How B.C.'s SkyTrain was ahead of its time

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  • Опубликовано: 14 дек 2024

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  • @GYTransit
    @GYTransit 2 года назад +105

    I honestly think the MK1 acceleration/deceleration sound is more iconic than the chime.

    • @dustmybroom288
      @dustmybroom288 2 года назад +7

      I agree

    • @vancouverelevators_transit
      @vancouverelevators_transit 6 месяцев назад

      I agree as well

    • @jozdundar
      @jozdundar 5 месяцев назад +2

      We had that accel sound here in Toronto for years. I miss it so much. We let our elevated system fall into disrepair. Every time I am in YVR I make sure to jump on the train more than a few times lol

    • @vancouverelevators_transit
      @vancouverelevators_transit 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@jozdundar Scarborough RT I’m assuming

  • @keenanhosfield6734
    @keenanhosfield6734 2 года назад +93

    Need this in Winnipeg instead of 35 more dealerships

    • @raymondyu412
      @raymondyu412 2 года назад +2

      SkyTrain would be a bad idea in Winnipeg. The trains don’t perform well in snow or freezing weather.

    • @GeorgeGabor19
      @GeorgeGabor19 2 года назад

      @@raymondyu412 agreed, thats why line 3 is being closed in Toronto and they never built more than one line.

    • @Nabee_H
      @Nabee_H 2 года назад +2

      @@GeorgeGabor19 True but Line 3 also had other problems. Line 2's extension should be better though.

    • @Noobixm
      @Noobixm Год назад

      @@GeorgeGabor19line 3 uses the exact same trains as the Vancouver system

  • @bonbonvegabon
    @bonbonvegabon 2 года назад +26

    Rode the sky train when I visited BC its cool. They even have ferries you can take within teh transit system that you can get on with a transfer

  • @guitarjunky
    @guitarjunky 2 года назад +41

    Ottawa could use a SkyTrain right about now. The LRT is a national embarassment.

    • @mydroid2791
      @mydroid2791 2 года назад

      What's wrong with the bus system in Ottawa? It was awesome back in the 90s !

    • @bahamn15
      @bahamn15 2 года назад +2

      @@mydroid2791 ...but then amalgamation happened.

    • @owenbonertz1415
      @owenbonertz1415 Год назад

      The O-Train’s start has had a lot of problems but the system has good bones and it gonna grow in popularity as the city gets more populous. Ottawa is a small place to have such a system in North America but at the rate it’s growing it won’t be, and growth will hug the Confederation Line.

  • @williamhuang8309
    @williamhuang8309 Год назад +3

    2:12 pitch it up a bit and you get the Montreal Metro door chime

  • @jmstransit
    @jmstransit 2 года назад +17

    Preventative maintenance to devise track issues all comes down to finding transit funding in car-centered Individualistic North America.

    • @slam5
      @slam5 2 года назад +2

      this was amazing consider that it was supported by both right and left provincial government.

  • @imaginox9
    @imaginox9 2 года назад +4

    So the guy who made the door chime took inspiration from the same music than the guy who made the sound of Montreal's MR-73 trains around a decade earlier, interesting

  • @Sailuz
    @Sailuz 7 месяцев назад +1

    I’m on a skytrain watching this. So cool

  • @justinekobes3757
    @justinekobes3757 Год назад +3

    I wish we would get the Skytrain in edmonton. LRT is honestly so horrible.

  • @DannyPluto.
    @DannyPluto. 2 года назад +7

    I remember when it was $1.25 to use the bus & train

  • @DougGrinbergs
    @DougGrinbergs Год назад +1

    2:06 Fanfare for the Common Man inspired by FDR VP Henry Wallace, who called for Century of the Common Man, as opposed to publisher Henry Luce's "American Century"

  • @stickynorth
    @stickynorth 2 месяца назад

    Other than the Montreal REM, nothing in North America is as cool as the Vancouver Skytrain... Automated, electric, elevated... What every major city needs to make transit effective if you ask me!

  • @singing4fun
    @singing4fun 2 года назад +13

    If not for the Ford brother's subway delusions, we'd likely be expanding our SkyTrain incarnation (Scarborough RT). Unfortunately, we have a "let's pay more for something that will do less" mentality.

    • @popoffwheel
      @popoffwheel 2 года назад +3

      My right foot is bigger than my left. I will never forgive the Ford brothers for this.

  • @Rexg25
    @Rexg25 2 года назад +4

    "Was"
    Even tho it still kinda is

  • @yo-ma7701
    @yo-ma7701 2 года назад +6

    Man first one to watch this. congratulations to me.

  • @joshuabom64
    @joshuabom64 2 года назад +4

    Calgary could never

  • @Daveyboy10053
    @Daveyboy10053 2 года назад

    Hire Bob Rock to get that slick production lol

  • @Lower_Mainland_Railfan
    @Lower_Mainland_Railfan Год назад +1

    MK4 When?

    • @krysc2009
      @krysc2009 Год назад +1

      Never actually. They're skipping from mk3 to mk5 in the coming months.

  • @bentencho
    @bentencho 2 года назад +6

    Still years behind Japan.

    • @aarongrant3799
      @aarongrant3799 2 года назад +12

      The first automated metro opened in Kobe in 1981. So maybe a few years 😃. And I believe all the automated lines in Japan have a driver on the train, unlike Vancouver.

    • @AlCatSplat
      @AlCatSplat 2 года назад

      How?

  • @jessecote11
    @jessecote11 2 года назад +2

    Except for non standardized cars that have to be custom made at no expense

    • @Slevin-Kelevra
      @Slevin-Kelevra 2 года назад +3

      No different than "Toronto Gauge" subway & trams.

  • @AI_HQ
    @AI_HQ 2 года назад +9

    Now it's 20 years behind China's trains. 🤣

    • @AlCatSplat
      @AlCatSplat 2 года назад +4

      How so?

    • @AR-gj1qt
      @AR-gj1qt 2 года назад +9

      That's not true at all skytrain is one of the only automated rapid transit systems in the world and is the longest automated system in the world

  • @houghtonstreet3392
    @houghtonstreet3392 2 года назад

    was

  • @Kylie-mn7em
    @Kylie-mn7em 4 месяца назад

    Hgiyvgiy

  • @marvinlai2030
    @marvinlai2030 2 года назад

    Hi, have you ever heard of Japan?

    • @AlCatSplat
      @AlCatSplat 2 года назад

      Yes

    • @AR-gj1qt
      @AR-gj1qt 2 года назад +7

      Yes and skytrain Is currently the largest automated rapid transit system in the world in front of Copenhagen

    • @AlphineWolf
      @AlphineWolf Год назад +1

      @@AR-gj1qt and it's getting bigger

    • @Slenderman63323
      @Slenderman63323 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@AR-gj1qt I think Singapore is also larger but their city is 3 times the size of ours. So well done vancouver

  • @GP-MB-Baden-WurttembergDeutsch
    @GP-MB-Baden-WurttembergDeutsch 2 года назад

    Today on 14 of December 2022 I was waiting station # 61612 at 10: 15am just take out my ticket,there you go he not stop. Vancouver transit 👎👎👎👎👎

  • @Voltaireooooo
    @Voltaireooooo 2 года назад

    Nothing compared to the TGV in France.

    • @ace74909
      @ace74909 Год назад +6

      You can't compare light rail with heavy rail