Following the success of first tramway line Montpellier
chooses CITADIS for line 2

Montpelliers transport authority, TAM, has chosen
ALSTOM for the supply of 24 CITADIS trams worth 58 million
euros. The trams will serve the citys second,
19-kilometer-long line, which will be built as part of the
extension of the citys tramway network. Under another
contract worth 6 million euros, ALSTOM will also supply the
overhead power line for half of the line and maintain it for a
10-year period.

The rolling-stock contract includes options for fitting the
30-meter trams with 10-meter extensions and for the order of
additional trams.

The CITADIS trams have been adapted for Montpelliers
specific requirements. They will enable the municipality to
increase transport services as of 2005-2006.

ALSTOM also supplied the fleet of CITADIS 30 trams for Line
1. In service since July 2000, Line 1 carries more than 110,000
passengers per day. The lines success and growing
passenger demand led TAM to order modular extensions, which
ALSTOM built and integrated, thus lengthening the trams from 30
to 40 meters. The option in the current contract will allow TAM
to extend the new trams in the same manner.

ALSTOM congratulates its client, TAM, on the success
of the first tramway line, said Thierry Best, President
of ALSTOM Transport France. I am delighted that the TAM
has once again chosen CITADIS from a competitive field of
offers to supply the trams for this Line 2.

ALSTOM has sold or won orders for more than 600 CITADIS
trams from 18 cities around the world. More than 300 CITADIS
trams are in service and have carried 500 million passengers
over more than 35 million kilometers.

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