Globale Nachrichten

The Metro Station Rumyantsevo on the Sokolnicheskaya Line opens.

Jihlava has retired Skoda 21Tr trolleybuses. Note, that Jihlava was the last city in the former Czechoslovakia to operate 9Tr trolleybuses, and also the first city to retire 14Tr trolleybuses.

A tramway extension to the major apartment block development Fordon opens. Tram services revised.
http://transphoto.ru/photo/879922/

Opening of the rehabbed segment of tramway south of the Bécsi út Stop, along with the new segment between Batthyány tér & Margit híd.

Opening of a new trolleybus line to the Railway Station.
Route #6 will run along the line: KP KTTU — Ostrovskogo Street.
The route passes along the streets of Ostrovsky, Shkolnaya, Rosa Luxembourg, Gorky, Ordzhonikidze, Parkovaya and Kramatorsk Boulevard.

Sign the petition to support the electric transport and the environment https://goo.gl/pkji2z.

Two Mercedes-Benz O405GTZ trolleybuses 152 & 161 delivered second hand from Winterthur, Switzerland. The vehicles were bought using private funds. They will be prepped for revenue service at the Kramatorsk Heavy Machinery Factory.

The first tram of Electron Т5B64 type enters service.

50th anniversary of the Tbilisi metro.

Trolleybus service is running again with 35 cars. The amount of operating cars will be decreasing.

Trolleybus lines #6 and #7 were reorganized in the bus lines #42 and #43.

Stilllegung der Reißeck-Standseilbahn.

Trolleybus service stopped due to severe electricity supply shortages.

Trolleybus service suspended from 12/31/15 due to severe electricity supply shortages.

Following a lengthy renovation, the Vladivostok Funicular reopens.

The new tramway network with 4 lines opens:
http://www.comune.palermo.it/noticext.php?cat=1&id=8893

International Association of Urban Electric Transport Enterprises prepared a petition to President Putin of the Russian Federation on development strategies to improve the electric transport in Russia.

The first TrolZa 5275.03 Optima trolleybus delivered. The vehicle was purchased to commemorate the 55th anniversary of Voronezh trolleybuses.

A new trolleybus extension to the Kuznechiki apartment block development opens. The loop Line 1 is rerouted to serve the new extension, and will operate as follows: Podolsk RR Station — Yubileynaya Ploschad — Mikrorayon Kuznechiki (Akademika Dollezhalya Ulitsa) — Podolsk RR Station.

The following trolleybus services were suspended in 2015:
6 ZhD Vokzal — GorMash suspended as of 13.12.2015; 7 Aeroport — BGTU im. Shukhova suspended as of 12.2015; 10 Energomash — BVK suspended as of 09.2015

The Video Catalog rules have been published.

The first 3 out 8 Bogdan T70117 trolleybuses delivered.

The Technopark Metro Station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line opens.

Huaian Modern Tram opens, with 23 stations over 20.7 km.

The tram operation in Dzerzhinsk terminated on December 18, 2015. Rolling stock will be disposed of, while tracks and overhead will be dismantled. We ask EVERYONE CONCERNED with the fate of trams to sign the following petition to save the Dzerzhinsk tramway:
https://goo.gl/f8zkOY
Also you can write another adresses, instruction is here https://vk.com/topic-21256623_33315390
Every vote counts!

A rally Against Closure of the Dzerzhinsk Tramway on 19.12 at Lenin Square:
http://transphoto.ru/articles/4728/

Organized collection of signatures under the petition for the preservation of trolleybuses in Vologda:

Троллейбус в Вологде должен быть сохранён!

A new trolleybus line opens via Lyudviga Svobody Prospect and Pobedy Prospect, to the tramway loop at the end of Pobedy Prospect. The Lines 2 & 40 extended: http://gortransport.kharkov.ua/news/20746/

Starting from January 1st, trolleybus Lines 5, 9, 10, 11, 15, 23 & 57k will be suspended. The service on the Lines 4, 13 & 14 will be cut back. Eight routes will remain in service — the Lines 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 18, 21 & 57. The Line 57 will be rerouted via Komsomolskaya Ulitsa and Mira Ulitsa instead of Banykina Ulitsa. Hence, the Banykina Ulitsa line, and many lines bordering the AvtoVAZ car factory, will no longer have revenue service. http://goo.gl/9QvX5H

An agreement was reached for a delivery of 21 second hand Tatra T3 trams from Prague to Mariupol free of charge. Upon a transfer to Ukraine cars' wheelbases will be replaced either in Kharkov or Dnepropetrovsk. It is expected that Tatra cars will enter regular service in the spring of 2016.

Die Bestellung der DT5-Wagen wurde auf insgesamt 107 Fahrzeuge erhöht.
https://twitter.com/hochbahn/status/679598190115569664