– franceinfo 3 – 9 janvier 2014 – Tram-train de l’ouest lyonnais à l’arrêt : une reprise progressive est annoncée. (Update, July 2020) A single ticket costs €1.90 and can be used for any mode of public transport. Gobernación del Valle del Cauca – Santiago de Cali, December 12, 2019 – Gobernadora entregará estudios de prefactibilidad avanzada para el tren de cercanías siga su curso / [Request for] advanced prefeasibility studies for the commuter train (modified Google translation). It’s Bombardier versus Alstom, SNCF came up with a catenary heater in 2019 to address frost problems, Tram-train Nantes – Châteaubriant : la fréquentation en hausse, Problèmes sur le tram-train Nantes-Châteaubriant : la Région tape la SNCF au portefeuille, Pourquoi, avec le givre, le tram-train entre Nantes et Châteaubriant reste à quai, Nantes-Châteaubriant: Le tram-train bloqué par le givre ce mercredi, les habitués en ont marre, Le givre bloque le tram-train entre Nantes et Châteaubriant, Nantes-Châteaubriant: Pourquoi la ligne de tram-train déçoit, Tram-train en panne : 176 passagers doivent regagner la gare en marchant sur les voies, SNCF : la ligne Nantes-Châteaubriant perturbée par le givre, Nantes Clisson : TramTrain, toutes les rames rentrent au garage.

des problèmes d’accouplement en UM et de liaison électronique ou informatique en cabine.

« Il n’est pas acceptable qu’un matériel neuf connaisse de telles avaries. (For some discussion of low-floor vs. high floor vehicles see a previous blog post.) Please check your ticket for the recommended arrival time so you arrive at our Eurostar stations in plenty of time to go through these checks.
There is at present no other use of either the Dualis or the Spirit anywhere in the world. This is about the end of my Spirit rabbit hole, looking at spreadsheets of Paris tram usage and reliability. AWP Assistance UK Limited FCA registration number is 311909. Metrolinx – Finch West LRT and Finch West LRT Project FAQs (PDF). (That being said, I don’t know if a winterized 405 exists, but presumably the 405 could be modified in the same way that the Dualis was modified. (Google Translate), El País – December 12, 2019 – Primer tramo del tren de cercanías en el Valle estaría listo en el 2025 / First section of the commuter train in the Valley would be ready in 2025 (Google Translate), El País – December 13, 2019 – Los otros datos de los estudios del tren de cercanías que tendría el Valle / The other data from the studies of the Valley commuter train (modified Google translation). To change to high-floor metro we’d have to rebuild literally every single station.

SIDEBAR: The Regio-Citadis tram-train pre-dates the Dualis, and is a hybrid (diesel or electric) train, unlike the Dualis and Spirit which are electric only.

The Dualis was used for what the French call small lines – “petites lignes“; low-passenger-volume lines running from a city to a small town or village (these types of lines have been pretty much closed in Canada for decades). It’s because T4 was closed during a large part of the year for the construction of a new extension (a branch to Clichy Montfermeil). Nantes and Lyon rural/suburban lines using the Dualis carry fewer passengers per day than Ottawa carries per hour at rush hour.1.

– 25 avril 2018 – Les déboires du tram-train d’Alstom (Internet Archive): A cause d’une « avarie de matériel », la toute nouvelle ligne reliant Epinay au Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis) ne fonctionnera pas jusqu’à lundi. Nantes’ population is 309,346. (The T4 line is the worst, but the data are from before the Spirit was added to the line in September 2019.)2. Find more information on how to change trains at Lille Europe here. Idris2000 / CC BY-SA And we can’t replace 72 trains with new vehicles. And I mean seriously partner, with a coordination office and a kickoff public conference hosted by Ottawa. The Dualis has only been deployed in 3 cities. – Toronto Star – How do Toronto’s light rail vehicles compare? Citadis 405), Type of vehicle: tram (travels on urban streets, sometimes with fully or partially dedicated lanes), Current generation: effectively the first generation (Citadis Dualis and Citadis Spirit). We use two 48m trains with 300 passenger capacity coupled together, making a single 96m train (a consist) with 600 passenger capacity.
Horaires de Lyon Saint-Paul à Sain-Bel - le 18 octobre 2020 à 17h00 . They manage because they’re using different vehicles with a much longer history of development, operations and maintenance. END SIDEBAR. Tram-trains and LRVs (Light Rail Vehicles): Current generation: 5th generation (X05 series, e.g. Timeline appears to be 2025. Citadis Dualis and Citadis Spirit tram-train, Inside the slow-rolling disaster of Ottawa’s $9-billion LRT project, Phase 1: Saint-Cyr to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Alstom to deliver 31 trainsets of its new Citadis Dualis model to SNCF, Alstom va livrer à la SNCF 31 rames de son nouveau Citadis Dualis, Alstom to provide 34 light rail vehicles and maintenance services for Ottawa, Alstom launches North American light rail vehicle with Ottawa contract, Spirit, le tram-train choisi par la ville d’Ottawa au Canada, Canada and USA are poles apart on transit funding, Alstom’s Citadis Dualis tram-trains begin commercial service on the Tram 4 extension between Clichy and Montfermeil. Lyon’s public transport network, ran by TCL, consists of 4 metro lines, 6 tram lines, 2 funicular railways and over a hundred bus routes. (Google Translate), The Twitter account Cali Projects @ProyectosCali says, In the pre-feasibility studies, a Citadis Spirit train is proposed, this train has 3 variables and for Cali, a 42-meter, 3-car train with a capacity of 346 passengers is being designed with the possibility of linking trains to increase their capacity to almost 700. Une fine couche de glace s’est déposée sur les caténaires qui fournissent en électricité les trains. A 2018 article in Mobilités Magazine summarizes some of the issues and fixes: Le nombre de pannes a fini par provoquer une réunion de crise à la Région des Pays de la Loire le 13 avril dernier. If you’re really ambitious you can try reading the 1838 page Hurontario LRT Project Agreement (PDF). trains that will run on a dedicated track (a dedicated lane in the centre of the roadway, separate from regular traffic), will run every 5-7 minutes during peak hours, (estimated) 46,000 passengers per weekday, estimated that the Finch West LRV will carry approximately 2250 passengers per direction per hour during the peak period by 2031; the capacity of the Finch West LRT is up to 6,300 passengers per hour per direction.