The Trains that Subsidize Suburbia - GO Transit Commuter Rail
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Commuter rail is a rail system designed to bring people from the suburbs into a central business district for work. But is it really an efficient transit system, or just another subsidy provided to car-dependent suburbanites? This video explores commuter rail in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the train system known as "GO Transit."
Part 1: Why Passenger Trains Suck in Canada -...
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Specifically, this playlist about the future of GO Transit:
Building Toronto's Regional Rail
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References & Additional Reading
Thumbnail images:
Municipal Affairs and Housing, CC BY 3.0,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ontario...
By Richard Sunichura, CC BY 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
GO Train Commuting statistics
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
GO Transit System Map
By Natural RX - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Historical GO Train footage:
Dirt Roads to Freeways … And All That (ca. 1970s)
Archives of Ontario [YouTube]
Dirt Roads to Freeways … And All That...
GO Transit Launch: 1967/Lancement de GO Transit en 1967
GO Transit [YouTube]
GO Transit Launch: 1967/Lancement de ...
Toronto Parking Authority Statistics:
https://www.toronto.ca/city-governmen...
Citadel Rock butte, Green River, Wyoming, (1868)
By Andrew J. Russell, Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder ID ppmsca.03147., Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad (1877)
By Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) - Getty Center, Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900 - Land Grants
https://www.loc.gov/collections/railr...
By Danielle Scott - originally posted to Flickr as GO Cabcar 237, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Scott Santoro - http://scottsantoro.blogspot.ca/2010/..., CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:07 VIA Rail
0:40 Let's GOOOOOOOOO!
1:16 Riding the GO
2:38 The History of GO Transit
3:14 The Success and Failure of GO
4:18 The Insanity of Commuter Rail
6:01 Non-Commuting Trips Aren't Possible
7:02 Parking as a Subsidy
9:20 The Future of GO Transit
10:19 Bloomington GO
13:13 What is the Purpose of Transit?
14:49 Conclusion
15:12 Patreon Shout-out
15:26 Outtro
Commuter rail is a rail system designed to bring people from the suburbs into a central business district for work. But is it really an efficient transit system, or just another subsidy provided to car-dependent suburbanites? This video explores commuter rail in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the train system known as "GO Transit."
Part 1: Why Passenger Trains Suck in Canada -...
Sign up to Nebula and watch ad-free and sponsor-free: https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes
Patreon: Patreon: notjustbikes
Twitter: Twitter: notjustbikes
Reddit: Reddit: notjustbikes
One-time donations: https://notjustbikes.com/donate
NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel):
@njblive
Check out RMTransit for more videos about TRAINS!!!!!
rmtransit
Specifically, this playlist about the future of GO Transit:
Building Toronto's Regional Rail
---
References & Additional Reading
Thumbnail images:
Municipal Affairs and Housing, CC BY 3.0,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ontario...
By Richard Sunichura, CC BY 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
GO Train Commuting statistics
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
GO Transit System Map
By Natural RX - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Historical GO Train footage:
Dirt Roads to Freeways … And All That (ca. 1970s)
Archives of Ontario [YouTube]
Dirt Roads to Freeways … And All That...
GO Transit Launch: 1967/Lancement de GO Transit en 1967
GO Transit [YouTube]
GO Transit Launch: 1967/Lancement de ...
Toronto Parking Authority Statistics:
https://www.toronto.ca/city-governmen...
Citadel Rock butte, Green River, Wyoming, (1868)
By Andrew J. Russell, Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder ID ppmsca.03147., Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad (1877)
By Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) - Getty Center, Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900 - Land Grants
https://www.loc.gov/collections/railr...
By Danielle Scott - originally posted to Flickr as GO Cabcar 237, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Scott Santoro - http://scottsantoro.blogspot.ca/2010/..., CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:07 VIA Rail
0:40 Let's GOOOOOOOOO!
1:16 Riding the GO
2:38 The History of GO Transit
3:14 The Success and Failure of GO
4:18 The Insanity of Commuter Rail
6:01 Non-Commuting Trips Aren't Possible
7:02 Parking as a Subsidy
9:20 The Future of GO Transit
10:19 Bloomington GO
13:13 What is the Purpose of Transit?
14:49 Conclusion
15:12 Patreon Shout-out
15:26 Outtro
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