New Bordeaux

[Connor]

I haven't looked at this MD for quite a while, so i just had a look through most of it and am very impressed. The simlympic stuff looks great, the park was great and that airport was one of the best i've seen in my opinion. Superb work, keep it up. 

[kwakelaar]

A real Christmasy update, and one that has been very well done.
The park has a great looking lighting scheme, love what you have done with the different buildings in the park as well as the paths with coloured lights strung along them.
Thanks for your tips about Toutsimcity, I did find the bridge.

[Tomas Neto]

Wow, the Christmas atmosphere is fantastic in your city!!! 
Welcome to the Best Sellers!!! 

[calibanX]

I love the Christmas lights. I looked closely at all of those pics.That's a great update.

Geoff

[rooker1]

 Great Christamas idea. 
I like how your city looks, but it looks like it is missing some life.  I think you need more people in the plaza...the first pic especially.

It also gives me great pleasure to move your MD to the next level....."BEST SELLERS"!

Robin 

[Engorn]

Well, finally I've finished the Metro Mosman map. Actually is not finished, only the lines and station names are. It's still missing the "Key to lines" and some additional data on the leaflet, but as that has been a work of a lot of months, I want to show it now. Maybe I will make an update with more information about the Metro Mosman. Please, take a look to it on full size.

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L1-Metropolitan, L2-Industrial, L3-Rushcutters, L4-Prendregast, L5-Northern, L6-Eastern, L7-Shatam Circular, L8-Grand Circular, L9-Baycoast, L10-Outter, L11-Vertical, L12-Oak Lake

[Tomas Neto]

Awesome map!!! 

[calibanX]

This is a beautiful map Engorn. In addition to the map I absolutely love the Metro logo and the City Hall logo in the lower right corner. They are very well designed. Awesome bit of work!

Geoff

[harris14]

where did you get that airport terminal its fantastic

[Engorn]

Which terminal do you mean exactly? Because there are a few...

[harris14]

the one on page five that says marry christmas

[Engorn]

Ah! Well, sorry, don't remember where I get. A Japanese site, but don't remember which one. You know, the seem all the same to me.

[wallasey]

Excellent MD, the in game pics and your map work are top notch!

[mightygoose]

your work is stunning, congratulations on some beautiful pictures



one thing what program did you use to create this wonderful family tree

[Engorn]

  I think it was entirely done with Adobe Photoshop... Can't remember, I did it on June and it did not took a long work time. In fact, I have the full family tree on a .psd file, and looking to the layers of the file, it seems that everything was done with Photoshop.

[Engorn]

Well, I said that maybe I'll do an update with more information about the Metro Mosman and now I do. Sorry if there are things that are difficult to understand (or impossible), you know, English is not may first language.

The Metro Mosman (official name in English and French) is the electric railway network of the public transport that works both above and below ground in the area of Mosman. Its service started running on June 16th of 1881.
The mosmites often refer to it as The Metro or some more familiar as The MM or The Worm since it travels underground as well as the worms.
Today day there are between 301 and 373 stations (depending on how are counted the transshipment points: the official figure that handles SARETU™ is 301, not counting the 103 possible transfers as station but as stop) and more than 520 km of active lines, with more than one and a half million passengers using the metro every day (549 million made transport in the 2008–2009 period).
From 2005 , metro is part of the SARETU™ Corporation that also manages the bus , tram, taxis and Mosman commuter train. It was previously managed by the Mosman Metro Authority.


History:

Beginnings:

The Metro Mosman network began to forge in the second half of XIX century, in 1873. The main idea was to join the working class district of Sam's Garden in Shatam with industrial Mile, to make more easy to go to work to the workers, and incidentally also connect the city center. The first section of the line Metropolitan (L1) opened on June 16th of 1881 and performed a journey between Sam's Garden (currently abandoned station) and industrial Mile (today Rushcutters Convention Center I). This first line was managed by the Mosman Transport Authority (MTA®), which despite its name it was a private company belonging to the Leclercq family.
The First extension of the network came two years later when the existing line was dragged from Industrial Mile to Industrial Mile East. At then the MTA® had already begun to devise a second path that over time will become the line Industrial (L2). Its original route, which remains "unchanged" from its opening in 1888, was from Triangle Park in Ryde up to Procton Point. Originally trains only ranged from Triangle Park up to Parramatta Bay where those who wanted to cross the bay had to catch a shuttle, which went out every half hour, then back to take the metro in Darling Harbor, station currently abandoned. That way the labor residing in Ryde could travel to Industrial Mile with certain easily, although not as much as those who lived in Shatam. At then the low frequency of trains allowed both the Metropolitan Line as the Industrial Line to use the section between Procton Point and industrial Mile East in a shared way.

Prendregast Line:

Almost parallel to the development of the Industrial Line, the Prendregast family began to build under the Shatam Railroad United (SRU®) company, a new metro line, much more ambitious than those built by the MTA®. This line run out of West Station and originally arrived to Triangle Park where connected to the MTA® Industrial Line. The main feat of this route, constructed between 1883 and 1894, was crossing the Bay of Parramatta underwater, but with the resources available at that time was a challenge of engineering. Prendregast line worked at the hands of the SRU® from 1894 to 1901, year in which was acquired by the MTA®.
Although its construction began almost at the same time as the Industrial Line of MTA®, the Prendregast line took eleven years to complete due to his length and difficulty crossing the Bay of Parramatta. When it was inaugurated, the MTA® was about to put on work its third line and the Metropolitan Line had been extended to Sewart, thus beginning to upload northward. Initially the L3 or Rushcutters would be a circular line, encircling Procton Point, the heart of Mosman, linking several times the L1 and L2, which would be completed in several stages. However after opening of the first phase in 1899, the MTA® changed his mind and the L3 run the South of Rushcutters. Two years later the MTA® would buy the Prendregast line to the SRU®, becoming to be the Mosman metro L4.


Entry into the 20th century:

During the first decade of the 20th century and the first half of the second decade the metro barely grew. Rushcutters line reached Golden Apple, thus linking with the Prendregast line, crossing for the second time a submarine section and the Metropolitan Line (in its joint with the Industrial Line section) was extended until reaching the Cathedral of Saint Thomas. In addition, during this period the idea of separating Industrial and Metropolitan lines in its shared section from Procton Point began to forge, although this would not run until a time later.
During its first decade of existence the Prendregast line became extremely popular since the industrial line had the problem that had that catch the shuttle, which was not free to users of the metro and many workers preferred to take more time and pay less money, so in 1921 the MTA® decided to build a new line, almost parallel to the Prendregast Line. In fact the new underwater tunnels of the new line were excavated at few meters from the already existing in the L4, advantaging them as access to works. The first stretch of the line ran from Golden Apple up to Triangle Park, sharing with the L4 the last sections. The line was opened in May 1929, few months before the beginning of the Great Depression. Being a line to carry most part working class worked in industrial Mile, because of the crack Northern Line (L5) never reached his goal, but the few months that had between its inauguration and the collapse of the economy it gave good results.

Consequences of Depression:

After the great depression subway take long to have new lines. The incorporation of Essen as fifth Mosman district in 1938 made that both the L2 and L3 get extended to the new eastern district, although only the L2 would venture into a principle in the Essen Peninsula, reaching up to Bayhead in 1958, while the L3 would under Wall Lane in 1954. In addition to the extension of these two lines, L1 and L5 lasted until connect in Westland Grand Avenue in 1959. Actually the L1 suffered a slight change in its original path to link it with the L3 Twilight Station and thus step better connect the new station rail with the city center. This led to the closure of four stations of the original path including the referred Sam's Garden, which today it can be visited since 1991. In addition, in 1956 the L1 began extending northward with the intention of reach the Paul Leclercq International Airport, as did the L5, which starting at Triangle Park began to climb North to then deviate east. However both lines would not arrive to the airport until 1971.
The L4 was modified too. From the recently inaugurated station of the Icespear Arena, place where originally converged Prendregast Line and the Northern Line, the Prendregast broke away from its original path to be extended eastward. In addition, this line should be from a known point a high rail line due to the geology that the rail line should traverse, factor that also affect the prolongation of the L2 to the north, which in 1949 first crossed the bay thanks to the excavated underwater tunnel, and thanks to it the travelers will no have to take the shuttle anymore. Thus the Industrial Line became the third line crossing the bay.
However the projection of new metro lines didn't come until 1966, with the Balmain adhesion to the newbordeauxian capital as the sixth district. So in 1968 the Eastern Line (L6) began to be dug, which would arrive to Soft Rocks South in 1977.

Sam's Garden y Albertown stations respectively, abandoned nowadays.

The great boom:

In 1970 the MTA® would became a private company, managed by the Mosman City Hall, thus becoming a public company, which would be a great boost for the mosmite subway as now it would receive many more public aid that they had received until then.
Only one year after of the purchase, the MTA® announced the construction of four new lines, two of which would be circular. All works began in 1973, each in a different year period being the first in be completed the Shatam Circular (L7) in 1980. The line was planned next to the idea of the Mosman Council to create the Golden Apple Business Area, downtown which theoretically will attract to its around many homes, which need an efficient public transportation network. The following of the four lines to be opened was Grand Circular (L8), which was not completed (and wasn't it until 1999) at the time of its inauguration in 1982. Then the section functioning went from Humerton to Quantum. After, the line Baycoast (L9) ranged from Golden Apple to Oak Lake in his first voyage, in February 1983, becoming the fourth line crossing the Bay of Parramatta. The fourth  of the new lines, Outter (L10) it was also opened in 1983, only that in October. The line has remained without expanded since its opening, but they are currently planning new extensions.
In addition with these four new lines was introduced in the Metro Mosman network a new model station, more accessible and "modern".

New lines:

The L11 Metro Mosman began in 1988 after being very clear the difficulty to reach the southern from northeast of Mosman or southeast, which decided to build a line that cross the city on a vertical way [hence named Vertical (L11)], which would be inaugurated on November 11th of 1995. The Vertical Line would be the first Metro Mosman line out of the municipality of the city (and the only on until this time), to reach Medicine Creek to the north.
In March of 1997 began the construction of the Oak Lake Line (L12), which runs around the Lake. The line was opened on April 13th of 2002 between Fairmont and Warwick Avenue to go extending up to Wolf River on July 4th of 2009. Currently the line is extending and is provided that in 2015 will reach the southwest of Essen.
In addition in recent decades other existing lines have been expanded. The L1 lasted between Westland Grand Avenue and Sim Metro Life Boulevard. The L2 and the L3 were expanded to reach the airport in Essen, in addition to the L2 that was extended in the north into Ruistlip. The L4 has followed growing to the east and the L8 was completed.

The refurbishment of Procton Point:

At the middle of the 1980s the MTA® began to consider the need of a completely remodeling of Procton Point, station platforms, including connections between lines and access to the station. Over the years the station had been expanding, actually accesses were virtually those that existed when opened L1, and taking into account that Procton Point was already at that time and for decades the most frequented station of the entire network, the entire complex had become obsolete.
The works began in January 1989 and led a total period of five years and medium. However, the "new" station was opened on August 8th of 1994. The station now has modern benefits that are renewed periodically to provide the highest possible efficiency to the station, as well as spacious interior to connect different lines, corridors or the grandiose marquee access to Post Square, as well as other two more discrete entries, but spacious, in Centennial Park and in Prendregast Avenue.

Inside and outside of Procton Point.

SARETU™:

In 2005 MTA® became part of SARETU™, a corporation that includes bus , tram, taxi, train commuter, etc. From then all mosmite public transport is managed by a single entity. As a result the mosmites enjoy many advantages at the time of moved from one place to another since some types of ticket can use them both bus, metro, tram or vicinity.

Future:

Several network upgrades are underway, although none of them involves new lines. In 2010 will be inaugurated two new sections of the network, one on the line Metropolitan between SMLB and Cruisses Terminal, which will have two new stations and whose opening is scheduled for late February, and a branch of the industrial, line overlooking a nomination to the Summer Olympic Games, which will include a new station.
Also the L2 is being extended by the northwest, though no dates lay down for the moment, but refers to a possible opening of five new stations for 2012.
Others two possible extensions of the network are still on paper, the L4 and the L10 in the east.

Infrastructure:

Stations and lines:

The table below describes each of the Metro Mosman lines using the color used to represent them on the maps. Also it gives information about the date of opening of the first section of each line and the type of tunnel where wagons circulate (subsurface makes reference to an average depth of 5 meters; deep extends this definition to 20 meters, although this distance varies considerably). The stations data refers first to the number of unique stations the line and then the brackets refers the number of stations that are where you can make a change that has the same line. The number of stops made reference to the sum of unique stations and shared stations that has a line representing the number of times that a train stops on a route.

Map:

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L1-Metropolitan, L2-Industrial, L3-Rushcutters, L4-Prendregast, L5-Northern, L6-Eastern, L7-Shatam Circular, L8-Grand Circular, L9-Baycoast, L10-Outter, L11-Vertical, L12-Oak Lake

Rolling stock and electrification:

The Metro Mosman currently use rolling stock built between 1960 and 2007. The predominant tonic is the oldest lines using the material oldest so far, while most modern lines have the newer units. Only the L1 and L2 are the exceptions to this "rule", they operate the 500 series and series 550 units respectively. The L3 operates with the 250 series drives, the oldest series on the network. For its part the L4 and L5 used the 300 series. The 350 series is present in lines L6, L7 and L9, although in the latter it also operates the 500 series. The L8 operate the 400 series, the 450 series and the 550 series. The L10 and L11 are both operated by units of the 500 series and a few of the 450 series, while the L12 is fully operated by the Series 550. It's planned that the 600 series will be introduced in the L1 and L2 after their upcoming expansions in the first half of 2010. The 550 series is the first series of the Mosman Metro to be totally operated by the ATO (Automatic Train Operator), son it doesn't need a person to drive them. The 600 series will be operated fully by the ATO too.
The Series 350 was the first to be painted in yellow, coinciding with the acquisition of the MTA® by the City Council of Mosman. After that all the previous units were repainted to homogenize the subway, and all subsequent units have been acquired in that color. This fact set a precedent in public transport of Mosman, since today, both metro, taxis, bus, tram or any other local public transport is color yellow.
The Metro Mosman is one of the few networks in the world that uses a four-rail system. The additional rail carries the electrical return that on third-rail and overhead networks is provided by the running rails. On the Underground a top-contact third rail is beside the track, energized at +420 V DC, and a top-contact fourth rail is centrally between the running rails, at -210 V DC, which combine to provide a traction voltage of 630 V DC.

250 Series, the oldest series used currently.

550 Series, the newest series used currently.

Interior of a Mosman Metro wagon (450 Series).

Travel:

Tickets:

The Metro Mosman uses the SARETU™'s CrediTransport℠ areas to calculate rates. Metro Mosman is divided in 12 areas, being the A1 the more central, while to the D3 is the farthest from the city center.
There are staffed ticket offices. Some open for limited periods, machines and ticket vending can be used at any time. Some machines that sell a limited range of tickets only accept coins, other touch-screen machines accept coins and tickets, and often give change. These machines also accept credit and debit cards; some machines accept cards only.
The most common ticket is the CrediTrasnport℠. It is a ticket which you can purchase machines worth 5 CAD, 10 CAD and 15 CAD. These cards lose value as users travel. When the traveler pass the ticket by the machine to come into the station, on the ticket is registered the start station of the journey. When you exit from the metro network you need to pass the ticket by the machine (all tickets, are of the type that are, must pass through the machines to get out), it deducts money from ticket depending on the number of zones that the traveler is navigated.
Others common types of ticket are the occasional or round-trip, where you have to choose the station of origin and destination, the bonds of 10 or 20 travel, which usually restrict the number of zones that can be "jump", and annual tickets that allow to use the subway as many times as want during a year regardless of the number of areas. For these bills There are two rates: youth and for over 26 years.
More recently, SARETU™ has introduced the FreeHand Card℠, an intelligent card with a chip that requires no contact with the machines, so passengers can pass by the machines without taking out the cards. There are two types of FreeHand Card℠: FreeHand Card℠ Regular and FreeHand Card℠ Credit. The first is charge and works the same way that the CrediTransport℠, while the second has the same operation to the CrediTransport℠ just that the charge becomes directly to a bank account, which allows the user that have this card does not have to be loading money in it. Since January of 2010 users who purchase annual tickets are getting a FreeHand Card℠ instead of a card of cardboard as hitherto.
In addition all tickets, to except for the occasional, can be used in metro, bus, tram and commuter train. FreeHand Card℠ is cheaper to operate than the cardboard tickets and the magnetic band of the CrediTransport℠, and the metro is fostering the acquisition of FreeHand Card℠ through fares special.
For tourists and other non-residents, and not requiring travel during the period of the morning rush hour, the CrediTransport℠ of a whole day is the best option available. These are available at any metro station. Slope 5 CAD and allows unlimited travel on the network between 0930 until the end of the day. This provides an excellent value for every trip you make whereas a single trip can cost about 1 CAD. There are also CrediTransport℠ for several days.

FreeHand Card℠

Delays:

Of agreement to statistics issued by the Metro Mosman, the traveler of the Metropolitan Line lost two days, 9 hours and 15 minutes in 2008 due to delays. Between September 15th  and October 14th of 2006, 211 train services were delayed by more than 15 minutes. Passengers have the right to receive compensation if their trip is delayed 15 minutes or more due to circumstances within the control of SARETU™.

Hours of operation:

The Metro Mosman doesn't work 24 hours a day (except at new year and large public events) since many lines have only 2-way (one in each direction) and therefore it's needed to close at night for work of maintenance. The first trains begin to operate near 4:30 am running until about 1:30 am. Unlike other systems as the New York Metro, few parts of the metro have express tracks that allow trains to go to the maintenance site.

Accessibility:

The accessibility to people with reduced mobility was not considered when the first subway lines where built and the older stations are inaccessible to disabled people. The newest stations (from 1980) were designed to have accessibility, while in the former stations have begun to implement new access ramps, lifts and all systems that provide access to disabled. Work began in July 2009 and is expected to finish in 2016, when more than 140 stations have been completely remodeled.

Collapse:

The collapse, overpopulation or saturation of the Metro Mosman has been a problem for years for the passengers paid especially during the morning peak hours and the evening rush hours. Stations that have particularly problems are Procton Point and Golden Apple, which have access restrictions at certain times. The restrictions are introduced into other stations when necessary. Several stations have been rebuilt to deal with overpopulation, as in the case of Procton Point.
Some stations are closed or are made exit-only stations due to overcrowding in peak periods. At other times trains simply do not stop at the overcrowded station and go onto the next closest station, in places where there is another station within walking distance. Overcrowding can also be limited by temporarily disallowing passengers from passing through ticket gates to the platforms at some stations.

[WC_EEND]

  If that post was about a real tube network I would've beleived it instantly. Ofcourse the pictures of RL stations show it isn't but it does come awfully close.

[BuildingUp]

The amount of work you put into this MD is spectacular! 

[djvandrake]

Very impressive!  That transit map is incredible. 

[mightygoose]

truly awesome work here, it is fascinating to read your detailed back story.