{"id":13834,"date":"2024-03-12T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13834"},"modified":"2024-03-12T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T04:49:09","slug":"alstom-wins-contract-to-extend-le-mans-france-trams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13834","title":{"rendered":"Alstom wins contract to extend Le Mans France trams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Text\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Le Mans, France, March 12, 2024 <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u2013 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, <\/span>has been chosen by \u2018Le Mans Metropole\u2019 to extend the existing Citadis trams of the city. The 34 32-metre-long Alstom trams, acquired successively in 2007, 2010 and 2013, will be extended to 44 metres, increasing passenger capacity by 85 passengers per tram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">After the complete assessment of a first tram, the project will also enable some systems to be modernised (CCTV, tachometric control unit) and new ones to be installed (lubrication and anti-drift systems).<\/p>\n<p>Delivery of the first extended trams is scheduled in March 2026, with commercial service expected to begin in the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trams in France : Le tramway du Mans\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pd4ApCPqAlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"htex-popover-control\"><span id=\"htex-popover-action-copy\">Copy<\/span><b><\/b> <span id=\"htex-popover-action-translate\">Translate<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Mans, France, March 12, 2024 \u2013 Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, has been chosen by \u2018Le Mans Metropole\u2019 to extend the existing Citadis trams of the city. The 34 32-metre-long Alstom trams, acquired successively in 2007, 2010 and 2013, will be extended to 44 metres, increasing passenger capacity by 85 passengers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13836,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions\/13836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}