Streetcars (Trams) in Toronto, Canada 2018

All kinds of streetcars (trams) in Toronto, Canada.
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[@jimbobogie8204]

Thr Queen Streetcar line (the one that says "Neville Park") is one of the finest streetcar rides in the world- it's one trip that really defines the great city of Toronto. It's the longest route in the city and goes all the way from Long Branch in the west end to Neville Park in the Beaches area on the Scarborough border and at the halfway mark is the heart of the city at Yonge Street. If you're visiting Toronto take a couple of hours and a couple of Canadian dollars and really experience the city. It's more interesting than the subway!

[@inferno7169]

We will miss the old streetcars.

[@pierrendokondoko9581]

The new Tram of Toronto look really good and modern !

[@CreatorPolar]

Wait until you see a škoda 39/40t and these streetcars will look straight out of the 90s

[@chickenbokernot2598]

@@CreatorPolar those are ugly and narrow, toronto trams look so much better

[@Torontopia]

The new streetcars are by far, my favourite form of transportation! I love them!

[@Pyrochemik007]

Just wait until your city coucil decides to buy Škodas.

[@Neville60001]

@@Pyrochemik007, we won't; the Flexity Swifts are amazing, and are here to stay.

[@lol-ug2ry]

TTC has great trolleys!!! One of my favorite transportations ever!

[@Neville60001]

_Street_ cars (or at least, _trams_ ), not trolleys.😉

[@bostonandmaine7444]

I like it when you show the route/system map! Keep showing it if possible/if you can please and keep up the good work!

[@NFTAMetro]

Trolleys: Northern Europe Trams: Lower Europe and Asia Streetcars: North America thingy with spiny wheels and body: *antarctica*

[@Iikkxx35567]

Aren't they the same?

[@MrEricSir]

So weird to see trolley poles powering a modern streetcar.

[@billyehh]

The new streetcars have both trolley poles and pantographs. As the overhead wiring is upgraded they will use the pantograph as you can see in the video on the Harbourfront Line.

[@mrjami4010]

Very nice service Well Don God blessed

[@robhsix]

Very nice. I especially enjoyed the reflection shot on Queen St W

[@RileyAK22]

Im sad that the CLRV is gone. It had to be one of the best streetcars in toronto.

[@Neville60001]

They were nearing the end of their service life and had to be replaced (although I wish that the TTC had kept about five CLRV's and five CALRV's for tourist purposes, as was done with the single PCC car that does the tourist runs.)

[@RileyAK22]

@@Neville60001They kept around I believe 3 CLRVs for preservation, but I agree, it would have been nice to see them keep a few for the tourist operations, especially considering how synonymous they are with the city.

[@Wochroch]

great thumbnail :D

[@CharlsonS]

One of the few systems that remind me of a classic tram network. To bad that beside the newer routes, there are hardly any sections in which the routes have experienced any upgrade to more modern standards (own right of way, signal priority). This makes the entire systems less efficient as it could be nowadays.

[@Pyrochemik007]

How about silent rails?

[@CreatorPolar]

@@Pyrochemik007 grassy rails are better: they reduce more noise, they drain rain water and it prevents cars from driving onto the streetcar tracks

[@Pyrochemik007]

@@CreatorPolar Silent tram tracks use plastic or rubber parts to dampen the vibration of rails. There can be grass still.

[@moho472]

There's no possible way of having right of ways on some routes, as the roads are too narrow. You'd need to restrict car traffic in order for streetcar reliability to increase. However, the streetcars actually do have signal priority switches on some routes, but they're not on due to complaints from drivers (though it's Changing)

[@joenuts5167]

@@moho472yeah, restrict traffic so that a much more efficient form of transportation can pass. It’s the logical thing

[@LSM_Lover]

Awesome video! Happy holidays.

[@MrBorgcube]

Interesting that they (still) use trolley poles and single-point switches. You don't see that very often anymore.

[@Neville60001]

Not all of the system has been converted to pantograph.

[@Tyco072]

@@szymonkrysiak6852 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_pole#Decline_in_usage_on_railways

[@ChrisOnline1]

I noticed that the new streetcars have both a pantograph and trolley pole, why is that?

[@MrLukealbanese]

Not all of the overhead is ready for Pantograph operation yet.

[@gabriellisi7349]

Whats a pantograph?

[@Neville60001]

@@gabriellisi7349 here's the description: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph_(transport)

[@trenomanis]

Τα παλαιά μονά οχήματα είναι πολύ ανώτερα των τεράστιων αρθρωτών οχημάτων! Με ένα - δύο ρυμουλκούμενα οχήματα εξοπλισμένα με ζεύκτες Schanferberg και με ένα κινητήριο στο τέλος ή με σύνθεση δύο κινητήριων θα είχαν τη δυνατότητα να αυξομειώνουν τις θέσεις αναλόγως της ζήτησης και της κίνησης. Επίσης με εντυπωσιάζει η χειροκίνητη αλλαγή της γραμμής από τον ηλεκτροδηγό! Η πληρότητα των συρμών δείχνει πολύ ικανοποιητική και η ποιότητα των συρμών εξαιρετική! Πολλά, πολλά εύγε!

[@Neville60001]

Τα παλαιότερα οχήματα _μπορεί_ να είναι ανώτερα από τα νεότερα, αλλά πλησίαζαν στο τέλος της ζωής τους και έπρεπε να αντικατασταθούν. Επιπλέον, έχουμε επίγνωση των ατόμων με ειδικές ανάγκες και των ηλικιωμένων με κινητικά προβλήματα, επομένως τα νέα τραμ είναι χαμηλού ορόφου. Όσο για το να μην τρέχει τόσο γρήγορα, αυτό πρέπει να διορθωθεί, και ελπίζουμε ότι θα διορθωθεί σύντομα. The older vehicles _may_ be superior to the newer ones, but they were nearing the end of their service life and had to be replaced; plus, we're conscious of handicapped people and older people with mobility issues, so the new streetcars are low-floor. As for not running as fast, that does have to be fixed, and hopefully it will be fixed soon.

[@denisegwilliams8614]

Thanks for sharing I enjoyed watching the streetcar my dream is to ride in one of them some day I am just fascinated by them dont know why 🤷‍♀️🤣

[@paulvernier1843]

Do you live in a city without it?

[@denisegwilliams8614]

@@paulvernier1843 I lived in the Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago we don't have streetcars 😔

[@paulvernier1843]

@@denisegwilliams8614 Okay I understand. Come to Germany, we have many of the best streetcar systems in the world, far better and bigger than Torontos system, in Berlin for example!

[@Pyrochemik007]

I would advise you to come to Prague instead. The best transportation system in the world, plus I belive about 25 tram lines. On top of that, it is a romantic medieval city, not a bombed nazi monument. Plus prices are much lower, and we are actualy the country where trams are made, there is even tram museum in Prague.

[@paulvernier1843]

@@Pyrochemik007 bombed nazi monument?! 😂 Okay I see you have no idea about German cities!

[@PlatformONE]

Hi Tim, what camera are you using? And using a slightly wider gauge 4 ft 10 7⁄8 in than standard gauge of 4 ft 8½ in!

[@klevisD]

Hi Timothy, I like your video... I have a question. Do you know if the trams have two sistems? pantograph and launches with carbon holder.

[@gandalf7292]

Trolley poles are temporary so when the full catenary system is upgraded then the trolley poles will be dismantled and they’ll use the pantograph

[@pierrendokondoko9581]

@@gandalf7292 Thanks !

[@catelinakennis8690]

I'm so happy you keep filming in my city. Are you from Canada yourself? :-)

[@timosha21]

NYC

[@thelearc0]

I came for the thumbnail 😉

[@o67_ant]

I live in toronto for 7years and i 've never been in a streetcar before..

[@jimbobogie8204]

Oscar, Oscar...please read my newer post...THE N GET YOURSELF DOWN TO QUEEN STREET!!! THAT'S AN ORDER!😁

[@85hthapa]

Oh sorry you are so poor

[@85hthapa]

@g mal12 yes they can. I was just being sarcastic, where I know its normally people with average or lower income who has to use street car and so on public vehicle, I am one of them.

[@benmossad2073]

Where are these Pantographs coming from ?

[@mortenjohansen8148]

From the 1950,s.With these New cars the could have put New pantographs on..

[@benmossad2073]

@@mortenjohansen8148 Noooooo I like my poles, let's taken them off overnight and hide them.....

[@stefanschader856]

@@mortenjohansen8148 All the overhead wiring has to be changed to accept the sliding pantographs.

[@mustafaolmez1247]

Kanada toronto şehri güzel

[@argopunk]

The Queen/King/Roncesvalles track intersection has been re-built. They re-aligned part of it so the track angles are different. Overall, since this was shot, the city has diminished with Covid recovery and homeless insanity but I'm confident we'll figure it out.

[@joshuafajardo5697]

🚊

[@HeadlessChickenTO]

I've been the new ones a couple times and there are only 2 things I like about them. 1, you can get on through any of the doors. The backlog created especially during rush hours is alleviated and especially on routes that do not have a dedicated streetcar lane. 2, its lower for disability passengers, strollers, etc. Otherwise; I'm not a fan of the internal layout, it feels too sterile and lacking character, and it's too long. Now the last one may sound like a weird reason but here's my gripe. We 9nly have maybe 4 routes out of several dozen that have dedicated lanes just for streetcars...no other road traffic outside of emergency vehicles. That leaves a lot of routes were cars have to ride along side them and over/under taking them when they are this long can be dangerous. We should have had shorter ones on mixed traffic routes with longer ones on dedicated routes. And the infrastructure upgrades we needed and the incompetence behind some of those fumbles is a whole other gear grinder together.

[@Neville60001]

These longer ones are better than having shorter ones and longer ones; would you like to be not be able to get on a streetcar because of overcrowding?

[@2ndshot]

New Street cars SUCK clogs traffic way too slow..doors take forever to open and close. Looks like you're ridin in a fishbowl..should be on a runway Jumbo jets without wings

[@sirindag2222]

А зачем штанги на новых вагонах

[@Neville60001]

На момент съемки этого видео Комиссия по транзиту Торонто (TTC) еще не перевела всю систему со столбов на пантографы, поэтому «стержни» все еще были на месте. At the time this video was made, the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) had not yet converted all of the system from poles to pantograph, so the 'rods' were still there.

[@ryananthony2812]

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[@nicholasyoung9758]

Lots of very uninteresting postmodern architecture in T.O. I really wonder how long folks will be willing to put up with it... nice streetcars though! 🚊

[@Neville60001]

We don't have a very robust preservation society, unlike NYC, and a lot of older buildings were torn down in the past (with some current older ones being 'facaded' [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facadism#Canada ]) so yeah, a lot of it is post modern sterility (Anthony Bourdain despised the condos in the downtown core of the city when his visited it for an episode of his TV show _The Layover_ .)