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Kevin Goes YouTubing! Torontonian by way of the great Midwest bringing you my fascination of Toronto, the GTA, Canada and wherever else I go!
Toronto Bicycle Culture: Footdown - Ode to Summer and a unique cycling game.
Toronto is undoubtedly one of the most expensive cities in North America and going out to concerts and events are getting even pricier. But it doesn't take much to put on a small, grassroots event for the cycling community of Toronto.
With many subcultures of cycling here this one brings many together from regular city cyclists, bike messengers and racing enthusiasts, any body and everybody is welcome.
So take a look at an exciting piece of Toronto that you can find in a park!
#cycling #torontocycling #torontoculture #biking #footdown #alleycats #bikepolo #bicycle #trackbike #mountainbike
With many subcultures of cycling here this one brings many together from regular city cyclists, bike messengers and racing enthusiasts, any body and everybody is welcome.
So take a look at an exciting piece of Toronto that you can find in a park!
#cycling #torontocycling #torontoculture #biking #footdown #alleycats #bikepolo #bicycle #trackbike #mountainbike
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Taking the GO Train to see TOTALITY in Niagara Falls!
Просмотров 2463 месяца назад
Millions of people from all across America and the world got to witness the spectacular Total Solar Eclipse on April 8th, 2024. And living in Toronto meant it was a breeze to get dow there and experience Totality in one of the most unique places in Southern Ontario: Niagara Falls! Despite the overcast, the atmosphere around the area was energized and exciting. While it was hard to see what was ...
Abandoned Theme Park in Toronto: Ontario Place
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If you live near the lake in Toronto, you are probably very familiar with a once proud amusement park called Ontario Place. On this episode, I show you my cargo bike and take a ride down to the lake. At the time of filming much has been closed like the Cinesphere and the marina but the province maintained access to the west island up until recently. Join me as I take one last look at this stran...
End of the Line: Scarborough RT - TTC Line 3 Closure
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Since 1985, residents of Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto relied on their orphan of a transit line, the Scarborough RT. Commonly referred to as just the "RT" and by TTC: Line 3, it ran along a right of way from Kennedy Station, terminating at McCowan Station just outside Town Centre. It provided a major link for those along and around the route connecting people with a frequent service...
GO Train Adventure from Toronto Union Station to Barrie!
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In the last video, I took you on a trip with a Brompton folding bike to Montreal! Since then, the cold has set in and a creative rut has ensued but! Looking to get out of that funk and take you on my little day trip excursions until its nice and warm again for epic journeys again! The Brompton Bicycle will return but today is for a short trip to Barrie, Ontario! My friend and I have never reall...
Taking your Brompton Folding Bike on the VIA Rail.
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If you found yourself from @CurbsideCycle's RUclips Channel.. Amazing! If not, well welcome to another episode of Kevin Goes and this time I am taking you to Montreal with the Via Rail Windsor-Quebec Rail corridor train. I am also Curbside Cycle's content creator and they have graciously let me borrow a Brompton folding bike so I can get around Montreal with ease. Thank you Curbside! I'll show ...
Don’t try this. Terrible food at the Fair.
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Welcome back to another episode of Kevin Goes! This time I take you on my lunch time experience to the Canadian National Exhibition in downtown TORONTO! An annual end of summer tradition, the Ex features an amazing Midway Carnival with skills games, classic rides, and roller coaster, classic fair foods and all sorts of wacky fried goodness. I'll show the monstrosity that is the "Watermelon Burg...
Major Toronto Power Outage - 20 years later and still celebrating "Toronto the Good"
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The Toronto Blackout was part the northeast blackout of 2003 which threw millions of people into darkness. However, Toronto was hit harder than many other cities and experienced many delays in power generation, in some spots up to 4 days! On that night, August 14th, 2003, downtown Toronto came together, with nothing else to do, people bbq'd, played music, shared stories and celebration together...
48 Hours in Halifax - Historic Halifax Citadel, HMS Sackville and more!
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In part 2 of my 48 hour trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, I experience the Citadel Halifax which is a old fortress to protect the Halifax Harbour, though never had to enter active service, it serves as an amazing landmark to showcase what early Canadian military had to do to protect its new outpost. A quick jaunt through the Public Garden which is a victorian era public park and then a self guided ...
48 HOURS IN HALIFAX?! What to do?! [Part 1]
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Join me on my latest trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia! Here I'll show you that you can use a Toronto Bike Share Bicycle to get down to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, the sights you can see on 3.5 hour layover in Ottawa, Ontario and finally an afternoon in Halifax, NS! Includes a guest appearance by my friend Vince as to why I even live in Canada and how that happened! If you enjoyed what you se...
DOORS OPEN Toronto: Cycling to the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant
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Ever catch yourself not sure what you want to do with your weekends? Have a decent bike and looking for more ways to get active? Well I found the Urbane Adventure Club social bike ride which is hosted by an incredible local bike shop here in Downtown Toronto called Urbane Cyclist. Hosting about two social rides throughout the summer, it's a great way to connect with new friends and maybe even m...
Barrie line riders are so lucky they got the Davenport guideway up and running. I think I read somewhere that that project alone saves riders a whopping 5 mins each way. Sadly I don't know that there is or will be any other new significant rail infrastructure upgrades on that scale (like electrification or acquiring electric locomotives) for any of the other lines for years to come.
Nice Video.I lke your Brompton Bike❤❤❤
I am a punjabi woman, who works from home as a techie 😅. I want to explore places around Toronto and this is exactly what I was planning to do, random unplanned trip. Thank you so much for sharing a genuine unfiltered experience of yours. 😊
Hey Kevin! Nice shots of the WAR! I'm actually working on building a Wilderness Adventure Ride simulator game right now!😂
The fact that this place is going to be made into a spa is a crime. It's a corporate idea and it's stupid
Love this vid. Bicycle, Food, Town Tour and Rain.
Nice video, thanks for sharing.
Hi, distance of this ride? any gpx file to share? thnx
It was a pleasure to watch this video. Never been to Montreal and I am glad to have seen it from your perspective.
Do come back to Barrie in the summer it's insanely lively! patio dining, beach, etc
What type of seat post is that? Looks like you were able to easily remove part of it?
Bro how much time it takes to reach barrie??
Assuming no delays happen, 1hr 45min.
Kennedy has a turning loop because it was supposed to run streetcars. RT still opened with two tracks at Kennedy and trains always used the loop. There was a minor derail in the loop within the first year. Kennedy was renovated to single track and a switch. Loop was just occasionally used for short term storage. It should have been built to use streetcars and to Malvern as it was proposed. It would have been full accessible when new streetcars where launched.
Yep.
We in Montreal say the same about our street festivals haha
Oh I might have to do a travel video to Montreal to experience a festival!
Super cool footage of the birds eye view of footdown
Excellent video!! what was the price difference between the GO ticket and the VIA rail ticket?
I was hesitant to include that as prices for VIA vary and in this case… by a huge margin. I believe a ticket booked in advance is 25 dollars for the VIA maple leaf from Niagara Ontario to Toronto and GO train is 14 or 15. In this case, since the VIA train ticket was bought day of it cost me 130 after tax. VIA practices “surge pricing”.
Come on tell Toronto to keep the Scarborough rapid transit back
Gone forever but… not forgotten.
VIA rail: let's make taking the train as inconvenient as flying!
I can't say enough bad things about North American rail travel. It's almost as if it's intended to be worse than car or air travel. Oh, wait...
Last time I went to Montreal on VIA Rail with my Brompton, I didn’t even pack the bike and they were fine with it. The station in Ottawa is really easy to get to by bike so I rode in with just my borough bag, folded the bike and rolled it on to the train. The folded bike even fit nicely in the dead space between the back-to-back seats so I did not lose sight of it during the entire trip. I usually try and score discounted business class tickets by buying a few weeks in advance, the meals and drinks are actually pretty good. You should do a similar trip to the National Capital :)
I really intend to make a trip to Ottawa! Might have to get another video project approved so I can get the Brompton again!
Awesome. I got my Brompton from Curbside, and it has seen a lot of use. I’ve cycled in all of Canada’s major cities, and in my (biased) opinion Ottawa has the best scenic pathways. The city is also making steady progress on implementing segregated bike infrastructure across the urban areas. If you like beer, there are quite a few microbreweries you could string together in a bike tour :) Let us know when you plan to come up!
Very helpful video. I may bring my Brompton to Montreal and Toronto next time...😊
The only reason the SRT was shut down is because the trains are obsolete. The majority of cost of construction is the infrastructure (stations, raised rail areas, concrete rail bed, signals etc). The SRT has all this existing. And the Eglinton LRT ends exactly where the SRT ends. It would have been easy to swap the SRT tracks to Eglinton LRT tracks and just continue the Eglinton LRT along the existing SRT route. Instead we get a useless three stop subway to no where. The existing SRT route would have more stops including ones closer too and directly in the middle of the new planned mass development around the Scarborough Town Center (at Midland, Scar. Town Cent. and McCowan). Instead we end up with only one subway stop that will be on the farthest east of the proposed development that will be a km or more away from the major developments. And the money saved swapping tracks instead of building a new subway extension could have been used for even more better transit into Scarborough like extending the LRT along Eglinton. And either extending the subway all the way along Sheppard or building an LRT along the part of Sheppard in Scarborough to the subway. The other new subway stops will be miles apart from each other and not in areas that really support a subway (Lawrence is miles from Kennedy and Scar Center with no houses around it and McCowan and Sheppard is miles away from Scar Center and although it has some proposed new development it is mainly single houses). Our politicians from all levels of govt and all parties are incompetent fools.
It would have cost $1.5 billion (likely more) plus at least 4 years (and knowing the TTC's track record, much longer than that) to convert the SRT to LRT. The original LRT plan WAS to continue the Eglinton line onto the SRT route. The original name was "Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown" for this line. However, management decided to break them up into two lines because they were scared that the Scarborough riders would then not get off at Kennedy and continue their trip to Eglinton station, further crowding Line 1. In other words, it would be too convenient for Scarborough riders. I'm not exactly sure why you're saying the three stop subway would be to nowhere. Quite frankly, the current stops are in the middle nowhere and don't support mass transit as it is. The only real viable stations that people actually use are STC, Lawrence East, and Kennedy, all of which are a apart of the subway plan. As this video talks about, stops like Lawrence East, Midland, and Ellesmere are located underneath bridges in industrial areas. It's a terrible area to build transit. The saving grace for the current Lawrence East station is that a number of buses serve it. The Lawrence East subway station would be right at the intersection of McCowan & Lawrence, where at least some people live and can walk to the station, as well as serving the thousands of hospital workers and visitors, along with future development. Again, the only reason why there is planned mass development is BECAUSE of the subway; if it was LRT, there would be no mass development to be in the middle of. And the STC subway station would be at the mall, so it would be in the middle of such development.
A weight limit on a train ride? lol?
One of many unique Canadian things!
I've taken SkyTrain and liked it. For some reason, the scarborough RT was the first time a train trip was actively unpleasant. I took it to see what it was like before it closed, and by the last station didn't even want to go back. The subway extension will probably be wayyy better.
Weighing your bags on a train - an absolute joke!
Welcome to Canada! :(
I will really miss line 3, I really love the ICTS fleet, if you ever have the chance, go to Detroit and ride the peoplemover, Same trains and tech, and even the original ttc RT Door chime!
Great video
awesome vid, kev! Love the part where you intersperse clips of the old rapid ride running with your own footage from the present.
Yeah. that was super well done
Thank you so much!
Those would be my kids on that ride. I worked there for 3 seasons, and it's incredibly sad what has happened to this entire park.
First comment!!! It's me Ralph btw
You rock!
Sick splicing! Train tech is cool ✌🏽
As a Vancouverite whose system is defined by this technology, it's crazy to me that it didn't catch on in Toronto. The SkyTrain is so great and it's a shame others haven't gotten the chance to live with it
The RT is quite different than the skytrain in vancouver, in that the RT was poorly built and was only meant to be a band-aid solution, not something long term, which is why it was cut short the way it was. Its mostly politics and funding issues.
@trinitek said it right. interesting and cool concept at the time but completely half baked and never meant to last as long as it did.
We would really wanted to reopen it once more while the Scarborough subway extension is in progress of construction
I’ve never had a chance to ride line 3 but I do agree that when line 3 was so dam noisy when leaving Kennedy Subway station I’m glad that TTC shut down the line 3 earlier than expected it was originally supposed to close in November of 2023 4:30 4:34 4:35 4:35 4:36 4:36 4:37
TTC didn’t really have a say. There was a major derailment that forced its closure. And it’s kind of upsetting to say being glad it closed, millions of Scarborough residents relied on this train. THOUGH! I will admit it’s also sad that people didn’t vote the right leadership in to improve this line over a decade ago to something similar like the tech used on Eglinton or Finch West LRTs.
@@KevinGoesRUclips It's a shame that all the TTC Subway projects were outright cancelled and/or scaled back in the 90's. We wouldn't be having the issues we have now with the decade plus construction of the Eglinton Crosstown. If the original subway that was started there wasn't cancelled, it would have already been running already for a while and they could have placed resources on a proper replacement for the Scarborough RT. If they did that, it would have been ready to replace the RT prior to the unceremonious end. Politics always gets in the way of progress, especially here.
@@tauron1Hear, hear.
good job! I hope your channel does well.
Line 3 is permently close
That’s right, that’s what the entire video is about.
Delightful, your video sure is a great way to see Canada. And from a native too.
Such a well done video! Your editing and narration are great. Enjoyed this farewell vid for the RT.
Thank you so much! It was really nice getting to know the RT last summer. Glad I got to see and ride it for its last few months.
@@KevinGoesRUclips Yeah I really enjoyed the vid, and I can tell you learned a lot about the RT and what it meant to Scarborough.
Wow, such a small channel, yet such good editing over what your talking about, I can’t for when your channel grows, nice job on this video.
Thank you so much! I just started this channel not too long ago and I’m beginning to focus more on it as I can. Glad you enjoyed the video! Next one should be coming very soon!
Yeah no this editing is insurmountable. Amazing tunessss
Does curbside let you rent out the brompton to try it out ? Or was it just for the video?
I’m their videographer, so no renting for me. However, doesn’t hurt to reach out to their sales staff to see what’s up. I don’t know their day to day operations! Hope that helps.
Great choice for lunch. Mexican house is one of our favourite spots. There are several wonderful restaurants to choose from (downtown) on Dunlop st. There’s also nice walking tours (close to the station) to check out historic Barrie.
Amazing! Thank you for the tip. Definitely coming back in the spring and summer now knowing how easy it is. Looks like a great place to bring a bike up too for a ride along the lake.
@@KevinGoesRUclips If you’re bringing a bike, check out the Oro-Medonte Rail Trail.
but how was the burrito?
Hahaha steering away from ANY food critique. It was… okay! I would definitely go there again :)
2:08…did u use a bungees cord to attached the transit travel bag to the seat post in the rear or the bag has a self cord to clip it to the seat post?
The rear rack that you can get with a brompton comes with bungees!
How much is that Brompton travel bag? Do you have a link where to buy it? Also what do you do if you a flat on your tires during your travel? Are there bike shop that know how to fix a flat tire for a Brompton especially the rear tire? Btw, how much did curbside store for renting a Brompton for your trip?
Hi there! The brompton was given to me to create this video for the weekend by them! I do quite a bit of their video work as well. Currently $375 CAD. curbsidecycle.com/products/brompton-padded-travel-bag?_pos=1&_psq=transit+tr&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Ah and flats… ya if I had gotten one I would have had to go to a bike shop in Montreal. I don’t have any recommendations as I didn’t visit any.
Look up Dumoulin Bicyclettes in Montreal
Very well produced Vlog and I see Brompton. Subscribed!
i love that you ride, i got a brompton to use with the bus and train. very handy.
I 'm still not sold on 16" wheels...
Hello, I loved the video, I loved the images, I loved how you described the city of Montreal, I liked the images and the entire route that you have chosen to make the video, I have already subscribed to your channel, I will see all your publications and your trips, greetings😊👍👏🚴♂️ (I also have my Electric Brompton and I enjoy using it on my trips).
Thank you very much!
Love the Brompton trip. Great editing. Good look at the cities too. 🤩👏🏽🚲
Glad you enjoyed it!
Vieux (French for 'old') is pronunced "vee - er"
Thank you! Definitely going to be working on my pronunciation for the next Quebec video!
what a great video Subscribed
Suddently it takes not a lot of money and efforts to build bike lanes. I hope more cities will follow.
I just did a brompton vancouver tour weekend and it rained the entire time.