The Beasain-based company has stated that it is the “most important transport infrastructure program ever executed in Israel, due to its volume and complexity.”
The consortium formed by the CAF Group and the construction company Shapir has been selected by NTA (Metropolitan Mass Transit Systems, to develop the light rail line ‘Purple Line’, including the construction, design and supply of 98 new low-floor Urbos trams. Valued at 1,015 million euros, the Basque company based in Beasain more than 525 million euros will correspond to it.
According to the Basque company, this is the “most important transport infrastructure program ever carried out in Israel, due to its volume and complexity“. The ‘Purple Line’ project belongs to this plan for the Israeli metropolis, and covers the design, construction, financing and maintenance over a period of 25 years of this line of the city’s light rail system.
The new line will have a length of 27 kilometers along which the 45 planned stations will be distributed, as well as a depot where maintenance work on the vehicle fleet will be carried out.
The ‘Purple Line’ will depart from Complex 2000, located in the center of Tel Aviv next to the Arolozorov train station, and aims to connect the city center with the eastern part of the metropolitan area, “dividing into its part end in two branches that reach the Bar Ilan University area on the one hand, and the neighboring city of Yehud-Monoson on the other”, they have detailed.
The Basque company has pointed out that the new line is expected to be fully operational in 2027, providing the Tel Aviv metropolitan area with “one of the most modern and efficient railway networks for transport”.
Source: Eitb
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