SAN FRANCISCO Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) has selected Bombardier as its preferred supplier to build the so-called "fleet of the future," which will ultimately replace the metro's entire fleet of 669 vehicles.

Santiago Metro has grown steadily over four decades to become South America's longest metro, and further expansion is in the pipeline. Keith Barrow and Ian Thomson-Newman look at how Santiago Metro is investing in new lines and enhancing the existing network to meet the needs of this bustling city.

Paris is developing ambitious plans to connect its suburbs with a 160km peripheral metro network, as Keith Barrow explains.

ARRIYADH Development Authority (ADA) has launched the prequalification for a turnkey contract to design, build and equip Phase 1 of the Riyadh light metro, with an option to maintain the three-lines 92km network.

LILLE Metro has awarded Alstom a Euros 250m contract to modernise Line 1 including the supply of 27 rubber-tyred metro trains that will double capacity on the line and a new Urbalis CBTC signalling system.

THE closing date for a tender to supply 58 four-car trains and equip a new 51km metro line under construction in Kuala Lumpur is expected to be extended from this

KEOLIS, France, has been selected by L&T Metro Rail, a special purpose vehicle of Indian civil engineering company Larsen & Toubro, to operate and maintain the first phase of

STRATHCLYDE Partnership for Transport (SPT) has appointed Systra to act as technical advisor for the turnkey contract to supply new trains, signalling and train control systems, and an upgraded control room as part of the £287.5m modernisation of the Glasgow Subway.

COMMERCIAL services began on April 28 on the first metro line in Suzhou, a city of more than 4 million inhabitants situated in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

Attiko Metro has awarded Siemens a €41m contract to supply signalling systems for the extension of lines 2 and 3.