Metro Metro The Adelaide O-Bahn is the world's fastest guided busway and, at 12 kilometres, the world's longest. It opened in 1986 as a part of the Adelaide Metro network in South Australia, shuttling over seven million passengers back and forth a year. The project cost around AU$98m. It takes roughly 20 minutes to travel the length of the busway. The busway runs from the Adelaide CBD to Tea Tree Plaza, a shopping centre in Tea Tree Gully and runs through the Linear Park that runs from Walkerville to Modbury. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adelaide O-Bahn"
Advanced Rapid Transit or ART is the current name given to a metro system manufactured by Bombardier Transportation; it was originally named ICTS (for ‘Intermediate Capacity Transit System’), and is sometimes referred to generically as ‘advanced light rapid transit’. It is used by metro lines in Vancouver, Toronto, Detroit, New York, and Kuala Lumpur. A future system in Yongin, near Seoul, South Korea is to use the technology as well. It was proposed for Bangkok, Thailand’s Skytrain, but dropped in favour of standard light-rail technology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit"
The Carmelit is a subway (underground metro) in Haifa, Israel. It was originally opened in 1956, but was closed in 1986 after showing signs of aging. It was reopened after extensive renovations in September 1992. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carmelit"
A cross-platform interchange is a type of interchange between different lines in a metro system. The term originates with the London Underground; such layouts exist in other networks but are not commonly so named. In the United States, it is referred to as simply a "transfer". ...more on Wikipedia about "Cross-platform interchange"
The Caracas Metro (referred as El Metro by locals) is a rapid transit system operating in Caracas, capital of Venezuela. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Caracas Metro stations"
A metro station is a railway station for a rapid transit system (which are known by names including "metro" and "subway"). It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines they are multi-level. ...more on Wikipedia about "Metro station"
A metrophile is a person who has as a hobby the study of metro (subway, underground) systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Metrophile" Go crack a shortopedia!
Oslo Sporveier, or Sporveien, is the municipal transit authority of Oslo, Norway, owned by the city of Oslo. In 2003, the company had 2,365 employees, and transported its 160 million passengers 710 million kilometres. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oslo Sporveier"
A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated, or metro system is a railway system, usually in an urban area, that usually has high capacity and frequency, with large trains and total or near total grade separation from other traffic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rapid transit"
Samara Metro ( ) is a rapid transit system which severs the city of Samara, Russia. Opened in 1987 it became the fifth metro in Russia and the twelveth in the USSR. ...more on Wikipedia about "Samara Metro"
* Le métro de Samara on Urbanrail.net (Eng) ...more on Wikipedia about "Samara subway"
A Subcrawl is a variation of a pub crawl based on the Glasgow Subway circuit. Participation requires the purchase of a discovery ticket (all day unlimited travel after 09:30, assuming the subcrawl doesn't start early), currently £1.90, and the consumption of a drink, normally a pint of lager or beer, in the public house nearest to each of the fifteen Subway stations. For example, at Hillhead station participants will alight and each consume a drink in Curlers bar on Byres Road, that being the closest to the station, before re-boarding the subway to either Kelvinbridge or Kelvinhall stations, depending on the direction of travel, and repeating the exercise. Most people choose to begin their crawl at one of the less attractive areas such as Ibrox, since they don't take kindly to large groups of drunk students and it's best to be as sober as possible at this point. "Sub-Golf" is an interesting twist practised by the Glasgow University medical students where there is a list of drinks and the number of shots associated and each participant aims to rack up as few strokes during their lap as possible (usually a double whisky is an eagle), a whisky a birdie, a pint a par and a half pint is a bogey). Points are also awarded for the fastest completed circuit, although photographic evidence of each drink is required. ...more on Wikipedia about "Subcrawl"
Sydney's underground railways do not form a true metro, because they are extensions of suburban main line services and are not a completely segregated system. However, the underground sections, especially the City Circle, show many of the characteristics of a metro, such as very frequent services. In this way Sydney's railways can be considered a hybrid system. The railways are run by CityRail, an agency of the government of New South Wales. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sydney underground railways"
(Tel Aviv Subway) Today, the first 22km line (The Red Line), has already been approved, with expected excavation due to begin in late 2008-2009. It is expected to become operative around 2012-2013 or perhaps later. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tel Aviv Subway"
Urban rail transit is an all-encompassing term for various types of local rail systems serving urban or older suburban areas. The vast majority of modern urban rail vehicles run on electricity. The set of urban rail systems can be roughly subdivided into four categories, which sometimes overlap, causing some systems or lines to have aspects of each. ...more on Wikipedia about "Urban rail transit"
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