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Good Video and ironically that blue line you put on the map is what’s being built as I look out my window south to Queen & Sherbourne… the new Moss Park Station 🚉 for the Ontario Line LRT ..just wish I could see a Line 5 Eglinton Crosstown already too many delays😂😂

NIMBYs ruin everything... 🤦‍♂️ Insufferable.

Another casualty of Mike Harris, Ontario's WORST Premiere. He destroyed not only Toronto, but Ontario as a whole, and we still feel his effects today. 😡

I used to live on Davisville between Yonge and Mt. Pleasant and road the street cars up Mt Pleasant for many years. It had very strong ridership which disappeared when it was replaced by buses.

You forgot that the St. Clair Car operated up Weston Road to "Northland" which was actually Avon loop during Rush hours until the Bloor Danforth Subway opened in 1966. The Weston Rd Car survived in part for a long time.

They Could probably still build a Light Rail or Subway line along this Corridor and they probably should

If they build the Northern Line, I wouldn't mind rolling stock similar to the JR ones in Japan, since the function of the line is similar to the Yamanote Line in Tokyo (just without the loop).

Also known as "Funky Col-Spandina"

Interesting video, but in the video it's not St. Catherines like the name but St. Catharines, although the origin of that name is questionable (some theories are Catharine Merritt, or used by the Palatinate Germans who were in the area). A little interesting did you know for you.

Thanks for posting ,Do you the address where Toronto street cars went to the munition plant- Thanks

4:55 The Guelph Interurban did not go through the CP rail mainline and Guelph Junction Railway. In fact, it followed a path parallel to the Midtown line to Mimico Creek, Mimico Creek to Islington Avenue, Dundas Street to Dixie Road, the Midtown line to Cooksville, Cedar Brae, Mackenzie, and Brentwood parks to the Valley Bridge, Cooksville creek to Eglinton, where it went cross-country to the Credit river. It ran roughly parallel to the river and Silver Creek to Georgetown, where it went on a winding route south of the CNR tracks all the way to what is now the Guelph Radial trail. Once it reached James Street, it followed Gordon, Wilson, and McDonell streets to downtown Guelph. The Woodbridge Radial followed Weston to Albion, the West Humber River to Islington, where it made a gentle curve back onto Albion, which it followed to Kipling. North of Steeles, it ran roughly parallel to the Humber river with a part of the right-of-way near Highway 7 on Wallace Street where it then followed roughly parallel to the Humber again to Woodbridge Avenue, just west of Clarence Street where it turns northwest.

The bridge was bullshit ,, they should have waited till the bridge was rebuilt ,, new tracks on bridge ,,, and the line could continue .... i was so saddened ,, used to travel on the line to Georges Trains ,, just north of davisville road ,, ,,, just crap

This would of been such a vital transit system. The Northern line would allow people to bypass downtown Toronto. Very informative video

Technically it did make it. It’ll hopefully open 2025

52:18 This quote shows everything wrong with Canada. Our politicians treat politics like a chaotic balance of short-term interests, when it should instead build the country we want our descendants to live in.

Thank You Anne. The TTC ticket lady Bloor Jane 1964

Absolutely heartbreaking that this was scrapped. Thanks for the fantastic video.

Wasn't there a plan for an LRT on Dufferin st?

Imagine if ALRT were actually fully built, we might see a much different path of growth for the GTA area

They should build the line out to the Zoo so that families without cars would not have an hour-long bus ride. Looking forward to your Eglinton Crosstown video.

I feel like with the Other AL- RT on line 3 would still be around

The 510 was know amongst operators at its start as the "One a day line. That was for at least one traffic accident per day.

The line was opened on my birthday but about 25 years after it was originally approved. let's hear it for NIMBYs.

Until the Bloor - Danforth opened in 1966, the St. Clair car operated from the subway a 6 minute service in the rush hour to Keele and a 6 minute service to Northlands up Weston Road, Earlscourt operated a 3 minute service to Lansdowne and Rogers operated a a 3 minute service to Bicknell. Either St. Clair or Earlscourt would operate a 3 minute service up Mt. Pleasant to Eglinton. The TTC kept changing which line went where but on weekends only St. Clair ran.

Great video! I really appreciated the in-depth explanation of this. I just visited South Korea and Japan and it does make me a little upset and angry that we could've had greater regional transit but walked away from it. And today our biggest transportation problem is east-west regional transit. Perhaps Highway 401 wouldn't be as wide as it is and there wouldn't be wild talk about a highway below the highway. The idea about a northern east-west transit route is still incredibly relevant today, and its unfortunate we're not talking about a new transit line elevated above Highway 401, alongside Highway 407 (as planned) or along the hydro corridor(s). Thanks again for the great video.

the worst thing bill davis ever did was retire

Imagine that. A Conservative Premier who wanted a lot more transit with trains and LRT and the following Liberals would rather spend money on social programs that didn't work often and just to stick with boring old heavy rail

Amazing job on this video, #dougford needs to watch this himself in bed 😂😂

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I remember over the years back in 1979 my dad driving out to Rogue Hill Go station, we watch Go Via, Turbo and the odd CN train which was rare to see. I remember going to a Blue Jays game one year a CN rescue locomotive was leading the Go train. As to this video what could’ve been was a master plan, even a line from Metro Toronto Zoo to downtown Toronto, especially if the line had gone south to Kingston Road and West to Downtown Toronto!

Some kind of automated regional rapid transit would probably still be a worthwhile project along what was supposed to be the northern line.

This needs to be built YESTERDAY.

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hooh boy are snow's wiritings at the end ever prophetic.

I cannot comprehend why anybody looked at "GO ALRT" and decided it should be pronounced "Go Ay El Ar Tee" and not "Go Alert."

Again wasted opportunity by the Ontario government.

As much as RER will help the region, it won't compare to what GO-ALRT would have been. We will be initially using electric locomotives with the existing bilevel trains for RER (no plans to use EMU's but its possible) and only slightly upgrading the signaling system. The trains will have a better acceleration profile, but nothing like a lightweight train like ALRT was supposed to be. Furthermore, without fully driverless tech we will see frequencies around every 15 minutes, maybe some 7 minute frequencies during rush hour. This pales in comparison to the 2 minute frequencies of ALRT. Speeds will also be an issue, at these frequencies we will see often traffic on the lines and slowdowns, especially through Unions spiderweb of trackage. Speeds will be lower than what ALRT would have provided. Even with EMU's and better signaling, everything still has to conform to mainline track standards. We probably would see maybe 7-5 minute frequencies at best.

holy shit that intro goes hard i went back to watch it like four times this is great work and worth the wait

By sheer happenstance, I was driving to the Aldershot GO along Cannon St and York Blvd. in Hamilton at exactly the point in the video where possible alignments in Hamilton were being discussed.

„Go sky train“! Ah, yes!

Yesssss! :D

Would these trains be the same width as the UTDC trains? They seem to be small (2.50m) in width compared to even the subway (3.2m) let alone the Bilevel (3.0m) and Hawker Siddley Cars (3.14m). Skytrain transverse seating has narrow walk ways and you can feel the size difference compared to the subway. GO-ALRT trains remind me of the layout of the Montreal Expo Express trains with subway trains with a more coach style seating. Both automated; would be interesting if GO used them cause Montreal only used them for 6 years. Edit: having 6 doors than 8 doors per train, despite same dimensions as subway trains.

We once were a country...

27:44 wow, CitiesXL soundtrack! I remember being hyped for that game then getting really disappointed. This was at least 5 years before cities skylines

Ever since I saw your video on the Etobicoke RT back in 2021, I'd wondered if you'd be making a long-form video on GO ALRT. It was definitely worth the wait! Incredible work, as always.

Keep up the good work I love how you dive deep into toronto s history as most of its history is built off the streetcar/subway lines that were Coal train tracks before the city was built you add more lost history of Toronto keep up the good work man :-) ❤

How would Bathurst street station looked like if the GO ALRT was built

They should still probably consider building a New GO Line Between Pickering and either Oakville or Brantford. most of it would be alongside the CN York Sub and if it were to continue towards Oakville then. it would branch off the CN York sub near to where it meets the GO Weston sub, and then follow the south side of the 407 hydro corridor until Lisgar where it could follow a portion of the CPKC Galt sub and then turn south following CPKC's Hornby Spur to Hydro One’s Trafalgar Transformer Station and then after passing the Transformer Station, it could follow ninth line until highway 403 where it would follow it until it reaches Oakville GO. and if it were to go towards Brantford, then it would follow the CN Halton Sub uptill where it joins with a portion of the Oakville Subdivision, and then from there it would continue onto the CN Dundas Subdivision to Brantford.

Really fantastic video, with details I’ve never heard about ALRT before. So glad we got to see this!