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Light Rail Magazine NEW LOOK THE INTERNATIONAL LIGHT RAIL MAGAZINE www.lrta.org www.tramnews.net JUNE 2013 NO. 906 CASA TRAMWAY: LRT TRANSFORMS A CITY SPECIAL REVIEW Shanghai’s street-running LRT plans Oran opens new modern tramway US 2014 budget boost for light rail Midland Metro Budapest £3.80 Birmingham City Overhauling urban Centre Extension transit governance TAUT1306 RD Cover w/FLASH.indd 1 06/05/2013 12:12 CITY RAILWAYS & DEPOTS THE COMPLETE TRAMWAY CROSSING SOLUTION • Quick & Simple To Install • Rubber Crossing Panels • Safe Lifting Pins • Anti-Trespass Panels Turnouts Precision fi t around points & turnouts Tight Curves www.rosehillrail.com For more information about Rosehill Rail’s crossing solutions or to order, phone your Rosehill Rail distributor. Alternatively phone +44 (0)1422 839 456 to be put in touch with your nearest distributor. Untitled-1 1 01/05/2013 11:19 Rosehill Rail Tramways Advert APR2013.indd 1 19/04/2013 16:25 CONTENTS The o cial journal of the Light Rail Transit Association JUNE 2013 Vol. 76 No. 906 www.tramnews.net EDITORIAL EDITOR Simon Johnston Tel: +44 (0)1832 281131 E-mail: [email protected] Eaglethorpe Barns, Warmington, Peterborough 235 PE8 6TJ, UK ASSOCIATE EDITOR Tony Streeter E-mail: [email protected] WORLDWIDE EDITOR 250 Michael Taplin Flat 1, 10 Hope Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight PO37 6EA, UK. E-mail: [email protected] NEWS EDITOR John Symons 17 Whitmore Avenue, Werrington, Stoke-on-Trent, Sta s ST9 0LW, UK. E-mail: [email protected] SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR Neil Pulling 212 WORLDWIDE CONTRIBUTORS Aare Olander, Nikolai Semyonov, Sergei Tarkhov (CIS), Mike Russell, Norman Bartlett, Thomas Wagner, Pedro Costa, Richard Felski, Jordi Ibanez (Europe), NEWS 212 CINCINNATI STREETCAR 256 Yoshiri Nogi (Japan), Anthony Bailey, Ian Hammond, Oran tramway opens; US scal year budget Herbert Pence reports on the trials Paul Nicholson (Australia), Vic Simons, Charles Lietwiler, Steve Morgan, Tom Swinney (US). for 2014 commits USD10.9bn to transit; and tribulations of the project to bring PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE Four operators shortlisted for DLR contract. streetcars back to the streets of Cincinnati Carla Corrado after almost 60 years. Tel: +44 (0)1832 281134 E-mail: [email protected] COMMENT 218 DESIGN Budapest Transport CEO Dávid Vitézy WORLDWIDE REVIEW 259 Debbie Nolan reveals the move towards governance Vienna announces three new tramway ADVERTISING reform in the Hungarian capital. extensions; Munich's new EUR19m U-Bahn COMMERCIAL MANAGER depot; Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square re- Vicky Binley Tel: +44 (0)1832 281132 E-mail: [email protected] MIDLAND METRO: BIRMINGHAM opens to the public; Baltimore seeks PPP ADVERTISING MANAGER CITY CENTRE EXTENSION 220 proposals for east-west LRT line and Purple Andy Adams Centro Metro Programme Director Paul line northern suburb service in Washington. Tel: +44 (0)1832 281135 E-mail: [email protected] Grif ths explains how the UK’s second city PUBLISHER is creating a vital link into the city centre. MAILBOX 266 Howard Johnston Is UK practice on stray currents out of step Tramways & Urban Transit is jointly published by the CASA TRAMWAY: SPECIAL REVIEW 235 with modern worldwide experience?; LRTA and LRTA Publishing on the third Friday of each Neil Pulling visits Morocco to look in detail Manx Electric Railway praise; Public month preceding the cover date. at the country’s second modern tramway transit’s blow to the far-right in the USA. LRTA WEBSITE AND DIARY – a project of national signi cance and set Brian Lomas E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] for large-scale expansion. CLASSIC TRAMS: SPANNING LRTA MEMBERSHIP (with TAUT subscription) THE ANDES PART 2 268 Tramways & Urban Transit is sent free to all paid-up SYSTEMS FACTFILE: MAGDEBURG 250 Mike Russell’s South American journey members of the Light Rail Transit Association. The former East German city has recently continues, this time looking at two You are welcome to join the LRTA. completed signi cant eet renewals and is operational heritage lines and other SUBSCRIPTIONS modernising and extending its infrastructure. restoration projects in Argentina. LRTA Membership Secretary (Dept T06), 38 Wolseley Road, Sale M33 7AU, UK. BACK ISSUES Tel: +44 (0)1406 373070 PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION Welcome to the new-look, expanded TAUT Warners (Midlands) plc, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1778 391000. We’ve listened to a lot of feedback over the past few months in the LRTA REGISTERED OFFICE preparation of the latest incarnation of the world’s leading light and c/o 138 Radnor Avenue, Welling, Kent DA16 2BY, UK. urban rail monthly. We promise you even more information on the latest Private company limited by guarantee, No. 5072319 developments from across the globe, as well as more expert comment in England and Wales. from those at the very heart of this growing and exciting industry. LRTA CHAIRMAN Andrew Braddock I’ll keep this month’s editorial brief, but would just like to focus on a LRTA DEPUTY CHAIRMAN few of this issue’s highlights: Herbert Pence reports from Cincinnati on the dif cult Vic Simons rst steps of an exciting next-generation US Streetcar project; Paul Grif ths from the LRTA PUBLISHING REGISTERED OFFICE: c/o 8 Berwick UK’s West Midlands Transport Authority Centro talks to TAUT about the vital Midland Place, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 4TU, UK. Private Metro link into Birmingham, the rst step in an ambitious plan to transform the Limited Company, No. 06169422 in England and Wales. single line into a network, and Neil Pulling goes behind the scenes in Casablanca for a © LRTA Publishing 2013. comprehensive review of the new tramway – the latest in a string of exciting schemes Articles are submitted on the understanding they may also in North Africa. later be used on our websites or other media. A contribution With comment from Budapest’s inspirational CEO David Vitezy on transport is accepted on the basis that its author is responsible for the governance reform in Europe’s eighth largest city and more news than ever – alongside opinions expressed in it, and such opinions are not those of LRTA Publishing or the LRTA. All rights reserved. regular favourites such as Systems Fact le and Classic Trams and a vibrant new Mailbox No part of this magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in section – we hope there’s something for everyone. any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including If you have a point of view on anything in the issue, or would like to contribute a photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from comment for consideration, just drop me a line at [email protected]. the copyright owner. Multiple copying of the contents of the magazine without prior written approval is not permitted. www.tramnews.net . www.Irta.org JUNE 2013 / 211 211_Contents.indd 1 06/05/2013 13:16 News Oran tramway opens for business, with more Algerian LRT to come North Africa’s modern tram presence gathers pace with a second major opening in six months he 18.7km (11.6-mile) substations and 30 43.9m-long Oran Tramway was long Citadis trams assembled officially inaugurated at its Barcelona plant. Isolux by Algerian Transport Corsán was responsible for TMinister Amar Tou, in the civil engineering, track and presence of Abdelmalek Boudiaf, electrification. the Wali of Oran, on 1 May. Full The first line is the initial service began the following day. phase of a more extensive 48km The 32-stop line serves the (25-mile) network, featuring a main population centres of large loop line to the east serving Algeria’s second-largest city, the university at Belgaid and a with a service between 05.00 link to the airport in the south and 23.00 that is expected to of the city. A third line is carry 90 000 passengers/day. planned to link the congested Operations and maintenance city centre with the El Hamri are covered by Setram, a joint suburban bus station. venture owned by RATP Dev, Setram already operates the Entreprise du Métro d’Alger Algiers tramway and will run the (EMA) and Etablissement Public 11-stop, 8km (five-mile) tramline de Transport Urbain et Suburbain for Constantine (around 248 d’Alger, under a ten-year contract miles, 400km, east of the capital, awarded in May 2012. Algiers), scheduled to open this From Es Senia in the south, summer, as well as developing through the city and serving other tramway projects in Sidi Bel the University to Sidi Maarouf Abbès, Ouargla and Mostanagem. in the east, the line was built Turkish construction company by the Tramnour consortium Yapi Merkezi has been awarded of Alstom and Spanish partner the EUR420m contract to build Isolux Corsan under a EUR355m the first line of the new tramway contract awarded by Métro in Sidi Bel Abbès. d’Alger in November 2007. The 13.8km (8.6-mile) first Alstom’s EUR148m share of line will have 21 stations and Oran’s first tram line, operated by the RATP Dev-managed Setram joint venture, the contract included signalling construction work is expected to opened on 2 May, following an official inauguration by Algerian Transport and telecoms, depot equipment, take 38 months. Minister Amar Tou the day before. RATP Dev Siemens Abellio awarded 15-year Leipzig delivers 100th Oslo metro car S-Bahn operating contract Leipzig’s new S-Bahn network Abellio is to operate a new New direct services from Siemens delivered its 100th metro to operate from December 2015 fleet of air-conditioned vehicles Jessen via Gräfenhainichen to train to Oslo on 24 April, ten years with the opening of the City- on the Leipzig S-Bahn, capable Halle and Leipzig.
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