METRO MIAMI 2 ... VERNACCHIA DESIGN AGAIN IN USA

In the summer of 2010 an international Design Tender was launched among the most prestigious designers and Metro Train manufacturers in the world. Vernacchia Design and Hitachi Rail Italy were awarded the Contract. The Hitachi Rail USA (subsidiary of Hitachi Rail Italy) inaugurated its first US assembly plant on March 16th 2015 in the Medley District of Northwest Miami where 136 metro cars will be assembled for Miami-Dade Transit’s Metrorail. Assembly is due to start this month, with the first of the six prototype cars expected to begin testing by the end of the year 2016. The cars are scheduled to enter passenger service in 2018, with production due to be completed in the first half of 2019. Miami-Dade Transit placed the 300 M$ order with the Italian supplier Hitachi Rail Italy.