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*A complete guide to North & South American MetroRail systems, including subways, els, peoplemovers, subte networks:*
Atlanta Baltimore Belo Horizonte Boston Brasília Buenos Aires Buffalo* Calgary** Caracas Charlotte** Chicago Cleveland Dallas****	Denver Detroit Edmonton* Guadalajara Houston** Jacksonville Las Vegas Lima Los Angeles Medellín Mexico City Miami**	Minneapolis/St. Paul Monterrey Montréal New York City Newark Philadelphia Pittsburgh* Portland** Porto Alegre Recife Rio de Janeiro Sacramento****	St. Louis Salt Lake City** San Diego** San Francisco San José (Santa Clara Valley) San Juan Santiago de Chile São Paulo Toronto Valencia Valparaíso Vancouver Washington

Cities with metro projects - planned or under construction:

* MetroTram systems (with considerable metro-like sections through the city centre, like Premetro or Stadtbahn)
** Light rail systems (with certain sections on independent right-of-way, though street running through the city centre)
*** MetroTram system with street running in central area, though mostly underground in outer areas.

Robert Schwandl, the webmaster of this site, will be touring the U.S.A. in April/May 2008. You're welcome to meet him and show him round your city and metro system. For detailed dates click here.

William D. Middleton: Metropolitan Railways: Rapid Transit in America (Railroads Past and Present).

January 2003, 400 pages, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253341795

Links for North & South American Metros

NYC Subway Resources is the site you need for anything related to North America not included in UrbanRail.Net (incl. many good maps)

Alamys.org - Association of Latin American Metros and Subways

Allen Morrison - the specialist in Latin American metros and other electric city transport

Jon Bell's Transit Pages include links to many US mass transit systems

Jim Middleton's lightrail.com site

RailServe: The Internet Railroad Directory - Over 2,000 rail-related links, search engine, forums, railfan chat rooms, and more!

NTD - National Transit Database (Federal Transit Administration)

Yuri Popov's US Rail Transit Site

www.lightrailnow.org

North American Light Rail Maps by Thomas B. Gray

Planned Metros in North & South America

Curitiba (Brazil)

Elevated metro line / monorail? (13 km - 9 stations) to run from the Cidade Industrial in the south to the city centre. In a second phase the metro should be extended north to Atuba (10 stations) and reach a total of 27 km. Future of this project is uncertain, may be replaced by light rail or bus rapid transit.

Goiânia (Brazil)

12.4km north-south line (partly elevated, partly underground).

The first 8.4km segment to be built would run from Terminal do Cruzeiro do Sul (Vila Brasília/Aparecida de Goiânia) to Terminal Rodoviário (Bus station). Later it would continue in the middle strip of Av. Goiás Norte to Jardim Curitiba. Construction may start in 2003. (Official Site)

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First published June 1998 and permanently updated.


*A complete guide to North & South American MetroRail systems, including subways, els, peoplemovers, subte networks:*
Atlanta Baltimore Belo Horizonte Boston Brasília Buenos Aires Buffalo* Calgary** Caracas Charlotte** Chicago Cleveland Dallas****	Denver Detroit Edmonton* Guadalajara Houston** Jacksonville Las Vegas Lima Los Angeles Medellín Mexico City Miami**	Minneapolis/St. Paul Monterrey Montréal New York City Newark Philadelphia Pittsburgh* Portland** Porto Alegre Recife Rio de Janeiro Sacramento****	St. Louis Salt Lake City** San Diego** San Francisco San José (Santa Clara Valley) San Juan Santiago de Chile São Paulo Toronto Valencia Valparaíso Vancouver Washington