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The Capital Metro is a planned light rail system serving Australia's national capital, Canberra. The initial line is planned to link the northern suburb of Gungahlin to the city centre (Civic) and may continue from there to the nearby suburb of Russell.〔("Capital Metro Light Rail Project to be delivered through Canberra’s first large-scale private partnership" ) Katy Gallagher ACT Chief Minister 21 September 2012〕 This line is currently in the procurement stages. ==History== The construction of the light rail line was struck as part of a deal between ACT Labor, and the ACT Greens; following the result of the 2012 Australian Capital Territory Election, at which Labor required Greens support to form government.〔("Parliamentary Agreement for the 8th Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory" ) ''ACT Greens'' 2 November 2012〕〔(Canberrans not completely on board light rail project: poll ) ''Canberra Times'' 3 August 2014〕 In 2013/14 $5 million was allocated for early design work. It is planned that construction will commence in 2016 with the line opening in 2019.〔(ACT light rail industry briefing ) ''Australasian Bus & Coach'' 18 September 2014〕 In September 2014, the business case was approved by the government. The line will be built by a public private partnership.〔(A Public Private Partnership for Canberra Metro ) Capital Metro〕〔(Canberra light rail project moves ahead after business case approved ) ''ABC News'' 16 September 2014〕 Expressions of interest were received from the following consortia: *ACTivate: Downer EDI Works, Plenary Origination, Bombardier, Keolis Downer and Keolis SA *Canberra Metro: Pacific Partnerships, Mitsubishi Corporation, John Holland, CAF and DB International *CANGO: Macquarie Capital Group, Obrascon Huarte Lain, SMRT International, UGL and Siemens *Connecting Canberra: Capella Capital, Transdev, Alstom and Acciona Infrastructure In March 2015, the government announced that ACTivate and Canberra Metro had been selected to move on to the Request for Proposal stage of the procurement process.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.capitalmetro.act.gov.au/industry-engagement/shortlisted-consortia )〕 The bidders submitted their final proposals for the Gungahlin to the city section of the route on 4 September and had an additional four weeks to submit their proposals for the city to Russell section. In February 2015, it was announced that the Federal Government had agreed to contribute $60 million to the project.〔(Commonwealth Scheme to Support Capital Metro ) ACT Government 19 February 2015〕 In April 2015, the opposition Liberal Party announced it would cancel any contracts for the light rail if it won the 2016 ACT election. This has made the construction of a light rail network a major election issue. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Capital Metro, Canberra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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