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イギリスのライト・レイル・アソシエーションの会報のトラムウェイ＆アーバントランジット2010年12月号がきました。

今回小さい記事でしたが、サウジアラビアメトロの写真がでていまして、ちょっと気になりました。

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トラムウェイ＆アーバントランジットDEC/2010号　VOL73　No876
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News
US pledges a further US600m for street car schemes; light rail flourishes despite UK spending cuts; Edinburgh trams surplus after spiraling costs force shorter line; Light Rail Award 2010 breaks records; Luas Cherry wood extension is open while Metro North costs could be cut by a third; Hong Kong fleet refurbishment planned.

UK Spending Review: analysis
Industry and campaigning figures respond to light rail’s success despite Government budget cutbacks.

Easy access: are the rule too complex?
Everybody is entitled by law to be easily able to board a tram. TAUT examines UK accessibility rules.

System factfile: Porto
Portugal’s second city has been thoroughly transformed by efficient modern light rail. Neil Pulling reports in words and pictures.

Looking to a lower cost future
Arguing the cost for a re-examination of tram and track design, to lower costs and address ‘green’ concerns.

Tram – Train for Canada’s Faster Valley
A campaign under way to bring community rail to British Columbia’s Lower Faster Valley.

World wide Review
Mecca Metro opens in time for pilgrimage; Blackpool ‘125’ a success; new bombardier metro train in service in Toronto; Sheffield marks 50yaers since the end of its first-generation tramway.

Letter
Rolling stock innovation from the Eastern Bloc; Cheap dose not equal value for money; what to do now with the surplus Edinburgh trams.
Classic Trams: Brussels
How the Belgian capital showed the world the way to really do historic tramway clebrations…