Wow I've only lived in New York and Chicago and the only cities I've visited with robust metro systems are Paris and Berlin and I assumed the European cities were the weird ones!

Yes E/F express is awesome! Late at night though 😅

The animation deserves a hell yeah, felt quite in tempo with the MTA's brand guidelines. Nicely done and _dense_ with information.

After watching this video, words cannot describe how frustrated I am with the fact that WMATA's Silver Line doesn't have express service to Dulles.

What about Seoul?

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Since usually you can see the express tracks from the local train while riding you can watch out for the express and see if you are overtaken. That takes a lot out of the guess work.

GREAT VIDEO! Made ma laugh a few times too. Grew up on the system and miss its craziness here in LA.

lol great visuals and even better writing, thoroughly enjoyed 🤓

There is one on the London Underground on a tiny section of track on the Metropolitan Line and only on peak services; and in a way two lines serve as express and local to each other, again on the Metropolitan and on the Jubilee lines, where you can skip 5 stations on the Met. There's a smaller section that works in a similar on the District and Piccadilly lines between 3 to 4 stations too, may or may not count depending how you view it. Great video!

This is really blowing up on the algo but the animation is slick. Maybe I'll have to check out your other videos some time even though they're on different topics. PS: as a Kiwi from NZ, Mini Metro and Dinosaur Polo Club are super cool!

amazing video (I live off the 1)

We have a similar system with long distance trains in Germany (ICE & ICE Sprinter) and Austria (RailJet RJ & RailJet Express RJX). The RJ between Vienna and Salzburg has a bunch of stops, whereas the RJX online has two. Often, the Express train turns into a "local" train at the outer parts of the line. Between Berlin and Hamburg the ICE Sprinter doesn't stop at all, but stops at a few stations within these two cities. Or some TGV that cross half of France in incredible highspeed withouth basically any stops, just to turn into some regional train at the edge of the country.

Over here in São Paulo, BR we also have a local/express scheme with the lines 3 and 11, but it's designed for a different reason: one doesnt save you that much time saved between Itaquera and Barra Funda, but both separate demand from each section of the super busy corridor they run though. Line 3 carries 1.4M people a day and line 11 560K, so the express section helps to distribute passengers between both of them and not overload any.

PLEASE do more NYC content!! This video is BEAUTIFUL

This was nice.

You forgot about Philadelphia’s SEPTA Broad Street Subway, having 4 tracks north of Walnut-Locust, with express trains able to go 70mph (faster than New York) with trains from the early 80s

The Metropolitan Line in London has express trains if I am not mistaken, but not for the whole route

Heads up it's 'Westerly' not Waverly

If New York can somehow get rid of all of the homeless that use trains as dwelling place other than transportation means, and get rid of the disgusting smells, it will be a really great transit system.

N.B. So the London Underground does also have a few express services Between Baker street and Wembley Park, the Metropolitan line trains run express whilst Jubilee line trains stop at every station. Also between South Kensington and Acton Town Piccadilly line trains run express whilst the District line stops at every station Both of these are 4 track sections and allow for overtaking

I've never been to NYC so I was surprised to discover that the reason NYC has so many lines is because they consider different missions to be different lines. You put up the comparison with the Tokyo Metro, it intrigued me so I dug deeper, and I found out that if it was presented the way NYC do it, the 13 lines would serve a total of 23 services, 10 of them being express services. Hibiya Line : TH Liner* Tozai Line : Express, Commuter Express Chiyoda Line : Romancecar* Yurakucho Line : S-Train* Fukutoshin Line : Express, Commuter Express, S-Train* Asakusa Line : Airport Express Shinjuku Line : Express In truth, only 6 of them are proper express subway though, because the remaining 4 (with a *) are special services with low frequency and that require an additional fee.

Yes you left out The Broad Street SEPTA express that runs north and south in Philly.

you can make expresses an faster by a whole frequency then a slow train, so your slow trains go every 5 minutes, whilst your express trains will reach every express stop 5 minutes faster than the slow train... & even if you are say 2.5minutes faster per section, that still means you will have direct connections to every second train (or on every second stop for each of the fast trains given the two lines have the equal frequency)

Among proper subways, you missed at least one system that has Express Trains. The London Tube definitely has express trains (Piccadilly Line towards Heathrow and The Metropolitan Line towards Amersham starting from Baker-Street, I think there are other lines (maybe the Central [Red] or District [Green] ) too, but these are the two I have actually used and know.), also, I am pretty sure I saw Express Trains on the Seoul Subway.

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5:04 In fact all white rounds and rounded rectangles are transfer stations. There is only one 4 tracks section in Paris where you could put express train and it’s quite short (4 or 5 stations shared by the M9 and M8)

Here in Indonesia we have "Express" train (no its actually Airport train). The reason why people called this express train is because most people used this from batu ceper - Manggarai or so and not going to Airport. This train also have limited stop so people called this Express train for (T) and small part of (C) line even tho its an airport line (A)

The paris has the RER network ("Réseau express régional" = regional express network) which functionally acts the part of the 2 and 3 for the métro's 1 within city limits. It's an independent train network, though, and it does turn into what amounts to MetroNorth/LIRR/NJT outside of city limits. Nonetheless, the RER does work with express trains that skip stops, again only outside of city limits. But city limits in Paris are very, very small. It's a bit like only talking about Manhattan. So I would argue the RER fulfills a similar role to what you laid out here, with local and express trains. The only problem is that they're not *called* express trains. The only way to know whether your train will stop at your local stop is to know the route a priori or double check what stations are served before hopping on. Or to hop off right before and transfer.

In Melbourne we have expresses on 9/16 services, and several run on double track sections of the network Hurstbrudge, Werribee, etc. I'm not sure about how this is news to Americans.

2nd avenue subway needs a quad-track segment; i hope engineers can pull off a quad-track tbm in the future

2:48 actually, it’s VERY common for express trains to arrive at stations at the same time as locals, the MTA builds it in to the schedule and the trains will wait for each other. This is possible because of the frequency of the local trains is high enough to where express trains can easily pass by locals all the time.

0:53 “the 1 train is a practical joke” Me, an angry 1 train local rider: “TAKE THAT BACK YOU COWARD”

And when you consider skip-stop (*cough* J and Z *cough*) then you have another reason to see why express may not be worth it.

The "Metropolitan Line" in London has "fast" and "semi-fast" services during the peaks. Do those count as express trains?

I feel like Singapore is still better without express trains…

This is amazing work. You earned yourself a sub. Also, take the E outside of rush hours. Not only is the E less crowded, but also, express trains on QBL tend to bunch together, which means you will wait 5 minutes before every single express station as you wait for the conga line of trains clear up. And as a CTA Purple Line rider, that is a practical joke compared to what we have in NYC.

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4 track systems are genius.

The Asakusa line in Tokyo, Broad Street line in Philly, and Metropolitan line in London also run express. Additionally, those 10-20 minutes saved on the express trains almost always count, especially if it's a daily occurrence. Furthermore, those express tracks enable weekend work to take place, allowing the system to be a 24 hr system.

bro you need like 100x more subs

Cool video. I like your editing style and the narration was effective / compact

bro i saw the sub count thinkin you must have like 1 mil and you have 1k, amazing yter which is very funny yet still accurate

I am so so so glad i found this channel. You are an AMAZING creator, comedian, and visual storyteller -- thank you

Came here after getting the NYC subway video recommended. This video is stunning in its scope, the depth of your research, the quality of the animation, and your masterful storytelling. Simply incredible.

Great video!

It's technically not a metro system, but the Helsinki suburban rail network also has express service patterns. While these express lines run much further than the local lines, you can use the same tickets for them both as long as you don't go outside the zone of your ticket. On the main line, the R and Z trains act as an express for the K trains between Helsinki and Kerava, only stopping at Pasila and Tikkurila while the local train makes 13 stops. The R and Z also act as an express for the I and P trains between Helsinki and Tikkurila as the I and P branch to the Airport after Tikkurila. The R and Z continue towards Tampere and Lahti respectively and share tracks with intercity trains while the local trains have their own dedicated tracks. The other suburban line, the coastal line, has a more complicated service pattern. The dedicated local tracks only continue from Helsinki up to Leppävaara station, after which there are only two tracks which are shared by local, express and intercity services. Dedicated local tracks from Leppävaara to Kauklahti are under construction. The A and L trains use the dedicated tracks up to Leppävaara, where the A terminates. The L continues as a local making all the stops up to Kirkkonummi. The E and U trains run express from Helsinki to Leppävaara, only stopping at Pasila and Huopalahti. After Leppävaara, they run local until Kauklahti, where the E terminates and Kirkkonummi, where the U terminates. There is also the Y train, which runs as an express along the full route, only stopping at Pasila, Huopalahti, Leppävaara, Espoo, Kauklahti and Masala before Kirkkonummi, instead of 17 stops by the L or 13 stops by the U. There are also the D and T trains on the main line and the H train on the coastal line, which I'm not bothering to explain as they only run very limited service.

we have this sorta thing is melbourne australia but our "metro" is more of a commuter train without the commuter benefits (apart from express runnings)

In Los Angeles, the Vermont Ave., Hollywood Blvd. (Line B), and Wilshire Blvd. (Line D) subways are paralleled by bus routes. Having to transfer from the subway to a bus going the same direction and vice-versa is not uncommon. It's kind of an express vs. local system, just intermodal. Often, say when your trip starts in DTLA, a transfer is unavoidable. The subway--much like its ancestor Pacific Electric Hollywood Subway--saves a lot of time between DTLA and Koreatown, and also NoHo and Hollywood. I hate the L.A. subway and always try to avoid it, but its speed is undeniable.

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