The Summit Ave Elevated Subway is Go. No Word On The City Line Subway.

Marlboro, BR March 20th 2017

New Elevated Subway Would Branch Off 47 Line At 19th & Geneva Heights Ave.

Metropolis Transit and Bridgerissa Department of Transportation were both please to announce yet another rapid transit expansion project as part of the Move Forward 2016-2026 Plan. After countless studies, a new rail corridor along Nedro & Summit Avenues was chosen to be built. This new line will branch off the current 47 Elevated Line at 19th Street & Nedro Ave and will enter a new tunnel under Summit Square and run under Summit Ave for a mile before reemerging outside near SW 38th Street and continuing on an elevated structure to the city line.  The new line will likely become the 33 Elevated with the bus of the same number possibly being renumbered. It is however not clear if this new line will begin at 13th-Nedro Station on the borderline of the boroughs of Marlboro and West Metropolis or in Uptown Metropolis with the 47 train.

Tentative Station Map (Subject To Change)

While the new subway/elevated line might get built along Summit Ave. The Proposed City Line Subway seem to have gone silent. There has been no recent word of it since it was first proposed and no meeting to date were held unlike the Summit Ave Corridor. The Summit Ave Corridor has 3 choices for transportation including elevated subway, light rail (Trolley), or enhanced bus service and the public chose elevated subway and the now the public will soon be able to vote on stations. Metropolis Transit might either rename or remove a few stations from the tentative list. The Summit Ave Line will go into service sometime in 2021. That date however is subject to change as well. 

The New Boga Bridge Will Carry Passengers Starting Feburary 19th

Boga Island, BR. February 9th, 2017

The 26 Train Running Along the Beach Will Soon Be Replaced by New Elevated Bridge.

After 15 months, the Boga Bay Bridge 2.0 is ready to be put into service. Metropolis Transit is preparing to route all 26 trains via the new bridge with brand new stations replace the older ground level ones. The first train is expected to carry passengers on February 19th. Until then, expect to see plenty of test train using the new tracks and stopping at the stations. The older Boga Island Bridge was built in 1924 and is too low to allow marine traffic to traverse the bay as well as being prone to flooding and damage. The bridge sustained critical damage during Hurricane Matthew. Once closed, parts of the bridge will be removed.

Uptown's Bus Depot To Be Replaced By Two New Depots In West Metropolis.

Metropolis, Bridgerissa. February 9th, 2017.

Warning Sign In Randall Mourie Depot Telling Trackless Trolleys To Raise Their Electrical Poles.

Randall Mourie was the acting president of Metropolis Transit from 1982 to 2008 when he appointed his niece, Nicholette Casey, to take over the system. Within that time period, his popularity grew in the Early 1990s when he created the Elevated Subway system from former trolley lines. As part of renaming contest in 1998, his name was chosen for Uptown's Bus, Trolley & Trackless Trolley Depot next to Metropolis Transit's Headquarters Building as well as the renaming of Lindsay Depot to House Park Depot. Fast-forwarding into 2017, Nicholette Casey is now facing an overcrowding issue with the Bus & Trackless Department of the Depot. While the trolley side of the depot is fairing off better with their 19th Century trolley shed, the bus & trackless side is cluttered on an off-day.

Packed Ran Mourie Depot on a Saturday afternoon.

Ran Mourie Bus Depot is the smallest in the bus & Trackless system. Only 90 buses can fit within the lot at one time despite over 120 buses being assigned to it. Metropolis is currently building two new depots within West Metropolis. One being the future 20th Street Depot along Bridget which will house the R, 13 & 18 Trackless Trolley. The diesel buses will be moved to the new Casey Ave Depot which will be located at Casey & 14th Street. Both new depots are set to be completed later this year. 

Bridgerissa Commuter Railway To Rebuild Carbon City Line.

Henning, Bridgerissa. January 19th, 2017.

Porterhouse is one of many stations to be rebuilt. 

Bridgerissa Department of Transportation (B.Dot) announced today that the Carbon City branch of the Bridgrissa Commuter Railway system will be rebuilt. This includes double tracking in certain areas, adding new stations platforms, new imported-but-refurbished Diesel Multiple Unit (or DMU) cars from Great Britain, and more parking for many choked stations like Roosevelt Falls. This project also included adding wheelchair accessibility to the line.  The line waited for on high-level platforms for the longest in order to use their low floor Bi-level rail cars from Bombardier, but those cars are being phased out for imported British DMUs as a temporary measure until new ones are built. The RFP for new American-built DMU is currently also out. North Carbon City Terminal will also have more track space until this plan. Most of the tracks in the terminal were removed in the late 80s leaving only 3 tracks. Two more tracks will open in 2018 when this project is fully over. Bridgerissa Commuter warns of possible delays and closures down the road due to this construction. A few railroad crossings will also be removed.

Happy New Year! Now, Cough Up! Metropolis Transit Fares Go Up.

Metropolis, Bridgerissa. January 12th, 2017.

Metropolis Transit Fares as of January 1st, 2017.

New year, new price. Metropolis Transit has raised its base fare from $2.25 to $2.50. At the same time, the Transfer fare was cut in half. (Unless you use TideCard, then it's Free as it's always been.) These fare increases and decreases are due to a new streamlining program to help get around the system faster. The base fare was raised in order to match inflation rates of 2017. Residents in Metropolis have mixed feeling about the added quarter to their daily commuter. One resident was quoted saying, "We're paying more money and still squeezing into packed trains when the platforms can hold more cars."

The New Fares Will Partially Go To Paying For More Train Cars.

Metropolis Transit has stated a good 42% of farebox revenue will go into the purchase of new subway cars for the Woodland Subway and 47 Elevated Line. The 47 Line currently hold the title of most ridership in the whole system yet many rush-hour trains are stuffed. The line like most elevated lines and the subway use only six subway cars per train. The much shorter elevated cars who were built in the early 2000s have the worse crowding. Currently, Metropolis is waiting on 200 Kawasaki cars who will match the size of the older "Type-D" Cars that currently run on the 39 Line. Those are expected in 2019 which should be right around the time for the next scheduled fare hike to $2.75.

June 6th, The 67 Finally Goes to Metropolis International.

Airport Ridge, BR. May 29th, 2016.

New Metropolis Transit Maps Now Show the 67 Trolley Extension Through MPO Airport. 

Metropolis Transit is proud to announce an opening day for it's heavily anticipated 67 Trolley extension to Metropolis International Airport. June 4th, will mark the first Trolley extension since 1984's Broadway Trolley Subway. All extensions between 1984 and now were more aimed at the growing Elevated Subway system in Metropolis, however instead of building an elevated subway route along the busy Corlesen Avenue, Metropolis Transit spent 6 years upgrading the 67 from Streetcar to light rail as will as building a new extension to the Airport. Since 1922 when the 67 Line first open as the Corlesen Ave Trolley, there were plans to expand the trolley line into the Former Butler Air Force Base. World War II almost saw this extension happen until metal productions was redirected to war efforts so for year the trolley line ended just east of the Air Force Base's entrance. In 1965, Metropolis City Consul agreed on turning Butler AFB into Metropolis International Airport and approved $3 Million dollars to run a subway line from Woodland Avenue. This plan was canned in 1971 due to The Heroin Binge of the early 1970s.

Current 67 Schedule. 

The 67 Trolley will finally be extended into Metropolis Int'l Airport at 6AM, June 6th, 2016 via a new elevated viaduct and new station within the airport. Unlike most trolley lines, the viaduct limits the stations that can be put on the line so trolley only stop at 51st-Ridge, Avis-Hertz, Parking Lot P3 & P4, Terminal 1, Terminal 2, Terminal 3 and the Airport Transit Center where it connects to Bridgerissa Commuter Railway's Airport Expressway Line. Unlike most trolley lines, a pocket track is in place after Terminal 3 which will provide Short-Turn serviced during the Peak within the Airport doubling the potential service. Double-ended trolleys help make this move possible unlike the older single ended trolley who need to loop around at stations like Airport Transit Ctr. or 49th-Corlesen. The opening is expected to be heavily attended.

The Oldest Subway Cars In The Country Are In NYC & Metropolis.

Metropolis, BR/Manhattan, NY May 7th 2016.

Metropolis's ME-PCC or "Type-D" cars just turned 52 years old.

Sometimes, age isn't factor. Pushing in their 50s, some of America's oldest subway cars are now facing replacement. In New York City, the "R32" fleet hold such title. Built in 1964 by The Budd Company, It was one of the first stainless steel subway cars in NYC to be mass produced. (There were a few Stainless Trains from the 30s and 40s who were experiments and didn't last long on NYC's rough environment.) Out of 600 cars only 212 are left running on the C, J, and Z Lines of NYC. The reason why 2/3 of the fleet retired was because the R32 were suppose to be retired in 2009 when the newer "R160" subway cars were place in service but new rail cars from 1972 were beginning to rot so instead they were junked but only after 2/3 of the R32 fleet was sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic.

One of the 212 remaining "R32" cars on the Z Train in Brooklyn. Also turned 52 this year. 

Metropolis Transit actually has a similar story about their 52 year old ME-PCC cars. While Metropolis Elevated materialized in 1986, the rail cars were also born in 1964 but by the St. Louis Car Company.  They began life on Maine's only rapid transit system, the Sea Bright City Municipal Metro replace the 1920s built wooden rail cars. They came with third rail abilities as well as trolley poles for their Hopeland Line who used overhead wires similar to Metropolis. They only last til 1982 when Sea Bright City opted for Stainless Steel cars and converting the rest of the system to 3rd Rail. So this left the cars up for grabs because they were too young to scrap (Only 18 years old at the time.) Metropolis Transit purchased all 150 of them for the start up of Metropolis Elevated in 1986. They were rebuilt, fitted with pantograph for better wire to train contact since Metropolis opted for overhead wires. In 2005, 3/4 of the fleet was retired when newer Bombardier cars came in. Today only 42 are left in service running on the 39 and 79 lines. They are being replaced by Kawasaki "ME-III" Trains in 2018.

52-Year-Old Trains are the mainstay of the 39 Train!

Both the R32 and ME-PCC cars will see retirements in the coming future but they will live on with the many rail buffs who cherish them. Bridgerissa Traction Museum in Great Harbor, has actually saved one pair with another pair on hold that still in service. Metropolis Transit is also planning on running a retirement run system wide. It current not know what the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York City plans to do with their last R32 subway cars but they do host annual nostalgia trains on their M Line during the holidays and selectively run other older cars on other fantrips so  their maybe a special for the last R32 subway cars. Many railfans wish to see them restore to their 1964 look which is VERY similar to the ME-PCCs.

R32 Subway cars at Lorimer St in Brooklyn, NY on the J Line.