LOS ANGELES — LA Metro has received the first cars in an order of new subway equipment built by China’s CRRC, the Los Angeles Daily News reports.
The 75-foot-long stainless steel HR4000 cars will be placed in service in six to eight months, a Metro spokesman told the Daily News in an email. They have 41 seats and a total capacity of 246 people, and will be used on the B and D subway lines. The cars feature an open-gangway allowing easy movement between cars, and are the first LA subway cars with bench-style, side-facing seats to allow more standing room.
The first equipment in the 64-car order arrived earlier this month. Cars were built in China and completed at the Springfield, Mass., plant of affiliate CRRC MA. The cars have arrived about a year behind schedule because of COVID-19-related delays, according to Metro records; the Daily News reports the delivery issues led Metro to cancel an option for an additional 218 cars.
Yes, lets keep buying this Chinese crap from a country that wants to see our demise. I would rather spend a little more than to buy from China.
Isn’t this the same company that totally flupped up the orders for Boston subway cars?
The new CRRC MA HR4000 subway trains for LA Metro system will form either 4 or 6-car sets [each car has capacity for 41 seated passengers] and have a maximum operating speed of 70 mph (113 km/h).
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
The new subway cars are intended to replace the veteran Breda A650s as well as for overall expansion and to accommodate the later parts of the extension.
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
China’s CRRC is a terrible railway giant.
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
Sir, have you ever thought about combining your thoughts into one cogent post?
The story, as written, is confusing? Does each car have a capacity of 246, or does the 246 refer to the capacity of the trainset? If the latter, how many cars in a trainset? If the former, that’s 205 standees per car — a very tight squeeze.
I see that 64 cars are being sent. That may be enough to provide for extensions of the D line, and perhaps retire the oldest cars, which have been in service since the first section of subway opened in 1993. The question is now when (and if) the order for 218 more cars will be ordered…those cars would allow for full retirement of the B/D lines carfleets, along with fleet needs as the D line extends west in the Wilshire Boulevard corridor.