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Poland’s Wroclaw orders new trams from PESA
Published: Mon, 2014-12-22 13:08-
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New low-floor tram deal
Poland’s city of Wroclaw has signed a deal with local rolling stock maker PESA to acquire six Twist trams with an option to order a further 19 units. The contract is estimated to be worth about PLN 50 million ($14.5 million), local public transportation company MPK Wroclaw said in a statement.
The low-floor trams are to have a length of 32 metres, and a width of 2.4 m. The rolling stock is to be fitted with a capacity for 222 passengers, of which 58 will be seated, as well as air conditioning and a supercapacitor energy storage system, according to data released by the firm.
The three-car trams are to be the first 100% low-floor rolling stock which will be put into service in Wroclaw. The first units are to be delivered in the second half of 2015, MPK Wroclaw said.
Under the plan, the procurement is to be co-financed by the European Union’s Cohesion Fund. The final size of the order will depend on the amount of funds made available to Wroclaw by the EU, MPK Wroclaw said. The project is part of the Integrated Rail Transport System in the Wroclaw Agglomeration - Stage II programme.
Other Polish cities which operate the Twist include Czestochowa, Katowice, Chorzow, Krakow and Bytom, according to data released by PESA.
Set up in 1995, MPK Wroclaw is owned by the municipal authorities of the Polish city. Wroclaw is the capital of Poland's region of Lower Silesia, and it curently has a population of more than 630,000 residents.
Headquartered in Bydgoszcz, in the country’s north-western part, PESA has a workforce of about 3,500
Av Jaroslaw Adamowski
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