China’s first export of metro vehicles to the United States was finally finalized yesterday. According to foreign media reports, on the afternoon of the 22nd local time, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation approved the purchase of 284 U.S. vehicles worth 567 million U.S. dollars for the Beijing Subway.
Boston, the symbolic city of the United States, opened the first subway line in the United States as early as the Qing Dynasty (1897), seven years before New York. However, today, the obsolete facilities of the Boston Metro are obviously not able to bear the weight of history. The new "Made in China" will replace the old cars that have been in operation for 30 to 40 years, as if people see the curtain call for an era. .
According to the Associated Press, a Chinese state-owned track equipment company won a $ 569 million metro contract in Massachusetts yesterday. According to the report, the "T" subway in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest subway system in the United States. Today it has to buy vehicles from China and it has inevitably caused controversy in the country. Neither of the opponents said that China’s human rights issue was to be talked about. Some people also noticed that China’s extremely low offer.
This Chinese state-owned company is China CNR Changchun Railway Vehicle Co., Ltd. According to reports, CNR received a procurement contract for 284 subway vehicles from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and will be equipped with the Boston Red Line and the Orange Line subway. This is the first time that China's rail transportation equipment companies have won the bid for the world in the United States. CNR has also become China's only track equipment manufacturing company that lands in the United States.
Boston was the site of important events during the American Revolution and was once an important shipping port and manufacturing center. It is known as the center of American intelligence, technology, and political thought. The first line of the Boston Metro was completed and put into use in 1897. It has been more than one hundred years since. It is 7 years earlier than the New York subway that was put into use in 1904.
However, unlike people’s impressions of the spaciousness and comfort of domestic subways, “old†is the biggest feature of today’s Boston subway. There was an introductory article saying that the equipment of the Boston Subway was very old and the bricks in the walls were exposed. There were different shades of white paint. Most of the upper and lower lanes lacked elevators. . Although the carriages are clean, they have been used for many years at a glance. Many of the leather seats on the seats have been cracked. Just find something like electrical tape and stick them on and continue to use them. Many of the paint on the floor has fallen off; there are individual doors that cannot be fully opened. You have to be on your side to get in and out.
The obsolete equipment brings serious security risks. On March 10 this year, a train on the Boston Subway departed between Canmore and Fernouer. At the time of the incident, the train had a total of two carriages. After the first train derailed, it ran into the tunnel walls and caused at least 10 injuries.
In May of this year, the Boston Metro updated its vehicles for tenders worldwide. CNR and CNR, Bombardier of Canada, Alstom of France, Kawasaki of Japan, Kraft of Spain and other global rail transit equipment manufacturers bid separately. In the end, China CNR won.
This is another order for rail transit equipment from developed countries in Europe and the United States after China CNR obtained orders for French tankers in 2011. Since then, China CNR rail transit equipment has achieved global coverage in six continents in Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, and Oceania.
These subway trains are fast transit vehicles operated by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation in Boston and the surrounding metropolitan area. The body of the train is made of stainless steel and adopts a full-automobile structure. The orange line train passenger capacity is similar to the type B vehicles widely used in China. The red line train carries a larger amount of passengers, similar to the Type A cars used in large domestic cities. Train speed is 63 miles per hour (ie 102km/h). Based on regular maintenance and overhaul, the vehicle design can run 80,000 miles/year (129,000 km/year) and service life is at least 30 years. The U.S. standards are used in the structural strength, control safety, and RAMS requirements of trains.
According to CNR, from the point of view of R&D and manufacturing technology, the company is the only rail transit production company in the world that can produce all kinds of car bodies, all materials, and all traction subway trains. Its production technology can be compared with the international giants. . Judging from the organizational capabilities of the production process, CNR has a strong supply capacity, can guarantee the delivery of orders within the contract period, and even meet the customer's demanding delivery requirements.
At present, there are more than ten urban rail transit lines in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities. According to statistics of the German authority SCI Verkehr, the United States is the second largest railway market in the world after China, and the demand for rail transit vehicles is relatively strong.