A pre-feasibility study into an 11km extension of the Bucharest Metro has been approved by the Technical-Economic Council of Metrorex, which runs the metro in the Romanian capital.
ROMANIAN infrastructure manager CFR Infrastructură has launched a tender for a feasibility study into the construction of a rail link to Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport.
EUROPEAN commissioner for regional policy Mrs Corina Crețu announced on October 3 that the European Union (EU) will provide €251.8m through the Cohesion Fund to finance the initial phase of Bucharest metro Line 5.
ALSTOM presented its Coradia Polyvalent regional train in the northern railway station of Bucharest on October 11, part of a €140m contract for the Sighișoara - Simeria signalling rehabilitation project Alstom signed in 2014 with CFR Infrastructura.
THE first of 37 Urbos low-floor LRVs being supplied by CAF for the tram network in Budapest arrived in the Hungarian capital in the early hours of March 11.
