ITALY: The city of Torino's infrastructure company Infratrasporti.To has awarded the Transfirm GEIE consortium of Siemens France and Technimont a €17·1m contract to provide control systems for a 1·9 km extension of the VAL automated metro Line 1.The extension will run in bored tunnel from Lingotto to Italia '61 and Bengasi. Civil works are being undertaken by Seli SpA under a separate contract. Opening of the extension is scheduled for the end of 2015, with construction to be undertaken without interrupting services on the existing line. More...
