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Riders Stay Away As World Pauses THE INTERNATIONAL LIGHT RAIL MAGAZINE www.lrta.org www.tautonline.com MAY 2020 NO. 989 RIDERS STAY AWAY AS WORLD PAUSES Pandemic devastates public transport as cities enter lockdown Operators respond to COVID-19 crisis CARES Act bail out for US transit Berlin signs biggest ever U-Bahn order Doha Accessibility £4.60 Battery hybrid trams LRT’s lessons for for Qatar’s capital heavy rail networks Due to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic, some of our 2020 diary will be rescheduled in accordance with current advice from local and national authorities to protect the welfare and well-being of participants, guests and staff. We are delighted to have the full support of our event partners during these unprecedented and challenging times, and continue to work with them to deliver events that connect people and share knowledge and expertise from across the public transport sector. For those that have already booked places, we will keep you fully up-to-date with new information as it becomes available. For those who would still like to attend, speak or exhibit, please contact us for the latest details. BIRMINGHAM, UK ENGINEERING LRT EXCELLENCE Dinner at the ROLLING STOCK ZARAGOZA, LRTEXCELLENCE SPAIN Roundhouse DERBY, UK NEWCASTLE, UK WOLVERHAMPTON LONDON, UK UK Tramways and Urban Transit continues to deliver news, analysis and in-depth features on the latest industry developments worldwide – direct to your door or online. Subscribe now. www.mainspring.co.uk • [email protected] • +44 (0)1733 367601 CONTENTS The official journal of the Light Rail Transit Association 166 MAY 2020 Vol. 83 No. 989 www.tautonline.com EDITORIAL EDITOR – Simon Johnston 178 [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOr – Tony Streeter [email protected] WORLDWIDE EDITOR – Michael Taplin 186 [email protected] NewS EDITOr – John Symons [email protected] SenIOR CONTRIBUTOR – Neil Pulling Y-2.0 B WORLDWIDE CONTRIBUTORS CC Richard Felski, Ed Havens, Andrew Moglestue, Paul Nicholson, Herbert Pence, Mike Russell, Nikolai Semyonov, Alain Senut, Vic Simons, Witold Urbanowicz, Bill Vigrass, Francis Wagner, rentanni / rentanni T Thomas Wagner, Philip Webb, Rick Wilson A. PRODUCTION – Lanna Blyth NEWS 164 NOT ALL RAIL IS CREATED EQUAL... 183 Tel: +44 (0)1733 367604 Berlin signs its biggest-ever U-Bahn order; Daniel Pyke explains the different types of [email protected] Trafford Park Line opens early; COVID-19 rail used by urban mobility systems. DESIGN – Debbie Nolan pandemic devastates public transport ADVertiSING demand around the world; US commits systems factfile: brandenburg 186 COMMERCIAL ManageR – Geoff Butler USD25bn to transit emergency fund. Neil Pulling explores this small German city Tel: +44 (0)1733 367610 [email protected] and its intriguing metre-gauge tramway. LESSONS IN crisis management 171 PUBLISheR – Matt Johnston Morgan Lyons offers a step-by-step WORLDWIDE REVIEW 191 Tramways & Urban Transit approach to crisis communications for these Canberra commissions expansion studies; 13 Orton Enterprise Centre, Bakewell Road, unprecedented and challenging times. Bombardier replaces its CEO; Cork to assess Peterborough PE2 6XU, UK light rail route options; Krasnodar places Tramways & Urban Transit is published by Mainspring neXT-generation lrt: doha 173 order for up to 56 new low-floor trams. on behalf of the LRTA on the third Friday of each Julia Wahnsiedler reviews the technology month preceding the cover date. behind the hybrid tramway that serves one MAILBOX 195 of the world’s greenest regeneration projects. UK Government report ignores LRT... again. PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION tram-train: BRIDGING THE GAP? 178 CLASSIC trams: leipZig museum 196 Warners (Midlands), Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH, UK Dr Rob Carroll explores the challenges Mike Russell surveys the smart and spacious LRTA MEMBERSHIP (with TAUT subscription) related to the provision of level boarding. new tram museum in Saxony’s biggest city. Tramways & Urban Transit is sent free to all paid-up members of the Light Rail Transit Association. The future of transport is now very much in our hands LRTA WEBSITE AND DIARY Brian Lomas Over the past month transport systems around the world have been stripped [email protected] [email protected] of their most vital asset – passengers. In just a few weeks our lives have been SuBSCriPtioNS, MEMBERSHIP AND BACK ISSueS turned upside down as enforced lockdowns see many of us working from our LRTA Membership Secretary (Dept T06), 38 Wolseley sofas or hastily-constructed home offices as the COVID-19 pandemic has spread Road, Sale M33 7AU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)117 951 7785 – its RNA structure making it remarkably easy to catch but very difficult to kill. [email protected] Website: www.lrta.info We’re not commuting or travelling abroad, and tram, metro, bus and train services have FOR CORPORATE SuBSCriPtioNS VISIT been reduced to cater for only our most essential journeys. Yet cleaners, medical staff, www.mainspring.co.uk childcare providers, tram, train, bus and delivery drivers cannot work remotely; those that allow society to run smoothly and safely are the very ones being put most at risk. LRTA REGISTERED OFFICE 8 Berwick Place, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, AL7 4TU, UK. What is apparent is that our concept of ‘community’ is being reshaped before our very eyes. Private company limited by guarantee, No. 5072319 Many scientists and economists predict that we’re in this for the long haul. A year that in England and Wales. started with such optimism will likely now be a year of managing decline, with 2021 LRTA ChaIRMAN – Paul Rowen offering a chance to stabilise, rebuild and recover. [email protected] Whether the dramatic changes we’re currently seeing are forever depends on our © LRTA 2020 response. We have a unique opportunity to reassess our place in the world and how we Articles are submitted on the understanding they may also will shape its future. Difficult decisions are coming: investment may well be diverted and later be used on our websites or other media. A contribution revenue forecasts will have to be recalculated as we rebuild. Emergency grants and loans, is accepted on the basis that its author is responsible for the where available, will hopefully get us through these challenging and unpredictable times. opinions expressed in it, and such opinions are not those of An alternative view suggests an acceleration of key projects to leverage cost-saving the LRTA or Mainspring. All rights reserved. opportunities and pooled resources. There are other silver linings, too. This horrific global No part of this magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including pandemic has afforded us a snapshot of a potential future where the air is cleaner, roads photocopying, recording or by any information storage and are less congested and public transport is given its rightful place as a crucial element of retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from our communities. We may even see a major rebound in ridership as people realise they the copyright owner. Multiple copying of the contents of the don’t need the added expense of a car if they are working from home more in the future... magazine without prior written approval is not permitted. While we wait and see what the future holds, TAUT is still here. For the next issue or two, while we will still deliver the latest news from around the world, we will add more COVER: An empty Königstraße in the centre of ‘big reads’ – delving into greater detail to celebrate light rail and give us all half an hour’s Kassel, Germany, during lockdown on 3 April. respite from the incessant news of coronavirus... Stay well. Simon Johnston, Editor Carl / CC BY-ND 2.0 www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org MAY 2020 / 163 News BVG overcomes legal challenge to place largest ever U-Bahn contract Up to 1500 cars to be delivered to the German capital from 2022, as debate continues over expansion n 20 March the A computer-generated impression regional appeal court of a Stadler JK U-Bahn train at rejected Alstom’s Olympia-Stadion on the small-profile legal attempts to stop network. Stadler OBerliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) placing a direct EUR3bn order for up to 1500 U-Bahn cars with Stadler Pankow. The contract contains provision for at least 606 cars and the supply of spare parts for 32 years, worth EUR1.2bn – 376 for delivery from 2022 and 230 to be confirmed at a later date – including two- and four-car trains for both small (U1-U4, 2.4m-wide) and large (U5-U9, 2.65m-wide) profile lines. This is two years later than BVG hoped when it tendered for the contract. The framework includes an option for a further 894 cars. This the second time that the A report presented to the Berlin development on the Tegel BVG and Stadler are already city’s U-Bahn orders have been Senate in March states that airport site – this comes with an working together on IK series delayed by legal challenges. In three U-Bahn extensions have estimated cost of up to EUR607m trains for the Berlin network (54 2018 Siemens challenged the been deemed ‘structurally and depending on the chosen route. four-car trains) and the new order award of an emergency EUR120m technically’ feasible. Other longer-term plans under will be classed as type J and JK. contract to Stadler (without The study is designed to consideration include a short To simplify maintenance the two tendering), but later withdrew inform transport priorities in western extension of U7 from types will use many common after BVG reduced the number of the German capital following Spandau to Heerstraße Nord; an components, so the JK will have trains covered by the ‘urgency’ completion later this year extension of U3 from Krumme two instead of three pairs of contract.
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