CAF, with local partner Shapir Engineering, started a15 year concession contract to operate and expand the Jerusalem light rail network on April 16 replacing the previous CityPass consortium which was sold to the Israeli government in 2020.
The new concession will build and operate the new 20.6km long‘Green Line’and construct a 6.8km extension for the existing 14km long ‘Red Line’opened by CityPass in 2011. CAF is supplying 114 Urbos trams for the new‘Green Line’, and will refurbish the 46 Alstom Citadis trams used on the‘Red Line’.