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There are still important new developments in public transport services in the Paris region of l’Ile de France. The extension of line 11 to the east of Paris, with 6 new stations, is already planned, and a new tramway line has been inaugurated as planned. This is the T10 line, 8, 20 km long, o...

With high-tech trains, on 16 June, the first new-generation train, the X – Wagen, series 3700, produced by Siemens in cooperation with Wiener Linien, the operator of the public transport network in Vienna, was authorised for operation on the U3 metro line.  The train will be permanently operat...

In Edinburgh, the tramway extends its route. On 7 June 2023, the 4.7 km extension of the tram line from St. Andrew Square to Newhaven opened to the public. The new section, under construction since November 2019, cost £207.3 million, and was actually supposed to form part of the second line of the p...

Four years after work began, the extension of the Bordeaux tram line A between Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport and the city centre was inaugurated on 29 April 2023. The new section, approximately 5 km long, is separated from the Quatre – Chemins stop and includes four new stops in addition to the te...

Sixty years after the closure of the last line (the service ended on 3 November 1963), the tram in Bologna is starting up again. With a brand new network, of which the foundation stone was laid on 26 April, in the presence of the mayor of Bologna Matteo Lepore, the city councillor for Public Works [...

Alstom is the winner of a joint tender for 22 new low-floor trams, model Citadis, chosen by three French cities: Toulouse, Besançon and Brest. The three networks therefore commissioned Alstom with the 5-unit version of the Citadis model, of which 9 units will be delivered to Toulouse, 5 to Besancon,...