Category Medium City Metros

Rochester, NY – a city of 210,000, has a long and complicated history with public transit. What was once home to a thriving streetcar and subway system, but ripped them up in favor of the automobile. Operating from 1927 to…

Syracuse Fantasy Map As requested by @bazeblackwood on Twitter, here’s my take on a Syracuse Subway Network. Syracuse, a city of 150,000, currently lacks any form of rapid transit. Luckily, Syracuse will receive a BRT system, which will run a…

Albany, a city of more than 100,000 people and the capitol of New York lacks any rapid transit or commuter rail at all. Even Amtrak doesn’t serve Albany, instead stopping across the Hudson River in Rensslaer. Like the previous networks,…

Hartford, my favorite city in the world! Home to uhh….. the Connecticut state capitol? Anyways, this is the last New England city left in the Medium-City Metros series. Before I start, I want to note that part of the network…

I get the sense that I should add a TLDR to the top of the page about the mode. Light Metro just doesn’t have the same ring that subway has! Anyways… Of the 3 networks created so far, this ones…

This network, similar to Providence, is a light-metro system. Unlike Providence, however, Worcester has a bunch of rail right of ways that run down key corridors in the city. Of the light metro lines (W1&2), only the section of W1…

Subway is certaintly a bit misleading for this network. It certaintly has some elements of subway networks, like downtown tunneling, high level platforms and grade separations for most of the lines (plus naming consistency), but I suppose it would be…