On June 11, Ms. Valérie Pécresse, President of the STIF and the Ile-de-France Region, Elisabeth Borne, Chief Executive Officer of the RATP, Benoît Stéphan, Director of Sales and Marketing at Alstom France, and David Journet, Chief Executive Officer of NTL, inaugurated the underground section of the T6 line of the Ile-de-France tram.
The Ayacucho tram line, in Medellín, Colombia, was placed in full commercial service on March 31, 2016. It was inaugurated in the presence of Mr. Luis Pérez, Governor of Antioquia (presence to be confirmed), Mr. Fédérico Guttierez, the Mayor of Medellín, Ms. Claudia Patricia Restrepo, Chief Executive of the Medellín Metro, and Mr. Guillaume Legoupil, Sales Director of NTL. This 4.3-km line is expected to transport nearly 85,000 passengers a day.
David Journet has been appointed Managing Director of NTL, a subsidiary of Alstom, as well as of Bpifrance, manufacturing Translohr rubber-tyred trams on its Duppigheim site and employing nearly 250 people.
