Will subways be able to go above ground

[Photonic210]

for example the new York subway can go above ground on to a elevated rail maybe this feature could be linked with the monorail DLC

 

[HomelandAuteur]

Subways are below ground only at launch.

But i'm sure if there's enough demand of above ground rails like in New York then I could see it happening. I mean they're already planning on working on tunnels as a free update once the games launches.

 

[cRAGGLE]

I hope in future we'll be able to connect above and below ground rail but we won't be able to do this at launch unfortunetaly..

 

[Jokurr]

Here is to hoping we won't have to wait long after release

 

[yuuzhantar]

Yes! I would love too!

 

[kissof]

I prefere elevated train and elevated train stations.
also why not maybe a monorail

but i don't really want metro over ground, i'm more for metro below the ground purely and only

 

[cRAGGLE]

I want trams

 

[BStyles]

I prefere elevated train and elevated train stations.
also why not maybe a monorail

but i don't really want metro over ground, i'm more for metro below the ground purely and only

Yeah well, it doesn't work like that for subway, they go above ground, below ground, even through deep cuts surrounded by retaining walls and open to the sky (we call it open cut, over this way).

I'd like to see some more options open up for mass transit, or at least a mod on the scale of NAM, or NEXL. Mass transit is one of the most important arms of city building.

 

[Tuscan]

I'd like to see an on-ground metro too. I'd say ground level metro is probably the most common form of metro service. Underground metros are usually associated with very large, wealthy cities. The ability to have a metro that passes both on ground and underground would be even cooler. I can picture building myself a ground level metro that I can eventually evolve into a semi-underground network.

 

[CaptainMauzer]

I would love to see this implemented. I live in Chicago and our metro service is largely above ground, but the two main lines go underground when you reach downtown (meanwhile the lesser lines make a loop above the streets in the city's core). Once tunneling is implemented I don't see why this would be too difficult to do, even if it was relegated to modders having to do it.

 

[BStyles]

The only forseeable problem I see here is that the subway trains, while there, in essence, aren't as profound as any of the other methods of transit. The trains are actively running, no doubt, but there's nothing visual outside the info views.

 

[ali.usman]

for example the new York subway can go above ground on to a elevated rail maybe this feature could be linked with the monorail DLC

Subway definition:

1. BRITISH
a tunnel under a road for use by pedestrians.
synonyms: underpass, underground passage, pedestrian tunnel, tunnel


2. NORTH AMERICAN
an underground railway.


Aren't they supposed to be UNDERGROUND to be called SUBWAY?

 

[BStyles]

British call it "Underground" and Americans call it "Subway". If I went over to London, I'd probably call it a subway there, as well, and catch a few strange looks. They both mean the same thing, just classified differently, in the UK.

Also, as an added note, the NYC Subway transitions frequently from subway to elevated and sometimes back, across various parts of the city. Some people call it "elevated" but it is still classified as the subway. In this case, it would be used as an adjective.

 

[SteamRoller]

How else are we to get our subways going across rivers and such?

 

[iMarvin]

How else are we to get our subways going across rivers and such?

Some subways do go through tunnels under the river.

 

[AlexTheTall]

And in Montreal we call it a METRO.

 

[Tuscan]

Some subways do go through tunnels under the river.

London and Paris do I believe.

 

[Grockefeller]

London and Paris do I believe.

New York, and San Francisco too

 

[cRAGGLE]

Subway definition:

1. BRITISH
a tunnel under a road for use by pedestrians.
synonyms: underpass, underground passage, pedestrian tunnel, tunnel


2. NORTH AMERICAN
an underground railway.


Aren't they supposed to be UNDERGROUND to be called SUBWAY?

You know Americans.. they just have to be different.. changing letters in words.. pronouncing Aluminium wrong.. not using the metric system ect.

Let's just stick to the games definition of "Metro"

 

[Greygor69]

In Barcelona it's the Metro, whereas Subway is where you buy Sandwiches.

Back in London it's the London Underground, which as Jamie Lee Curtis pointed out is not actually a political movement.