The representatives of Arad Municipality, a city in the west of Romania, and Astra Vagoane Călători signed a contract for the delivery of 28 new trams worth EUR 46.15 million.
The vehicles are expected to be delivered in the next four years. The new trams will be funded through the Regional Operational Programme (ROP) 2014-2020. 18 trams will be delivered in the first phase. For the rest of ten trams, the municipality submitted the documentation to obtain European funds. If the EU will not finance the procurement of the ten trams, the authorities say they will be purchased nonetheless and financed with local resources.
Next to the procurement project, the authorities plan to announce a new tender for the modernisation of 20 trams of the fleet of 138 vehicles. 54 trams will be upgraded by 2025. “We will organise another tender for the rehabilitation of 20 old trams so that we will have a fleet of 54 new and upgraded trams by 2025. Per capita, this means Arad will be the city with the highest number of trams. No other city in Romania has as much trams as we will have based on the number of people living in the city”, declared Gheorghe Falcă, Mayor of Arad.
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