Dewford City
Dewford City | |
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[Senator] | |
 Top to bottom, left to right: 3rd Street/2nd Avenue, M.B. Gramercy High School, Westbeach Center, Lometa County Parliament Hall, (F) train at Lometa Station | |
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| Motto(s): "The only way to get away", "Move forward with Dewford" | |
| World |  New World |
| Country |  Kanata |
| Incorporated | 8 August 2021 |
| Named for | City in Hoenn (Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Unicameral city council |
| • Mayor | arbirchy |
| • Deputy Mayor | Spegit |
Primary airport | Dewford City Taylor Swift Memorial Airfield Chan Bay International Airport |
| Primary seaport | Slateport Port Authority Sea Terminal |
| Primary rail station | Dewford City-Lometa Station |
| Rail connections | FLR R2 R16 R17 Dewford City-Lometa West Zeta Rail |
| Road connections | B66 to Cloud 9 & A6 |
Dewford City, colloquially Dewford, is a Senator rank city located in Ward 6, Zeta, on the southern coast of Lake 45. It is the capital city of Westminister, Kanata, and is a part of the Central West Zeta statistical area. Throughout much of recent history, Dewford City's economy has focused on tourism and trade; however, with the rise of state-sponsored DewGroup franchises and Lometa County Department of Transportation-sponsored infrastructure projects, Dewford City has grown to be a management hub for companies in West Zeta. Dewford City is notable for its use of map images in invisible item frames to detail the city, as well as its many buildings' names that are based on pop culture.
History
Dewford City was founded in August 2021, with its first build being the intersection between Bayridge Avenue and Cross-Island St. The city quickly expanded along the Westbeach coast, forming two blocks south to Admod Way. Dewford City was used to gain its mayor, Arbirchy, the citizen role, using its first building, Griswold's BeachEats, and the Casperbeech Hotel and Apartments as their business and residence. Dewford Island's main artifacts- its boardwalk, lighthouse, and Historic Ferry Terminal, were also built during this early period.
After constructing the Lometa County Parliament Building and its own town hall on Parliament Island, and finishing the Westbeach Way shopping center, Dewford City reached the rank of Councillor on January 17, 2022. The city received its first transit connection in the form of NewRail FLR train service after the construction of Lometa Station and the Broadway Extensions to connect to it, before becoming one of the host cities for Formula MRT Season 3 in early 2022. This was a period of rapid growth for Dewford City, and after the further construction of the newly-established Dewford Independent School District's M.B. Gramercy High School and finishing of capital projects like the inaugural Dewford City Subway line and Frumple Theater, Dewford City reached the Mayor rank on May 21, 2022.
Construction within Dewford City would start to slow around this time, with its mayor gaining the common "permarank" syndrome amid the expansion of the A6 and various DewGroup franchises. Still, slow development would continue to happen of the Easton, Union Square, Slateport, and Acacia Hill districts, with the Gramercy district's building frames being completed in late 2022. The first Slateport terminal would open on Christmas 2022, inaugurating a second transit connection, originally serving Bayliner, Porter Airlines, and Turbula.
The first-floor emergency room at Grey+Sloan Memorial Hospital in Union Square would open in early 2023, and multiple roads and intersections in Dewford City were refurbished to ensure walkability and keep up-to-date with current building detail standards. In mid-2023, when the Mesa Line was re-routed from going south to Idk to pass just south of Dewford City, Bayridge Avenue was extended from the Acacia Hill district down to modern-day Grand Mesa Boulevard, and a building shell was constructed around the new Mesa Line station.
Dewford City attained the rank of Senator on June 24, 2023, immediately starting construction on the new Taylor Swift Memorial Airfield, currently the only Senator airfield to feature a medium-small gate. Dewford City would soon after host season 13 of The Amazing Race, where players leaving Welchett had to complete a noteblock pitch recognition challenge, featuring Lometa Station and TSM Airfield as the connection points, and Frumple Theater and MBGHS' Nick Nelson Gymnasium as its focal points. Soon after, TSM Airfield's outer shell, upper floor furnishings, and road systems were done. Dewford City also inaugurated its new public university, the University of Dewford Easton (UDE), with the grand opening of the John T. Speggit Core Academics Building in September 2023.
Lore
The earliest traces of human life on the savannah plateau biome where Dewford City sits today were indigenous peoples to the Central Western Zeta area, fishing on the northern coast of Alphabet Village and hunting native cows and horses who thrived in the ridges and valleys next to thin rivers the plateaus provided. Mojanger settlers first made landfall where the Northshore district is today in late July-early August 1886, and established the colony of New Chan Bay on September 2nd later that year.
Transportation
Dewford City's local transportation network is managed by the Port Authority of Dewford City, under the DTA (Dewford Transportation Authority) banner. DTA operates both bus and subway services, as well as various parking garages throughout the city.
The Port Authority of Dewford City also manages major intercity connection points within city limits, including Taylor Swift Memorial Airfield, Slateport PAST, Lometa and Mauville Stations, serving air, sea, and rail traffic respectively. Only the Dewford Island Historic Ferry Terminal is owned wholly by the city.
Via warp rail to Lometa Station, NewRail FLR and West Zeta Rail operate local services; via minecart rail, the MRT Mesa Line serves Mauville Station
Via road, Dewford City is not yet connected. In 2022, the Lometa County Department of Transportation commissioned a MRT$20bn project to connect the A6 highway to Dewford City and nearby Cloud 9. The project has been criticized for its slow schedule.
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| Mauville Express |
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| First Avenue Express |
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| Lower East Side Express |
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| North Loop Local |
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