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The Terrorist Threat INSIDE: Special Focus on 25 Years of DLR THE INTERNATIONAL LIGHT RAIL MAGAZINE HEADLINES l Election results boost for US funding l Le Havre joins French tramway club l Australians’ vote of confidence in LRT LRT SECURITY: FIGHTING THE TERRORIST THREAT INSIDE: Special focus on 25 years of DLR APTA Conference UK Tram Summit Decision-makers We ask where debate US light the money will rail policy and come from for development further systems JANUARY 2013 No. 901 WWW . LRTA . ORG l WWW . TRAMNEWS . NET £3.80 TAUT_1301_Cover.indd 1 27/11/2012 15:49 60th UITP World Congress and Mobility & City Transport Exhibition • 21 Congress sessions and 10 Regional workshops: up-to-date knowledge and hot issues • 15 Expo forums to share product development information • Platform for innovations, networking, business opportunities • Multi-modal Exhibition, 30,000m² • Gathering 10,000 public transport professionals • Over 150 speakers from 30+ countries • A special Swiss Day! www.uitpgeneva2013.org Organiser Local host Supporters Under the patronage of PubLayout_Adpage.indd Genève_A4_IMove2.indd 1 1 26/10/20125/07/12 9:41:34 16:26 Contents The official journal of the Light Rail Transit Association 4 News 4 JANUARY 2013 Vol. 76 No. 901 Election boost for US transit funding; Beijing’s USD16bn www.tramnews.net metro plans; Le Havre tramway inaugurated; Hurricane EDITORIAL Sandy damages transit; Prague plans 13 new lines. Editor: Simon Johnston Tel: +44 (0)1832 281131 E-mail: [email protected] 8 New UK tramways – finding the money Eaglethorpe Barns, Warmington, Peterborough PE8 6TJ, UK. Headlines from the latest UK Tram Summit, and sobering Associate Editor: Tony Streeter opinion on future funding. E-mail: [email protected] 10 Over 160 new tramways in 35 years Worldwide Editor: Michael Taplin 10 Flat 1, 10 Hope Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight PO37 6EA, UK. Mike Taplin reviews the rich variety of development of E-mail: [email protected] modern LRT systems over the past three-and-a-half decades. News Editor: John Symons 15 APTA Conference: Developing the dynamic 17 Whitmore Avenue, Werrington, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs ST9 0LW, UK. E-mail: [email protected] The 12th APTA Light Rail Conference took place in November in Salt Lake City. Vic Simons reports. Contributor: Neil Pulling Design: Debbie Nolan 19 Systems Factfile: Adelaide Production Executive: Carla Corrado Adelaide flirted with guided buses, but has realised the value Tel: +44 (0)1832 281134 E-mail: [email protected] of its surviving tramline, reports Mike Taplin. 19 Worldwide Contributors: Aare Olander, Nikolai 25 LRT security and the terrorist threat Semyonov, Sergei Tarkhov (CIS), Mike Russell, Norman Bartlett, Thomas Wagner, Pedro Costa, Richard Felski, Jordi Ibanez (Europe), Terrorism could jeopardise light rail. Simcha Ohrenstein Yoshiri Nogi (Japan), Anthony Bailey, Ian Hammond, Paul Nicholson reports from the Jerusalem Transit Master Plan. (Australia), Vic Simons, Charles Lietwiler, Steve Morgan, Tom Swinney. 29 Worldwide Review LRTA Website and Diary: Brian Lomas Innsbruck and Minsk extend; French President to open E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Dijon’s second stage; Hamburg DT5 trains enter service; Commercial Manager: Vicky Binley Tel: +44 (0)1832 281132 E-mail: [email protected] London’s Victoria line upgrade sees delays cut. 25 Advertising Manager: Andy Adams 34 Letters Tel: +44 (0)1832 281135 E-mail: [email protected] Boston cuts are regrettable; Edinburgh, the world’s most Eaglethorpe Barns, Warmington, Peterborough PE8 6TJ, UK. expensive tramway? Publisher: Howard Johnston 36 Classic Trams: Dresden’s 140th anniversary Tramways & Urban Transit is jointly published by the LRTA and LRTA Publishing on the third Friday of each month preceding the cover date. A full weekend of events was staged in Saxony’s capital at the end of September. Mike Russell was there. LRTA MEMBERSHIP (with TAUT subscription) Tramways & Urban Transit is sent free to all paid-up members of the Light Rail Transit Association. You are welcome to join the LRTA. SUBSCRIPTIONS: LRTA Membership Secretary (Dept T06), 2012: A year of mixed experiences 38 Wolseley Road, Sale M33 7AU, UK. SIMON JOHNSTON, EDITOR BACK ISSUES: Tel: +44 (0)1406 373070 PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION: Warners (Midlands) plc, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1778 391000. As we head into another year, it is congestion and population growth, these LRTA REGISTERED OFFICE: c/o 138 Radnor Avenue, Welling, worth reflecting on a few key points of are crucial if China in particular is to fulfil Kent DA16 2BY. Private company limited by guarantee, No. 5072319 2012: Across Europe we’ve seen further its ambitions in building mega-cities. in England and Wales. economic instability with systems in Closer to home for TAUT, ground- LRTA Chairman: Andrew Braddock. LRTA Deputy Chairman: Vic Simons Spain facing tough times, the closure breaking has taken place in Nottingham, LRTA PUBLISHING REGISTERED OFFICE: c/o 8 Berwick Place, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 4TU. Private Limited Company, No. 06169422 of the Vélez-Malaga tramway and the and the West Midlands, and Manchester in England and Wales. continued non-opening of the system in continues to develop the UK’s first fully- © LRTA Publishing 2012. Jaen. Rail projects in Italy and Greece fledged LRT network. Although work is Articles are submitted on the understanding they may also later be used have also been significantly delayed as finally moving along ‘on schedule’ in on our websites or other media. A contribution is accepted on the basis that governments wrestle with debt. Edinburgh, serious questions remain. its author is responsible for the opinions expressed in it, and such opinions Other countries have pushed on, with Will the tramway open in 2014 as are not those of LRTA Publishing or the LRTA. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in any form a handful of new systems in France and promised? We hope so. by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording further extensions and fleet renewals in Lastly, the UK has delivered the or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Olympics and Paralympics in style – permission in writing from the copyright owner. Multiple copying of the contents of the magazine without prior written approval is not permitted. In the US, a previously uncertain truly living up to the Olympic Delivery political climate gained stability with Authority’s aim of a ‘Public Transport progressive President Obama gaining a Games’. Transport for London performed THE INTERNATIONAL LIGHT RAIL MAGAZINE HEADLINES l Election results second term and further committing to flawlessly during July, August and boost for US funding l Le Havre joins French tramway club l Australians’ vote of public transport schemes. Increasingly, September, delivering millions to the confidence in LRT the US is looking to Europe for lessons Games causing minimum disruption to (see the APTA Conference, page 15) and the operations of the capital. Jerusalem’s tramway European operators and manufacturers In the 25th anniversary year of the takes the threat of are only too happy to offer their expertise. Docklands Light Railway, the way terrorism seriously, and The avalanche of new projects in China London’s rail-borne networks revelled in LRT SECURITY: FIGHTING THE TERRORIST THREAT has a comprehensive and the Far East continues with metro the challenge proves that light and urban INSIDE: Special focus on 25 years of DLR APTA Conference UK Tram Summit security plan – development and the first modern street- rail in all forms works as a long-term Decision-makers We ask where debate US light the money will rail policy and come from for development further systems JANUARY explained on page 25. 2013 No. 901 running tram schemes. Grappling with solution if the investment is there... WWW . LRTA . ORG l WWW . TRAMNEWS . NET £3.80 TAUT_1301_Cover.indd 1 27/11/2012 15:49 Simcha Ohrenstein www.tramnews.net . www.Irta.org JANUARY 2013 3 3_TAUT1301_Contents.indd 1 28/11/2012 12:05 News Edinburgh ELECTION RESULTS BOOST report confirms on time and FOR US TRANSIT FUNDING IN addition to President Obama winning a second to the city’s USD5.2bn light metro. Construction will on budget four-year term, signalling a continuation of the resume once court-ordered archeological studies pro-transit policies and investment by the Federal are finished. In Arlington, Virginia, voters approved A REPORT on the UK’s Edin- Transportation Administration, the 6 November a USD31.9m transportation bond that will benefit burgh Tramway says the con- national elections saw several local polls determine Washington metro improvements, while in Virginia tractual completion date of July transit issues. Beach there was a 62% majority in favour of extend- 2014 “will be achieved.” It adds, In North Carolina 59% of Orange County vot- ing the Norfolk light rail line to serve the town. however, that efforts are “being ers approved a half-cent sales tax for transit pro- In Los Angeles, Measure J was just defeated (a made to improve on that.” jects, including the proposed Durham – Chapel Hill two-thirds majority was needed for approval) – this The project remains in line light rail. Charles Hales, a rail transit advocate, was would have extended the existing half-cent sales tax with the revised budget approved elected to become Portland’s next mayor. However to cover the period 2039-2069, so there will be no in September 2011, it says. voters in Clark County, Washington State, refused a immediate effect. Alameda County voters in Cali- Among other things the re- sales tax increase that would have helped fund the fornia narrowly defeated a half-cent sales tax in- port, published by the City of Columbia River Crossing, including Portland’s light crease dedicated to transportation, including fund- Edinburgh Council, details vari- rail link with Vancouver.
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