I hope everyone enjoys the new animations! I could not be more excited, what's your favorite part of the plans?

It’s always entertaining to see ~500k population cities in Europe having drastically better public transportation than the largest metropolian areas in NA.

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

"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.

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.

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!

BravoToronto! As a Vancouverite, I've got my nose pressed up against the glass, admiring your goodies. Way to go!

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.

We can also call GO transit "Stadtschnellbahn Toronto" :D

WIll Canada ever get a high speed train between Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City? Japan has had their high speed bullet train since the 1960s! Its 2023 and our trains are still slower than the bullet train in Japan in 1965!

GO = SLOW. Using the Kitchener/Union corridor it regularly takes twice as long by GO than driving from Kitchener to Union Station into the downtown financial district! Ridership was maxed out prior to Covid. Winn's gov't said the solution was to add another (5th) train morning departure. Who wants to leave for work at 5:20 am? GO needs to turn one of those 5 trains into an EXPRESS train originating in Kitchener, stopping at Guelph, possibly Georgetown, then directly into Union. Currently all 5 departures are a painful milkrun stopping at 13 stations taking 2.5 hours.

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Rarely seen anybody so excited that Deutsche Bahn is coming :)

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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 :)

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.

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.

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!)

I love to see this kind of ambition and vision! Here's to hoping Philadelphia's simultaneous bus network & regional rail studies give us as much to be enthusiastic for

Good stuff. Hope it works out fine and will encourage similar projects across North America. Well, and elsewhere on the globe, as applicable, of course.