AtkinsRéalis announces that it has been selected by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) to provide program management services for its acquisition of new HR5000 heavy rail vehicles (HRV) in support of service expansion in preparation for the 2028 Summer Olympics.
“With the eyes of the sporting world now turned to my hometown Los Angeles, AtkinsRéalis is privileged to support critical rail infrastructure that will transport thousands of people during the Olympic Games,” said Steve Morriss, President, U.S., Latin America, and Minerals & Metals, AtkinsRéalis. “The Canada Line, one of our flagship rail projects in North America, was a critical capital investment driven by the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Our comprehensive rail consultancy services ensured the line opened on budget and more than three months ahead of schedule and it continues to run at 99.8% average availability rate to this day.”
AtkinsRéalis is providing Program Management Support Services for LA Metro’s HR5000 procurement under a 7-year contract, overseeing the supply of 182 cars for use on the B (Red) and D (Purple) heavy rail lines, and to meet enhanced capacity needs due to the D line extension to West Los Angeles. Key to AtkinsRéalis’ success is ensuring the on-time delivery of 42 of the 182 total base order HRVs ahead of the Olympic games, meaning they will need to be manufactured, tested, commissioned and accepted in less than four years.
“AtkinsRéalis possesses a wealth of technical expertise with more than 5000 rail and transit professionals world-wide,” said Paul Demit, Senior Vice President and Infrastructure Solutions Business Unit Director, AtkinsRéalis. “We have a proven track record of overcoming difficult challenges and have mastered the balance of representing client’s needs and contractual requirements with understanding the challenges faced by contractors. This experience helps bring about mutually beneficial solutions.”
LA Metro selected Hyundai Rotem as its HRV supplier earlier this year, providing the opportunity for AtkinsRéalis to build on the company’s experience working with the South Korea-based supplier. AtkinsRéalis is one of few vehicle consultants who has successfully supported the on-time delivery of Hyundai Rotem vehicles in the North American market in the past 20 years, including major new-build public-private partnerships such as the Denver Eagle and Canada Line projects. The Company’s management of the vehicle procurement for Denver Eagle has been considered the “gold star” of the highly successful USD 2.2B project.
AtkinsRéalis offers comprehensive services across the full life cycle of rail vehicle procurement programs for all equipment types including heavy rail, light rail, streetcar, commuter, intercity and high-speed rail. The Company has provided similar services for multiple North American transit agencies over the past 35 years, with clients including Denver Transit Partners, Baltimore MTA, Orange County Transit Authority, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, Amtrak, Brightline Florida, GO Transit, TransLink and The Montreal Transport Authority.
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