In Prague, this is only the first phase of construction in this area, there will be a branch line from this line towards the main railway station. Which will be parallel to the line in Jindřišská, in order to improve the service to the station and avoid traffic collapses on the existing line.
Living in Omaha, I would’ve never expected that this aggressively mid-sized city with a “BRT” system that I’ve barely seen more than 20 people use would feature on Urban News!
Lots happening in Australia. In coming weeks you could report on the Yanchep extension in Perth, opening next Sunday 14 July, and the Sydney Metro extension under Sydney Harbour and through the CBD, which has been announced as opening on 4 August.
Honestly i hope Vancouver gets new trolleybuses from Solaris, they were testing them last year. Seeing that most buses are New Flyer, having European bus would be really cool, sleek and modern. Just like how in the Viva Bus in York Region outside Toronto runs Van Hool buses along side the Canadian buses.
Great as usual! 3:11 the most usual way to say it in Spain is "caf", but since the name is made with initials it is not incorrect to say "C.A.F." separetaly :) PD: for anyone curious, the initials are "Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarril", which translated means "Constructions and Assistant [services] for Railways", which is a hilariously average name for a company xd
Yeah, my city used to have a single trolly bus line up until the 90's but they scraped it with the promise to replace it with an extra tramline. We're still waiting for the new tramline.
I think there is reason for concern in Tallinn, half of the trolleybus network has closed in the last 10 years. The city government somehow managed to convince the media that hybrid buses are more eco-friendly than trolleybuses. There were plans to completely stop using trolleybuses, though these plans have now been cancelled.
Construcciones y Auxiliar Ferrocarriles, I think. In Budapest, where they currently use CAF Urbos 3 trams exceeding 100 units most people pronounce them, in Hungarian language context, as "kaf". I wonder if that is how it should be? 🤓
Certainly Vancouver abolishing minimum parking requirements is good, and Prague bringing back trams to Wenceslas Square is good too. Nice pronunciation of Lodz.
I think it would also be worth mentioning that the line to Konstantynów Łódzki (in Łódź, Poland) used to extend all the way to Lutomiersk (some 20 km from Łodź!) but the municipality is having trouble securing money for the reconstruction. It also used to run all the way to the city center, but due to the construction of the city center tunnel with a station on Zielona street (and also the condition of track on Legionów street), it is severly shortened. The history of Łódź suburban trams is very interesting in general. There used to be 5 lines connecting 8+ towns, of which 3 lines remain operational, and two of them are pending reconstruction of their extensions. (if you want to make a video about it or put it in one, ask away! although, while very interesting, I guess it isn't very relevant in the scale of world transport news)
Porto new pink line apparently will be a loop eventually, but that will take time. However, the new ruby line H will be magnificent with a new bridge, cant wait to see Great video!!
I work helping design tram trains in Spain (for another company), we pronounce CAF all together (kaf, not C - A - F), but again, we don't work with them, soooo, take it with a grain of salt xd
funny thing, when watching the Vancouver Part, i remember a talk with some HR member of a company i worked in Zürich/Switzerland... the City has a maximum of parking spaces policy for the city enacted so not everyone will get automatically a parking spot, just to make car driving more convenient...
Hey, I'm a bit late maybe for this weeks' episode, but I've got news for you from Barcelona! A new nautical bus has just started operation. It connects the Barceloneta neighbourhood with Les Rambles in a 10 minutes journey, with frequencies between 15 and 30 minutes. This a massive improvement over the current 25 minutes by (very congested) bus. The service is offered by the bus company Alsa with 2 ships. Nowadays it costs 1,90€ every journey, 2,80€ a return trip (if I'm not wrong), and there are also monthly passes. Depending on the reception of the service (I think that they'll probably look if mostly tourists or locals use it) it'll be integrated in the public transit fares in the future. The first week is being a huge success, let's see if it continues to be.
Sorry for worting so much but there has also been a tram line extension in Toruń, Poland. The line extends to a neighborhood named "Osiedle Jar" which was previously only accesible by bus.
I mostly hear the name of CAF being pronounced as a single word in Spanish, and I haven't really heard it being said in English so I go with pronouncing it as a single word in English too
Trolly buses don’t actually wear out they break by that I mean because they use electric motors they work until they don’t. So the motors all break down around the same time. The trick is to replace before the whole fleet becomes unusable or too expensive to repair
I love your videos too. CAF is pronounce CAF (Don't say each letter) It stands for construcciones y auxiliar de ferrocarriles meaning Constructions and auxilary of Railways.
Hey I'm not sure where to find info about it but I think that there is an ongoing extension of metro lines L9 and L10 in Barcelona. Oh and there are plans to build a new airport and bridge near Lisbon.
@@Michal_Niskiewicz about BCN: delayed again and again, so they don't dare even suggest an opening date anymore...but latest speculations afaik=2026-27, best case scenario(...skipping some stations, perhaps to be opened 2028-29🥲)
It´s not exactly an extension but finally finishing the construction of the planned line. Lines 9 and 10 start in the northern part, line 9 in the city of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and L10 in the city of Badalona. They merge to the same route in Bon Pastor and continue together in the upper western section of the city where the metro the current metro has less service. and will create a king of half circular line connecting to all other lines. On the other side L9 ends at the airport and L10 in the port area of Zona Franca/ZAL.(Zonas de actividad Logística - the logistic zone of the port). It was suppose to open in 2008 but they encountered quite a few problems and delay which pushed the date to 2014 and than came the big world economic and they had to stop the work due to lack of funding. with time they prolonged the northern section by finishing a few stations, that were almost ready, and later focused on the southern section and the connection to the airport. Now they finely continuing work on the middle section and should open it in 2027, with a few station that will open by 2030. There is an important extension underway of the L8 line, the first section of the connection between the two tram systems is finished and will start to work toward the end of the year (there is uncertainty about the second phase that will complete the connection) and L4 is being extended to reach the new under construction main train station La Sagrera, and extensions of L1, L2 and L3 are in approval stages.
I'm offended that you doubt my knowledge 😁 I'll say it again, it is CAF (pronounced as a work KAF). As I've explained, in Spanish (and other languages) when an initialism is read as a word when possible. BMW is just a set of letters that cannot be read as a word but CAF can. If you look at the same sector Renfe started as the first letters of Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles but was always pronounced as a word, which is why in 2005 they made it the official name of the company (not as an an initialism of Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles) and with the other Spanish train manufacturer Talgo (which stands for Tren Articulado Ligero Goicoechea Oriol). As someone from Spain, and since local youtubers. reporters and the company itself (you can look at their RUclips page and see how they say it) this is how you say it - CAF (KAF)
Thank you for answering, I originally asked the question because I run the Tallinn Trams (Instagram) fan account and I can't allow myself to mispronounce anything😅
The Brazilian Capital City is Brasilia.
I like your weekly Videos. 👍
Oh, really. The funny thing is that I know this, but for some reason it slipped my mind during work on this video :(
In Prague, this is only the first phase of construction in this area, there will be a branch line from this line towards the main railway station. Which will be parallel to the line in Jindřišská, in order to improve the service to the station and avoid traffic collapses on the existing line.
Living in Omaha, I would’ve never expected that this aggressively mid-sized city with a “BRT” system that I’ve barely seen more than 20 people use would feature on Urban News!
Life is full of surprises :)
This is the first time I have ever heard of a non-major US city trying to develop a transit network that is more than a gimmick. Thanks for sharing
Lots happening in Australia. In coming weeks you could report on the Yanchep extension in Perth, opening next Sunday 14 July, and the Sydney Metro extension under Sydney Harbour and through the CBD, which has been announced as opening on 4 August.
Hell yeah! Portugal mentioned!
Porto is actually one of my favourite cities among those I've visited :)
Honestly i hope Vancouver gets new trolleybuses from Solaris, they were testing them last year. Seeing that most buses are New Flyer, having European bus would be really cool, sleek and modern.
Just like how in the Viva Bus in York Region outside Toronto runs Van Hool buses along side the Canadian buses.
Great as usual!
3:11 the most usual way to say it in Spain is "caf", but since the name is made with initials it is not incorrect to say "C.A.F." separetaly :)
PD: for anyone curious, the initials are "Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarril", which translated means "Constructions and Assistant [services] for Railways", which is a hilariously average name for a company xd
Yeah, my city used to have a single trolly bus line up until the 90's but they scraped it with the promise to replace it with an extra tramline. We're still waiting for the new tramline.
Thank you for featuring the news I sent you! I am really happy to see in what great detail you covered it!
Thanks for sending it to me!
I think there is reason for concern in Tallinn, half of the trolleybus network has closed in the last 10 years. The city government somehow managed to convince the media that hybrid buses are more eco-friendly than trolleybuses. There were plans to completely stop using trolleybuses, though these plans have now been cancelled.
03:05 Spaniard here - we just say [kaf] in Spanish, but C.A.F. should be fine too, since your videos are in English and all : )
Thanks!
@@cityforall what dose caf stad for.
Construcciones y Auxiliar Ferrocarriles, I think. In Budapest, where they currently use CAF Urbos 3 trams exceeding 100 units most people pronounce them, in Hungarian language context, as "kaf". I wonder if that is how it should be? 🤓
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@@alexisdespland4939 Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarril
Certainly Vancouver abolishing minimum parking requirements is good, and Prague bringing back trams to Wenceslas Square is good too. Nice pronunciation of Lodz.
I think it would also be worth mentioning that the line to Konstantynów Łódzki (in Łódź, Poland) used to extend all the way to Lutomiersk (some 20 km from Łodź!) but the municipality is having trouble securing money for the reconstruction.
It also used to run all the way to the city center, but due to the construction of the city center tunnel with a station on Zielona street (and also the condition of track on Legionów street), it is severly shortened.
The history of Łódź suburban trams is very interesting in general. There used to be 5 lines connecting 8+ towns, of which 3 lines remain operational, and two of them are pending reconstruction of their extensions.
(if you want to make a video about it or put it in one, ask away! although, while very interesting, I guess it isn't very relevant in the scale of world transport news)
Porto new pink line apparently will be a loop eventually, but that will take time.
However, the new ruby line H will be magnificent with a new bridge, cant wait to see
Great video!!
I work helping design tram trains in Spain (for another company), we pronounce CAF all together (kaf, not C - A - F), but again, we don't work with them, soooo, take it with a grain of salt xd
That's exactly how it's pronounced in Spain: CAF (kaff).
funny thing, when watching the Vancouver Part, i remember a talk with some HR member of a company i worked in Zürich/Switzerland... the City has a maximum of parking spaces policy for the city enacted so not everyone will get automatically a parking spot, just to make car driving more convenient...
Hear, hear 👍🏻
great video. i get excited for a new release every time. 5:07 u said sap paulo was the capital. just a lil boo boo i spotted.
You pronnounce polish names so good... As a Pole im amazed.
Thanks! I'm an ambassador of good Polish pronunciation :D
Hey, I'm a bit late maybe for this weeks' episode, but I've got news for you from Barcelona! A new nautical bus has just started operation.
It connects the Barceloneta neighbourhood with Les Rambles in a 10 minutes journey, with frequencies between 15 and 30 minutes. This a massive improvement over the current 25 minutes by (very congested) bus.
The service is offered by the bus company Alsa with 2 ships. Nowadays it costs 1,90€ every journey, 2,80€ a return trip (if I'm not wrong), and there are also monthly passes. Depending on the reception of the service (I think that they'll probably look if mostly tourists or locals use it) it'll be integrated in the public transit fares in the future. The first week is being a huge success, let's see if it continues to be.
4:25 Oh God. Oh, dear God. Look at those tracks
Yup
6:25 Nice Ř 👍
Thanks!
Sorry for worting so much but there has also been a tram line extension in Toruń, Poland. The line extends to a neighborhood named "Osiedle Jar" which was previously only accesible by bus.
I saw this news but I thought it will be to much Poland in one episode.
I mostly hear the name of CAF being pronounced as a single word in Spanish, and I haven't really heard it being said in English so I go with pronouncing it as a single word in English too
Trolly buses don’t actually wear out they break by that I mean because they use electric motors they work until they don’t. So the motors all break down around the same time. The trick is to replace before the whole fleet becomes unusable or too expensive to repair
I hope everything will go smoothly
We in Spain don't call it C.A.F., we call it CAF (a single word). Hope it helps!
The only person I know who pronounces CAF as "caff" is Reece Martin, but he is quite influential in this field.
It's a Spanish company, it's pronounced CAF (caff) by all Spanish, Portuguese, etc, people. Reece is just following the correct pronunciation.
I love your videos too. CAF is pronounce CAF (Don't say each letter) It stands for construcciones y auxiliar de ferrocarriles meaning Constructions and auxilary of Railways.
Thanks!
I'm not sure if you have already done this, but maybe you could cover the expansion plans for the Zürich S-Bahn network (S-Bahn 2G and STEP)
Not yet :)
Hey I'm not sure where to find info about it but I think that there is an ongoing extension of metro lines L9 and L10 in Barcelona. Oh and there are plans to build a new airport and bridge near Lisbon.
@@Michal_Niskiewicz about BCN: delayed again and again, so they don't dare even suggest an opening date anymore...but latest speculations afaik=2026-27, best case scenario(...skipping some stations, perhaps to be opened 2028-29🥲)
@@pcongre Probably 2028-29 or maybe even later
It´s not exactly an extension but finally finishing the construction of the planned line.
Lines 9 and 10 start in the northern part, line 9 in the city of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and L10 in the city of Badalona. They merge to the same route in Bon Pastor and continue together in the upper western section of the city where the metro the current metro has less service. and will create a king of half circular line connecting to all other lines. On the other side L9 ends at the airport and L10 in the port area of Zona Franca/ZAL.(Zonas de actividad Logística - the logistic zone of the port).
It was suppose to open in 2008 but they encountered quite a few problems and delay which pushed the date to 2014 and than came the big world economic and they had to stop the work due to lack of funding. with time they prolonged the northern section by finishing a few stations, that were almost ready, and later focused on the southern section and the connection to the airport. Now they finely continuing work on the middle section and should open it in 2027, with a few station that will open by 2030.
There is an important extension underway of the L8 line, the first section of the connection between the two tram systems is finished and will start to work toward the end of the year (there is uncertainty about the second phase that will complete the connection) and L4 is being extended to reach the new under construction main train station La Sagrera, and extensions of L1, L2 and L3 are in approval stages.
Porto has partially undergroud TRAM, but still tram. It is NOT A METRO.
Technically I agree but officially it's named Porto Metro
and its still fast and efficient
I'm offended that you doubt my knowledge 😁
I'll say it again, it is CAF (pronounced as a work KAF).
As I've explained, in Spanish (and other languages) when an initialism is read as a word when possible. BMW is just a set of letters that cannot be read as a word but CAF can.
If you look at the same sector Renfe started as the first letters of Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles but was always pronounced as a word, which is why in 2005 they made it the official name of the company (not as an an initialism of Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles) and with the other Spanish train manufacturer Talgo (which stands for Tren Articulado Ligero Goicoechea Oriol).
As someone from Spain, and since local youtubers. reporters and the company itself (you can look at their RUclips page and see how they say it) this is how you say it - CAF (KAF)
Okay, you convinced me :D
Thank you for answering, I originally asked the question because I run the Tallinn Trams (Instagram) fan account and I can't allow myself to mispronounce anything😅
Sao Paulo capital? 😅😅 when and where? 🤭
Oh, yes, that's my bad, sorry 😔
@@cityforall 😘
why do you never talk about India?
I'd be grateful if you could recommend local media that cover such topics.