International Railway Journal - May 2008 - (Page 14)

Transit news St Petersburg invites bids for Nadzemny Express Contracts awarded for Algerian lines LGERIA’S state-owned public transport company (EMA) has awarded two turnkey contracts worth around É662 million to build the first light rail lines in the cities of Oran and Constantine. The Tramnour consortium, which comprises Isolux Corsan, Spain, and Alstom, has been awarded a contract worth É355 million to build Oran’s 18km line, which will have 32 stations. Alstom will supply 30 Citadis LRVs, signalling and telecommunications systems, depot equipment and substations, while Isolux Corsan will be responsible for civil engineering, track, and overhead catenary. The line will take 26 months to build. Alstom will play a similar role in the É307 million light rail line in Constantine, supplying 27 Citadis LRVs and track, power supply, signalling and communications, and depot equipment. Consortium partner Pizzarotti, Italy, will carry out civil engineering. The 8km line will have 11 stations and will open in 2010. Alstom is also part of a consortium building a 16.3km line in Algiers. A T HE city of St Petersburg has invited prequalification bids for the construction of the 30km Nadzemny Express (Nadex) light rail line. Nadex will connect the districts south of the city centre, running from an interchange with the metro and suburban rail services at Obukhovo to Pionerstroya Street, where the line will divide with branches running to Congress Centre and Baltic Pearl. The line will have 16 stations and will run on a dedicated alignment, around 70% of which will be elevated with the remainder at grade, but fully segregated. The line will be electrified and built to the standard Russian 1524mm gauge. Nadex will be a public- private partnership, and the winning consortium will build equip, maintain and operate the line for 30 years. The preferred bidder is due to be announced in December. St Petersburg Line 1 Line 2 Planned LRT line Metro lines Railways Line 3 Congress Centre Baltic Pearl Obukhovo Prospect Veteranov Metro Station Metro Station Kupchino Metro Station N Pionerstroya Street IRJ Delhi Metro orders cars for Phase II expansion D ELHI Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has awarded Bombardier a $US 87 million contract to supply an additional 84 Movia metro cars for the Phase II expansion programme, which will add 60km to the network. The order follows an initial deal signed in July 2007 for 340 cars, and DMRC has requested a change in the configuration that will take this to 424 cars, formed into 37 four-car and 46 six-car trains. The trains will be built at Savli in the state of Gujarat, where Bombardier is setting up a facility to manufacture coaches and bogies. Financial boost for Bogotá metro O NE of the largest cities in South America without a metro, the Colombian capital Bogotá, has received a boost after the Interamerican Development Bank said it would be willing to provide a 25-year loan worth up to $US 2.5 billion to kick-start construction. Work on the project could begin within three years, and a selection of international companies was invited to submit bids for the preliminary engineering design by the middle of April. The municipal authority says it will award a contract for design in July and expects the work to be completed by April 2009. 14 IRJ May 2008

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International Railway Journal - May 2008

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