Rta red line11/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The light-rail trains can serve stations with high platforms on Cleveland’s Red Line and the low platforms of the Blue/Green lines, although station platforms will have to be modified to take advantage of the operating cost savings of off-the-shelf, standardized trains (Mark Schwinn). Because the Red Line platforms have to be modified, the replacement of the Red Line cars will happen all at once after the first 24 rail cars are delivered to GCRTA and have 1,000 miles of testing as well as train operator training, said Mike Schipper, deputy general manager of engineering and project management.Ī pair of Siemens S200 rail cars pause at the 4th and King streets station in San Francisco. Federal regulations limit the horizontal and vertical gaps between train doorways and station platforms to no more than four and two inches, respectively. The new trains will have high floors that will be level with the Red Line’s high platforms and steps to descend to the Green/Blue lines’ low platforms. To accommodate the new trains, the staff recommendation includes $19 million in infrastructure upgrades to the East 55th Central Rail and Brookpark maintenance facilities, train servicing equipment for those facilities, and modifications to all 52 stations since the new, off-the-shelf trains are skinnier than the Red Line cars., according to a rail car project summary on the GCRTA Web site. According to a rail car project summary on the GCRTA Web site, replacing all of those with 60 trains including a reserve of six trains could cost up to $393 million - a substantial increase from the transit authority’s earlier estimate of $300 million. Many rail cars were used for parts to keep the rest of the fleet running. GCRTA has 69 rail cars remaining in its train fleet that peaked at 108 rail cars in the 1980s. But GCRTA’s will require about 15 months of design and engineering to operate on Cleveland’s rail system. The rail car is based on an existing train design - the S200 which operates in San Francisco, CA and Calgary, Canada. While GCRTA expects the next option to be delivered several years before the seven-year clock runs out, it wants the extra time in case there are any delays. Transit agency staff recommended to the committee awarding a $164 million contract to Siemens Mobility to design, build and deliver for service on the Red Line up to 24 high-floor light-rail vehicles including in that contract $40 million for design, spare parts, tooling and training with an option for an additional 36 additional LRVs for the Blue/Green lines within seven year of contract signature. are within a 15-minute walk, bike or transit ride from home, transit officials said. Such development could support Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s 15-Minute City vision in which all basic living needs - work, school, groceries, banking, health care, etc. The new trains are intended to help restore reliability and ridership and help spur more transit oriented development (TOD) around rail stations. GCRTA officials say the new trains, costing nearly $400 million or $5.16 million each plus other design, training and facility costs, are needed to reinvigorate a 33-mile rail system asset for Greater Cleveland that would cost up $4 billion to construct if it were built today. Interior features of Cleveland’s new rapid transit trains that will operate on all rail lines (GCRTA). ![]() The new trains will be Siemens rail cars that could be plying the Red Line between Hopkins International Airport, downtown and Windermere as early as 2026, followed by the Green/Blue lines linking Shaker Heights and downtown’s waterfront several years thereafter. A formal vote by the board is expected later this month or in May. Much more detail about the new rapid transit trains also was provided.Īt today’s GCRTA Board of Trustees Committee of the Whole meeting, transit agency board members expressed excitement and unanimous support for the proposed new trains, as recommended by GCRTA General Manager and CEO India Birdsong Terry’s staff. While NEOtrans revealed in January what type of new rail car Greater Clevelanders will be riding for the next two to three decades, that news was made official today by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA). First half of order to replace Red Line trainsįor the first time in four decades, Greater Cleveland is about to get a new Rapid. The new trains, to be built by Siemens Mobility of Sacramento, CA, will increase service reliability for passengers and reduce operating costs for the transit agency (GCRTA). Introducing the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s new trains that will operate on all rail lines and replacing one of the oldest rail car fleets in the nation.
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