In Portugal, the tender for the 1st phase (Porto-Oiã) of the HSR line between Porto and Lisbon reached its deadline with 1 company approved; the government approved the funding for the tender of the second phase to be launched within days (Oiã-Soure); and the EU allocated 800 million € to the first phase of this same HSR line! This line serves a corridor in which 7 million people live, with trains reaching 300 kph, connecting Porto and Lisbon in 1h 17 minutes and other intermediate stops.
Some more news for you to cover: here in the netherlands the extension of tramline 25 from Amsterdam-south to the small town of Uithoorn has finally opened on the 21st of July. 5 kilometers of new track and 3 new stations have been built. The tram partly replaces the bus line to Amsterdam, which will ride less frequently now that the extension has opened.
175 Park definitely looks good, and NYC is certainly dense enough to support it unlike say, Oklahoma City. Nice to see Vienna making progress on a few things too.
Honestly the Canadian Infrastructure Fund is more so a formality that the federal government will fund transit projects as it already did fund 30B since 2015. Though being 3B a year not sure how it would work, cause usually the Federal government matches the funding that the province does for transit projects. ex: New Toronto Subway Line 2 Cars - 1/3 Municipal, 1/3 Provincial, and 1/3 Federal Montreal REM - Most of the funding from CDPQ and the Quebec Pension Fund, while province and federal paid 18.9% respectively and 2% from Hydro Quebec (Electric company) That’s said, not sure how Via Rail HFR project will work as it’s a mostly federal project and said to cost at least 30-40 for almost HSR estimates and 4-6 for using abandoned lines just purely for passenger. Though possible new Skytrain projects, TTC and Metro expansion, though not REM (unknown what’s next for the cancelled Montreal de L’est plan will turn out). And a bunch new LRT projects for Metrolinx (Ontario), and possible Bus and “BRT” expansion to smaller cities
Around two weeks ago, Madrid announced that they'll be adding Platform Screen Doors & Automatic Trains, with a 4 minute wait between trains on Metro Line 6. (Circular line & the most used line in the system) This will start in 2025.
No way they will build 15% of rail baltica this year when they haven't even done 1%. And 1,2 bln additional funding is far from enough, when the entire project is 19 bln over budget. Anyway, this topic deserves its own video.
Also, to add about stockholm:an elevator acces only station will be opening in the blue line extions (planned to run 2030), called sofia, and it will be the second deepest station in the world, 100m below ground. Many other stations on the blue line extension will also have elevator acces only exits (so one exit in the station will have escaletors, the other wont). and ofc they will have fire escape stairs, but the elevators are meant to be used, even in emergencies like fires
@@cityforall Yes, but it is alot cheaper, as you dont need as much space underground! But the capacity isnt really a big issue, as the elevators are very fast (from ground level to 100 meters below ground will take just 30 seconds), and there will be 5-8 of them.
@@cityforall If you mean building it above ground, in stockholm, it is actually almost just as expensive to build bellow ground as it is to build above ground (if you count land aqquiring costs), because we have very strong rock, and our tunneling technology is pretty advanced.
Montréal Blue Line extension first talk in 1979 (45 years ago) which has been delay so many time over the year to 2026 which has been delay 2029 to be finally complete in 2031. The plan to create an a station east of Highway A-25 Louis-Hyppolite Lafontaine have been reject due the imposing expropriation cost to the original plan to terminate the line and the garage under Highway 25 / Highway 40 interchage to reduce the cost of Expropriation the 5km extension at the cost of 6,4 B$ CAD will be increase to 8,6 B$ CAD.
I'm so very dissapointed in the Yellow line we're getting in Stockholm. That it will be automated is great. That it will fully in its own tunnels (i.e. no shared tracks with old lines) is good. That it will have stations at Älvsjö and Östberga is good. Pretty much all other aspects range from bad to absolute crap. 1. the line it takes is real bad. Half the line duplicates the Tvärbanan ring-LRT, and then it turns north and goes non-stop a distance that would be better to have 2 intermediate stations, to a bad ending point at Fridhemsplan. Far better for creating a real mutli-line network would be (from the south) Älvsjö - Östberga - Valla/Årsta Torg - Södersjukhuset/StockholmSödra - Zinkensdamm - Rådhuset - S:t Eriksplan - Hagastan - (take over the new branch of the Green line). Direct transfers to all the other rail ines, crossing the inner city instead of going around it, etc. Far more practical for far more people and something that would be far better as a base for further extensions. 2. Make the trains the same size as the other subway lines instead of playing around and trying to be "innovative" like idiots hyped about any new shiny thing dangled in front of their faces. 3. Given the deep clefts in the bedrock where there's waterways, it might have to go deep yes, but the goal should be as shallow as decently possible. 4. INSIDE THE FAIRGATES DIRECT TRANSFERS PLATFORM TO PLATFORM! 5. Exits at both ends of all stations.
@@cityforall I'd say it's a huge improvement. It's not perfect, but far better. And the old one was one its last leg, foundations known to be bad, concrete starting to crumble, etc. So a new one had to be built, and thus had to take into account modern demands for flooding control (both have multiple times greater max outflow and being able to do more natural annual floodings on the Mälaren side), and not giving all space to a cloverleaf car interchange. Better contact with the water than before, much better bus terminal, new restaurant spaces facing the sluice, etc. Only big fail is the way bike infra wasn't prioritised and won't be able to handle the rush hour flows (the project down-sized the flow predictions based on nothing at all). If there was a real political will to fix that, it'd still be possible IMO.
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In Portugal, the tender for the 1st phase (Porto-Oiã) of the HSR line between Porto and Lisbon reached its deadline with 1 company approved; the government approved the funding for the tender of the second phase to be launched within days (Oiã-Soure); and the EU allocated 800 million € to the first phase of this same HSR line!
This line serves a corridor in which 7 million people live, with trains reaching 300 kph, connecting Porto and Lisbon in 1h 17 minutes and other intermediate stops.
Any news about the Lissabon - Madrid HSR line?
i was totally sure the tower owners in New York where about to close the Metro, cause it's in their way to build another giant phallus...
Lmao they wouldn’t dare
Sounds like the evil NIMBY Cara Mendelsohn trying to sabotage high-speed rail.
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Thanks! Nice to hear that 😊
in naples italy they reopened and extended metro line 6 on the 17th july
Some more news for you to cover: here in the netherlands the extension of tramline 25 from Amsterdam-south to the small town of Uithoorn has finally opened on the 21st of July. 5 kilometers of new track and 3 new stations have been built. The tram partly replaces the bus line to Amsterdam, which will ride less frequently now that the extension has opened.
Oh, nice! News from the Netherlands are always welcomed :)
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Glad to hear it!
175 Park definitely looks good, and NYC is certainly dense enough to support it unlike say, Oklahoma City. Nice to see Vienna making progress on a few things too.
yaaay Sthlm mentioned, haha! < 3
03:12 "I hope...emergency fire staircase"
L9/10 in Bcn?
@@dr.damian yes, for example on the current L9nord all of the stations Can Peixauet-Singuerlín have it
Slight Correction: The pubic transport network is called TransPerth. MetroNet is the name of the expansion projects
Honestly the Canadian Infrastructure Fund is more so a formality that the federal government will fund transit projects as it already did fund 30B since 2015. Though being 3B a year not sure how it would work, cause usually the Federal government matches the funding that the province does for transit projects.
ex:
New Toronto Subway Line 2 Cars - 1/3 Municipal, 1/3 Provincial, and 1/3 Federal
Montreal REM
- Most of the funding from CDPQ and the Quebec Pension Fund, while province and federal paid 18.9% respectively and 2% from Hydro Quebec (Electric company)
That’s said, not sure how Via Rail HFR project will work as it’s a mostly federal project and said to cost at least 30-40 for almost HSR estimates and 4-6 for using abandoned lines just purely for passenger.
Though possible new Skytrain projects, TTC and Metro expansion, though not REM (unknown what’s next for the cancelled Montreal de L’est plan will turn out). And a bunch new LRT projects for Metrolinx (Ontario), and possible Bus and “BRT” expansion to smaller cities
$3B/year seems low compared to the demand in Canada for new transit lines... How much does the Carbon Tax bring in again?
Nice to see some ACTUAL progress on the Baghdad metro project... It's been a while!
Around two weeks ago, Madrid announced that they'll be adding Platform Screen Doors & Automatic Trains, with a 4 minute wait between trains on Metro Line 6. (Circular line & the most used line in the system) This will start in 2025.
Just a reminder from last week. Madrid announced the automation of line 6.
Great video for sure (there's a typo in the title)
Oh, thanks! Typo fixed :)
Ur welcome xD
Thanks for using my tweet! Great video as always!!
Thank you! :)
No way they will build 15% of rail baltica this year when they haven't even done 1%. And 1,2 bln additional funding is far from enough, when the entire project is 19 bln over budget. Anyway, this topic deserves its own video.
Great video as always!
Thanks!
A new tram has been built in Avingon, France.
Also, to add about stockholm:an elevator acces only station will be opening in the blue line extions (planned to run 2030), called sofia, and it will be the second deepest station in the world, 100m below ground. Many other stations on the blue line extension will also have elevator acces only exits (so one exit in the station will have escaletors, the other wont). and ofc they will have fire escape stairs, but the elevators are meant to be used, even in emergencies like fires
also the yellow line will be, for the first time in stockholm, dug by TBM’s, as every other tunnel has been blown out using drill & blast methods.
What is also strange for me about the elevators - don't they have less capacity compared to escalators?
@@cityforall Yes, but it is alot cheaper, as you dont need as much space underground! But the capacity isnt really a big issue, as the elevators are very fast (from ground level to 100 meters below ground will take just 30 seconds), and there will be 5-8 of them.
Do you know what is even cheaper?
Not to build a subway :)
@@cityforall If you mean building it above ground, in stockholm, it is actually almost just as expensive to build bellow ground as it is to build above ground (if you count land aqquiring costs), because we have very strong rock, and our tunneling technology is pretty advanced.
Great news!
3:24 Still smaller than the 581 meter tall funny skyscraper proposal in Oklahoma City, lol
Montréal Blue Line extension first talk in 1979 (45 years ago) which has been delay so many time over the year to 2026 which has been delay 2029 to be finally complete in 2031.
The plan to create an a station east of Highway A-25 Louis-Hyppolite Lafontaine have been reject due the imposing expropriation cost to the original plan to terminate the line and the garage under Highway 25 / Highway 40 interchage to reduce the cost of Expropriation the 5km extension at the cost of 6,4 B$ CAD will be increase to 8,6 B$ CAD.
3:10 yes there are always emergency staircases
I'm so very dissapointed in the Yellow line we're getting in Stockholm.
That it will be automated is great.
That it will fully in its own tunnels (i.e. no shared tracks with old lines) is good.
That it will have stations at Älvsjö and Östberga is good.
Pretty much all other aspects range from bad to absolute crap.
1. the line it takes is real bad. Half the line duplicates the Tvärbanan ring-LRT, and then it turns north and goes non-stop a distance that would be better to have 2 intermediate stations, to a bad ending point at Fridhemsplan. Far better for creating a real mutli-line network would be (from the south) Älvsjö - Östberga - Valla/Årsta Torg - Södersjukhuset/StockholmSödra - Zinkensdamm - Rådhuset - S:t Eriksplan - Hagastan - (take over the new branch of the Green line). Direct transfers to all the other rail ines, crossing the inner city instead of going around it, etc. Far more practical for far more people and something that would be far better as a base for further extensions.
2. Make the trains the same size as the other subway lines instead of playing around and trying to be "innovative" like idiots hyped about any new shiny thing dangled in front of their faces.
3. Given the deep clefts in the bedrock where there's waterways, it might have to go deep yes, but the goal should be as shallow as decently possible.
4. INSIDE THE FAIRGATES DIRECT TRANSFERS PLATFORM TO PLATFORM!
5. Exits at both ends of all stations.
By the way, what's your opinion about the Slussen renovation?
@@cityforall I'd say it's a huge improvement. It's not perfect, but far better. And the old one was one its last leg, foundations known to be bad, concrete starting to crumble, etc. So a new one had to be built, and thus had to take into account modern demands for flooding control (both have multiple times greater max outflow and being able to do more natural annual floodings on the Mälaren side), and not giving all space to a cloverleaf car interchange.
Better contact with the water than before, much better bus terminal, new restaurant spaces facing the sluice, etc.
Only big fail is the way bike infra wasn't prioritised and won't be able to handle the rush hour flows (the project down-sized the flow predictions based on nothing at all).
If there was a real political will to fix that, it'd still be possible IMO.
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