Green light for £600M expansion of Manchester’s Metrolink network

09 August 2007

Greater Manchester transport bosses have appointed a delivery partner to help oversee the £600M expansion of the Metrolink network.

Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive has awarded the contract to Parsons Brinckerhoff, and has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) to find a company to build the new Metrolink lines.

David Leather, GMPTE’s chief executive, said: ‘We’re now in a position to begin the process to appoint a major construction company to build the new Metrolink lines.’

The 13.7-mile (22 km) Metrolink extension to Oldham and Rochdale will replace the existing railway line which links the two towns with Manchester; the four-mile (6.4 km) extension to Droylsden will serve New East Manchester, the City of Manchester Stadium, and the Velodrome; and the 1.8-mile (2.9 km) extension to Chorlton will replace a section of disused railway line between Trafford Bar and St Werburgh’s Road.

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