Iaşi municipality has launched the pre-information notice on the modernisation of the tram network at a cost of RON 66 Million (EUR 14.9 Million). Assignment procedures will begin on August 24, 2012 and the project will take 25 months to complete from the assignment. The project is part of the Regional Operating Programme 2007-2013, priority [...]
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Denmark has approved the first light-rail line in Aarhus. Post the approval, the Aarhus Letbane joint venture of the Aarhus municipality, Danish Ministry of Transport, and the Midtjylland region can now be formally established as the project promoter, and thereafter the tendering process can be launched. Phase I of Line 1 will involve the construction [...]
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On May 10, 2012, three trams of Bucharest public transport operator, RATB, collided causing an accident with 92 injured. Until the publishing of the present material, RATB’s General Manager, Viorel Popescu, could not be contacted by phone to offer information. According to the operator’s press release, the three trams meet technical and traffic safety conditions [...]
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Works for the tram-train of Médoc are ready to commence after the signing of the grant agreement. The service should be running by 2014, and will evolve from 7.1 km of new tramway lines to new links with other railway lines. A new tramline will be constructed in the place of the current tracks of [...]
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At the meeting of the Russian Ministry of Transport on April 16, 2012, the Coordination Council discussed about the development of the transport system of Moscow and Moscow region. The proposal on the accession of several state-budget aid funds for the development of the railway junction, a project worth RUB 17.6 Billion (EUR 452 Million), [...]
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