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Metro, subway, MRT, U-Bahn, metrorail — whatever you call it, here's the creative global resource for it. Focusing rather on aesthetic values than on boring technical details, there are themed sections (see menu on the left) and quality photos. Compare the basic parameters of the world's 172 metros and light rails or print a fact sheet (see city selection on the right) of the system you plan to visit!
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Latest News
23 May 2009. The World Metro Database is available again! Sorry for the delay.
22 May 2009. Major metro update by Jordi: three new metros (Adana, Santo Domingo, Seville) and new stations in Bangkok (+2), Delhi (+1), Recife (+5), Shanghai (+1), Singapore (+2), Sofia (+5) and Tehran (+4). The data for Los Angeles now includes the Green Line.
1 May 2009. A Metro Bits photo has made it on a rock album! The band 4 Letter Holiday from Leeds, UK had some time ago asked for the rights to use the photo, and now it can be seen on their debut album Contentment Is Happy Boredom. Style of music is a rock guitar sound and driving drums with a jazz-style and jamming feel. Download the album from iTunes, Amazon or other major music download sites. The band members have been working hard to raise funds for a CD version to be released very soon.
23 Feb 2009. Several updates submitted by users via email or in the forum, some of them pending for weeks already, have been made available now. Sorry for the delay. Metro Bits should become interactive so that users can leave comments on every page in realtime!
16 Feb 2009. Nuremberg photo tour update
5 Feb 2009. Delhi, Istanbul, and Recife updates by Jordi S.
28 Jan 2009. Unfortunately, the World Metro Database page has been temporarily disabled by the web host due to high usage. However appreciative it is for a website to have many visitors, this problem has to be fixed, and hopefully will be fixed soon. Meanwhile, the recent accurate metro data is still available for each city on the Fact Sheets, and older data lists (about a year old) are available here: World Metro List, Features List, and Annual Passengers. Sorry for the inconvenience!
25 Jan 2009. Buenos Aires and Taipei updates by Jordi S.
15 Jan 2009. Kazan update (one new station).
21 Nov 2008. Mark Ovenden, author of the bestseller Metro Maps of the World has launched his new book Paris Metro Style in Map and Station Design at the London Transport Museum. Co-authored by Julian Pepinster and Peter B. Lloyd, the tome is incredibly detailed and contains 500 maps and 500 photos — the result of three people's enthusiastic work over three years.
20 Nov 2008. Bucharest metro extended. Lausanne's metro line 2, which had seen public test runs in the preceding weeks, is now officially opened.
26 Oct 2008. Warsaw update.
19 Oct 2008. London has "lost" a metro line. The East London Line is closed for upgrading. By June 2010, the line will belong to London Overground and run from Dalston Junction in the north to New Cross, Crystal Palace and West Croydon in the south.
12 Oct 2008. Baku update.
5 Oct 2008. Metro database updated with new figures for Barcelona and Monterrey. And the resources page has got a small technical tweak.
19 Sep 2008. Another update from Jordi to the metro database with new figures for Kaohsiung, Moscow, Oslo, and Rotterdam.
Updated list and two new metros2 Sep 2008. Yesterday, Jordi has sent his updated list of network lengths, stations, openings etc, which is now integrated in the World Metro Database. Since the last update, two new metro systems have entered the scene: the cute stylish minimetro in Perugia, Italy and the metro in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, which started with a decent 28 km. And a lot of other metros have increased in length.
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24 Aug 2008. New Stuttgart photo page. Stuttgart has a classy light rail network and a commuter rail (S-Bahn) tunnel section. |
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New World Metro Database
21 Aug 2008. Start with a predefined table (Basics, Numerics, Features, Complete), then add, rearrange, or remove columns. Select metric or imperial units. Click on headers to sort, click again to change sorting direction. Bookmark your current table.
The new flexible database makes things cleaner and simpler and replaces the old pages World Metro List, Features List, and Annual Passengers (they are still here, just in case).
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Newest updates
- New homepage design — do you like it?
- Ring Lines data and a Google map on every city Fact Sheet.
- Annual Ridership List by J. Kennes.
- Photo Tours through the metro stations of Oporto and Toulouse.
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Subways need not be boring or dreary! Many operators of metros, subways or underground railways want to attract more passengers with good station design. This often means extra effort and higher costs for the metro operators but it seems to pay off when a metro is more than just a means of transport but something the residents can be proud of. Read more...
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Most metros have logos or symbols to mark their station entrances, rolling stock, and printed matter such as maps or tickets. Since most metros around the world are indeed called 'metros' (only few are called subway, underground, U-Bahn, T-bana or something else), many metro logos are more or less fancy variations of the letter M. More about metro logos...
Some subway systems are stylish enough to communicate with their customers through exclusively designed typefaces for wayfinding signage and paperwork. More about metro fonts...
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