Alstom Transport has been awarded a contract worth €120
million by the Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) to supply
tracks for Singapore metro’s future Downtown Line (DTL), which will
link the northwestern and eastern areas of the island to the
Central Business District and the Marina Bay.
The contract includes design, supply of the equipment,
installation of 70 kilometres of tracks and of a 750 VCC power
supply third rail, testing and commissioning for the Downtown Line.
The contract is for the stages 1 and 2 of the project (to be
completed in 2013 and 2015), which will be built in 3 stages. It
also includes the extension of the existing North South Line.
Alstom already equipped two other lines of the Singapore metro,
the North East Line (NEL) and the Circle Line. The company supplied
the metro carriages and successfully installed its Urbalis
technology in the NEL, the largest automatic metro system in the
world, in service since 2003.
Alstom is also in charge of the Circle Line turnkey project
since 2000. In addition to the rolling stock, the contract includes
engineering of the entire system, construction of the tracks,
provision of power supply systems and signalling equipment and the
train management and supervision system. When it is put into full
service in 2011, the Circle Line will be the longest fully
automated metro line worldwide stretching 33 km of in-tunnel
track.
In fulfilling this contract, Alstom will draw on its expertise
in the area of infrastructure (electrification of railway lines,
track laying, electromechanical systems for new lines,
modernization of existing lines). Alstom has already electrified
more than 10,000 kilometers and has laid more than 2,000 kilometers
of track. Apart from Singapore's automatic metro, the company has
been awarded large-scale contracts for China's high-speed Shi-Tai
line, the “High Speed 1” Paris-London link and Turkey's Marmaray
project.