TyneWear Metro starting rolling stock procurement

[d7666]

08/06/18:

www.nexus.org.uk/news/item/bidders-invited-design-and-build-new-tyne-and-wear-metro-fleet

and

ted.europa.eu/TED/notice/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:246865-2018:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0

- this is inviting bidders interest, not ITT to build.

I didn't find this specifically in another thread, hence new one.


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Nick

[brigham]

"II.2.5) Award criteria:
Price is not the only award criterion..."

Now that sounds promising. Let's hope the other criteria have some real world relevance.

[Dstock7080]

[spsmiler]

Dec 3, 2021 6:20:26 GMT Dstock7080 said:

It looks like the passenger doors are slightly offset - instead of fully opposite each other.

[jimbo]

Dec 3, 2021 20:28:32 GMT spsmiler said:

Dec 3, 2021 6:20:26 GMT Dstock7080 said:

youtu.be/

It looks like the passenger doors are slightly offset - instead of fully opposite each other.

I can see why you say that, but can't think of any practical reason for it, so I believe it is just an illusion of the camera.

[brigham]

There was an incident on the Metro some years ago where an elderly passenger charged onto a train on an electric scooter, and burst through the opposite pair of doors.

Amazingly, the press coverage concentrated on the train, as if there was somehow a fault with the doors!

I imagine that the outcry would have been different had the perpetrator been a 'youth, 17'.

Staggering the doors might eliminate possible damage to the carriage due to such behaviour. Seated passengers' legs may not be so lucky.