Some ideas discussed include locating a full-scale facility where passenger railcars could be designed, manufactured, and tested.
Alstom has also commissioned its SRS ground-based static charging technology coupled with the Citadis Ecopack energy storage system.
The Citadis X05 features a wider gangway, larger panoramic windows, higher speed, and reduced maintenance costs.
The CBD and South East Light Rail is a new 7.4-mile light rail network for Sydney, currently under construction.
The agreement is for Bombardier Transportation to now manufacture 76 light rail vehicles for the Eglinton Crosstown project, 106 vehicles less than the original contract for 182 vehicles.
The new cars will begin arriving in the third quarter of 2020 and complete delivery by the first quarter of 2021.
Light rail vehicles will travel across the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge over Lake Washington. It will be the first light rail line in the world to operate on a floating bridge.
The new model will also soon be rolled out soon in other cities including Nice and Avignon, France, and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The scope of the overhaul includes the upgrade of major systems such as propulsion, HVAC, automatic train control, auxiliary power supply, brake control, communications, and doors, as well as the LRV’s bogies.
The added vehicles, scheduled to arrive no later than 18 months after final delivery of a previous order placed last fall, will support the opening of Sound Transit’s Link extension projects to Federal Way and downtown Redmond in 2024.
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