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.