REPRESENTATIVES of Riyadh's Fast Consortium, Arriyadh Development Authority, and residents of the district of Salah Al-Din attended a ceremony at the site of the future Salah Al-Din station on October 4 to witness the first tunnel boring machine (TBM) breakthrough on Riyadh metro Line 5 (Green Line).
RIYADH's King Abdulaziz Public Transport Authority has revealed the first images of the new trains for lines 1 and 2 of the Saudi capital's six-line metro network, which is currently under construction.
WORK on Line 1 of the Riyadh Metro took a significant step forward this week when the first tunnel boring machine (TBM), Mneefah, named after the horse of the founding King of Saudi Arabia, began its journey beneath the Saudi capital.
TICKETING supplier Indra has signed a € 266m contract to provide all ticketing and access control infrastructure for the new public transport network currently under construction in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
FINAL designs for the Riyadh metro Orange Line train fleet have been presented to the governor of Riyadh and chairman of Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA) by Bombardier, which is supplying 47 two-car Innovia Metro 300 sets for the 40.7km east-west line.
ARRIYADH Development Authority has appointed Lloyd's Register Rail to act as independent safety assessor (ISA) for the $US 22.5bn Riyadh metro project.
Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries in the world to have virtually no public transport in its major cities, but this is about to change as plans for comprehensive bus and rail networks are developing rapidly, as David Briginshaw explains.
THE governor of Riyadh Prince Khaled bin Bandar officially launched construction on April 3 of the six-line metro to be built in the Saudi capital.
The Saudi capital Riyadh has set itself a daunting task: to build an automated metro comprising six lines simultaneously in five years. David Briginshaw explains how this ambitious project will be implemented.
ARRIYADH Development Authority (ADA) has appointed a joint venture of Parsons, Egis Rail, and Systra to supervise construction of the metro network in Riyadh.