Although the Rhine City metro had long since been completed, it would still be some time before normal operations began. Rhine City was currently far too spacious; there was simply no need for a means of transport like the metro to ease congestion.
This meant that although the Rhine City metro had been completed before the Hungary metro, it would enter official use much later. In fact, the Rhine City metro had already been finished in 1896. As for the completion date of the metro beneath Rhine Palace that Ernst had mentioned, that was actually Rhine City metro's Line Two.
Since it involved the royal palace, Line Two was more complicated in design and held to higher standards. The sections serving the government and Rhine Palace were also equipped with supporting facilities such as shelters and temporary command posts, making the project far larger in scale.
This also meant that Rhine City's only two metro lines were both currently out of service. Line One was entirely civilian, running across the city center and the southwestern industrial and residential districts. Line Two, meanwhile, was divided into two parts: one civilian line, and another for use by the East African government and the royal family. The royal family's dedicated line and the East African government line also differed somewhat.
Rhine City's two metro lines represented the entirety of East Africa's current metro construction. Even Dar es Salaam city, East Africa's most economically developed city, had not built one.
After all, Dar es Salaam city had only around seven hundred thousand people, whereas London had already had more than two million when it built its metro in 1863, and its population had now surpassed four million. Therefore, Ernst believed that a city needed at least two million urban residents before it met the