ALSTOM is awarded an order for 120 cars for the Washington
subway

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority (WMATA) has awarded ALSTOM an order worth around
150 million for the supply of 120 heavy rail subway
cars.

This order is the exercise of an option
provided in the initial contract awarded to ALSTOM by WMATA in
June 2002 for the supply of 62 heavy rail subway cars for the
Blue Line extension to Largo Town Center.

WMATAs bus and metro lines serve nearly
336 million passengers per year in the Washington area. The
120 cars will serve to accommodate continued growth on the
Metrorail system, and will also be used to help WMATA expand to
eight-car trains.

The cars will be assembled in ALSTOMs
Hornell, NY facilities. They will be fitted with ALSTOMs
proven propulsion technology, ONIXTM traction drives, and an
advanced cab signaling system.

In 2000, WMATA had already awarded ALSTOM a
contract for the overhaul of 364 subway cars which were built
between 1983 and 1988. This contract represented Washington
Metros largest single order.

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