Charlotte's Light Rail Network Evolution 

Not gonna lie, I’ve never heard bad things about the DC metro

@@JoeyLovesTrains "no one uses the Metro anymore it's too crowded"

@@JoeyLovesTrains Trust me, the teens are ruthless. Especially on the Green Line. They will attack you unprovokly if they're in groups, and there's like 50 gate jumpers ever hour.

@@MrJstorm4 lol

That light rail shit in Charlotte is wack nobody uses its a waste 🗑.

Not entirely unique, at the moment. Systems like those in Rio and Detroit use similar setups, I believe.

Glad you like Charlottes Light Rail. Here in Charlotte, the city wants to expand the gold line streetcar.

And it's getting bigger! In 15 years, if all goes without delay, the system will be 2 or 3 times the present size.

He will do that at the end of the year.

@@SpaceboyYT oh ok ty for letting me know

He has already done that.

For Charlotte, "light rail" represented a track-only right-of-way, while the "streetcar" is on the streets in traffic. But you are not wrong, the light rail line uses the Siemens S70, while the streetcar uses the Siemens S700, which is a little more compact but basically the same.

I second that!

Third that motion!

It's 60% done now

They will be made in 2022 and the future years.

He said it will release in a week or two.

It's part of the proposed silver line. The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) is drafting out the final segments to propose to the public.

@@arandomyoutubechannel2940 ohh oks . and then i heard about a proposed Red Line commuter rail to the northern suburbs

@@garfieldclarkjr2483 That one is more or less on life support, the original plan was to use the railroad tracks currently owned by Norfolk Southern, but they said no. So far, a few ideas have been battered around such as building a second set of tracks next to the existing tracks, but that would cause many homeowners and businesses to lose their homes, not to mention the cost of building a second line. There was also at one point to convert the line to light rail instead, but the suburb towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, etc raised hell in opposition. So currently the plans for the red line is shelved, worser still is that the same suburb towns that want the red line are now contemplating about not paying the transit tax funding the system expansion because they see it as the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) not giving them transit despite them being the ones rejecting all the alternatives CATS have put forth. It's all completely messed up; Norfolk Southern won't sell trackage rights to CATS because they want to keep the line for themselves, yet they operate their trains on the North Carolina Railroad Company by leasing trackage rights because it's a faster and more direct link to Raleigh from Charlotte (by the way, I live right beside those North carolina Railroad Company train tracks. Back in June 2000, there were like 3-4 trains a day, fast forward to today, there's like 6-7 trains every hour, including Amtrak) www.google.com/url?q=www.ncrr.com/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjN8Oj38OjyAhXIl-AKHQUnDQkQFnoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0WtuqEM9MruMAy_CfTgIKE Also, these suburb towns that want the red line are also being little bitches when it comes to anything but the original proposed commuter rail plan and are now threatening to not fund transit because they didn't get what they wanted despite CATS implementing a temporary solution of providing express bus service to these towns via the controversial I-77 toll lanes.

@@arandomyoutubechannel2940 leave it up to politics to ruin something that could benefit the city and neighboring counties :( A rail link from Downtown Charlotte to the CLT airport could also benefit the AA employees instead of using their cars

@@garfieldclarkjr2483 Exactly

Most likely near the end of this year or early next year

The intro and outro music used in his older videos was copyrighted and he can’t use it anymore.

rarely. but it shuts down the city when it does. I've been here for 29 years (transplant from the north) and I still laugh at how people react to snow here.

I’m waiting for the Tempe streetcar to open, so should be this fall hopefully

The Tempe streetcar has been pushed back to spring 2022 because they don't have enough streetcars ready to open the line.

It’s restarting tomorrow (August 30). It had a bus replacement service running while it was shut down though

YAY!

Unfortunately, there is no Light Rail/Subway/Commuter Rail/Trolley/Streetcar Service in Idaho. Just Buses. However there is Amtrak service in the northern part of Idaho.

@@SpaceboyYT OMG! Even Boise with a metro population of three-quarters of a million doesn't have Amtrak service.

In 2009, the Boise Streetcar was proposed. It was cancelled.

@@AVeryRandomPerson Oh.

@@SpaceboyYT How About He Just Do Busses In Idaho

I’m aware… I’ve put it on hiatus for the moment. Check out the channel Metro6 in the meantime for individual Toronto streetcar route histories.

In case you don't know it, METRO6 has not uploaded videos in a while because he has difficulty making his videos more visually appealing.

Benjamin Williams tell vanishing underground to know what is the next video

He's doing NY last

He's said this many times

Makes sense to do New York last. I’m sure that will be quite an undertaking.