Nice

J. Cagnol reports the opening of a new bus "test" line in Nice (France).

Berlin (works)

Works on tram lines 60 & 61 in Berlin (Germany) are almost finished: only part of the service on line 60 is now replaced by a shuttle bus.

An update for our "works" database is available here or with our usual online update services.

Next update planned on (or around) August 4.

MetrO for BlackBerry

I have just released version 0.3.0 of MetrO for the BlackBerry, adding an assisted text entry feature:


Complete information and a download link are available here.

Please note that this is still beta software. If you don't want to take any risk with your data, please don't install MetrO on your BlackBerry yet. If you do want to participate in the beta phase, please report any issue you may encounter, providing as much detail as possible (and accept our apologies). Thanks in advance!

Berlin (works)

Tomorrow morning in Berlin (Germany), the replacement service for subway line U1 will change with line U3 going as far as Hallesches Tor.

An update for our database is available here or with our usual online update services.

Next update planned on (or around) July 30.

Rockland County, NY

C. Lopez began preparing a database for the bus network of Rockland County, NY (USA).

Essen

I have just realized that our database for Essen (Germany) was quite old and needed an update: I added operating times, made some changes (new stop names) and added the relevant S-Bahn lines.

On the occasion, I also spotted and fixed a few typos in our file for the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn.

New York (works)

Our special "works" database for New York (USA) has been updated with the latest advisories from the MTA. Download the new database here or with our online update services.

Attention Palm users: this database MUST NOT be installed in main memory on Palm devices (see the installation guide for details).

Next update planned on or around Friday, August 1.

Madrid (works)

According to information received from N. Knapp, works on subway line 2 in Madrid (Spain) ended earlier than expected and service is now back to normal.

An update for our "works" database is available here or through our online update services.

Next update planned on or around August 31.

New York

I spotted a few typos in our databases for New York City (USA), mostly on the suburban railway lines.

West Los Angeles

J. Abbate provided an update to our database for "West" Los Angeles (USA), with the new Metro Rapid bus lines.

Istanbul

J. Macdonald reported a typo in our database for Istanbul (Turkey) and I noticed a few additional improvements and fixes that were required.

Berlin (works)

From tomorrow morning in Berlin (Germany) tram lines 60 & 61 will have part of their service replaced with a shuttle bus. On the occasion, I noticed an error on our description of line 60 route which will also be fixed in our "regular" database.

An update for our database is available here or with our usual online update services.

Next update planned on (or around) July 28.

Bucarest

M. Barac reported a few errors in our database for Bucarest (Romania).

MetrO 5.6.9

The new release of MetrO is out, with 1 new city (Zaragoza in Spain, and its new urban railway line), major updates on many others and minor improvements on all the program versions.

The details are available here and you can download the packages on our home page.

Paris (works)

Tomorrow in Paris (France), the T2 tram service will be suspended between Puteaux & La Défense and the railway services between La Défense & Bécon will be taken over by a shuttle bus.

Use our online update services or download the "temporary" files here:

• Paris-travaux (complete rail network)
  
• Paris-full-travaux (inner city subway, bus and RER networks). To use this one on a Palm device, you must get a recent version (5.6.0 or later) of the program and directly install the file on a memory card.

Next update planned on (or around) August 3.