A proposed metro project in Pune, India's eighth largest city, received a boost earlier this week when the Maharashtra state government approved the project and committed to partly fund its construction.
RENNES Métropole has awarded a €178m turnkey contract to Siemens to for the construction of the French city's second fully-automatic light metro line. This follows a contract for the first phase of studies which was placed in 2010.
CONSTRUCTION of Line 1 of the Panama metro is now 92% complete and test running is underway.
MRT Jakarta has awarded the final civil works contracts for the Indonesian capital's first metro line allowing construction to start next month.
TEST running started today on the first metro line to be built in the northern Chinese city of Harbin, where temperatures can plunge to -38oC.
THE extension of Paris tram-train Line T4 to Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil has moved a step closer after the €214m project was granted public utility status by Seine-Saint-Denis council.
THE government of Quebec announced on September 20 that it plans to invest at least $C 1.5bn ($US 1.46bn) in the extension of the Montreal metro Blue Line to St Leonard and Anjou.
DUBAI Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has reportedly finalised plans for the extension of its two existing driverless metro lines with the aim of completing both projects by 2020.
FOLLOWING three months of test operation, passenger services began on Xi'an metro Line 1 on September 15.
DELHI Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has awarded Bombardier a contract worth around Rs 3.9bn ($US 62m) to supply communications-based train control (CBTC) for Line 7, the city's first driverless metro line.