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SFMTA Unveils ARRA-Funded LRV

On Oct. 14, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) unveiled the first refurbished, “like new” light rail vehicle (LRV) in a $56 million order of 143 vehicles. The contract is part of the LRV Doors and Steps Reconditioning Project, which allocates $9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to directly improve vehicle availability, service reliability, and performance by rehabilitating nearly all of Muni’s LRVs.

The manufacturer, AnsaldoBreda, is rehabilitating several key systems on the vehicles to their original operating specifications. The LRVs entered service between 1997 and 2003.

The scope of the project includes rebuilding the doors and steps system, the automatic couplers, the air supply units, and the traction motors, as well as replacing the articulation pins in the center of the vehicles and the articulation wire harnesses. This effort will maintain component life and improve vehicle reliability.

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