TOP 10 Tram Systems I Have Used

[@realdronthego]

Hi there! Getting ever closer to the goal of hitting 1000 subscribers. It would really help me if you subscribe to my channel, ensuring I can keep making videos like these for years to come :)

[@zanjose9806]

oh god, living in prague and Riga's system seems awful, they get normal trams that are less frequent than our night trams. insane

[@realdronthego]

True.. even at smaller branch lines I think an every 20-minutes service should be the bare minimum for a tram line

[@METALLpl22]

Hi. wow I am pleasantly surprised that Warsaw trams are your second best tram in Europe. But it makes me happy. Greetings motorman from Warsaw 🙃😄

[@realdronthego]

Warsaw does a good in my opinion! Thanks!

[@pafawag5b6b5b]

hey, my city made it to number 2! i've personally not ridden 10 tram systems, but i'm soon going to vienna so i'll see how their tram system is, and also i really recommend you to come to łódź and ride their trams, they aren't the best in many cases but they're slowly improving and recovering from the downfall they experienced in the 90s and early 2000s

[@realdronthego]

Yes! It is doing a great job! Enjoy Vienna! I hope to visit Łódz next year😁

[@DS.J]

Why on earth does this channel have only 695 subscribers? Is there something I'm missing?

[@realdronthego]

Slowly growing… 😉

[@DS.J]

​@realdronthego I hope so because your videos are very good. Also, would love to see a video on Vilnius, which has one of the worst public transport systems in Europe, but local government (and good part of the society) don't see it as a problem. This is so incredibly frustrating, especially after using excellent systems in Warsaw and other Polish cities, not to mention Germany, Netherlands or any of the Nordic countries which we see as role models.

[@realdronthego]

Thank you! What you mention here about Vilnius might become an additional series to my channel :) stay tuned😁

[@gustavsberzins5639]

I'm sorry that you didn't like the Riga tram network. I totally understand why. It is incredibly dated and the corruption scandals of the past have left a bad mark, but the improovments are on their way and they will be massive. Greetings from Latvia👌

[@realdronthego]

I still like it, but in terms of transport-value, the updates are long overdue. Riga deserves better😁

[@cmoki-ta]

i knew prague could do it!

[@realdronthego]

They simply are awesome at this 😁

[@strassenbahnfilmguy9306]

Prague .. Budapest .. Vienna .. Krakow .. all excellent .. mostly because I like the cities anyways but also because of some of the older rolling stock 😅 Munchen and Leipzig are great also .

[@realdronthego]

Yes exactly! I think I will go explore more of the German systems next year😁

[@aliancemd]

Nice, France didn’t have a particularly good tram system but I liked the idea - they have it go underground and act as a metro in populated areas. Underground it attaches to the wires but on the surface, it has no wires and quick charges at the station through some metal plates on the ground, while waiting for people to board.

[@sgnifi]

Milan tram system is pretty good, and the old trams are so beautiful that are now in some museums in the world I think one is in Melbourne, and old milanese trams are used in San Francisco. The old trams are turnig 100 hundred years old in 4 years. And the important thing is trams ride across city center, you can se the Duomo, the Milan cathedral, from the windoes of many tram lines Here is a link to a video showing the ld trams kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJjYamZqjptma6c

[@vojta.drevik]

I have been to all of these cities except Helsinki and shlould say that Kraków should be on the third place (or maybe fourth because I don't know Helsinki). It's because of their big system and a lot of frequent lines on one branch which is amazing. I agree with you with the first place. Prague's system is growing, on each branch there are at least 2 lines with 8 minutes interval which is 4 minutes for wait maximally. In two years Prague is going to start getting new trams and after that there will be fully lowfloor rolling stock. So yes, Prague has the best tram network in Europe❤

[@realdronthego]

Everyone has their favourites😁 I honestly think Prague is leading the way on how trams could functionally operate, but also add to the vibe of the city.

[@msg5507]

Melbourne! You've got to come to Melbourne...

[@realdronthego]

I would love to. Melbourne has a huge network. My channel luckily has a topic I can years and years of things I could cover. 😁

[@DanTheCaptain]

Budapest is my favourite because it’s my motherland but also because of its coverage, frequency and varied fleet. Prague, and Vienna where also very excellent. Especially Prague. That city is literally crawling with trams around every corner! It was rather fascinating to experience. Edit: others I have been to are Berlin, Bratislava and Zagreb. I didn’t get a chance to travel on Berlin or Bratislava’s trams but they both liked alright. Not too great but also not the worst either. In Berlin I mainly went around by foot, by U-Bahn and S-Bahn which were impressive in their own right. And I only got a chance to go by bus and trolleybus in Bratislava cause I was there for only one day. Zagreb was one that genuinely impressed me. Just for sheer coverage and frequency alone. It has to be said though that ease of use was not great however. This is due to an outdated ticketing system, that’s hard to find and pay for tickets, and the ticket validation machines are needlessly complicated. Tickets can only be bought from a select few convenience stores and news stands and not all except cars. Most only except cash. Even if they do except cars it might be compatible with your own internationally excepted cards. Ticket machines are don’t seem to exist at all! Edit2: Spelling

[@realdronthego]

Your reason for Zagreb was exactly one of the reasons why it fell out of my top 10. Having to buy a ticket at a kiosk and only hope they speak some basic English is not the way to go😅

[@DanTheCaptain]

@@realdronthego It took me some time to find a random convenience store that A: sold them, and B: had a machine that excepted foreign cards. Hopefully Croatia’s adoption of the Euro brings much needed change. Upon my arrival in Zagreb at the coach us terminal I was amazed that there are literally no ticket machines even in a large transportation hub. Even the ticket desk wasn’t able to help me at all. No card, no foreign cash, no help. Other than that! Great system!

[@danielfreeman5910]

I think you need to come to Melbourne, 24 hour tram service on weekends and most lines run every 2-5 min in peak then every 10 min off peak and after 7pm every 20min.

[@realdronthego]

Once my channel gets bigger it is on the wishlist 😁

[@charlieonholiday]

A great list, interesting to see where you have visited and looking forward to where you’ll be going next.

[@realdronthego]

Thank you! Soon I will come with new videos 😁

[@victorcheng7743]

I think where i live Antwerp has a tram system of 0 points haha but no Prague tram is very beautiful

[@realdronthego]

There should be some points for sure! 😁

[@andreasfreyaldenhoven5785]

Hey, great video, you may want to visit Basel, Switzerland. Their new trams are super nice

[@realdronthego]

Thank you! One day for sure!

[@TagusMan]

Prague is the winner. Not mentioned here but Lisbon's old trams make for the best ride. And modern trains have no soul compared to the old ones. Old school is the best school.

[@realdronthego]

Yeah, although I can appreciate some more modern types. I didn’t mention Lisbon as I have not used the system. One day I will make an update as the list of systems I have used will be much longer😁

[@GreenHoodC]

I would put Warsaw number one cause IMO it’s more enjoyable and more modern trams then Prague although I have never been there but I have seen on videos and stuff, yet I still don’t understand why most people put this in #1

[@realdronthego]

It is a matter of personal preference. Although to me, Prague’s system has more charm. Both are undeniably great systems, Central Europe really nails its “tram-game” 😁

[@geoffreyhui830]

I have spent much of my life in Hong Kong and Melbourne. The trams are very visible. You would be interested to visit and try them.

[@realdronthego]

Interesting, and yes, most definitely!

[@ravenn1508]

I agree with you 100% the best trams are in Prague and the best lines system in the world I have been in Prague 5 times and allways using Trams because its very easy to get anywhere in the City

[@realdronthego]

Prague does a good job!😁

[@GreenHoodC]

Great vid

[@realdronthego]

Thank you!

[@HaloFTW117]

Great video and couldn’t agree more about Budapest. Got to admit that I was also saddened as someone from Riga, but there’s a lot of work currently underway and in the planning stage, so hopefully we’ll reach the honorable mention section in a few years.

[@realdronthego]

Riga is working on it, and has the potential. Let’s see😁

[@vectronik]

I have personally no tierlist, but i have been in a lots of cities with trams Amsterdam Rotterdam Den Haag Utrecht Paris Marseille Nancy Rouen Lille Lyon Dijon Oberhausen Oslo Warszawa Łódź Szczecin Poznań Gdańsk Kraków Wrocław Gorzów Wielkopolski Bydgoszcz Katowice Częstochowa Görlitz Leipzig Dresden Dessau Frankfurt am Oder Nürnberg Luxemburg Brussels Antwerp Gent Oostende Caen Roma Zürich Braunschweig Düsseldorf Duisburg Firenze Hannover Bratislava London Budapest Brno And this is all what i reminded myself for the moment 😂 I will be going also in the next days to Liepaja Riga Tallin And (maybe) Daugavplis FANTASTIC viedo as usual ❤😊

[@realdronthego]

That is a really extensive list!😁 Poland and Germany also still have a lot to offer for me haha

[@kateryna3381]

You have to come to Kyiv to see Forest Tram, though i don't think our system would rank high overall

[@realdronthego]

It would be great to see in the future! 😁

[@ClassOneThousand]

Manchester Metrolink is the best tramway I’ve ever ridden.

[@realdronthego]

I want to visit it one day for sure!

[@StLouis-yu9iz]

Great video! My favorite trolley is the Delmar Loop one in StL! :]

[@realdronthego]

Thanks! The Delmar trolley looks like a nice historic tram line😁

[@malcolmfreeman4062]

Load of rubbish. No mention of the biggest tram network in the world. Melbourne Australia

[@realdronthego]

As far as I know I haven’t been in Australia. Hence the title is “Top 10 tram systems I have used”. 😅

[@Pidalin]

Another important thing for me is how easy is to find informations how to get somewhere, and Prague (and Czech cities generally) is totaly superior in this case, when I visit other countries, it's really pain to use google or their broken websites where you press SEARCH button and it takes 1 minute to find a route or it doesn't work at all. Czech apps are totaly superior, the way how our timetables look is superior, the way how bus/tram stops are marked is superior, our announcements from speakers are superior, in other countries it's that silent that you can't even hear that or it's pronounced very unclearly that you can't understand it anaywa, Czech announcements aleays speak like if you were little kid or an idiot - you have to understand it + in metro, it's even in English when it's some important information and I mean real English, not some broken Czenglish. On bus/tram stop totems, you can also see direction in which each tram goes, that's also superior compared to other countries. When I visited Portugal, I had to use google maps to check where I am, there is no sign, no announcement and you can't even see name of the stop out from window. People don't really realize how good public transportation here is. I agree with Vienna, people are very agressive when I say that trams in Prague are better because they think Vienna is "west" so it must be much better and I spread some propaganda, but it's not like that, we already overpassed them in many things. But they have metro everywhere, so you don't need trams that much like in Prague. Another important thing for me is ticket system, if it has barriers in metro or those modern e-tickets, I would never put it to TOP 10 list, I just totaly hate these modern systems, that's what bothered me even in Riga, those stupid e-tickets and bugged machines which were showing error 404 when you tried to switch it to English and also, they have the same numbers for buses, trams and trolleybuses, it happened to me several times there that I accidentaly entered bus 3 instead of trolleybus number 3 and there is even tram number 3! I liked Riga, but all these little details make public transportation in Prague better, when trams have XX numbers and buses XXX, you always know. Another such mess is in Katowice, like they have even tram 0, what the hell is that? And then there are some buses like 1A and 900 or something....there is no system in it, it's a mess. In Prague when you enter 3xx or 4xx bus, you automaticaly know it's bus going out of Prague, so you mostly stick with 1xx and 2xx buses in city. I was also very disapointed by trams in Lisbon, it seems like they keep them only as tourist attraction, but for actual transporting, it's totaly useless. People wait in some weird lines to get in, I've been there in 2019 and if I remember it correctly there was only like 1 or 2 actual tram lines, rest of them is just for tourists, which is sad, they have rails everywhere, they should actually use them. And their buses are even more useless, again, they wait in some lines to get in, so it takes like forever to get in and out, I've been there like 10 days and I didn't get it how it works. Village buses were easy, that was the same system like here - you enter thru front door and you can buy ticket from a driver, but why they wait in lines even in city center? It just doesn't make sense, but it looks like waiting in lines must be part of their culture, I saw people waiting like 50 m long line for some ticket office in metro station, probably to load their cards or something, if you see such line in Prague, you just jump to metro and go check other place where you can do that, you never wait in 50 m long line. 😀

[@realdronthego]

The Czech Republic is doing a good job, with local products, strong maintenance, vision, and making people truly appreciate their networks. Sometimes simplicity is the key to make it work!

[@Pidalin]

@@realdronthego But local products....not really, we own nothing, everything was sold to foreign corporations and when there is "MADE IN CZECH REPUBLIC" it's better to not buy that. 😀

[@pathol836]

@@PidalinTrue