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Love your videos! They are lots of fun and the music is fine. ☺ Until I was seven years old, I lived on Three Valleys Drive. We were able to look across the golf course to the railroad tracks on the other side of the river. The trains were pure magic... I could hear them and see them from my bedroom window. I often wonder about those old trains and would love to know more about them and that section of track.
That was a CN line back in the day, but it's now the Richmond Hill GO line, and also carries VIA's The Canadian train coming eastbound from Vancouver (the westbound train heads out a different way). I have a few videos of trains on that line.
LRT, what a chit idea, for the city gets snow 6 months of the year, build more tunnels, like a normal city!, oupps I forgot Torononto has a flooding problem
In a notoriously uptight city like Toronto, where City Hall is the place fun goes to die, I doubt even a RU-vidr with 100x my following would get that sort of permission. But ... a video about Toronto's reservoirs in general has been on my ideas list for a while now - so no promises, but maybe I'll have something along those lines at some point.
@@notsmoothsteve some RU-vidr got access to the street car storage and repair facilities. I would assume those would be higher clearance. All I know its a big underground facility. On a big hill. I've always wanted to know what its about.
And now people just pee and poop on the street or in a bush. Problem solved. Ive noticed in the last decade its a struggle to find a place to do your business. Lots of restaurants, gas stations etc , have them all locked up because of drug addicts and homeless abusing them.
Another big difference for the Toronto systems is signaling. The streetcars are buses on tracks. Need to move a switch? driver gets off bus, uses some stick to move switch and then gets back into the tram. The "buses" are mixed in the traffic and the driver, like on a bus, advances based on what he sees and obeys car traffic lights. No traffic priority lights for the Toronto trams. (some cities have that) The LRT has signalling system to ensure one train keeps its distance from the train ahead of it (and I beleive is ready for automated train operation on grade separated segments). Switches will be centrally commanded so driver doesn't need to get outside to opeate the switch. So there is a bunch more electronics on the LRT that sit between the driver and the motors which prevent the driver from advancing unless the electronics say you can. (and the electronics also calculate where the vehicle needs to start to slow down to reach speed of 0 at the poimt where its authority to proceed ends, and anthority that is updated frequencly enough (hopefully) that the vehicle never gets to the poit where it needs to start to slow down). On modern systems, that authority is generally a few metres behind the tail of the train ahead of you.
Torontonians still live in 1950. They still prefer to ride on streetcars. Streetcars = LRTs. Same old streetcars, slow and prone to breakdown all year. TTC still uses humans to change tracks using crowbars. TO needs to build more subways and privatize surface routes. Over $1B for TTC operation per year?
Face it the Scarborough LRT was designed and implemented by downtown folks who figured it was good enough for Scarborough. Into the 2000's Scarberians paid higher property taxes than their rich downtown "betters" and receive minimal services. You can all go pound sand. Love Scarborough.
My dad used to talk about how he tried to drive home during Hurricane Hazel. He said he came to a bridge that he had to cross and it was swaying. He decided to make a run for it and got across. The bridge fell apart after he reached the other side. I wonder if that was the bridge?
Ok, as far as your explanation of the differences between the terms tramway and LRT are, I have a bone to pick with your explanation. LRT is historically a much more recent term. During the last century, North America tore down its street car and tram networks to replace them with bus routes, or nothing at all. The term street car, or tramway just isn't sexy in North America as it is heavily associated with theses older systems. The term LRT was in part, invented to try and take an old idea and make it new by rebranding it. Since then, the term LRT has been used to describe a whole entire amalgam of systems that have very different characteristics. The term LRT basically means absolutely nothing and says nothing about the system itself, so I absolutely hate the term. If there is one universal defining characteristic about LRT systems, its that the typical LRT does not really have a defined role, tries to do everything and is just bad at all of them. A very large portion of them have on street running for some portions and dedicated right of way for other portion. The result is that the entire system bottlenecks due to the limitations imposed by running a system on city streets. LRT systems have a tendency to perform poorly when compared to systems that are purpose built with a specific role in mind. In almost all cases, it would have been better to build a dedicated system, either a classic tramway, a metro, or a commuter train. Basically, what I'm saying is that when building transit, its important to choose a role for your system, stick with it, and build your system to the standard needed to fill that role.
Great video, good to know as a former mid-town resident and now east York/Danforth. By Taylor Bros you’re probably referring to EP, a friend of my grandfather….
