page_title: Translink (Northern Ireland)
section_title: Metro
hierarchical_section_title: Translink (Northern Ireland) / Metro
caption_attribution_description: English: A Metro Optare Solo Bus 1898 on route 95 to Royal Hospitals
context_page_description: Translink is the brand name of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company, a public corporation in Northern Ireland which provides the public transport in the region. NI Railways, Ulsterbus and Metro are all part of Translink. It is led by CEO Chris Conway.
  Translink provides services all over Northern Ireland and also to Dublin, in a partnership deal with its counterpart in the Republic of Ireland. It also provides local bus services in many towns and cities all over Northern Ireland including Bangor, Derry, Ballymena, Omagh, Craigavon and Antrim. The Metro service operates throughout Belfast, right out to the suburbs.
  NITHCo was established in 1967 to take over the railway and bus services of the Ulster Transport Authority, namely Northern Ireland Railways and Ulsterbus. In 1996 the Translink organization was created to integrate the services of the Ulster Transport Authority as well as Citybus Limited. Citybus is now known as Metro.
  In February 2020 a senior civil servant issued a stark warning on the future of Northern Ireland's public transport network.
context_section_description: The Translink Metro service (previously Citybus) operates bus services within the Greater Belfast Area. Metro operates 12 bus corridors (QBCs) in Belfast, plus a number of additional routes.
  The service began as the Belfast Corporation Transport Department. In 1973, these services were transferred to the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company as Citybus Limited, becoming part of the "Translink" integrated network in 1995. In 2004, Translink/NITHC announced that Citybus would be completely rebranded & reorganised into 12 QBCs and integrated with Ulsterbus services in the Greater Belfast area. Citybus was re-branded as Metro on 7 February 2005.
  Metro currently have a wide fleet mainly of double deckers that consists of:
  5 - Volvo B7TL/Transbus 'ALX400' (New in 2003)
  34- Volvo B7TL/Alexander 'ALX400' (New in 2005)
  54 - Volvo B9TL/Wrightbus Gemini (New in 2008)
  28 - Volvo B9TL/Wrightbus Gemini Mk.2 (New in 2012/2013).
  39 - Volvo B5TL/Wrightbus Gemini Mk.3 (New in 2014)
  23 - Volvo B5TL/Wrightbus Gemini Mk.3 Facelift (New in 2014/2017)
  19 - Wrightbus Streetdeck (New in 2019)
  1 - Wrightbus Streetdeck HEV (New in 2019)
  They also operate  single deckers in the fleet:
  30 - Volvo B7RLE/Wrightbus Eclipse Mk.2 (New in 2012/2013)
  9 - Scania L94UB/Wrightbus Solar (New in 2003 & 2004). [Approx. as moves between Metro & Ulsterbus of these are often].
  8 - Optare Solo Midibuses (New in 2005).
  13 - Optare Solo SR Midibuses (New in 2014/2018).
  1 - Plaxton Primo Midibus (New in 2007). [Transferred from Ulsterbus, Coleraine in 2018 for Easibus services].
  10 - Optare Versa (New in 2014). [3 of fleet used on Airport 600 service].
  Metro also have a group of seven ex-Ulsterbus Goldliner and Express coaches for use on private hire. These are Scania K9I4B/Irizar Intercentury, new in 2003/2005 and Scania K360EB/Irizar Century painted in Metro Private Hire livery.
  Total - 281
caption: Metro Optare Solo, Belfast, August 2019
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