Metro System of a City that Spans on Two Continents

[@RailwaysExplained]

Tell us what are your opinions about our collaboration with the UMX 🤔

[@torque4066]

Can you cover the norwegian railnetwork?

[@RailwaysExplained]

@@torque4066 We are planning to cover that during this year 😀

[@torque4066]

@@RailwaysExplained ok thank you im from norway and I can say that the railnetwork here is petty bad outside of Oslo. I live in bergen and there are is basically only oen route and its going to Oslo but it is vert slow and unrereliable when I was going to easter vacation me and my family was stuck on the train for 5 hours because teh Bergensbanen doenst get proper investment. This is only my opinion tough would like to hear your taughts i personaly think the goverment are at fault for failing to priotize the rest of the country , I thibk that the haukelibanen should be built

[@CidavuKK]

small correction about Marmaray: its first station at asian side, Gebze, is actually located in neighboring city called Kocaeli. that means Marmaray is operated in two cities.

[@virinom]

Gebze Kocaeli'den çok İstanbul'un bir parçası. Yakında resmen de İstanbul'a bağlanırsa şaşırmam.

[@rusenotable]

@@virinom Yalova'yı da geri alalım lol

[@rind41]

@@virinom Bi bakmışsın istanbul Kocaeliye bağlanmış :)

[@fusionreactor7179]

@@virinomevet öyle gerçekten. İzmitte metro muhabbeti bile yok iken Gebzeye metro yapılıyor bir de. Körfeze de Metro hattı gerek. Nüfusu aşırı hızlı artıyor

[@direnius]

One of the most fascinating metro systems in any European city. The speed that it was built makes it even more fascinating. A good start on your new series, and good luck with it! Very well crafted, the entire video.

[@gelincik9354]

Because of Erdogan before our rod is very bad no metro system now our rod trains and metro system is very good and modern

[@yeet19813]

@@gelincik9354 it's not because of erdogan :D

[@gelincik9354]

@@yeet19813 ooo really!! Chp is almost 80 years off control to everything why they don’t work?Turkiye looks like 3 worlds country!!!They not working we don’t have metro!bus roads we have trash everywhere!!Trut get hurt the other don’t works!They love propaganda but Erdogan works!

[@baraamattar2750]

​@@yeet19813 Yes it is..Don't fool yourself

[@joaopedrooliveira7931]

Oh, thank you for this! I'm not from Turkey, but I'm glad that now we have a video about a Metro System that's not located in that small set of rich countries that everyone always talks about. There are some great transportation systems in emerging economies.

[@RailwaysExplained]

This is just the beginning 😀

[@Tekukuno]

Turkey is *not* a developing country. It’s first world, especially İstanbul.

[@fusionreactor7179]

@@TekukunoTR’yi 1. Dünya ülkesi zannetmek ömrünü Bebekte geçirirsen mümkün ama İstanbulun kötü bir semtinde 5dk bulununca ve ülkenin yarısının Afganistan koşullarında yaşadığını fark edince bu algı yok oluyor.

[@deniz.cakmak.]

Turkey is a country which resists development although it has potential. i hope it will change at may 14.

[@Bolognabeef]

@@Tekukuno then why don't you guys stop flocking to Europe?

[@urbanmobilityexplained]

It was a pleasure to collaborate with you, guys! Another great and informative video, congratulations 👏Can't wait to discover the next episodes of this new series!

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thanks. This is just the beginning 😀

[@berge6731]

Apart from the metro lines, the Metrobus line, 5 tram lines, 3 funicular lines, 2 cable car lines, sea transportation lines and the bus system actually have a very impressive transportation network between the two continents. In the future, they plan to connect Sabiha Gökçen airports and the westernmost end of the city, further north from the coastline, with a new metro line (hizray) between 2 continents. TCDD and Istanbul Metro companies work harder due to political competition. The municipality is in opposition and the government is trying to win back Istanbul by serving TCDD. The city is very crowded. Metro Istanbul is trying to give the density to sea transportation by commissioning the ferry lines and connecting the metro lines here. At the moment, there are 6 metro lines that are in the project phase, apart from the ones that are under construction in the video. It is very easy to change continents every day in Istanbul :)

[@fusionreactor7179]

I feel like the 6 projects have been stuck in project phase because of the economic crisis. I feel like no new line has entered contract-cnstruction ohase in years. They barely had the funds to get the barely started lines to get going like M10

[@berge6731]

@@fusionreactor7179 The delays are more political than economic reasons. The President should approve the money received from abroad, but instead of signing these projects are put on hold. The municipality solves the problem by creating other resources.

[@aaltanacar]

It was great to see Istanbul as your first guest for this new series! Istanbul is truly a magnificent city and the metro system is expanding in rapid fashion. Great video.

[@Pan472]

Hello! Can you do the Athens Metro? It's never been covered by a foreigner so it'd be interesting to see an analysis! It has just 72 stations quite short for a city 5 million inhabitants, but it's quite efficient. Plus, a brand new automatic line, line 4 is being constructed right now, with a cost of 3.3 bln €. Also in terms of traffic, according to unofficial data, since official ones haven't been given since 2013, where it was recorded that almost 495 million passengers used the Metro, the metro handles about 2 mln people per day.

[@ismoleppanen]

When I visited Istanbul in the early 1990's, ABB built cars were operated as a tram service, with high wooden platforms at the stops.

[@hakanciris1]

They are still in service

[@endoplasmicreti3450]

I would like to correct that the M4 line's operating speed is 80 km/h and it carries much more passengers than 220.000 per day. Before the Sabiha Gokcen Airport extension was opened, the average daily ridership was 400.000 passengers per day and after the Airport extension is opened, it increased much more. You can tell it from the crowd. Due to the high passenger count, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality decided to buy 100 new cars (25*4-car train sets) to increase capacity of the line

[@ricktrickshots2642]

Budapest next, it's not yet covered by RMTransit so I would be interested Just watched the great video of UMX on Budapest but a video surrounding the facts would still be well appreciated 😊

[@bahadronurguduru3607]

Güzel videolar, Türkiye'de pek popüler olmayan ama olacak olan bir formatta videolar yapıyorsunuz. Elinize sağlık. Kanal yöneticilerinin eline sağlık

[@thephoenixking3242]

Türk olmadığı açık değil mi

[@SamirMDR]

Adam sirp

[@SamirMDR]

@@thephoenixking3242 acik

[@afd1040]

Thank you for this!

[@RailwaysExplained]

You're welcome ☺️

[@johnmcqueen4883]

Thank you for, as always, educating me about something I didn’t even know existed before I saw your report, and I look forward to learning about other metro systems I don’t know about yet!

[@candas5276]

TEŞEKKÜRLER İMAMOĞLU

[@Justin-xk7yj]

Just a small clarification that Istanbul is the most populous city in Europe, but in terms of land area Moscow is the largest.

[@hans-rudi-der-letzte]

Awesome new series and great video! 👏🏻 Please make a video like this about the Hamburg S-Bahn 🙏🏻😇

[@RailwaysExplained]

It is on our to do list 😀 What do you think about our collaboration with UMX?

[@hans-rudi-der-letzte]

@@RailwaysExplained Fantastic, thank you! 😃 I find this collaboration really interesting. Everything that promotes public transport and sustainable urban development can only be a good thing. 😁

[@RailwaysExplained]

We totally agree!

[@Atakanproxx112]

Thank you for doing Istanbul, I also live in Istanbul.

[@lordgemini2376]

Great video, I'd love it if you spent a little bit more time on the future expansion bit but it's a great new series nonetheless!

[@huncorn6938]

small correction, the end of the marmaray line gebze is not located in Istanbul city borders.

[@Mr820121]

A video about Istanbul and no Cats mentioned? 😱😉

[@heidirabenau511]

🙀😿😹

[@rusenotable]

Those 144 CAF trains are the worst in terms of noise pollution.

[@barskama309]

Greetings from Istanbul❤

[@SeverityOne]

Speaking for myself, I'm very interested in mass urban transport. And as others have mentioned, a focus on some place other than western and southern Europe and Japan is appreciated, too. What strikes me about this system is the number of different electrification systems and manufacturers. In terms of maintenance and interchangeability, that must be a challenge. On the other hand, with Istanbul being home to 16 million people (and 1.5 million street cats, let's not forget about those 🙂), perhaps it should be looked at as a country in its own right. And then, even though you still have at least three different systems if I counted correctly (750V overhead wire, 750V third rail, and 1500V overhead wire), one could see it in a different light.

[@ardaguldere1536]

Very nice video but I think you put the wrong Goztepe station at 9:44, that Goztepe station belongs to the M7 line in the European side...

[@furkan_1s]

2024 yılına geldiğimizde müthiş metro ağı uzunluğuna sahip olucak 🚇🇹🇷

[@blackpanda7298]

Very well done, I appreciate you. 😊

[@GoAnimateciMelih]

Greetings from Turkey!

[@haeffound]

At 12:00, you say the line has a speed of 80 km/h, but it is written 90 on the graphics. One of the info is wrong, but which is it?

[@david-stewart]

Why don't you research it and find out

[@lielakoma]

Great video, amazing to see such rapid development of a metro system

[@trainspotting_and_tech2023]

Hmm... It looks like that R.E. needs, beside "Railway Nations" series, a "Railway Cities" series! 😉

[@jermainetrainallen6416]

Thanks for the video

[@etbadaboum]

Who manufactured the rolling stock for the M9? Thanks!

[@RailwayNetworks]

Great and very informative video... Thank you 😊

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thank you! 🙂

[@waelsapry8702]

I hope that you will talk about the Cairo metro and future projects and the development that is currently happening to it in order to benefit from your information and opinion

[@limonmavis7264]

Great video. Thanks a lot.

[@RailwaysExplained]

You're welcome 😀

[@statebriga3924]

I enjoy your videos, but I also have question, just from curiosity - are you from Balkans? Your accent sounds Balkan...ish. Greetings from Yugoslavia. ✌😃

[@RailwaysExplained]

We are from Serbia 😀

[@Ulasbatuhankocw]

@@RailwaysExplainedı thought you are a turk your accent is so similar with ours

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

​@@RailwaysExplained do you support russia?

[@benmartin4120]

I would love to see more videos from your channel about metro systems in cities around the world, Also please do a video on the Paris metro system, I’m building that network on the game nimby rails great game by the way.

[@oleggrishin7128]

Please explain Moscow metro😊

[@Bennedict1507]

Uhhh do melbourne next

[@torque4066]

Can you cover norways railways?

[@direnius]

The Oslo t-bane system is definitely one of the most beautiful metro systems in the world.

[@torque4066]

@@direnius i was asking if he could cover Norway as a whole.

[@umtoge]

background music would make this video much cooler

[@umtoge]

and NO arabian music if you don't want your ass beating in one of those metro stations :D

[@loccusloccus5315]

Very well explained!

[@HimanshuSingh-lk2my]

Delhi metro please

[@plant.hacks.4.ur.environment]

Istanbul isn’t on 2 continents though. Europe and Asia are geographically and tectonically the same continent. The only difference is human made. The social aspects. Which doesn’t change the actual facts on the geography of the land.

[@sobu_hasy]

Correction: the title of this video should be called "Metro System of a City that Spans 2 Continents"

[@yagzthe]

Wait.. WHERE İS METROBUS?????

[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

Been in Istanbul 3 days now. Haven't been able to use the metro as it does not cover that many areas. I can only hope it's better than the tramway, which is messy, disorganized and overcrowded virtually any moment of the day. Very bad idea anyway to rely on tramway for such a densely populated area.

[@yfk1989]

I agree with your comment about that line. But there are other ways to reach this district. I guess, you didn’t know that when you were visiting. As a local, I never use that line. I have to add that this area is full of tourists and very crowded all the time as any other European hot spot. You can’t avoid the crowd, especially in summer. Lastly, everybody knows that the line is not enough, but the area is not easy to dig and add another metro line as other parts of the city.

[@simpletrailers1161]

most turks avoid tramvay, especially the one goes from eminönü to aksaray.

[@mehmetariftasl8277]

As a turk living in istanbul i neved used tramway

[@ulascsg]

its not uskudar blyat its ÜS ÜS ÜS ok? ÜS KÜ DAR YOU SHOULD USE Ü Ü Ü ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ

[@user-me3ii9yx3u]

Is Istanbul big than Moscow? I don't think so

[@yfk1989]

I believe, he means that in terms of population

[@AndersonPEM]

DO LISBON!!!! =D

[@mehmetsaidtaspinar3928]

real turkish accent

[@ice401557]

Is it still the largest European city if you don't count the Asian part?

[@BLACKSTA361]

Even if you count the Asian part it's not bigger than Moscow

[@fusionreactor7179]

@@BLACKSTA361stanbul has 20m people, 16m legally. Moscow metro area has 12m. 2/3 of İstanbul’s population is in Europe so 13m. Yes even the European part of the city is larger than Moscow. The Anatolian side also doesn’t include places like Gebze not that I assume you to be knowledgable. Istanbul also probably has more Syrians than Damascus.

[@debe333]

But it‘s not about the biggest european city which is Moscow

[@kilgoretrout3]

At kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJnNc6SjjbpqoNk you say 2011, while it should be 2018 as written

[@southedinburgh1971]

It's not 'fantastic' at all , the MRT system

[@mickser101]

Istanbul is not the biggest city in Europe. Half the city is in Asia

[@Mladjasmilic]

Biggest city in Europe. Fun fact: Half of it is not in Europe.

[@fusionreactor7179]

The half in Europe has more people than your country

[@alpkarv]

still the biggest cause european side is also much more bigger than anatolian side

[@CaptainAdamG]

clickbait

[@wollo6]

european istanbul is smaller than paris and london, all of istanbul is smaller than moscow

[@afd1040]

HAHAHAHA man that is just ignorant.

[@mineteam0]

your accent is thicker than the wooden bat my dad used to beat me when i was a kid

[@gelincik9354]

Long live ERDOGAN!!Everting is his signature

[@Ultracheese0]

literally not

[@mo7al1205]

@@Ultracheese0 it’s he’s the god father of 🇹🇷

[@tnickknight]

Istanbul is not a European city. Turkey is an Asian/Middle Eastern country, and only a very small part of the city is located in Europe

[@Progamerr_06]

About half of the city is in Europe and the oldest part of the city is on the europian side.

[@direnius]

That is technically incorrect if I'm not wrong. The main chunk of Istanbul is located in Europe. The Asian side has less than 1/3 of the population of Istanbul.

[@fusionreactor7179]

The European part of Turkey has more people than many EU countries lmao. Anyways if Turkey is middle east most of the balkans are too especially since they are all less developed than Turkey

[@tnickknight]

@@fusionreactor7179 No the Balkans are in Europe. (Poor with much thanks to the Ottomans) Turkey is a Middle Eastern country in every way. Reality to difficult to handle

[@tnickknight]

@@boilingwateronthestove yes h You should . Turkey is an Asian middle Eastern country, your tears do not change reality