Metro
Metro is an abbreviation of metropolitan, and is the name of many products and services relating to urban areas, especially public transport systems.
Public transport
Rapid transit systems
Non rapid transit rail networks
These networks are not rapid transit systems, and are not in the list mentioned above.
- Metro Light Rail (Phoenix), in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona, United States
- Tranz Metro, commuter rail in Wellington, New Zealand
- Metrolink (Manchester), a light urban tram system in Greater Manchester, UK
- Muni Metro, the light rail system serving San Francisco, California, United States
- Metro Trains Melbourne, the operator of the suburban railway network in Melbourne, Australia
- MetroTrain, the rail services co-ordinated by Metro (West Yorkshire) in England
Bus services and other transit authorities
- Metrobus (disambiguation), a name used by multiple bus operators
- Metro Tasmania, a state owned bus company that is the major public transport provider in Tasmania's five main population centres
- Metro (Belfast), bus services in Northern Ireland
- King County Metro, serving King County, Washington and the Seattle metropolitan area
- Madison Metro, serving Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- Metro Transit (disambiguation), a name used by multiple bus services
- Metro Transit (Halifax), serving Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Metro Transit (Kalamazoo), serving Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
- Metro Transit (Minnesota), serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, United States
- Metro Transit (Oklahoma City), serving the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, United States
- Metro (Houston) or the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, responsible for rail and bus systems in the Greater Houston area, Texas, United States
- Metro (West Yorkshire), the brand adopted by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in England
- NFTA Metro, in Erie and Niagara counties of New York, United States
- Metro (Christchurch), the brand for co-ordinated public transport in Christchurch, New Zealand
- Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, branded Metro, responsible for rapid transit metro and bus systems in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding suburbs, United States
- Metro (St. Louis), the brand for the Bi-State Development Agency, serving St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- Metro, the brand for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, United States, responsible for rail and bus systems
- Swansea Metro, a bus rapid transit line in Wales
Airports
Populations
Government
Media
Newspapers
- Metro (British newspaper), a free daily newspaper in the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Metro International, a Swedish media company that runs dozens of city and country editions in Europe, Asia and the Americas
- Metro Newspapers, a newspaper company in California, United States, which publishes:
- Metro (Belgian newspaper), separate versions in Belgium's two main languages, published in Brussels
- Zimbabwe Metro, a newspaper published in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
- Harian Metro, a newspaper published in Malaysia
Magazines
- Metro (magazine), a monthly lifestyle magazine published in New Zealand
- Metro Magazine, a trade magazine published for bus and rail transit and motorcoach operators since 1904 (since 1975 under that title)
Broadcasting
Retail businesses
- Metro AG, Germany's largest retailer
- Metro Cash and Carry, a cash-and-carry hypermarket chain owned by Metro AG
- Metro (department store), a department store chain based in Singapore
- Metro Inc., a Canadian supermarket chain
- Metro (supermarket, Greece), a Greek supermarket chain
- Metro (supermarket, Indonesia), previously an Indonesian supermarket operator
- MetroCentre, largest indoor shopping mall in the European Union, located in Gateshead, England, UK
- METRO Foods Trading, retailer in Cyprus
Entertainment
Music
- Metro Chicago, a popular music venue in Chicago, United States
- The Metro Theatre, a music venue in Sydney, Australia
- The Metro (song), a 1983 single by American new wave band Berlin
- Metro Recordings, a record label
- "Metro" (The Vincent Black Shadow song), a 2006 single by the Canadian band The Vincent Black Shadow
- The Metros, an English indie band
- Metro (Hungarian band), a Hungarian rock band in the 1960s and 1970s
- Metro (jazz band)
- Metro Station (band), an alternative rock group with hit single "Shake It"
Film
Other
Vehicles
Language
- The word for metre, a unit of length, in several languages including Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
- metrosexual, a neologism for a heterosexual male
Technology
- Metro, former code name of the XML Paper Specification, Microsoft's document framework
- Metro Ethernet, a computer network based on the Ethernet standard and which covers a metropolitan area
- GlassFish Metro, an opensource web service stack that is part of the GlassFish project
- Metro (design language), crafted by Microsoft for Windows Media Center, Zune, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 and Xbox 360 Dashboard
Sport
Education