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La Takes Light Rail to the Next Level THE INTERNATIONAL LIGHT RAIL MAGAZINE www.lrta.org www.tautonline.com AUGUST 2016 NO. 944 LA TAKES LIGHT RAIL TO THE NEXT LEVEL Intermodal: Urban rail’s part in the bigger picture Dubai signs Metro expansion deal Could ‘Brexit’ jeopardise UK funding? Seattle brings forward LRT growth ISSN 1460-8324 £4.25 Prague Systems Factfile 08 Tram/metro growth High-floor to meet in the Czech capital low-floor in Utrecht 9 771460 832043 LRT MONITOR TheLRT MONITOR series from Mainspring is an essential reference work for anyone who operates in the world’s light and urban rail sectors. Featuring regular updates in both digital and print form, the LRT Monitor includes an overview of every established line and network as well as details of planned schemes and those under construction. Each entry includes: An overview A high-quality of the system’s image for ease development, of future recent major reference projects and known plans for the future Contact names The vital and numbers operational for the key statistics decision-makers The European edition covers 425 tramway, light rail and metro systems across the continent – from Armenia to the United Kingdom. Our data is derived from first-person research, so you can be assured that it is the most up-to-date possible, with regular updates to ensure you stay on top of this thriving market. Other editions: For more details contact +44 1733 367607 or email [email protected] www.mainspring.co.uk/monitor CONTENTS The official journal of the Light Rail Transit Association AUGUST 2016 Vol. 79 No. 944 www.tautonline.com EDITORIAL EDITOR Simon Johnston Tel: +44 (0)1733 367601 E-mail: [email protected] 13 Orton Enterprise Centre, Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU, UK ASSOCIATE EDITOR 289 Tony Streeter E-mail: [email protected] WORLDWIDE EDITOR 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, Staffs ST9 0LW, UK. E-mail: [email protected] SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR Neil Pulling WORLDWIDE CONTRIBUTORS Tony Bailey, James Chuang, Paul Nicholson, Richard 302 Felski, Ed Havens, Bill Vigrass, Andrew Moglestue, H. Pulling 304 Mike Russell, Nikolai Semyonov, Vic Simons, Herbert Pence, Alain Senut, Thomas Wagner. NEWS 284 DEVELOPMENTS IN PRAGUE 302 PRODUCTION Seattle accelerates light rail plans; Transport Witold Urbanowicz details the Czech Rick Wilson for West Midlands formally launched; capital’s planned expansion schemes. Tel: +44 (0)1733 367604 E-mail: [email protected] Dubai signs ‘Route 2020’ metro contract; DESIGN CAF wins in Maryland; Could ‘Brexit’ SYSTEMS FACTFILE: UTRECHT 304 Debbie Nolan jeopardise EIB investment support? Utrecht should have two distinct but ADVERTISING connecting light rail formats by 2018. COMMERCIAL MANAGER Geoff Butler INTERMODAL 2016 289 Neil Pulling takes a visit. Tel: +44 (0)1733 367610 E-mail: [email protected] Can coherent and efficient integrated travel PUBLISHER strategies be developed across all modes WORLDWIDE REVIEW 309 Howard Johnston that satisfy all parties? TAUT reports from Citadis unveiled for Shanghai’s future lines; Tramways & Urban Transit is jointly published by the Nottingham’s two-day Intermodal event. Ontario government contributes towards LRTA and LRTA Publishing on the third Friday of each stage 2 of Ottawa’s light rail scheme; air- month preceding the cover date. LOS ANGELES: LRT TO THE BEACH 295 conditioned Hong Kong tram enters service. LRTA WEBSITE AND DIARY A relative light rail latecomer, Los Angeles Brian Lomas E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] has opened new lines in 2016 and could be MAILBOX 314 LRTA MEMBERSHIP (with TAUT subscription) about to take its networks to the next level. Viewpoints on green track, the great gauge Tramways & Urban Transit is sent free to all paid-up debate and monorails as public transport. members of the Light Rail Transit Association. LA STREETCAR 301 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MEMBERSHIP ENQUIRIES Mott MacDonald’s Gordon Head explains CLASSIC TRAMS: ROTTERDAM 316 LRTA Membership Secretary (Dept T06), the objectives and challenges of the Peter Burke takes a look at the museum line 38 Wolseley Road, Sale M33 7AU, UK. Streetcar project to revitalise downtown LA. celebrating the former RTM network. Tel: +44 (0)117 9517785 BACK ISSUES Tel: +44 (0)117 951 7785 PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION What does Brexit mean for rules and funding? Warners (Midlands) plc, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1778 391000. ‘Brexit’ didn’t even exist as a word until a few months ago, yet now this LRTA REGISTERED OFFICE term is on the lips of everyone in the country it refers to, everyone across the c/o 138 Radnor Avenue, Welling, Kent DA16 2BY, UK. European Union which the UK has voted to leave, and around the world. Private company limited by guarantee, No. 5072319 It is still early days: As yet, nobody yet knows exactly what form Brexit in England and Wales. will take, where it will lead, or when. What is known is that there will LRTA CHAIRMAN have to be significant negotation between the UK and its EU partners and Andrew Braddock within the structures of the organisation itself – as well as potentially other partners E-mail: [email protected] around the world as the UK seeks to re-establish independent trading relationships. LRTA DEPUTY CHAIRMAN Depending on how the situation is handled, Brexit undoubtedly offers opportunities Paul Rowen as well as challenges, but it’s one of the latter I want to pick up on here: the European LRTA PUBLISHING REGISTERED OFFICE c/o 8 Berwick Place, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 4TU, Investment Bank has raised questions about its ability to carry on funding UK projects of UK. Private Limited Company, No. 06169422 all kinds (see News). While those who pushed for the UK to leave rightly pointed out that in England and Wales. the country is a net contributor to the EU’s budget – thereby suggesting that money for © LRTA Publishing 2016 things currently being supported could be available even if the source might change – Articles are submitted on the understanding they may also at this point there is understandably some uncertainty about the way forward. The same later be used on our websites or other media. A contribution is accepted on the basis that its author is responsible for the is true of regulation: will the UK be part of the single market and, if not, what might that opinions expressed in it, and such opinions are not those of mean for a wide range of legislation? These decisions must be taken carefully and there LRTA Publishing or the LRTA. All rights reserved. could be wide-ranging repercussions for transport, the environment and millions of jobs. No part of this magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in Building and operating light rail is a long-term undertaking, so confidence in the any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and stability of legislation and funding is a pre-requisite. So while a post-referendum UK is retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from probably right not to rush into anything, it’s also surely true that to keep disruption to a the copyright owner. Multiple copying of the contents of the minimum, some kind of directon of travel needs to be made clear as soon as possible. magazine without prior written approval is not permitted. Brexit is just one of many uncertainty-causing factors in the world right now. But what COVER: New Kinkisharyo P3010 rolling stock at businesses, and planners, need... is certainty. Simon Johnston, Editor Metro’s Monrovia facility in Los Angeles. Vic Simons www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org AUGUST 2016 / 283 News Seattle accelerates its light rail plans Next openings of Sound Transit’s massive USD54bn programme brought forward by two to five years ollowing public reaction Seattle Streetcar 407 northbound at its open house on Westlake Avenue on the South meetings, Sound Transit Lake Union line in June 2016. has approved changes The Amazon logo is prominent, Fto its 25-year Draft Plan 3 that while in the background is the bring forward the agency’s 37-storey Amazon Tower, the planned light rail extensions group’s corporate HQ. S. J. Morgan (99km/62 miles) by two to five years. Extensions to Federal Way and Redmond will now open in 2024, to Ballard in 2035, Everett in 2036, to West Seattle and Tacoma in 2030 and Tacoma Link to Community College in 2039. The overall USD54bn cost is to be funded in part by new sales, motor vehicle excise and property taxes, which will be on the November ballot for voter approval. In other news, the Inekon trams equipped with batteries for off-wire movement on the First Hill Streetcar are of the 121-Trio type, as distinct from the 12-Trio. As planned, 407, the additional 121-Trio purchased specifically for expansion of service on the South Lake Union Streetcar line, In the spring, a shortage of The five ex-Melbourne trams Restoration Inc. in Arlington, and financed by Amazon, is now motormen forced the occasional from the former Waterfront WA, for indefinite storage, and in the active fleet of that line, cancellation of some duties on the Streetcar line have all vacated will be joined by 525 as a source joining 2007-built 12-Trio cars First Hill line, but a new class of their warehouse that is due to be of parts. The others have gone 301-3. Cars 401-6 are serving the trainees completed their training demolished; 272 and 605 went to to St Louis for the Delmar Loop First Hill line.
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