Gold City Transit

Gold City Transit is a fictional public transit group owned by Real_BenTheMiner (and formerly by GoldenBirdAwesome). Operations are heavily based on the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority but has aspects from other transit companies as well. The group is temporary closed currently.

Link to Roblox Group (Gold City Transit)

Link to Discord Server [Invite Revoked] (Gold City Transit)

Link to Twitter Account (@goldcitytransit)

The group is currently temporarily closed.

History
Before the creation of the group, Gold City Transit originated as a game by GoldenBirdsAwesome (GoldenBirdAwesome's original account before he lost its password). It became known as the group, "Golden Bird Subway" which was owned by LinesEM. There was also a side group intended for buses named "Golden birds buses" owned by LateStrupid. This side group was forgotten, however. Notably, the owner of Subway Testing, Arsentic contributed by developing the G1 train under GBS_Builder, with the manufacturer named "ARI". Due to an incident, the group ownership was transferred to MegaEagle360 (account now terminated), who abused his powers and closed the group. The group was restarted under "Grand City Subway" (originally mistakenly referred to as "Grand City Metro") with the help of TatraTram (account now terminated) as well as MegaEagle360's scripting. It was developed further and then named "Subway Train Simulator", which was developed by Real_BenTheMiner and Arvous, and later on was contributed to by JacksonKomanasa and Chelsea179 (these two developers were fired for reasons listed below). GoldenBirdAwesome's contributions mainly involved the use of free assets, while Arvous contributed to the fleet by modifying converting epicblaze151's MTA NYCT R160 free asset.

Later on, it was decided that Subway Train Simulator needed a group, so Gold City Transit was founded and owned by Real_BenTheMiner.

Due to an incident where JacksonKomanasa released Arvous's trains without permission nor notice, he was removed from the development team. He was not blacklisted until recently for continued disrespect and racism.

Due to an incident where Chelsea179 had leaked the earlier assets of Gold City Transit, he was removed from the development team and blacklisted.

Due to Real_BenTheMiner's perspective that the original Subway Train Simulator game was underdetailed and outdated, a new and rebuilt game was being worked on. This eventually became known as Gold City Transit's current free drive, "GCT: Transit Simulator".

On August 1st of 2018, the group, "Oak Transportation Operations" owned by O_NatedYT was merged with Gold City Transit with the bus fleet and services being transferred. However, Oak Transportation Operations restarted and thus this became a "half-merge" where the fleet was still being used in Gold City Transit. Only one bus has been used in this merge, the New Flyer XDE40 by PoizGamesAlternate, and was removed later on. The merge within Gold City Transit was eventually phased out.

On October 28th of 2018, GoldenBirdAwesome announced his resignation from Gold City Transit as Chief Operations Officer. His reasoning was that he was unable to do anything with his permissions being revoked. Permissions like announcement sending were revoked by Real_BenTheMiner, the group owner, who saw that GoldenBirdAwesome's comments in the announcement channel were immature and unbefitting for the group, and revoking such permissions would solve this. This resignation included a split where the game, "Subway Train Simulator" would operate under a separate group of the same name as the game, though the assets of Real_BenTheMiner would be removed (find the wiki page here). As a side effect, biased rumors spread about GoldenBirdAwesome's resignation which put Real_BenTheMiner only in the wrong and lowered his reputation. However, it seems that both Real_BenTheMiner and GoldenBirdAwesome were to blame for this split. Due to GoldenBirdAwesome's resignation, Arvous became the new Chief Operations Officer.

On May 9th of 2020, Gold City Transit oficially became part of Tobealinx which was an affiliation with the group, "Tobes Transportation Authority" by TobyOH. This affiliation was formed through Real_BenTheMiner's continued developments and technology contributions which were shared between both groups under Tobealinx.

On November 18th of 2020, Arvous was demoted from his position as Chief Operations Officer for the unauthorized possession, modification, uploading, and selling of assets.

On that same day, the group, SubTransport/Concourse City Transit was momentarily banned for the owner, advntrix having leaked the assets of the group, Manhattan Transit Commission. The group was unbanned on December 11th of 2020 once ownership of SubTransport changed to Indxfinitely.

On March 18th of 2021, Real_BenTheMiner announced that the group would be closed until further notice. Plans to reopen are unknown.