Urban transport industry news round-up
Operator MPK Poznań is to purchase 24 secondhand NGT6D trams from Bonn operator SWB Bus & Bahn for €2·2m including spare parts. The 75% low-floor bidirectional trams were built by Duewag and will replace obsolete Konstal 105Na high-floor vehicles.
On December 28 Moskva Mayor Sergey Sobyanin opened a 7·2 km three-station southern extension of metro Line 16 (Troitskaya) from Tyutchevskaya to Novomoskovskaya, where it meets Line 1. The first 8·3 km of the Troitskaya line opened in September and it is also being extended at its northern end. Current plans envisage a total length of 43·3 km.
Revenue services started on December 30 on a 3·2 km southerly extension of Minsk metro Line 3 (Zielienalužskaja). Runing from Kaval’skaya Slabada to Slutskiy Gostinets, the extension has three …
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