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Bombardier Transportation THE INTERNATIONAL LIGHT RAIL MAGAZINE www.lrta.org www.tautonline.com JUNE 2019 NO. 978 IMPROVING AN ICON Prague: Expanding one of the world’s great tramway networks Canberra: Australia’s newest tramway Toronto confirms investment plans Report calls for Glasgow metro growth Driver aids Schöneiche £4.60 Technologies to Berlin’s metre-gauge promote LRT safety gains step-free access CONTENTS The official journal of the Light Rail Transit Association JUNE 2019 Vol. 82 No. 978 www.tautonline.com EDITORIAL EDITOR – Simon Johnston [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOr – Tony Streeter 214 [email protected] WORLDWIDE EDITOR – Michael Taplin [email protected] 236 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 223 PRODUCTION – Lanna Blyth Tel: +44 (0)1733 367604 [email protected] NEWS 204 SYSTEMS FACTFILE: PRAGUE 223 Canberra’s tramway opens; Waterloo – The Czech city that created one of the most DESIGN – Debbie Nolan Kitchener enters final preparation phase; numerous tram types also has one of the ADVertiSING Toronto transit expansion confirmed; Muni world’s great systems. Neil Pulling reports. COMMERCIAL ManageR – Geoff Butler Tel: +44 (0)1733 367610 postpones payments over LRV safety issues; [email protected] Glasgow’s GBP10bn urban rail plan. WORLDWIDE REVIEW 230 PUBLISheR – Matt Johnston Aarhus completes the final phase of its comment 208 tram-train service to Grenaa; Caen tramway Tramways & Urban Transit Transport Minister Jesse Norman on the role opening brought forward to July; Hong Kong 13 Orton Enterprise Centre, Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU, UK of light rail for UK towns and cities. Peak Tram closes for renovation; Karlsruhe route 2 extension work begins; Investment Tramways & Urban Transit is published by Mainspring driver assistance SYstems 210 saves Messina tramway; Turkey plans metro on behalf of the LRTA on the third Friday of each month preceding the cover date. TAUT examines how technology interacts under the Bosporus; Phoenix South Central with human factors to improve safety. extension gains engineering approval. STOCKHOLM: urban rail – part 2 214 MAILBOX 235 Exploring the latest surface and below How would autonomous trams deal with PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION ground developments in Sweden’s capital. crowds?; Thoughts on segregation and Warners (Midlands), Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH, UK safety; Does the UK really need ‘new ideas’? LRTA MEMBERSHIP (with TAUT subscription) ARTICS roll in SCHÖNEICHE 219 Tramways & Urban Transit is sent free to all paid-up Tony Streeter examines how the drive to CLASSICS: SCHÖNBERGER Strand 236 members of the Light Rail Transit Association. offer barrier-free transport has brought low- Mike Russell visits one of Germany’s few LRTA WEBSITE AND DIARY floor trams to this German metre-gauge line. ‘free standing’ tramway museums. Brian Lomas [email protected] [email protected] SuBSCriPtioNS, MEMBERSHIP AND BACK ISSueS Clarity, caution and managing expectations LRTA Membership Secretary (Dept T06), 38 Wolseley “There is no such thing as an easy shortcut. It’s supposed to be a challenge; Road, Sale M33 7AU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)117 951 7785 if it was easy, it would just be the way.” Although this phrase came from [email protected] Website: www.lrta.info a largely forgettable road movie from about 20 years ago, it has always FOR CORPORATE SuBSCriPtioNS VISIT stuck with me – and it never rings more true than when you consider the www.mainspring.co.uk challenges of complex urban transport schemes. LRTA REGISTERED OFFICE Every month we carry news of delays to new projects and major extensions. These are 138 Radnor Avenue, Welling DA16 2BY, UK. rarely the fault of the base technology of steel wheel-on-steel rail, but more often come Private company limited by guarantee, No. 5072319 from over-ambitious predictions by those who perhaps don’t fully grasp the intricacies in England and Wales. of delivering multi-disciplinary projects, or over-zealous commitments from contractors LRTA ChaIRMAN – Paul Rowen and suppliers aiming to close the deal. [email protected] It’s about tempering ambition with realism. These statements are not aimed at stifling © LRTA 2019 creativity or not applying new thinking – we can always improve – they are about Articles are submitted on the understanding they may also being brutally honest about the likely challenges ahead. It’s always better to manage later be used on our websites or other media. A contribution expectations, get it right first time and leave a legacy of trust, than make promises you is accepted on the basis that its author is responsible for the can’t keep and leave that lingering feeling of disappointment. Miss multiple deadlines opinions expressed in it, and such opinions are not those of the LRTA or Mainspring. All rights reserved. and any promoter will tell you that it can take years to win back that trust. No part of this magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in There is always the temptation to feel that technology can solve all of our problems, any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including and while it plays an important role, we have to remember that our industry is still very photocopying, recording or by any information storage and much about people. A number of the latest crop of projects tout ‘ground-breaking’ new retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from solutions to make construction and delivery cheaper and faster. Yet many are still to be the copyright owner. Multiple copying of the contents of the proven in the real world, and some haven’t even reached the prototype stage! magazine without prior written approval is not permitted. LRT projects are investments in the future. Adding six months to the schedule at the COVER: Škoda 15T4 9395 leaving Chaplinovo start is nothing for something that will be there for 50 years. Simon Johnston, Editor náměstí on 8 August 2018. N. Pulling www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org JUNE 2019 / 203 News Canberra Metro opens to passengers Australia’s Federal capital welcomes the country’s second new tramway in three months he second new tramline build, operate and maintain to open in Australia this the line until 2039. The ACT year started carrying Government is contributing passengers in the federal AUD76m (EUR47.6m) towards the Tcapital of Canberra at 08.00 on AUD707m (EUR442.6m) project. 20 April. An opening ceremony Works began in late 2016, and was carried out by Australian the first test runs were made in Capital Territory Chief Minister June 2018; 450 trees were removed Andrew Barr and Minister for as construction progressed, Transport Canberra and City but 1200 new trees have been Services, Meegan Fitzharris at the planted as replacements. CAF outer terminus in Gungahlin. has supplied 14 33m five-section Final accreditation for the tram double-ended Urbos 3 trams, did not arrive until 17 April. each with 66 seats, with the first There was an Easter weekend of arriving at Mitchell depot and free travel for local residents. control centre in December 2017. Ten trams were in service DB is the operator, with on the first day, running 130 service 06.00-23.30 on Monday- trips and carrying about 25 000 Thursday, 06.00-01.00 on Friday/ people, who also consumed 8500 Saturday and 08.00-23.30 on free sausages. Revised bus lines Sunday. The end-to-end journey to form an integrated network time is 23-24 minutes with peak CAF tram 006 at Alinga Street on opening day, 20 April. Canberra Metro started on 29 April, with a month headways of six minutes. of free travel on trams and buses. northern suburb of Gungahlin project fell to the new Transport The consortium has been asked With the start of revenue (Gungahlin Place). New Canberra organisation from to develop plans for a 3.2km service, most passengers regulations giving trams priority 1 July 2016. After considering (two-mile) extension south to are expected to use MyWay along the line have been in force four expressions of interest, and Russell that would use wire-free smartcards, which include a since 1 March. the outcome of two Request technology through State Square 90-minute free transfer period. Construction of the line for Proposal submissions, the in the city’s federal complex. The cash fare is AUD5 (EUR3.10), came as a result of the outcome Canberra Metro Consortium This would be the first stage of or AUD9.60 (EUR6) for a day of the 2012 elections, when (Pacific Partnerships, Mitsubishi, an 11km (6.8-mile) extension ticket on the tram and bus Labour required Green party John Holland, CAF, Deutsche to Woden, and it is hoped that network. The 12km (7.5-mile) support to form a government Bahn (DB), Aberdeen Asset works could begin later this year. standard-gauge line links for the ACT. A business case Management and Leighton Northbourne Ave/Aliga St in was approved in September Contractors) was awarded a For more on Canberra’s new light the city centre (Civic) with the 2014 and responsibility for the PPP contract to design, finance, rail service, see TAUT 978. Khon Kaen’s PPP light Public backs trams for Sutton The option of a new extension The highest number (65%) to the tramway system in supported a link between rail plan launched south London (UK) has gained Wimbledon and Sutton via The Thai Government has The projected cost for significantly higher support than Morden Road, with 55% approved proposals for a the so-called Red line is Bus Rapid Transit for the ‘Sutton supporting Colliers Wood – 22.6km (14.4-mile) light rail estimated at THB15bn Link’ proposed by Transport Sutton, and 49% an alternative route in the north-eastern (EUR420m), with a THB4.5bn for London.
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