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Qatar Signs Massive $25 Billion Deal with Germany’s DB to Develop Rail Network

» Rapidly growing Middle Eastern state will invest massively to expand already booming economy.

If Dubai and Abu Dhabi have grabbed most of the headlines recently, neighboring Qatar has been quietly building up from an out-of-the-way desert country to a center of world trade. Despite the country’s overall small 1.5 million-person population, the capital city Doha has been the site of increasing government-sponsored development thanks to huge oil and gas revenues and the country is now arguably the richest on the planet per capita. Next year, its economy is set to expand by 16%, the largest increase in the world, further solidifying

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Upcoming Transit Line Openings: 2012

Early
  • ▶ Sacramento Green Line to the River District LRT
  • ▶ Rhode Island Wickford Junction Extension CR
  • ▶ Los Angeles Expo Line Phase 1A LRT
February
  • ▶ Las Vegas Sahara Corridor BRT
March
  • ▶ Pittsburgh North Shore Connector LRT
Spring
  • ▶ Boston Fitchburg Line Extension CR
  • ▶ Miami Airport Link Metro
  • ▶ Seattle Sounder Lakewood Extension CR
June
  • ▶ New Orleans Loyola/UPT Streetcar
July
  • ▶ Dallas Orange Line Phase II LRT
Summer
  • ▶ Los Angeles Orange Line Canoga Extension BRT
  • ▶ Los Angeles El Monte Transit Center
  • ▶ New York Nostrand/Rogers BRT
  • ▶ San Antonio Via Primo BRT
September
  • ▶ Portland Streetcar Loop
Fall
  • ▶ Calgary Northeast Line Extension LRT
  • ▶ Chicago Jeffery Corridor BRT
  • ▶ Seattle RapidRide C & D Lines BRT
  • ▶ Twin Cities Cedar Avenue BRT
December
  • ▶ Dallas Blue Line Extension LRT
  • ▶ Dallas Orange Line Phase II LRT
  • ▶ Montréal Train de l'Est CR

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