The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will lend $520m for a 47km expansion of Delhi’s metro The money will fund extensions of lines 1 and 5, and the development of…

Paris-headquartered Systra has won a systems project management contract for Stockholm’s new Yellow Line, set to be the sixth line of the Swedish capital’s metro system. In planning since 2020,…

Authorities in the Indian state of Haryana have invited detailed project proposals for two new metro lines in the tech hub-city of Gurgaon (officially Gurugram), 30km southwest of Delhi. The…

French rail engineer Alstom has signed a contract with Metro de Madrid to create the city’s first driverless route. Line 6, the one chosen, runs for 24km and accommodates 400,000…

Three extensions have opened on Beijing’s metro, bringing the total length of the system to 879km. The completed projects are: the last section of the Changping Line’s southern extension, a…

A consortium led by French engineer Egis is to offer project management and supervision services on a section of the Orange Line metro scheme in Bangkok. A press release from…

Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, saw its first metro transit system open for passengers on Saturday, 30 November, after work on it began more than 20 years ago. The 10km-long, east-west…

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman officially inaugurated the Riyadh Metro on Wednesday, ending a 12-year mega project involving dozens of engineering, design and contracting firms from all over the world.

Thai contractor CH Karnchang Plc has picked Aecom as lead designer for the Orange Line West metro project in Bangkok, billed as one of the biggest rail infrastructure projects in…

The bids have been entered for Dubai Metro’s Blue Line, which will add 30km and 14 stations to the emirate’s mass transit system. According to business website Meed, the lowest…

Jacobs is overseeing a $227.5m project to upgrade three stations on the busy Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The design-build contract involves…

A consortium made up of Egyptian contractor Orascom Construction, Bouygues subsidiary Colas Rail and Japanese engineer Hitachi has been chosen to modernise Cairo’s Metro Line 1. The €800m deal will…

A 15.5km section of the Sydney metro has opened to the public. The line runs from the city’s northwest, under the harbour, through the central business district to the suburb…

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has chosen a team made up of French contractor Vinci and local company Walsh Construction to design and build the extension to the Red Line…

Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded a US$305m contract to a consortium of Siemens Mobility and Concord Corporation for the power supply system for the city state’s eighth transit…

The first section of Hanoi’s second metro line, Line 3, has opened for a free trial period before the official unveiling, due in September 2024. The 8.5km elevated railway built…

The joint venture of Ferrovial and Portuguese contractor Alberto Couto Alves has finished the €99m extension of Porto Metro’s Yellow Line. Portugal’s infrastructure minister Miguel Pinto Luz attended the inauguration…

France’s Egis will be the lead consultant for the Abou Qir Metro line in Alexandria, Egypt. It’s a 22km-long route running from the city’s Misr Station to Abu Qir, a…