Newbridge

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Newbridge
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Founded byYellowitcher
RankUnranked

Newbridge is a town located in the New World at  LW36 and  WN50 stations, in the northwestern corner of Epsilon. Newbridge's founder and current mayor is Yellowitcher. The town is currently unranked but is experiencing a new phase of expansion after a four-year inactivity period.

Geography

Newbridge was originally founded in a small plains biome surrounded by a large covered forest. As the city expanded space went out quickly in the plain biome and the forest had to be partly cut down to allow the city to grow. Whereas the plain biome is rather flat, the forest comprises several steep hills and cliffs. The natural landscape has been partly flatened for the sake of Newbridge's development, however a decision has been made to preserve the most notable hills. As a result, those hills are protected from any building project and will remain natural areas.

Newbridge also comprizes several natural lakes and a river that runs through the city core. Water bodies are a major component of Newbridge's geography. The numerous bridges which cross over the river have been a source of inspiration for the city's name itself.

History

Foundation of Newbridge

From June 2017 to April 2018, jay_planner (then known as Yellowitcher) had their first major break from the MRT Server since they had been accepted in April 2015.

When jay_planner came back to server in April 2018, they did not want to resume work on their city of Xilia, for they had been away for a long time and thus were no more aware of the different ongoing projects in the region. As a result, jay_planner decided to have a fresh start in the new Epsilon region which had been open since December 2016. At the time, immense chunks of land were still waiting to be developed in all corners of Epsilon.

In a first time at least, jay_planner wanted to avoid having neighbours next to their new town, in order to focus on the town itself rather than linked projects such as roads or railways. Therefore they selected the most remote possible location at the time, at the northwestern corner of Epsilon, in a small plain biome surrounded by a large covered forest. The new town was called Newbridge, as a reference to the real town of Newbridge in Ireland. The name was also a reference to the bridges crossing over the river. At the time, Newbridge was then less than 500 block away from the world border. A wall was built in order to materialize the world border.

In the weeks following the town's foundation, jay_planner expanded the street network and built the first houseblocks as well as the main plaza. A two-floor triangle-shaped building was built along the river and was intended to become Newbridge's city hall. However, once construction was over, they realized that the building was far too small for that purpose and thus decided to built a larger proper city hall. Newbridge was meant to be a european themed town, mostly based on Paris's famous immeubles haussmaniens. jay_planner had ambitious projects for their town, which they intended to expand into a large Governor-size city. They were eventually hoping to be served by both the MRT Taiga line and MRT Western line, as Frumple's plan at the time was to make them finish in the northwestern corner of Epsilon.

However, jay_planner's new period of activity would not last long. After a few weeks they stopped playing Minecraft again and Newbridge, was abandoned. The ambitious plans they had for Newbridge were subsequently dropped.

Arrival of the MRT

When jay_planner experienced a new period of activity during the Spring 2020 lockdown, they didn't resume working on Newbridge and instead focused on their new city of Haguenau. However, in June 2020, SimonScholar (then known as godzilltrain) made a proposal to make Newbridge the western terminus of the new MRT Lakeshore line. Although they were considering keeping Newbrige untouched as a reminder of the past, jay_planner finally gave their agreement, as they had been hoping for an MRT extension since the very first days of Newbridge's history.

LW36 station was built under the main plaza, quite deep under the surface as the MRT had to run under an unfinished light rail station. SimonScholar's proposal to reuse this station's shell for the MRT was dismissed by jay_planner, in case they would someday resume work on Newbridge and a light rail network would be needed. The Lakeshore line was completed on July 7th 2020.

Soon after, in September 2020, another proposal was put forward by Vicki_Tori_ to extend the Western line north. The extension was planned to cross the Lakeshore line at LW36, which would turn Newbridge into a major MRT hub as jay_planner had been expecting from the beginning. The mayor agreed with the plan, however the project was delayed and the Western line did not reach Newbridge before January 2021. Newbridge then became one of the few fully underground interchanges on the MRT network.

An unexpected revival

Between January 2021 and May 2022, jay_planner yet had another break away from the server, only coming back for a few days in November 2021. However, this time would be different as they would decide to focus on Newbridge again. This was mainly due to the fast growth of Llanwrst, a new city located north of Newbridge and owned by AdaVirus. From jay_planner's point of view, Llanwrst's ambitious expansion plans could threaten the plans they potentially had for Newbridge. As a result, they decided to make a border agreement with AdaVirus in order to avoid future conflicts and preserve Newbridge's potential future growth.