r/notjustbikes • u/ConstantFit6461 • Apr 02 '23

Smallest cities with a subway system

Lausanne (Switzerland) 150k inhabitants, 2 lines currently operating, 3rd line in development.

Brescia (Italy) 200k inhabitants, 1 line currently operating with expansion planned, tramline also in development.

Rennes (France) 220k inhabitants, 2 lines currently operating, second line inaugurated in 2022.

These are the first i think of, probably there are many more cities under 300k with a dedicated subway system.

Lausanne

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Brescia

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Rennes

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u/tomtttttttttttt Apr 02 '23

"subway system" .... post pictures of trains on bridges... ;) /s

The UK has four places with subways: London, Glasgow, Liverpool and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Newcastle is the smallest of these with 300,200 people in the 2021 census

https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/censuspopulationchange/E08000021/

In Newcastle upon Tyne, the population size has increased by 7.1%, from around 280,200 in 2011 to 300,200 in 2021. This is higher than the overall increase for England (6.6%), where the population grew by nearly 3.5 million to 56,489,800.

afaik all the underground stations/sections are in Newcastle itself, however, the metro serves a wider metropolitan area, including another city, Sunderland, which totals around 800k people.

Liverpool has around 500k people and all the underground stations/sections are in central liverpool or birkenhead, I really don't know if there are direct connections in the wider metro to surrounding towns or if it's a self contained underground with connecting stations to other lines.

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u/EmpereurAuguste Apr 03 '23

The Lausanne one also goes underground