However rising prices directly correlate to a housing shortage across the city and the entire metro area.

Some heavy metro infrastructures were built in Brussels, Antwerp and the Charleroi area, but these are currently used by light rail vehicles, and their conversion to full metro is not envisaged at present due to lack of funds.

It is home to the world's main wine fair, Vinexpo, while the wine economy in the metro area moves 14. 5 billion euros each year.

However, the classification as a metro or rapid rail can be difficult as both may typically cover a metropolitan area exclusively, run on separate tracks in the centre, and often feature purpose-built rolling stock.

Therefore there are now a huge variety of different styles and types of map-for example, one area which has evolved a specific and recognisable variation are those used by public transport organisations to guide passengers, namely urban rail and metro maps, many of which are loosely based on 45 degree angles as originally perfected by Harry Beck and George Dow.

The Docklands Light Railway ( the DLR ) is an automated light metro or light rail system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.

The Helsinki area has three urban rail systems: a tramway, a metro, and a commuter rail system.

In 2011 Tagged conducted a summer-long survey based on " winks " by metro area, with the surprise leader being Pittsburgh.

The city's metro area has recently grown very rapidly and has absorbed most of the neighboring municipalities of Villa Nueva, San Miguel Petapa, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San José Pinula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Fraijanes, San Pedro Ayampuc, Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia and Chinautla forming what is now known as the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area.

In conjunction with the new mass transit implementation in the city, there is also a prepaid bus card system called Transurbano that is being implemented in the metro area to limit cash handling for the transportation system.

As of 2011, the population estimate was 463, 202 with a metro area of 2. 1 million.

Kansas City, Missouri, is often abbreviated as KC ( abbreviations often refer to the metro area ).

A variety of music genres can be heard and have originated in Kansas City metro area, including: Rock groups Puddle of Mudd, Isaac James, Shooting Star, The Get Up Kids, Shiner, Flee The Seen, The Life and Times, Reggie and the Full Effect, Coalesce, The Casket Lottery, The Gadjits, The Rainmakers, Vedera, The Elders, Blackpool Lights and The Republic Tigers and Rappers Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun, Skatterman & Snug Brim, Mac Lethal, and Solè.

United Methodism's Church of the Resurrection is the largest church in the metro area, consisting of 15, 000 + members and is the largest United Methodist Church in the United States.

Four counties have independent metro areas, and Warren County is part of the Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Valley metro area.

Both of these statistics are particularly surprising given that the city-proper has about 300, 000 people or 150, 000 fewer people than July 2005 population data ( though the metro area still accounts for 1. 2 million people ).

The island's metro area is serviced with three major public transportation systems:

The Turin metro area grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s due to an increase of immigrants from Southern Italy, and today it has a population of approximately two million.

In the metro Pittsburgh area live more than 200, 000 Croatian descendants.

The metro area has shown greater residential integration during the last 30 years.

On April 17, 2012, Discovery was transported by Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to Dulles from Kennedy Space Center, where it made several passes over the Washington D. C. metro area.

In some cities such as Miami and San Francisco, the main city is much smaller than the surrounding suburban areas, leaving the city proper with a small portion of the metro area's population and land area.

Regional transport in Belgium is operated by regional companies: De Lijn in Flanders operates the Kusttram and the Antwerp pre-metro as well as a bus network, TEC in Wallonia operates the Charleroi pre-metro as well as a bus network and MIVB / STIB in the Brussels Capital-Region operates the Brussels metro as well as the Brussels tram and bus network.

* Margery Eagan and Peter Gelzinis are longtime metro columnists, as is Joe Fitzgerald, who was formerly a sports columnist.

This is particularly so in Sydney and Melbourne, where headways on many lines in the core of the network reach 3 – 5 minutes in peaks and 10 – 20 minutes off peak ( about 18 hours a day ) and enter an underground loop for passenger distribution in the city centre ; and where ridership per capita exceeds the sum of metro and commuter rail in comparable North American urban areas such as Toronto, Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area.

There is also a Cuauhtémoc station on the Mexico City metro and the Monterrey Metrorrey.

The metro population is expected to reach 5. 12 million by 2020.

An international mainline railway the Gulf Railway and a four line metro network is proposed.

The Kuwait Metropolitan Rapid Transit System Project is a planned four-line metro network which will total 160 km with 69 stations.

As of spring 2007 Keramikos is the name given to the metro station which belongs to Line 3 of the Athens Metro is adjacent to the Technopolis of Gazi.

A bridge that is now called Nuselsky Most in Prague was once called Gottwalduv Most and the abbuting metro station now called Vysehradska was called Gottwaldova.

It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro and part of the largest system in terms of route miles when taken together with the Docklands Light Railway. The light metro lines in London are operated by the Docklands Light Railway, whereas the Shanghai Metro is a group of four companies which operate heavy rail rapid transit and light metro lines.

Its built-up area (" metro ") is home to 3, 352, 076 inhabitants encompassing all urban districts.

For several years Blaine led the Twin Cities metro region in new home construction.

The song " My Old School " is a well-known example, referring to Annandale ( Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is the location of Bard College, which both attended and where they met ), and the Two Against Nature album ( 2000 ) contains numerous references to the duo's original home region, the New York metro area, including the district of Gramercy Park, The Strand Bookstore and well-known upmarket food business Dean & DeLuca.

Schilling considers his family's native Pittsburgh metro area to be home and is a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

In a 2011 interview, Plame said she and Wilson had received threats while living in the D. C. metro area, and while she acknowledged an element of threat remains in their new home, the New Mexico location " tamps down the whole swirl.

The metro station was originally called Petits Ménages because it was located near the old people's home.

Currently, Downtown is still home to a large number of Fortune 500 companies ( 8 in the metro area, 6 of which are in the city in 2009, which ranks Pittsburgh high nationally in Fortune 500 headquarters ):

As there are many Kansas alumni in the Kansas City metro area, and Kansas's usual home venue of Allen Fieldhouse is itself approximately away, the crowd favors the Jayhawks heavily.

PMC-Sierra provides broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless infrastructure, enterprise and channel storage, laser printers and customer premises equipment.

The show is set in the fictional town of Langley Falls, Virginia in the Washington, D. C. metro area, which is a gesture of parody of the actual town of Langley, Virginia, home to the headquarters of the CIA.

The paper is the home of cartoonist Mike Peters, who draws the Mother Goose and Grimm strip and won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1981, and columnist Dale Huffman, who had written a daily metro column every day for more than eight years before beginning a hiatus on January 30, 2008 after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.

Others, such as American economist Robert Shiller of the Case-Shiller Home Price Index of home prices in 20 metro cities across the United States, indicated in May 31, 2011 that a " Home Price Double Dip Confirmed " and British magazine The Economist, argue that housing market indicators can be used to identify real estate bubbles.

The New York City metro area, home to the largest number of Jews outside Israel, has also been a flourishing scene for Jewish American literature.

Nasrec is the last station on its branch line of the Johannesburg metro railway line and is home to the Johannesburg Soccer City and Expo Centre Johannesburg.

Cypress is also home of Cy-Fair ISD, metro Houston's second-largest school district.

The purchase or occupancy of a home in the DC metro area, for example, for proximity to the Capitol and the Congressional offices, does not change an Iowa Congressman's legal residency in his state.

There is also a depot at Holtet ( along lines 18 and 19 ) that is home to the technical company InfraPartner, which maintains the track for the tram and metro systems in Oslo, and a small Office building for Oslo Sporveier.