This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector.
Sakarya municipality, centred on Adapazarı is to call tenders for the construction of a 15.2 km tram line on April 28. It would have 19 stops and two branches, running from Sakarya Atatürk Stadyumu in the east to a junction west of Tuna Tan in the city centre. From there, one branch would run southwest to to Sakarya University, and another northeast to Serdivan Spor Salonu.
The city of Tbilisi has received three bids from Turkey and one from China for a contract to design and build a 7.5 km tram line linking the Didi Digomi district with Didube metro station. The project is being implemented using Asian Development Bank procurement rules with funding from the state budget, and will require a fleet of 11 trams.
Sando has been awarded a €48.2m contract to build the final 510 m cut-and-cover tunnel for an extension of Metro de Málaga Line 2, including the terminus at Hospital Civil.
The US federal government has restored funding for New York’s Second Avenue Subway Phase 2, which will extend the Q line into Harlem. ‘It shouldn’t have taken seven months and a lawsuit to get here, but with the federal government’s concession today on the courthouse steps, the MTA can now confidently forge ahead with Second Avenue Subway Phase 2’, said MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber on April 16. ‘The billion-dollar contract approved at our March board meeting is being awarded and contractors are mobilising right away.’
Touch Sensity has started dynamic tests of its Sensity Tech on an MF 77 metro trainset running on Paris Line 13. This technology will help to the operator to undertake predictive maintenance of bogies.
Helsinki metropolitan area transport operator Pääkaupunkiseudun Kaupunkiliikenne has selected SRV Rakennus Oy to provide project management services for the construction of an ‘environmentally responsible, energy-efficient and modern’ depot for the Vaarala tram project. Opening is planned for 2029.