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Based on the thumbnail I thought this was gonna be some creepy story based on real events or some kind of ARG haha

When you say ‘rail’ in Canada - it means slow, secondary to cargo passenger trains. Believe this or not - look it up - TIBET has high speed rail!!!!!!!! - TIBET!!!!!!

I recently traveled from Edmonton to Newmarket, and I was pleased at how easy it was to connect from Pearson, to Union, to the Barrie GO train. And cheaper than eenting a car to drive yhy distance. On the UP line, riders CAN transfer to the GO Kitchener line without going all the way to Union. Not perfect by any means, but holy hck its remarkably improved from what was there before.

Hey mr Steve can you deactivate automatic dubbing on your profile in youtube studio thanx very annoying

How many billions of dollars wil Queens Park buildings cost to fix up?

At my university, a stairway to nowhere was also known as the stairway to heaven.

nice 6060 T shirt!

Sir John A is in a box...someone has to explain is the scapegoat for all the residential schools. First off, every politician in the country pretty much endorsed this policy. Two, the churches ran these schools and are the villians as much as anything. Sir John A was a symbol of his time. Making him carry the weight for the residential school system is making it sound he thought this up on his own and ran it.. he didnt. Plus, Wilfrid Laurier expanded the practice of these schools, and endorsed it as a way to make natives "productive" . I dont see any boxes on Laurier statues. Could it be because the ruling Liberals in Ottawa don't want to mess about with their founding myths?

In the meantime in Melbourne we are still waiting. 😢

How about you just take a cab, limo, or town car to the airport? Trains are for the hoi polloi.

The south side of Kipling station was built with a lane for street cars to either the airport or square one.

Putting the Kitchener line under Pearson would be such a no-brainer, not just for improving the service from Toronto, but from Guelph, KW, etc, etc.

From what I remember, that suspension bridge is one of our Frank Barber bridges, and I think he just wanted a crack at designing a suspension bridge for a change. Southern Ontario used to be peppered with Frank Barber bridges... many were bow arch bridges, a lot were pony trusses... as time's gone by, many have been replaced by newer, wider bridges, but a lot of them still remain. Someone might correct me, but I do think that suspension bridge is one of Frank Barber's originals still standing and still in use.

easier to bus to the airport i find. kipling to the airport and i believe it is the current easiest and cheapest.

1801-1993 - this is the time for the construction of the Chanel Tunnel in Europe

Please keep it up! I hove the content and you're doing great work.

Where there is a will there is a way. Where there is no will there will be no way. Politicians are like stiff p icks who go where they are shoved by the will of the people.

After traveling to Europe it’s been fascinating to realize how terrible North America is at connecting their cities to transit. Amsterdam and Frankfurt both have major transit hubs at the airport. You can take local rail or long distance right from the airport with no connections. I’m sure there’s more in Europe that I haven’t experienced, but you could easily replicate the experience you get at Amsterdam or Frankfurt at most cities in the US and Canada.

Automatic dubbing sucks! Please turn that of and let the viewer take the choice!

Canadians will be much better off as Canadian-Americans... but this would be one thing that isn't any better here 😐☹️ long distance rail service is dumb imo, but commuter rail done well is AWESOME and underrated

Canada needs to develop rail transport infrastructure, especially the south of Ontario.

Norway's 3 most populous Cities has got a Rail service to them. The corresponding Airport-codes are: OSL, BGO and TRD.

That is exactly what I was asking myself when I flew in from Germany last November. In the end it was mainly Uber and Lyft getting me from one meeting to another.

It’s hard because Toronto is governed by incompetent leftists. It’s laughable that the leftists haven’t discovered tunnels and bridges for trains. The lowest IQ and biggest idiots must be in the leftist leadership.

I'm so glad Steve is doing this work of documenting some of Toronto's history. This kind of local historian stuff is invaluable. Keep on keeping on!

7:55 Antonov An-124?

They still dropped the ball on rail to the airport, for some reason the province think only people from Toronto use the airport, from the west we only have the go bus from downtown hamilton, no parking no connectors to it, just a scary dump bus station in the downtown core. Then you still run the risk of missing your flight because the bus uses the same triple overloaded 403, qew. So no matter what we have to drive to the airport clogging the roads and parking up even more! But then what can you expect from this province? All they seem to do is make things worse regardless of party

im a pretty big infrastructure nerd, but im also a huge plane nerd. put them together, and it results in me, a broke university student taking random trips to the airport. I live in north york, so its pretty difficult. Ive tried all the methods to get to Pearson: TTC (finch station -> bloor yonge station -> kipling station -> airport express), go bus (sheppard west station -> yorkdale station -> go bus to pearson), and UP express ( finch station -> union station -> UP express). Of all of these, the fastest is by far the go bus, it takes less than an hour, and on a good day you could do it in under half an hour! the cheapest is the ttc, although this trip takes at least an hour, and thats on a good day, itll probably be more like an hour and a half, maybe even 2 hours if theres delays or lots of people. the UP express is the most scenic route, and for nerds like myself is super fun. Takes around an hour and a half for me. If you live/are traveling to/from the downtown core, then the UP express is probably the fastest since it connects to union. good service, but LOTS and i mean LOTS of room for improvement, particularly for folks that live uptown/GTA. Good video!

I met my daughter's mother at QP station. We both worked in McDonald/Whitney Block. Do you know anything about the reno going on at 900 Bay? Great video again. Cheers

I didn't know how sub they are, but I definitely subbed!

Sounds a lot like Melbourne Australia. There's been a lot of talking, a lot of planning but not a lot of working outside a few initial works. The rail project to Tullamarine has been delayed so long that the $10bil AUD in funding is now no longer enough to cover the cost of the project which has ballooned to $13bil AUD with an estimated completion date of 2033!!!

Toronto will need to negotiate the Airport property lines before dumping billions of dollars into any such projects.

Well at least Pearson got the UP Express and I gotta say I love riding the up express trains, hell I use it a lot to get into Toronto’s I find it e quickest way. I even have cousins from New York who praises the UP express 😆

Why are you complaining about a problem that was solved 10 years ago?

In the basement of the old Terminal One (built in or about 1965) there was a complete subway station: trackways, turnstiles, ticket booth, map frames. All that was missing were the tracks themselves.

Love your video and your take on the current situation in Canada, particularly Toronto. Canada, is at least 200 years behind the rest of the world when it comes to transportation and infrastructure. I never heard a word about private infrastructure, or investment into private rail lines and infrastructure, it’s always about what the government can do. Perhaps you could take a look at how the world’s largest city and largest rail system in the world operates, Tokyo Japan. And a lot of European countries also have amazing rail infrastructure. All of these places have very high ridership because they are extremely efficient, and ultra modern.

You should explain why the line is needlessly deep. Leslie was originally at surface. Some influential people complained that the surface track was an eyesore. Passengers spend needless time descending farther than need be,

I don't know why it is so important to connect the airport to a 'higher rail' link. Using Zurich as an example, although the airport does have multiple links to the near neighbourhoods, if you want to travel from say Zurich airport to Geneve by train, you first have to catch the airport link to downtown Zurich main station and then catch a different train to Geneve.

European airports are government owned. Americans are privately owned or owned by local government mixed companies. Don’t know about Canada. European airports don’t need to make a profit, breaking even is the goal. If they make a profit, even better. American Airports HAVE to make a profit. Parking fees are a huge factor in this profit making process. Rail to airport wouldn’t make sense, financially, for American Airports. That is WHY European airports have rail connections and Americans don’t

“We’ll talk?” No, YOU will talk.

Toronto politicians are addicted to motor vehicles. Transit has always got a lower priority.

Question about luggage. If I’m hooking up to the airport via train, I’m probably carrying a bag to be checked and maybe even a carry-on. Do go,trains or via trains have the capacity to carry all that stuff? I know the people mover between 1&3 has wide aisles and standing room, but not a traditional Go or Via. My situation is that I’d eventually like to get rail from London Ont. to Pearson. Seems like there’re so many obstacles to that right now.

'Sobvious, innit? Canada was manufactured out of parts as a railroad in search of a country. The idea of turning it into a country in search of railroads means turning _everything_ upside down and backward.

We have the same problem at Auckland airport there is a railway line less than 2 miles away but get any government to agree to build aline to the airport no chanch

UP is fine if you live east of the airport, lousy for anyone towards Niagara

Great video, and love the cfl hat Oskee wee wee

Toronto looks shit :(

“Just” 80 years after they began 😂

Very interesting video. During WWII the rail line that ran into the Victory Aircraft plant had daily trains that ran from Union Station to and from the plant a few times a day. The multiple trains were for shift change times. After the war and when Malton was then deemed the main airport I always thought why not send the rail line down the street to the wooden terminal building terminal building. Would not have been to hard at the time as the area was still mostly farmland. Oh well like many things, that sounded like a good idea but never happened.

Thanks for these historical breakdowns, love learning about the city this way