EBTC Tunnelbana

Elecna Bay Transit Commission
Employees
Founder	mine_man_
Company Office Locations
Headquarters	SouthSide, Elecna Bay

The EBTC Tunnelbana is a division of the Elecna Bay Transit Commission dedicated to providing a network of underground rail lines serving Elecna Bay and nearby cities. Most of these services stop at least once at Centralen or Elecna Bay International Airport, the hubs for the network. All the tunnelbana services are named in a standard format of "T1_" to make the lines easily recognisable on signage when near other rail services.

History

Over the period of Elecna Bay's history, there have been 4 distinct metro systems used, with the current one having existed since 2016.

January 2015 - Summer 2015: The First Metro

The first metro system in Elecna Bay was developed using a small custom technology. The stations were only small with 5 block long platforms, manual cart launching, and manual cart dispenser filling. The network consisted of 3 lines before it was replaced; the Coastal Line, the Central Line, and the Circle Line. These were represented by blue, red and green colours accordingly. Further plans existed to add additional lines due to the city's rapid growith in 2015, including plans for a River Line. However, due to the inadequate size of stations as well as the largely unplanned and incoherent network design, this version of the network was decommissioned.

Very few remnants of this network exist today. Only 3 former stations are visible from the ground; Boardwalk Street, Boardwalk Plaza, and an unnamed station within Elecna Bay Park which was to be an interchange between the Circle and River lines. Some tunnels still exist underground of the Coastal Line, however most have been built through and are unusable or unrecognisable today.

Summer 2015 - Autumn 2015: Cyan Systems Network

To replace the increasingly inadequate metro system, a new network was planned to cover the entire peninsula. This system consisted of 7 new metro lines, all using Cyan Systems technology. This was chosen due to its extensive use on Old World transportation networks and metros, as well as its automated technology. Although these new plans were ambitious and the techology perfect for use within the growing city, many issues arose with the new network plan. Most notably was the convoluted network layout with little capacity for future extensions north. Additionally, due to the nature of Cyan Systems, stations could only be built into Elecna Bay whilst Cyan Systems engineers were online to assist, which slowed down construction considerably. Of the 7 lines planned, only the Red Line had operating stations by the time of the second networks decomissioning, and only 5 of the line's 11 stations were operational.

Similar to the original network, little of the second network's infrastructure exists today, arguably less than the original. No stations are visible today from above ground, however the Red Line and stations remain mostly all in place, with only major changes existing where the current metro system has had to cut through the unused tunnels. Additionally, with the major rebuilding of the Bus Station, one of the major hubs of the second network, much of the little infrastructure that existed of other lines has been demolished.

Autumn 2015 - Summer 2016: RMS Network

The third network was created as a direct attempt to tackle the previous two systems flaws in network design and simplicity. The previous networks were either too concentrated in a single area, or had too much weaving of lines and arbitrary connections, as well as a lack of space to extend lines to accomodate future growth. The new network followed a design similar to that of the KTA Nippia Metro with local and express lines along different rail corridors, most of which were to follow the main road avenues through the city. The original plan consisted of 6 main rail corridors with varing local and express services, as well as a shuttle service to the airport. However after some additional planning and future ideas of city expansion, 2 more corridors were added, incorporating the airport shuttle into one of them. To go alongside the simplified network, Redstoneless Metro Service would supply the stations used. A redstoneless and manual technology was chosen due to the possibility of much more customisable stations without the requirement of fitting redstone within the station design. Additionally, the previous Cyan Systems stations had been noted for some issues in station reliability, and to avoid future complication a fully manual system was desired.

The third iteration of the metro was extensively built before it was decomissioned in Summer 2016. Major construction works had been completed on the Reglo, Enclave, and Rustic Square rail corridors. Alongside this, major transport hubs such as Grand Northern and the international airport were mostly complete, providing essential infrastructure to continue works on all other rail lines. By the networks replacement, 18 stations had been completed to various degrees, including the completion of the original segment of the Reglo Avenue corridor. Although this network boasted many successes and positive outcomes for the city, the issue of small and inadequate stations became increasingly prominent. The station designs, whilst dynamic, were mostly left as the default design. This left the metro to feel very uninspired and unfriendly. Additionally, the small stations required only small elevator entrances which made accessing the metro difficult. Whilst these issues were known at the start, by 2016 the scope of the problem had become prominent and ultimately the EBTC decided to design a new network with further simplified network design, but with much larger stations whilst still maintaining simplicity of use.

The third network has considerable infrastructure remaining underground, including the full length of the Reglo and Enclave Avenue corridors throughout the scope of the original network plan. However these tunnels are broken in some places to accomodate for future rail tunnels. Most of the network cannot be seen from above ground, but the Rustic Park corridor is notable for leaving a long park stretch throughout the district of which it was named after, where a previous open cut corridor existed.

Summer 2016 - Spring 2018: The Tunnelbana Plan

After a visit to Stockholm, Sweden by the town's owner mine_man_, the plan for the fourth plan was to be inspired by the Stockholm Tunnelbana system. After a rebranding of the EBTC Metro to the EBTC Tunnelbana, the new network was announced. The original plan consisted of 3 main coloured corridors, Blue, Red, and Green. These corridors would have numbered services run across them with different branches off the corridors. Later additions to the original plan added a second service to the blue corridor, the T10, as well as a new yellow corridor and T16 service connecting the airport and seaport. The new station designs would all be fully custom built, following a basic design and allowing for each station to have a unique atmosphere. Additonally, these stations would continue to be redstoneless with manual cart placement and launching to continue the desired simplicity in station design without the requirement to have large redstone systems to fit within the station footprints.

The new network was developed rapidly, with corridors following roads above ground, as well as other abandoned infrastructure. Notably, the Green Corridor above ground follows the alignment of an abandoned warp tram line that was never operational. Further adjustments were made to the plan to remove reduntant stations, adjust minor alignments, and fully plan the alignments of all 3 original corridors into the newly acquired town of Kelvinside north of the city. The brief for each station to have a unique design and layout was successful in making the metro much more accessible and user-friendly. Alongside the improved stations, the further simplified rail corridors made signage and navigation of the network easier to both implement and use. The successes of the Tunnelbana Plan are demonstrated primarially with the longevity of the current network, with the rough overall plan being maintained for over 6 years. This is in contrast to the previous networks which at most had been used for 10 months. Furthermore, the station blueprint and design principles have remained mostly in tact today.

Spring 2018 - April 2022: Redstone Re-implementation

Following a demonstration by FredTheTimeLord of the Second Avenue Elevated Line in New Bakersville City, the idea of retrofitting an observer clock based metro technology into the Elecna Bay Tunnelbana was considered and approved by the EBTC. The technology was favoured by the agency due to its compact size being able to fit within the existing blueprints of all built stations without major changes to station layouts. Additionally, the redstoneless precedent for the metro was begining to demonstrate its inadequacy as an accessible method of transportation for guests within the city. The new redstone technology would feature fully automatic stations with cart dispensers, empty cart detectors, and a flicker rail to keep carts in continuous motion.

The first line to be fully converted to the new technology was the T19, followed by the T10 and T11 lines in preparation for the 2018 Summer Olympics. However, implementation of the technology on the oldest sections of the Red Corridor lines was slow and never fully completed due to other transportation priorities and the aging station designs requiring full rebuilds of many stations. The scale of many of these plans put the ideas of redstone implementation on major haitus whilst other metro lines were finished.

Before many of these rebuilds were able to take place, the mayor mine_man_ became inactive and never fully completed the automation of the Tunnelbana system.

April 2022 - Today: Station Upgrades and New Expansion

At the beginning of April 2022, mine_man_ came back from an extended period of activity and focused on the primary goal of fixing the old stations and bringing their design into the modern day. With the new stations at the end of the Green Corridor being constructed as a test of new station design and layouts, plans for the rebuilding of many of the existing Tunnelbana stations began. In the week of April 4th, Kelvinside East, Cacti Hill, Craulton, Kekko Road and Theatre were all fully rebuilt with the redstone technology added as well as new entrances and corridors. The following week, Centralen was also rebuilt, finishing a rebuilt of the oldest station on the Tunnelbana network which remained incomplete for over 3 years. The refurbished stations all featured multiple entrances and exits, as well as new platform design features, and improved signage and navigation. The Red Line Corridor, which had previously been notorious for the underinvestment in maintainence and a lack of station quality, had become the gold standard of the future system.

Status

Line	Status	Information
T10	Open	Open between Theatre and Sports Centre
T11	Open	Open between Kelvinside Central and Centralen
T13	Open	Open between College and Industrial Park
T14	Open	Open between Theatre and Rustic Park
T15	Under construction
T16	Open	Open between Rustic Park and Westside
T17	Under construction
T18	Open	Open between City Hall and Mountain Cross
T19	Open

T10

Status	Code	Station name	Connections
	T10-1	Sports Centre	K30
	T10-2	Stadium	None
	T10-3	Canal Street	T11
	T10-4	I21/Restaurant	T11
	T10-5	Cacti Hill	T11  T18  T19
	T10-6	College	T13
	T10-7	Theatre	T14
	T10-8	Seaport (planned)	T16

T11

Status	Code	Station name	Connections
	T11-1	Kelvinside Central	None
	T11-2	Poplar	None
	T11-3	Canal Street	T10
	T11-4	I21/Restaurant	T10
	T11-5	Cacti Hill	T10  T18  T19
	T11-6	Financial	None
	T11-7	Centralen	T13  T14  T19
	T11-8	Old Market Square	T16
	T11-9	Military (under construction)	T18
	T11-10	I22/Southside (planned)	T13  T14
	T11-11	Elecna Bay International (planned)	T13  T14  T16

T13

Status	Code	Station name	Connections
	T13-x	Isle of Chez (planned)	None
	T13-1	Kelvinside West (under construction)	None
	T13-2	Acton Yard (under construction)	None
	T13-3	Grand Northern (under construction)	None
	T13-4	College	T10
	T13-5	Centralen	T11  T14  T19
	T13-6	Kekko Road	T14  T18
	T13-7	Craulton	T14
	T13-8	Rustic Park	T14  T16
Begin Airport Loop
	T13-9	I22/Southside	T14
	T13-10	Industrial Park	T11  T14
	T13-11	I23/Coach Terminal (planned)	T14
	T13-12	Elecna Bay International (planned)	T14  T16

T14

Status	Code	Station name	Connections
	T14-1	Boardwalk West (planned)	None
	T14-2	Boardwalk East (planned)	None
	T14-3	Event Centre (planned)	None
	T14-4	Commercial Beach (planned)	None
	T14-5	Theatre	T10
	T14-6	Centralen	T11  T13  T19
	T14-7	Kekko Road	T13  T18
	T14-8	Craulton	T13
	T14-9	Rustic Park	T13  T16
Begin Airport Loop
	T14-10	Elecna Bay International (planned)	T11  T13  T16
	T14-11	I23/Coach Terminal (planned)	T13
	T13-10	Industrial Park	T11  T13
	T14-13	I22/Southside	T13

T16

Status	Code	Station name	Connections
	T16-1	Fort Yaxier Exchange (planned)	None
	T16-2	Elecna Bay International (under construction)	T11  T13  T14
	T16-3	Rustic Park	T13  T14
	T16-4	City Hall	T18
	T16-5	Old Market Square	T11
	T16-6	Westside	T19
	T16-7	Seaport (planned)	T10

T18

Status	Code	Station name	Connections
	T18-1	Mountain Cross	None
	T18-2	Kelvinside East	T19
	T18-3	Angel Avenue	T19
	T18-4	Kelvinside Central	T11  T19
	T18-5	Kelvinside South	T19
	T18-6	Grand Northern/Highway	T19
	T18-7	Cacti Hill	T10  T11  T19
	T18-8	Kekko Road	T13  T14
	T18-9	City Hall	T16
	T18-10	Military (under construction)	T11
	T18-11	Docklands (planned)	None

T19

Status	Code	Station name	Connections
Services continue to Southlake as  SLR
	T19-1	Southlake Exchange	SLR
	T19-2	Kelvinside East	T18
	T19-3	Angel Avenue	T18
	T19-4	Kelvinside Central	T11  T18
	T19-5	Kelvinside South	T18
	T19-6	Grand Northern/Highway	T18
	T19-7	Cacti Hill	T10  T11  T18
	T19-8	Centralen	T11  T13  T14
	T19-9	Westside	T16
	T19-10	Navajo	None

EBTC Map showing all tunnelbana services within Elecna Bay.
Tunnelbana
T10 - Seaport to Sports Centre
T11 - Kelvinside Central to Elecna Bay Int'l
T13 - Kelvinside West to Rustic Park
T14 - Boardwalk West to Rustic Park
T16 - Seaport to Fort Yaxier Exchange
T18 - Mountain Cross to Docklands
T19 - Navajo to Southlake Exchange