It's Happening: The Toronto S-Bahn
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Published 2022-04-21
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All Comments (21)
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I hope everyone enjoys the new animations! I could not be more excited, what's your favorite part of the plans?
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It’s always entertaining to see ~500k population cities in Europe having drastically better public transportation than the largest metropolian areas in NA.
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The plans as you have shown us are really looking like a XXL sibling of Dresden S-Bahn, which btw has the highest amount of pleased passengers in Germany. So the concept they are going to follow has a large potential to be successfull
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Rarely seen anybody so excited that Deutsche Bahn is coming :) But seriously, according to reports this involves modernising 450 km of track around Toronto and a 25 year management contract, which is enormous.
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Still disappointed that EMU's aren't part of the short term plans but they would probably be very costly. Thanks for covering the news!
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BravoToronto! As a Vancouverite, I've got my nose pressed up against the glass, admiring your goodies. Way to go!
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We can also call GO transit "Stadtschnellbahn Toronto" :D
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9:15 in Germany, the first electric-battery hybrid network in the Ortenau region will start in December 2023. It includes tracks were no overhead catenary is installed and you need the battery for providing electric power. The batteries can be charged while the train runs on tracks with catenary.
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Alright, the city should hire you and I'm not even joking. Much love from Toronto lol still can't believe how good this channel is and perhaps it's because my dad was an engineer and i was in physics but whatever the reason I sit back and actually watch. Better than watching most movies i'll be honest. Fiction is one thing, learning another.
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"zero emissions electric trains" For a second there I was almost impressed until I realised that most commuter rail systems are electric and the GO trains are just a bit behind the times.
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It would be interesting to see if GO could (at least partially) use the soon-to-be-largely-retired Amtrak ACS-64 on their electrified routes. I get that starting a new service with mostly existing or second-hand equipment isn‘t glamorous, but there is no other real customer to take those ACSs, and they will only be 15-17 years old by the time GO is projected to go live, far too young for the scrapper‘s torch.
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In my home state of Saxony, Germany there are narrow gauge steam railways wich incorporated into the real transit network of Saxony. To see these historical trains having a real purpose is really cool, so it would be nice if you can do a video about it.
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I'm super happy to see North America finally getting an example case of good public transport 😊 hopefully this will encourage other cities to follow the lead! Living in Berlin, I can only hope more of america understands the benefits of good public transit :)
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Here in Denmark we have a well established train system imo, especially the S train but also the regional trains which, the double deckers are hauled by the Siemens Vectron’s operating every 15 min to Helsingør and Roskilde and every 30 min to Ringsted and Næstved, but mind you there are many other electric trains here and we are working on it. (Btw those aren’t all frequencies, there are way more trains than that!) Will be interesting if Canada gets the vectrons! Genuinely excited for the Toronto area!
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The Dresden S-Bahn runs with bilevels and electric locomotives, but they run 4 car trains so they can still have faster acceleration. GO doesn't need to run 12 car trains, because they will be more frequent anyways, giving more capacity.
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I still want to know what the plans are for the Diesel trains, particularly if they are planning on Electronic along the entire LSW Corridor. I would really love to see some knew Go lines opening; Radiating out of Hamilton and creating regional services in Cambridge-Kitchener-Guelph, Niagara region, and around London.
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When I think of what transit in Toronto was like while I was living there, I am absolutely amazed that somebody got smart and started building all this new rail transit.
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EMUs would be much better than loco hauled trains! With that extra fast acceleration they could add additional stations (station spacing is way too long) and STILL have the same travel time as with electric loco hauled trains! Additional stations would be important for better coverage, shorter journeys and more passengers. But I get that reusing the existing passenger cars is a big benefit. So maybe they will upgrade the System to EMUs at a later stage
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If they're gonna reuse bilevels, I just hope they modify them just a tiny bit so that the little step down on the outside is removed and platforms raised a bit to allow for level boarding across the whole train length, like whats seen on the Utah Frontrunner and well... practically every train in Europe.
