VICTORIA department of transport has selected Bombardier to supply a fleet of low-floor LRVs for Melbourne in a deal worth $A 303 million ($US 293 million). The contract includes 50 Flexity Swift vehicles, a mock-up, maintenance equipment, and maintenance of the LRVs until 2017, with options for a further 100 vehicles.
VICTORIA department of transport has selected Bombardier to supply a fleet of low-floor LRVs for Melbourne in a deal worth $A 303 million ($US 293 million). The contract includes 50 Flexity Swift vehicles, a mock-up, maintenance equipment, and maintenance of the LRVs until 2017, with options for a further 100 vehicles.
The 33m-long vehicles, dubbed Flexity Melbourne, will be assembled at
Bombardier's Dandenong site near Melbourne, with plants in Mannheim and
Siegen, Germany, supplying propulsion systems and bogies respectively.
The first Flexity Melbourne will be delivered in 2012.
Melbourne's light rail network is one of the largest in the world, and
last year carried 175.6 million passengers. The state government says
the new Flexity vehicles will allow operator Yarra Trams to carry an
extra 10,500 passengers at peak times.
