21 August 2016 — Seven new lines. New strains in Bangkok (16 stations), Chengdu (17), Incheon (27), Rio de Janeiro (6), Suzhou (22), Tianjin (eight), Zhengzhou (16).
21 August 2016 — Data updates and corrections. Delhi (+2 stations), Kharkov (+1), Medellin (+2), Shenyang (+four), Sofia (+1).
13 August 2016 — Video page rebuilt. After Youtube modified one thing, embedded movies have been gone. Drawback fastened.
22 July 2016 — Genoa photo page fixed.
22 July 2016 — metrobits.org is interactive. DISQUS remark perform on each web page (besides house web page)
17 July 2016 — Chicago guided tour updated and museum entry added.
17 July 2016 — Metro museum colour-coded. Forms of museums that at the moment are colour-coded within the listing: metro, transport, commuter rail, tram, railway, specialty, every now and then
9 July 2016 — Even more metro museums added. Berlin depot, Buenos Aires workshop, Seoul Gyeonggi, Tokyo Keio, plus Maglev museums on the Maglev web page
9 July 2016 — Metrobits data update. New metro in Nanning (10 stns.), new strains in Changsha (20) and Shenzhen (18), extensions in KL (24), and Lisbon (1)
2 July 2016 — Metro museums added. Some deep analysis revealed 4 extra metro-related museums: Hong Kong, Minsk, Sapporo, and Wuhan!
26 June 2016 — Metro font for Santiago added.
25 June 2016 — Abandoned circle lines. A (thankfully small) new part on the Metro Rings web page. The one entry is Sydney Monorail, dismantled in 2013.
17 June 2016 — Map colour coding switched. Purple now stands for metro/subway, blue for mild rail, inexperienced for different all through the web site.
7 June 2016 — Two new metros and updates to five . New metros in Fuzhou and Dongguan, new line in Baku, extensions in Bangalore, Duesseldorf, Ningbo, and Seattle.
19 Might 2016 — Maglev Metros: new Metrobits.org page. There are three strains worldwide and two extra to return in 2016
18 April 2016 — Translation buttons removed. ... from the highest proper nook of all pages
17 April 2016 — New interactive map of the world's metros on home page!. A Google map with all cities is now embedded within the house web page
eight April 2016 — City pages: new Express section, map links more prominent. Line historical past hyperlink moved to desk at prime, Transit map hyperlinks moved to prime under desk, Categorical and 24h knowledge seem as a brand new part in the midst of the web page.
7 April 2016 — New page about express and skip-stop services. There about 20 in the world. Together with strains with greater than two tracks.
25 March 2016 — Design update to the website. Modified to a bit of extra puristic look.
25 March 2016 — Duesseldorf's new LRT line incorporates art in ad-free stations. Six underground stations designed by six artists make for an artwork line.
18 March 2016 — New entries added to Metro Museums page. Metro museums added: Kennebunkport (north of Boston), Kharkov, Oslo. Paris up to date.
15 March 2016 — Error in distance calculation fixed. On Metro Hopping Web page.
14 March 2016 — Error fixed in RSS and Twitter posts. RSS and Twitter posts are once more created mechanically from new entries on the Updates web page.
14 March 2016 — New circle lines added. Rings underneath development in Chengdu, Delhi, Kaohsiung, Taipei. Terminal loop in Beijing added.
14 March 2016 — New Transit Map link on every city page. A hyperlink to öpnvkarte.de in each Generic Hyperlinks part, generated from geodata.
14 March 2016 — Metro Hopping page shows distances. Generated from geodata.
12 March 2016 — Beijing and Manila videos. ... added.
12 March 2016 — Statistics page upgraded. New within the statistics: switch stations, fare assortment, clusters, deserted strains, arts, views, films, seashores.
12 March 2016 — Stockholm's font added. Stockholm's metro used to have a company font. Designer of Hong Kong's KCR font added.
2 March 2016 — Metro clusters page updated again. Brussels-Antwerp-Charleroi cluster added. Rotterdam cluster renamed to Randstad.
27 February 2016 — New cities added to Metro Hopping page. Baltimore, Frankfurt, Philadelphia, and Washington added.
27 February 2016 — Generic links to maps and articles. Metropolis pages now have hyperlinks to Railway Gazette article search and to Google's transit map within the Generic Hyperlinks part on the backside.
21 February 2016 — Updates to PSDs and Metro Hopping pages. 12 cities added to the Platform Display Doorways listing.
16 February 2016 — Stations added. Barcelona (15), Buenos Aires (four), Changsha (four), Cologne (four), Guangzhou (5), Madrid (10), Mashhad (2), Moscow (three), Salvador (1), Singapore (12), Tehran (1).
16 February 2016 — New lines added. Two new strains in Beijing added and one every in Chengdu and Wuhan.
16 February 2016 — Two new metro systems added. Nanchang and Qingdao, each in China, opened in December 2015.
11 December 2015 — New metro in Esfahan. The Esfahan metro opened on 15 Oct 2015 with 11.2 km and ten stations.
11 December 2015 — Data update: new lines in four cities. New strains opened in Caracas (eight stations) and Hangzhou (four). Present strains at the moment are included for Dalian and Sendai.
11 December 2015 — Data update: extensions in six cities. Bangalore (+ 6 stations), Chongqing (+2). Milan, Nanjing, Salvador and Tehran added one station every.
22 November 2015 — Metro Rings updated. Updates to the web page and the info.
21 November 2015 — Singapore museum added. The Land Transport Gallery in Singapore has a piece on MRT improvement.
21 November 2015 — Updates to metro archaeology. There are vital archaeological and paleontological shows in two Madrid metro stations.
21 November 2015 — Metro hopping in India. Delhi and Mumbai added to metro metropolis clusters.
12 November 2015 — Updates to 7 cities. Busan (+1 station), Delhi (+9), Milan (+2), Moscow (+1), New York (+1), Ningbo (+22, new line), Tehran (line 5 now included).
6 September 2015 — 198 metros at Metrobits.org. Simply two to go for the 200th -- based on metrobits' standards solely, in fact, because it's typically disputed what ought to rely as a metro and what not.
27 August 2015 — Major data update to 24 cities. New metros in Jaipur, Shiraz, and Tabriz. New strains in Chennai, Daegu, Istanbul, and Nanjing.
24 June 2015 — Two systems added to 24-hour services page. Philadelphia's SEPTA strains have began night time operation final weekend. 5 'Night time Tube' strains in London will begin on 12 September. Some minor updates to different pages as nicely.
11 February 2015 — Title bar update. After years with the blurred background picture within the title bars, perhaps now's the time to get again to a extra minimalistic design.
20 January 2015 — Date error fixed in recent and upcoming openings. Metros with a proposed opening of 2015 have been displayed as just lately opened. That error must be fastened now.
7 January 2015 — Photos fixed on One-Hit Wonders page. A couple of pictures, which have been disappeared from an exterior file host, moved to Metrobits.
three January 2015 — Data update to eleven cities. Chengdu (6 new stations), Hangzhou (7), Hong Kong (2), Istanbul (1), Moscow (2), Rome (15, new Line C), Sao Paulo (three), Taipei (7), Tianjin (1), Wuhan (14), Wuxi (22, new Line 1).
26 December 2014 — Pearl River Delta Cluster updated. Deliberate connections Guangzhou-Dongguan and Macau-Zhuhai added. Zhuhai web page added.
26 December 2014 — Ten Years of Metrobits. Metrobits began at concerning the finish of 2004. The primary pages have been Metro Arts and Structure and Metros with a View.
10 December 2014 — Flashier colour-coded opening dates. Within the metropolis menu (proper menu) and on the Cities web page, the color codes for opening dates are extra vibrant now, together with a separate color for metro methods opened after 2000.
10 December 2014 — Photo added to Reaching the Beaches page. Dublin photograph added
three December 2014 — Slight change to the city pages. Metro Metropolis Hopping part on metropolis pages now tells the cluster the town belongs to. And the Hopping part now additionally seems on the cluster pages themselves (like Pearl River Delta and Rhine-Ruhr).
1 December 2014 — Kiev ring added. Kiev has a pan-shaped commuter rail ring since 2011
2 September 2014 — Metro Fonts page udated with old Berlin font. From 1928, a grotesque font referred to as U8 was utilized in Berlin's U-Bahn signage.
9 August 2014 — Data update: 5 new metros and 10 extended. Bilbao +1 station, Cairo +9 (new line), Izmir +three, Kunming +21 (new line), Lima +10, Malaga +17 (new system), Minsk +1, Nanjing +10 (new line), Ningbo +20 (new system), Panama +13 (new system), Salvador +6 (new system), Washington +5 (new line), Wuhan +16 (new line), Wuxi +24 (new system), Xi'an +four
6 August 2014 — New museum added. Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum in Munich shows a few subway and commuter rail trains. The museum has the town transportation corridor since 2006.
9 February 2014 — Simplification. In an try and unclutter the house web page, the information and statistics part have been eliminated (nonetheless obtainable from the menu). Official Web sites hyperlink faraway from the menu (nonetheless obtainable from the Handpicked Assets web page). New Future Extensions hyperlink. Metropolis Pages web page renamed Nations. Future and Metro-Like renamed Extra Cities.
17 January 2014 — Database update. There was one other knowledge replace on 2 January: Athens (+four stations), Charleroi (+three), Chongqing (+eight), Dalian (+9, two new strains), Dubai (+1), Guangzhou (+20, new line), Naples (+1), Oporto (+1), Shanghai (+41, new line), Singapore (+6, new line), Taipei (+three), Tianjin (+5).
17 January 2014 — Metro Relationships. Metro Practice Households renamed to Metro Relationships. Web page improved. New part "Relationships" on each involved metropolis web page.
29 December 2013 — Skyscrapercity links, updates to extensions and resources added. On each metropolis web page, within the Generated Hyperlinks part, a hyperlink will (hopefully) result in a associated dialogue at skyscrapercity.com. Many extension dates and official web sites added.
29 December 2013 — Thirteen logos for future and metro-like systems added. Ahvaz, Calgary, Chelyabinsk, Gold Coast, Macau, Nanchang, Oeiras, Omsk, Ostend, Serfaus, Taichung, Taoyuan, Yongin
27 December 2013 — Country filter @ Future Extensions page. Future Extensions can now be filtered by nation. Statistics web page barely remodelled.
26 December 2013 — Minor tweaks to the Openings section. The server makes use of California time, so Asian metros appeared too late within the "At the moment's openings" part. To compensate this, opening occasions will keep there for 2 days any longer. The part is now referred to as "Opening today" and also will show the date, strains, lengths, and stations.
26 December 2013 — Home page uncluttered. Information have been moved to an archive web page. The house web page now consists of three brief and ceaselessly up to date sections: openings, current updates, and newest metro statistics.
23 December 2013 — Gurgaon listed under Delhi. Different updates embrace logos for Harbin and Lagos in addition to up to date hyperlinks and assets.
19 December 2013 — Major database update last Monday. Athens (5 stations addeed), Bangkok (2), Buenos Aires (three), Harbin (18; new metro), Istanbul (23, new line), Kiev (1), Kolkata (1), Lyon (1), Moscow (four), Paris (1), Vienna (2), Xi'an (19; new line), Zhengzhou (20; new metro).
12 December 2013 — Today's Opening section on home page. Every time the day of an upcoming metro opening is reached, the knowledge will routinely shift to a outstanding location on the prime of the house web page, earlier than, a day later, it strikes down into the Newest Openings part. First to be watched on 15 December 2013.
6 December 2013 — New and updated logos. Logos added for Changsha and Fuzhou, logos up to date for Sydney.
6 December 2013 — New Latest Openings section on city pages. For cities which have had current openings, these are listed in a piece under the maps (just like the Upcoming Openings part added just lately).
6 December 2013 — New city pages for future and metro-like systems. Pages added for Maceio, Brazil; Arequipa, Peru; Kozhikode, India; Medina, Saudi Arabia; Huizhou, China; Xuzhou, China; Santos, Brazil; Good, France.
25 November 2013 — Upcoming Openings section on every city page. For each metropolis that has reported upcoming openings, these might be displayed under the maps.
23 November 2013 — Recent and upcoming metro openings. So as to add a component of agility to the Metrobits primary web page, two new packing containers will all the time show the 5 most up-to-date and 5 upcoming extensions on the earth of metros. Extra full listings could be discovered on two new net pages.
14 November 2013 — New Metro system opened in Gurgaon. Certainly one of its six stations hyperlinks to Delhi's metro.
29 October 2013 — World's first intercontinental subway line opened in Istanbul. A line with three new stations now connects the European and Asian elements of the town. The undertaking has been delayed greater than 4 years due to archaeological finds.
16 September 2013 — Five guided tours added. Amsterdam, London, Madrid, St. Petersburg, and one other one for Stockholm. Makes a complete of presently 18 entries.
16 September 2013 — Three Cercanias commuter metro systems added. Cercanias added to the "Different Rail Transport" sections of Alicante, Malaga, and Seville. Seville's even has a hoop line! Sydney's round monorail line has been dismantled this yr.
11 September 2013 — Summary of recent updates: misc. Added: Metro rings: Charleroi, Riyadh. PSDs: Hangzhou, Milan. Self-guided tour: Seoul. Eliminated: Seoul metro museum (plans have disappeared).
11 September 2013 — Summary of recent updates: logos. Antwerp, Bogota, Charleroi, Foshan, Gurgaon, Kochi, Riyadh, Ujeongbu.
11 September 2013 — Summary of recent updates: cities. Mulheim renamed to Muelheim. Future metros added: Ahmedabad, Bogota, Changwon, Heilbronn, Lagos, Taoyuan, Yongin.
three September 2013 — New page: Metro City Hopping. Some metro cities are linked to others by speedy transit strains. The connections are listed on the brand new web page and on every metropolis's web page.
30 June 2013 — Major data update to ten cities. Because the final replace in January, our planet acquired 4 new metro strains: one in Istanbul (+11 stations), one in Kunming (+12), one in Milan (+6), and one in Santo Domingo (+13). Different cities with new station openings: Athens (+2), Bangkok (+2), Chengdu (+7), Chongqing (+6), Dalian (+6), Kazan (+three). On prime of that there've been minor updates to different pages of the web site, like Driverless Metros, Handpicked Assets, and Official Web sites.
23 Might 2013 — Continuous updates. Metrobits will get up to date constantly. Small updates haven't all the time been listed right here, e. g. for Handpicked Assets. Newest metropolis updates have an effect on Jerusalem, Nanning, and Quito pages.
27 April 2013 — Metro logo display issue fixed for IE. Metro logos have just lately been displayed with ugly borders in Microsoft Web Explorer. Problem fastened.
27 April 2013 — New text font, one metro museum added, and more. Physique textual content font all through the metrobits.org web site modified to an easier font face. Philadelphia's SEPTA Museum and Store added to the museums web page. Metros with a View web page up to date with photographs from Athens and Baltimore. Newark's entry for Deserted Strains corrected.
6 April 2013 — Metro Candidates page renamed to Future and Metro-Like Systems. This web page lists greater than 100 further cities pages at Metrobits.
6 April 2013 — Stars indicating top content. To make navigating the web site somewhat simpler, the preferred content material at metrobits.org is now marked with little yellow asterisks within the menu and on the Classes web page.
30 March 2013 — Several updates. Kolkata Round Line added to Circles, Milan M5 line added to PSDs and Driverless, Naples guided tour added, logos added for Adana, Dalian, Hyderabad, Mumbai, logos up to date for Amsterdam, Budapest, Glasgow, Rome.
30 March 2013 — Major ridership update. Newest ridership knowledge by John Kennes is on-line.
23 March 2013 — A new generic Metro Logos page to play around with. On this web page, dynamically embrace or exclude clone logos or future metros, change the brand ordering or the show measurement! And the web page now includes your complete Metrobits assortment (230 distinct logos, 270 together with the clones), not only a subset like the previous web page.
10 March 2013 — Abandoned Lines -- new category. A brand new web page in addition to a brand new part on each affected metropolis's web page displays the metro sections which were closed. There are extra of them on the planet than you may think!
9 March 2013 — Metro Movies to be a major category. The contact level between subways and humanities has all the time been a key theme at Metrobits, and the brand new Metro Films class matches into it completely. The films listing can now be sorted by title, yr, or metropolis. The database has been pumped as much as include 142 films filmed in 25 subways (51 of them in New York), each metropolis web page of which now accommodates a Metro Films part close to the top of the web page. Ideas for extra films are all the time welcome.
9 March 2013 — Brescia and Paris. Replace to Paris options and Brescia emblem and map
four March 2013 — 'Maps" headline removed from the city pages. ... as a way to unclutter them a bit of.
three March 2013 — New driverless line in Milan. Milan added to Driverless and PSDs classes
24 January 2013 — Proposed Dongguan metro. Dongguan web page added to the Metro Candidates web page.
24 January 2013 — Granada metro under construction. Granada web page added to the Metro Candidates web page.
19 January 2013 — Wuxi page update. Emblem and official web site hyperlink added to the Wuxi web page. Proposed opening of this Chinese language metro is 2014, and architectural station renderings discovered on the Web look futuristic.
9 January 2013 — 150 years of metro/subway. On 9 January 1863, the primary underground city railway was inaugurated in London
four January 2013 — Twitter and RSS feed links added. Comply with @metrobits on Twitter to remain up to date. The RSS feed has lengthy been round but. Hyperlinks added on the left hand aspect of any web page.
three January 2013 — Beijing now has the longest subway system. With the newest knowledge replace, we've a brand new longest subway system of the world in our database: Beijing surpassed Shanghai on 29 December by 5 km. The updates: Beijing (442 km, +50 stations), Chongqing (+18 stations), Izmir (+2), Shanghai (+16), Wuhan (+20).
28 December 2012 — Two new metros (one of them driverless) and several updates. A brand new driverless metro with 17 stations opened in Brescia, Italy on 22 December. Hangzhou, China obtained a brand new metro on 24 November, with 48 stations. Knowledge updates function Dubai (+1 station), Genoa (+1), Hamburg (+2), Kaohsiung (+1), Paris (+1), St. Petersburg (+2), and Tehran (+four).
21 December 2012 — New page: Metro Movies. The brand new Metro Films web page lists films with vital movie sequences set on subway trains, tracks, or in stations.
four November 2012 — Data update to thirteen cities. New metro strains opened in Chengdu (+19 stations), Chongqing (+21), Istanbul (+15), Sofia (+10) and Tianjin (2 new strains, +40 stations). Moreover, new stations on present strains opened in Kiev (+1), Lisbon (+three), Miami (+1), Moscow (+1), Nizhniy Novgorod (+1), Seoul (+9), Taipei (+2) and Yekaterinburg (+1).
1 July 2012 — New metro in Kunming and six updates. New metro in Kunming and updates to Izmir, Lima, Pittsburgh, Rome, Sofia, and Volgograd.
24 June 2012 — Scientific study found similarities between subway networks. A scientific research discovered similarities between subway networks although they've developed independently. In most giant networks, the variety of stations is proportional to the sq. of the variety of branches, the branches bear about half of the variety of stations, and the typical diameter of branches is about twice the typical radial extension of the core [Journal of the Royal Society 16 May 2012].
16 June 2012 — Metro Candidates page updated. Seven Chinese language cities, the place metros are beneath consdtruction, added to the Metro Candidates web page, in addition to another cities. A "Extra cities..." hyperlink was added to the menu on the fitting hand aspect that results in the Metro Candidates web page. Numerous Cityrailtransit maps added over the previous weeks.
29 April 2012 — New subway in Suzhou, China. One other new subway system opened in China with a line 25.7 km lengthy with 24 stations.
12 April 2012 — A music band, dedicated to metros. There have been music bands round for a while with metro-related names, like The Subways, Metro Station, or Subway to Sally, however metro followers may need been disenchanted by the truth that their music truly had little (if nothing) to do with metros. These occasions are over as this is a band with the identify Metroland, dedicating their current digital music album venture totally to subways: metrolandmusic.com. Take pleasure in! Metrobits' assets web page up to date.
30 March 2012 — Shadowy headlines and missing feedback sections. The suggestions sections disappeared since Google give up its Pal Join service initially of March with out discover. Thanks, Google! Helpful consumer feedback are gone. I'll attempt to someway change to Google+ to get the service again. Small stylistic addition: headlines now have shadows.
21 March 2012 — Ridership update. Up to date passenger figures for quite a few cities.
four March 2012 — Maps updates. New to-scale map (preview) for Sao Paulo, Nuremberg schematic map hyperlinks up to date.
four March 2012 — Data update was on 28 January 2012. The info replace on 28 Jan 2012 mirrored the brand new metro in Almaty (7 stations) in addition to extensions in Bursa (+2), Kiev (+1), Moscow (+three), Nuremberg (+2), Saint Petersburg (+1), Shenyang (+19), Taipei (+eight), Tehran (+1), and Yekaterinburg (+1).
15 January 2012 — Metro map mugs. Addition to the Misplaced & Discovered part: official metro map mugs which might be edited by only a few transit operators on the earth.
10 January 2012 — Logos and regions. Daegu metro has a brand new emblem, it has been added right here. Kunming and Milan Suburbano logos additionally added. Area info added for Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain. Some various Chinese language metropolis names added.
12 December 2011 — Nuremberg update. Photographs of a brand new station entrance and one other station added to the Nuremberg web page
1 December 2011 — A new metro in Almaty was put into operation.. For its lovely station designs it earned a Metrobits star immediately and a brand new entry on the Metro Arts and Structure web page.
20 November 2011 — Extensions in the past five years. A brand new column within the World Metro Database exhibits the rise in community size since August 2006 (when the database began) for all metro methods. The busiest metro development was in Shanghai with an unimaginable 340 km in these roughly 5 years.
14 November 2011 — Metro Candidates. Hidden Cities web page renamed to Metro Candidates and Vilnius added to it.
14 November 2011 — Train width data. Practice width knowledge of over 100 metros added to World Metro Database, in addition to gauge, voltage and energy provide knowledge. Metro definition moved from FAQ to new definition web page. Metrobits' standards moved from desk web page to new Standards web page.
5 November 2011 — Metrobits data update. Bangalore (new metro), Barcelona (+1 station), Buenos Aires (+1 station), Bursa (+three stations), Chonqing (+18 stations), Mashhad (new metro), Paris (+1 station), Singapore (+13 stations). Mashhad emblem added.
three November 2011 — Paris' line 1 driverless. In Paris, driverless operation has been launched to line 1, beginning with automated and driver-operated trains operating on the identical tracks. Full automation and platform doorways are deliberate. Line 14 has been absolutely driverless since its inauguration in 1998.
23 October 2011 — Update to the Berlin U-Bahn Architectural Map. Stations by Berlin's 4 busiest metro architects at the moment are color coded. Round station symbols denominate preserved historic stations.
20 October 2011 — Two new metro systems. The one in Bangalore has opened at this time. The one in Algiers is scheduled to open on 1 November 2011. Lacking knowledge to be added quickly!
22 September 2011 — Update to rubber-tyred, driverless metros and PSDs. New or lacking entries: Rubber-tyred: Busan, Guangzhou, Hiroshima, Sapporo. Driverless: Busan. Platform display doorways: Hiroshima.
19 September 2011 — Metrobits data update. Knowledge replace to Baku, Bangkok, Bucharest, Busan, Chongqing, Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Turin, Xi'an
18 September 2011 — Track gauge and power supply. Monitor gauge and energy provide particulars have been added to nearly all of methods.
16 September 2011 — New metro system in Xi'an. Xi'an, the Chinese language metropolis well-known for its historic Terracotta Military, acquired a metro on 16 September 2011. Line 2 opened with 17 stations and a size of 20.5 km. Metrobits' Xi'an web page is already there and shall be full of extra info quickly.
17 July 2011 — Map, photo, and 24h updates. Schematic maps: Cairo (new), Shenzhen (up to date). To-scale maps: Hong Kong and Stuttgart new by cityrailtransit.com. Rhine-Ruhr seems on Evaluating Maps web page. Rhine-Ruhr Photograph Web page reorganized. 24-Hours web page: Warsaw eliminated, Sydney LRT added, a observe on necessities added.
28 June 2011 — Data update to nine cities. Because the earlier replace, 103 new metro stations have been opened: Bilbao (2), Busan (12), Manila (1), Milan (four), Nagoya (four), Shenzhen (69), Tehran (5), Turin (6). China's Shenzhen virtually tripled its size and jumped from 43 to 14 within the worldwide rating in simply three months. The selection of a brand new knowledge supply barely modified our figures for Kolkata.
6 June 2011 — New Categories page. For smoother navigation, this new web page offers cliffhangers of all classes pages. Additional, there is a new web page for Jersey Metropolis (by way of 'Hidden Cities')).
5 Might 2011 — Cityrailtransit.com resources for 'Hidden Cities'. Timelines by cityrailtransit.com added to a number of 'Hidden Cities', to-scale maps added to Laon, Linz, Morgantown, Oeiras, Rostock, Serfaus, and Utrecht.
1 Might 2011 — Updates in menu, 'Hidden Cities', Dubai. Menu within the Photographs & Enjoyable Stuff part rearranged, 19 'Hidden Cities' added (metro-like, deserted), Dubai: view from Palm Jumeirah Monorail and useful resource added.
1 Might 2011 — Rubber-tyred page updated. Textual content revised and an inventory of eight Alweg monorails added.
26 April 2011 — New 'Hidden Cities' page. The brand new 'Hidden Cities' web page lists about 56 cities not listed in Metrobits' foremost listing. A few of them have metro-like methods, others might get metros sooner or later. A few of the pages are almost empty, whereas different pages already include appreciable assets like logos, pictures, bulletins, or maps.
24 April 2011 — Three videos replaced by HD versions. Barcelona, Istanbul and Valencia movies have been beforehand introduced as being HD however weren't. That is now fastened.
24 April 2011 — 7 new videos of departing metros. Bonn, Duesseldorf, Miami, Philadelphia, Singapore (HD), and Wuppertal added to the movies web page and the respective metropolis pages. Rhine-Ruhr video reassigned to Essen. Now 44 movies.
23 April 2011 — Statistics included in home page. Statistics moved to house web page above the Information part. New Updates hyperlink positioned in prime row.
23 April 2011 — Comparing Maps page updated. Variety of maps displayed (at present "62"). To-scale and official maps swapped sides. Rhine-Ruhr space maps (four) excluded as hardly comparable.
23 April 2011 — Manila included in Metros with a View page. As recommended by a consumer from Manila who additionally contributed a self-guided tour of Manila metro..
22 April 2011 — Metros by the Numbers. The brand new mechanically generated statistics web page summarizes details of the worlds metros. What number of metro stations are there on the planet, what number of circle strains, the identify race between 'metros' and 'subways', the typical fare, it is all right here.
17 April 2011 — Three new videos. Barcelona, Istanbul and Valencia HD movies added, Hong Kong and Nuremberg movies transferred from Google to Youtube. Metrobits emblem large-version web page barely enhanced.
17 April 2011 — 5 maps added. Official maps added for Dnepropetrovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Tashkent, Warsaw, Yekaterinburg. Desk widths in metropolis pages adjusted.
10 April 2011 — Maps project complete. After including or updating a dozen schematic maps (Chiba, Chengdu, Fukuoka, Hanover, Nanjing, Rome, Sofia, Stuttgart, Tama, The Hague, Turin, Wuhan), the maps venture is full. The overwhelming majority of metropolis pages now have at the least one map. Navigation between the 4 maps pages has been streamlined by including a gaggle of hyperlinks to those pages.
eight April 2011 — Comparing maps. The brand new Evaluating Maps web page shows previews of schematic (official) and to-scale maps of at present 66 cities aspect by aspect.
5 April 2011 — Schematic maps on city pages. Map previews from the Schematic Maps web page at the moment are additionally out there on the town pages for every metro system. For the most important metros meaning the schematic official map and cityrailtransit.com's to-scale map are there aspect by aspect, which typically gives fascinating insights on how schematic the schematic maps may be.
four April 2011 — New RSS feed. After two makes an attempt earlier than 2009 to determine an RSS feed utilizing free mediator web sites, this time it's going to in all probability be extra dependable because it's fed immediately from the database.
30 March 2011 — Updated version of Toronto Subway logo. Up to date model of Toronto Subway emblem. Updates web page generated from database. Discussion board hyperlinks added to 24h web page.
26 March 2011 — Hong Kong gallery updated. Hong Kong gallery: references to KCR eliminated.
20 March 2011 — Usability enhanced. All hyperlinks all through the web site at the moment are displayed with the usual underline. Perhaps not as elegant, however net design gurus like Jakob Nielsen say it is extra consumer pleasant and makes navigation simpler. Like it or loath it? -- do not hesitate to inform (you will probably should hit Shift+Reload to see it).
20 March 2011 — Links and Books page renamed to Handpicked Resources. Hyperlinks and Books web page renamed to Handpicked Assets and provided with a brief introductory textual content. That is to emphasise that the choice has been rigorously chosen and a lot of the arbitrary hyperlink trade requests that typically swamp the inbox will get ignored.
13 March 2011 — Now three Schematic Maps pages. The Schematic Maps web page now consists of just a few bigger previews of examplary schematic maps and a textual content about schematic maps. The small thumbnails at the moment are on one other web page: All Schematic Maps exhibits thumbnails of schematic maps of about 100 of the most important and most essential metro techniques.
12 March 2011 — Some schematic maps added. Some schematic maps added. New Incheon emblem. Some exterior hyperlinks up to date.
11 March 2011 — Link problem fixed on Schematic Maps page. Fastened metropolis hyperlink drawback on the Schematic Maps web page
eight March 2011 — New Schematic Maps page. The brand new Schematic Maps web page shows previews of official metro maps. This isn't as boring because it sounds. There's sort of magnificence in these map thumbnails sitting aspect by aspect on one web page for comparability. A part of the challenge is that there will probably be a hyperlink to an official map on each Metrobits metropolis web page, a factor that's nonetheless lacking. The venture just isn't accomplished but however the Schematic Maps web page is already right here.
27 February 2011 — Major data update. Main replace by Jordi: new numerical knowledge for the subways in Adana, Athens, Beijing, Bursa, Delhi, Guangzhou, Istanbul, Kazan, Kharkov, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Novosibirsk, Pittsburgh, Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, Santiago, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Taipei.
19 February 2011 — Metro maps by cityrailtransit.com. Metro maps for 137 cities! Because of a collaboration with Cityrailtransit.com, Metrobits is now capable of show map previews on most metropolis pages. They're correct real-distance maps of the metro, subway, or LRT strains. Click on on these maps to discover a bigger model. The place a cityrailtransit.com map is just not but obtainable, a Google map will probably be displayed. Additionally value looking at are the road histories from cityrailtransit.com. They are often discovered within the Generated Hyperlinks part of 155 metropolis pages.
19 February 2011 — City Fact Sheets renamed to City Pages. Metropolis Reality Sheets renamed to Metropolis Pages.
17 February 2011 — Philadelphia's PATCO logo updated. Philadelphia's PATCO emblem up to date.
15 February 2011 — Metro cartogram . Cartogram (distorted map) of nations' metro techniques added to the house web page.
30 January 2011 — Default columns changed. Default columns modified for the primary entry web page of the World Metro Database (continent column eliminated, km/stn column added).
6 January 2011 — Valencia photo gallery added. New Valencia photograph gallery added.
31 December 2010 — Museum stores. Added hyperlinks to some museum shops to the Museums web page and up to date a couple of hyperlinks.
25 December 2010 — Hokum removed. Eliminated the snow flakes that used to fall down on the house web page each christmas.
23 December 2010 — Links and Books page updated. Textual content on the Hyperlinks and Books web page barely modified, some new assets added.
21 December 2010 — 2009 ridership for San Francisco. A brand new 'Arts and Architecture' photograph added for Tehran.
13 December 2010 — A brand new metro in Mecca has opened a month in the past. Extensions to the techniques in Buenos Aires, Chengdu, Dubai, Kolkata, Munich, Tehran, and Vienna.
10 December 2010 — Dortmund's H-Bahn added as a driverless line
four December 2010 — Some logo updates.
23 November 2010 — Two small Paris updates: The deliberate metro circle line modified its identify from Métrophérique to Arc Categorical. Up to date passenger quantity for 2009.
10 October 2010 — Kazan added to Metro Arts and Architecture as a result of the few stations it has are very nice.
four September 2010 — Prague ridership up to date. Rotterdam line identify change carried out in all sections (since 2010, the previous Erasmuslijn known as line D, and Calandlijn A/B/C). Rotterdam self-guided tour up to date and detailed. Photograph of fascinating viaduct added to The Hague web page. "Examine earlier than visiting" trace added to museum hours sections.
three September 2010 — New extensions in Bangkok, Barcelona, and Wuhan.
31 August 2010 — Fare Collection up to date and Metro Art introduction textual content barely polished.
30 August 2010 — Metro Bits has a brand new web page concerning the totally different modes of Fare Collection of many subway techniques. You'll find the identical information within the prime desk on every Metropolis Web page.
29 August 2010 — Modes of fare assortment seem within the tables on the prime of the town pages of about 70 cities.
28 August 2010 — Ticket Worth renamed to Fare. Fare now seen once more within the World Metro Database (error fastened).
24 August 2010 — Metro Bits has a brand new web page that lists almost all Official Transit Websites.
24 July 2010 — New York web page up to date. Saint Petersburg ridership up to date.
22 July 2010 — Day-filling self-guided tour added to the 'secret' Rhine-Ruhr page. The web page just isn't within the metropolis record as a result of there is a redundancy with the town pages of the cities the Rhine-Ruhr space consists of (see the additionally hidden Rhine-Ruhr gallery for an inventory of these cities).
20 July 2010 — Perugia categorised as driverless.
three July 2010 — Up to date knowledge for Barcelona, Brasilia, Delhi, Dubai, Moscow, Nanjing, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai.
28 June 2010 — Updates to metro rings: added journey occasions to Madrid's ring strains, corrected station variety of line 6. Added Beijing's line 10 (beneath development). Eliminated Barcelona from proposed rings.
6 June 2010 — Graph "Variety of metro techniques worldwide" up to date on house web page.
1 June 2010 — Kaohsiung replace with a barely totally different emblem and two new Arts and Structure pictures. Kaohsiung's metro just lately turned one in every of Asia's most lovely metro techniques and clearly deserves its second star on Metro Bits' Arts and Structure web page.
31 Might 2010 — Main replace of the ridership knowledge by John Kennes with the brand new 2009 numbers for 21 cities.
27 Might 2010 — Barcelona photograph added to Metro Arts and Structure web page in addition to Barcelona web page. Singapore's emblem up to date (SMRT company emblem changed by MRT/LRT emblem).
22 Might 2010 — Added Members gadget and Current Exercise gadget to the Signal In web page. Improved usability for low display decision. Most pages will scale higher now, additionally within the printer-friendly view.
17 Might 2010 — Main knowledge replace by Jordi for Barcelona, Dubai, Edmonton, Manila, Marseille, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Taipei, and Tehran. Logos added for Chongqing and Jacksonville.
16 Might 2010 — Logos up to date for Caracas, Taipei, and Vancouver. Taipei has now a simplified model of its former emblem, Caracas and Vancouver have solely new ones. Emblem for Edmonton added. Fastened some inconsistency within the menu hyperlinks, web page titles and web page headlines (e.g. Voices within the Deep, Hyperlinks and Books, Departing Metros).
four April 2010 — Annual ridership changed with every day ridership. Day by day ridership appears just a little handier as it may be simply in contrast with a metropolis's inhabitants. The World Metro Database has retained its Annual ridership column along with the default Every day ridership column.
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