Urban transport industry news round-up
St Petersburg operator Gorelektrotrans is testing the first of four 71-638-02 Polaris trams ordered at cost of 711m roubles from UKVZ, which announced the model at the Innoprom exhibition last year. The tram is 28 m long with five doors on each side and able to negotiate curves down to a radius of 16 m. It has a maximum speed of 75 km/h with 50 seats and a total capacity of 198 passengers at 5/m2.
Berlin transport operator BVG has approved a firm order for 45 more Alstom Urbanliner extra-long trams for delivery from 2026. It has also placed a €5m order for eight Corys driving simulators with a replica driver’s desk and seat and seven monitors providing a 210° field of vision, as well as two portable desktop versions. The simulators will have 100 km of virtual route, with various weather conditions, driving situations and dangerous incidents.
On February 3, Gateway Development Commission awarded a $1·18bn contract for the Frontier-Kemper-Tutor-Perini joint venture to bore 213 m of twin tunnels as part of the Gateway programme to deliver additional rail capacity between New York and New Jersey. This contract covers the section from the Manhattan Bulkhead beneath the Hudson River to the cut-and-cover Hudson Yards Concrete Casing east of 12th Avenue. Work is expected to begin in the coming months a…
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