Onboard The Metro

The miracle of the metro is not just in moving around the map much faster than you could manage on foot, it's meeting all the magnificent types of people that live in your much loved metropolitan area. The mere manifestation of a mutual meeting place where the myriad of misters and misses can have a chance to meet each other's eyes and maybe make a smile or mention the nice weather is the miraculous journey of joyous city living. The omnibus, the first organized public transit system within a city, appears to have originated in Paris, France, in 1662, although the service in question failed a few months after its founder died; omnibuses are next known to have appeared in Nantes, France, in 1826. The omnibus was introduced to London in July 1829. An important social role played by public transport is to ensure that all members of society are able to travel, not just those with a driving license and access to an automobile—which include groups such as the young, the old, the poor, those with medical conditions, and people banned from driving. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=98694