지멘스, 6.5억불 미 샌프란시스코 'Muni 메트로' 경전철 차량 수주 San Francisco's Shopping Spree for New Muni Cars
지멘스가 개발한 라이트레일 차량 'S 200'
독일 철도차량 제작사 지멘스는 미국 샌프란시스코 시 교통국(SFMTA)으로부터 『Muni 메트로』로 알려지고 있는 경량 궤도교통(라이트레일) 전차 175편성을 6억 4,800만 달러에 수주했다고 발표하였다.
지멘스는 북미 라이트레일 차량의 약 1/3 가량을 공급하고 있으며, 이 회사에 따르면 현재 17개 도시에서 1,300량이 운행되고 있다고 한다.
emerging media Response, 2014. 9. 22. 레일뉴스 |
San Francisco's Shopping Spree for New Muni Cars
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 7:00am PDT by James Brasuell Irvin Dawid After winning the contract to build All Aboard Florida's locomotives and passenger cars, Siemens Sacramento manufacturing plant landed a $648 million contract much closer to home: Replacement of the San Francisco Muni Metro Breda light rail cars.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has options "to buy 85 more cars in 2018 to 2030," adds Cabanatuan, which would bring the total to $1.2 billion, writes Jerold Chinn of SF Bay.
"The first new cars are expected to arrive at the end of 2016, with 24 needed for the Central Subway in time for its scheduled opening in 2019," adds Cabanatuan.
Muni Metro's current light rail vehicles, made by Italian rail manufacturer Breda (now AnsaldoBreda), are experiencing "troubles with doors and their propulsion system," according to John Haley, transit director for the MTA, notes Cabanatuan.
Inside the Market Street and other tunnels, the Siemens car [see rendering of interior] will have level boarding at stations, and will accommodate low boarding platforms at street stations with steps that fold-up in the subway.
The value of Siemen's contract for production of locomotive and rail cars with All Aboard Florida was not disclosed, though Allen Young of the Sacramento Business Journal, who writes about both contracts, indicates that the total price of the Miami-to-Orlando project is $2.3 billion.
According to Siemens' press release on the San Francisco order, "(e)very third streetcar or light rail car operating in the USA today comes from Siemens." planetizen |
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