass, Francis Wagner, Thomas Wagner, Philip Webb, Rick Wilson PRODUCTION – Lanna Blyth Tel: +44 (0)1733 367604 [email protected] NEWS 164 SYSTEMS FACTFILE: bordeauX 184 Berlin confirms 2035 transport masterplan; A technical pioneer, the greater significance DESIGN – Debbie Nolan Edinburgh approves Newhaven extension; of Bordeaux’s tramway lies in its rapid ADVertiSING GBP4bn Cambridgeshire ‘metro’ claimed growth and place at the heart of its host city. COMMERCIAL ManageR – Geoff Butler Tel: +44 (0)1733 367610 to be ‘very high value for money’; Cuenca Neil Pulling reports. [email protected] tramway opens for service; Chapel Hill – PUBLISheR – Matt Johnston Durham LRT plan cancelled. WORLDWIDE REVIEW 190 Plans to shorten Mississauga LRT to save costs; Tramways & Urban Transit florence eyes THE FUTURE 170 Odense opening delayed to late 2021; Caen 13 Orton Enterprise Centre, Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU, UK Alessandro Fantechi and Giovanni Mantovani begins city tram trials; Metro openings in explore the Tuscan capital’s second tramline. Ahmedabad, Delhi and Hyderabad; Karlsruhe Tramways & Urban Transit is published by Mainspring partners with Thales for autonomous trials; on behalf of the LRTA on the third Friday of each month preceding the cover date. stocKholm’S NEW connections 174 Funding for Bath/Bristol transit studies. After years of planning, Sweden’s capital is developing tramway connections to create a MAILBOX 195 more coherent network – TAUT reports. Thoughts on the UK ‘Call for Evidence’; why tram-trains are not a new concept! PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION safety IN stuttgart 180 Warners (Midlands), Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH, UK Reinhold Schröter of SSB explains how CLASSIC TRAMS: LISBOA 196 LRTA MEMBERSHIP (with TAUT subscription) previous incidents in the city have driven Mike Tedstone finds that classic trams are Tramways & Urban Transit is sent free to all paid-up technological and procedural solutions. making a welcome return to heritage line 24. members of the Light Rail Transit Association. LRTA WEBSITE AND DIARY Brian Lomas Maximising value from public transport funding [email protected] [email protected] When times are tight, we need to demonstrate extra caution with money. SuBSCriPtioNS, MEMBERSHIP AND BACK ISSueS Planning is vital and a detailed understanding of cause and effect help keep us LRTA Membership Secretary (Dept T06), 38 Wolseley on track. Never more are these statements true than when governments and Road, Sale M33 7AU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)117 951 7785 transport authorities are balancing millions, or billions, in taxpayer funds. [email protected] Website: www.lrta.info With further doom and gloom coming out of London’s Crossrail project, FOR CORPORATE SuBSCriPtioNS VISIT frustrating delays and cost overruns on light rail schemes in Sydney, Odense, www.mainspring.co.uk Frankfurt and others – it seems these concerns make the news far more than the plethora LRTA REGISTERED OFFICE of positive stories. When it all goes very wrong we see schemes cancelled and money 138 Radnor Avenue, Welling DA16 2BY, UK. literally thrown away. Of course there are spiralling costs in major projects everywhere Private company limited by guarantee, No. 5072319 that illustrate how not to do things – anyone want to talk about Berlin’s Brandenburg in England and Wales. Airport, the Airbus A380 or the 2014 Olympics in Sochi? LRTA ChaIRMAN – Paul Rowen At times like these, we must ask: Are we controlling our money to the best of [email protected] our abilities or are external factors just working against us? Do we have the proper © LRTA 2019 governance and oversight to recognise early enough when things are going wrong? Articles are submitted on the understanding they may also Are we even spending funds in the right places? No-one likes a white elephant, after all. later be used on our websites or other media. A contribution With the business case for the UK’s planned High Speed 2 line seemingly becoming is accepted on the basis that its author is responsible for the ever more shaky, one could argue that this plan has passed its sell-by date. While I opinions expressed in it, and such opinions are not those of the LRTA or Mainspring. All rights reserved. wouldn’t deny that high-speed rail gives significant benefits to national economies, No part of this magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in to maximise these it needs to be linked to regional and city-based transportation any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including enhancements. This is well-proven in countries all over the world. photocopying, recording or by any information storage and After all, the majority of journeys start or end in an urban environment – and most retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from are also commuting journeys. Commuting to work, commuting to education, this the copyright owner. Multiple copying of the contents of the forms a large part of our lives. So the question is, how high does the HS2 bill need to magazine without prior written approval is not permitted. be – or how many delays can we accept – before diverting the funding into a range of COVER: Flexity Classic 6 and CAF Urbos 461 in LRT schemes to serve millions more people proves better value? Simon Johnston, Editor central Stockholm in September 2018. T. Johansson www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org MAY 2019 / 163 News Funds in place for NET extension bid Berlin’s 2035 transport Nottingham City Council (UK) has GBP50 000 (EUR58 000) masterplan confirmed to prepare a funding bid for expansion of the city’s tramway, 15-year plan includes significant investment in trams and electric buses the Nottingham Post has reported. It is hoped that money for the extensions will be made n 26 February the 2020 to cover the period to 2035, from Warschauer Strasse to available from the country’s EUR28.1bn Berliner but S-Bahn and regional rail Hermannplatz will come in Transforming Cities Fund. Nahverkehrsplan are also included. The tramway 2026-27. A new tramway will link Expanding Nottingham covering the period network will be expanded from Spittelmarkt and Mehringdamm. Express Transit to the west has Oup to 2035 was issued by the 194km to 267km (166 miles), Spandau, where the last trams long been an ambition, with Senate of Land Berlin. The plan much as expected when already on West Berlin’s first-generation light rail being seen as a local was developed to follow the trailed in 2018 (TAUT 967). network ran in 1966, will see transport solution following Berlin Mobility Act, that sets In 2021 trams will reach trams again in 2029, with a the decision to build a station targets for sustainable transport, Ostkreuz, and be extended from line from Paulsternstrasse for the planned High Speed 2 and to ensure the economic Hbf to Turmstrasse and from to Heerstrasse; a branch to line at Toton, mid-way between development of the city region, Adlershof to S-Bhf Schöneweide. Falkenhagener Feld will follow. Nottingham and the city of including elimination of fossil Turmstrasse – Jungfernheide City centre tramways will be Derby. Under the plans, one fuels from the city’s transport will follow in 2024 and a link extended from Potsdamer Platz NET line would reach Derby via energy mix by the end of 2030. to Bhf Mahlsdorf in 2025. The to Steglitz (2030) and Zoo (2035). Toton, with another serving Property development will single-track section of line 62 New depots will be built at UTR East Midlands Airport. be linked to public transport in Mahlsdorf will be doubled Tegel, Blankenburger Süden Toton lies on the eastern leg provision. and there will be a link from and Adlershof. The potential of phase two of the proposed Municipal public transport Pankow to Pasedagplatz. for freight trams will also be HS2 line, which is intended to company BVG (U-Bahn, trams, New construction from investigated. open in 2033. The high-speed buses and ferries) will be directly Alexanderplatz to Potsdamer For the U-Bahn, with the Green project has been controversial awarded an operating contract in Platz, to Kulturforum and party (against expansion) and however, with ongoing SPD holding different views, criticism of the likely costs. market share studies will be launched for Rudow – BER (airport), Wittenau – Märkischen Viertel and Kurt-Schumacher- Platz to UTR Tegel. A second north–south S-Bahn link is planned, as is the revival of the old line from Gartenfeld to Siemensstadt (new technology campus). NET Citadis 216 and 236 at Toton All bus routes will run at Lane terminus. Beyond the trams, the site of the planned Toton HS2 station is least every ten minutes and less than 1.5km away. Neil Pulling 1630 electric buses should be in service by 2030 (the current fleet numbers 45).
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