Siemens
Transportation Systems has won an order worth 70 million Euros from the Canadian city of
in the
for 26 SD160 type light rail vehicles (LRVs).
The two-section high-floor LRV has a seating capacity of 60 and standing room for 170 passengers and is designed to run at a maximum speed of 88km/h.
The LRVs will be built at the Siemens Transportation Systems plant in
Compared with the previous SD160 models, the light rail vehicles for
Thirty-seven Siemens/Duewag type U2 units delivered from 1978 to 1983 are already transporting 42,000 passengers daily. The city of
The SD160 is already operating in the cities of
,
and
.
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