Prior information notice for EUR450 million light metro system project in Karlsruhe. The project includes Kaiserstrasse tunnel (1 x 2,030 m) and Ettlinger tunnel (1 x 1,000 m), cross section 65 m2 and 9.4 m i.d., built with TBM, NATM or open cut; 7 stations each 100 m-long at Europaplatz, Lammstrasse, Kronenplatz, Durlacher Tor, Marktplatz, Ettlinger Tor, and Kongresscentrum; and four shorter road tunnels (1,520 m total) in Kriegstrasse B10. Start of award procedures 01.12.2008. Scheduled start of works 01.09.2009 for completion 31.12.2020. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=263821-2008, GU S 199. Contact Herrn Blank or Herrn Hildebrandt at Karlsruher Schieneninfrastruktur GmbH, tel +49 721 1335590, e-mail kasig@karlsruhe.de More at www.kasig.info 44/08.The contract, value EUR16, 375,681, for the construction of the 1 km-long x 65 sq m cross section x 9.4 m ID Ettlinger tunnel has been awarded by Regierungspraesidium Karlsruhe to a jv of Arge Hinteregger, Oestu Stettin and Reif based in Austria at Bergerbrauhofstrasse 27, A-5020 Salzburg. Details from abteilung4@rpk.bwl.de, tel +49 721 926 6438. More at www.kasig.info. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=318599-2008 50/08.