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Metro is the trading name for bus company Citybus in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is a subsidiary of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company , within the common management structure of Translink , along with Ulsterbus and Northern Ireland Railways .
A Metro Wright StreetDeck Electroliner battery electric bus in Belfast city centre, July 2023. The Translink Metro service (previously Citybus) operates bus services within the Greater Belfast Area. Metro operates 12 bus corridors (QBCs) in Belfast, plus a number of additional routes. The service began as the Belfast Corporation Transport ...
In 1905, the Belfast Corporation took over and electrified the city's tram network. [2] The trams were partially replaced by trolleybuses from 1938, and finally replaced by buses in 1954. [2] Recent developments have been proposed in the Belfast Metropolitan Transport Plan, launched by the Minister for Regional Development in November 2004. It ...
Belfast Corporation Tramways began on 1 January 1905 when the Belfast Corporation purchased the tram system from the Belfast Street Tramways Company, which had owned and operated it since the advent of Belfast's first trams in 1872. The trams had been horse-drawn, the corporation electrified them using overhead wires in 1905.
The Derry City area has a population of 110,000, with a greater hinterland of 350,000 is served by both rail and bus services provided by the public transport company Translink. There are 15 bus routes serving parts of the city. Which had the monopoly on the route due to licensing rights with the DVLNI. This service is now run by Foyle Metro ...
The Belfast trolleybus system served the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the only trolleybus system built in Ireland. Opened on 28 March 1938 (), it gradually replaced the city’s tramway network. The Belfast system was the second largest trolleybus system in the United Kingdom, after the London system. It had a total of 17 routes ...
A Glider bus in Belfast City Centre Interior of a Glider vehicle A Glider bus stop. Glider is a Bus rapid transit system in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed to improve the efficiency of mass transit in the city by connecting East and West Belfast and the Titanic Quarter via the city centre. [1] The service is operated by Translink. [2] [3]
The row of cottages that made up the New Barnsley clachan was formerly the "terminus" for public transport, the limit of local bus services. [1] However Springfield Road is no longer one of the twelve main corridors of Translink, which provides the Metro bus service in Belfast, and the road is served only by the irregular 80 [36] and 81 [37 ...