A little bit surprised you didn't include the streetcars in this, but I guess that will be a separate video. A shame that Portland voted down the Green Line extension along Barbur Blvd which would've given you more material for your future segment.
We see PGE Park at 0:28 when it's a baseball stadium. Not only did it go through two further name changes, it's now one of the most iconic SOCCER stadiums in the country, hosting successful clubs in both the men's and women's leagues.
@@GraceSerenityK Here's a Fun Fact , on June 28th 2021 Portland Oregon reached its Highest recorded temperature 🌡 of 116 degrees the entire Light rail system had to be shut down.
@@davidwesley2525 yikes. I wonder if they can learn from Phoenix when it comes to summer-proofing their network, especially if those extreme heatwaves are going to be a somewhat regular occurrence.
What I really like about Portland is that they have Belgian Light-rail cars. Over here we nickname the LRV's from BN/ACEC simply "BN", turns out that they do the same in Portland. So that's pretty cool :)
I lived in Milwaukie at the time the Orange Line was being constructed - I was so proud that this dinky little suburb got a quality rail connection to Portland.
@@VanishingUnderground I love your videos but I'm going to register an objection here. Tri-Met treats the streetcar as an integral part of its rail network and it has been part of their rail system map since 2003, at least. It was also the catalyst for redevelopment of many brownfield sites in the Pearl District and remains its primary rail service. It also serves River Place and is the only direct rail connection to the aerial tram. Also-also, it serves neighborhoods east of the river which are not particularly close to MAX lines. Also-also-also, it adds another river crossing north of the Rose Quarter. Also-also-also-also, it connects several MAX lines to each other outside of downtown, performing rudimentary loop functions. It absolutely IS a mandatory inclusion, especially if you're including the aerial tram, which (I've been told) is NOT a train. :D
@@colormedubious4747 but it's basically a fancy bus. I understand not including it, as a streetcar isn't truly useful for transit. The redevelopment stuff has no bearing on its usefulness as a mode of transportation. Being considered as part of the system to transfer between lines could be done by a mixed traffic bus as well
@@nihouma11 "The redevelopment stuff has no bearing on its usefulness as a mode of transportation." -- Andres Duany, Peter Calthorpe, and the entire membership of the CNU (as well as APTA) would beg to differ with you on that. As would I, especially when you consider that Portland is where the LUTRAQ concept originated. There are more than 6,700 average daily riders that would certainly disagree with you. The streetcar is an important circulator and clearly attracts more riders-by-choice than any bus service could.
Hey, I'm a local who uses the rail pretty extensively! The rail has bad coverage without a bike, and completely misses Northwest and most of Northeast, and a large chunk of south east. Good access to downtown, but it struggles to access large portions of the city sprawl.
Once I was driving the line 9. It went over the Tillikum. Something happened to a MAX somewhere on the alignment which shut down all the trains. When I passed in the opposite direction there was 2 MAX, 3 or 4 buses( 17 and 9), and at least one streetcar all stalled on that bridge before we got directions to reroute across the Ross Island bridge.
The Green Line is also going to be extended south along Barbur Blvd to Southwest Portland, Tigard, and Tualatin. The project is nearly shovel ready and is essentially just waiting on funding.
This is great! I started riding the max in the early 90's and had no idea how long it existed before then, and I knew about all the expansions but had forgotten when that was all new. Good history
For American standards, this is decent LRT. Nonetheless, much works needs to be done to get it to the level of European LRT and to make Portland less car-dependent
@@raytylicki9001 The World: 'Let's invest in some decent public transport and make our streets more pleasant.' America: 'Oh my God! Socialism! We're all going to die!'
I think it is fine the way it is. It is pretty intensive for a city of it size. If the people want a more intensive LR, they will request it. In the meantime, I think they are happy with their system.
I moved to Portland in 2009 and never drove and thus relied on the transit system all this time. I remember fareless square where inner DT was all free to use. Then it changed to Free Rail Zone where only the max line in inner DT was free. Now that's all gone and you have to pay 2.50 for 2 hours or $5 for full day use.
During the pandemic they've extended the Honored Citizen Hop Card, which low income people and people with disability are eligible for. With the Honored Citizen card fares are cut in half, so $2.50 for the day, or around $25 max for the month I believe.
Fun fact: the area west of Beaverton Central was originally an Oregon Electric right-of-way, which was why the blue line extension to Hillsboro happened so quickly. The project would've been done sooner, but the Robertson Tunnel took longer than expected to build.
It's great to see this historical growth or the rail system captured here. Would like to see the inclusion of the information regarding the evolution of the streetcar service lines as well, thank you!
so weird that Portland of of all cities in North America has the deepest train station! I wonder if the yet-to-be completed stations on Vancouver's Skytrain will go deeper?
That's quite a network! But I read on the internet that people in Portland are talking about building a subway under downtown Portland to alleviate congestion on the city streets and improve transit travel times. Any truth to this?
It's being studied but hasn't been approved. It certainly seems like an obvious solution to the low speed limits in the core of the system and the bottleneck of the Steel Bridge.
I've lived in downtown Portland for 20 years and use MAX regularly. While there is talk on the internet about going underground, the reality is I doubt it will happen in my lifetime. We can't even get funding approved for additional above-ground light rail projects (the Barbur extension of the Green Line, as others have mentioned) so it seems extremely unlikely we will approve funding to replace a reasonably functional system that goes through the most expensive real estate in the city. Eventually it will be needed, sure, but I doubt it will happen before 2050 or later.
@@magiciangob Yo, I feel the same way. It seems like total crap that PDX cannot do something like the Green line In Los Angeles or Orange line in San Jose, CA. The system is very old as with some of the streets in Portland. The State of Oregon is even more broke than California!
My city ( Basel/Switzerland) has 7 train lines and 10 tramway lines in 3 different countries but has only about 350-400k inhabitants in the area…and a tariff- union for all transport in 425 square miles…for about 87$ a month.And its NOT expensive if you see what service you’re getting 😃
I was just riding this light rail line a few days ago. It's the best tram system in the world. Also I love the WES train a lot. It could be nicer if the board members allowed Weekend service on WES because it's something I need every day almost.
I suppose this question has already been asked…and answered…but why was the Portland Streetcar route not included? When Washington DC was considering a streetcar system I went out to Portland in 2005 on a civic fact finding mission and used lightrail from airport to transfer to streetcar. They seemed tied together.
Glad to see yours works. We’re on phase two of ours in Ottawa, Canada. It’s been down more then it’s been up and it’s only a couple years old. Only reason the contractor is working on this is because he’s friends with our Prime Minister. Phase 2 is already 9 months behind
Another great video. I love Portland and how "weird" it is... Weird as in different from most American cities. The only downside is the average running speed of the Light Rail is painfully slow. Like the worst of any city I've ever visited... It's great if you're not in a hurry but otherwise it feels like a novelty ride meant to increase cool points... Maybe a downtown subway and/or express services would be appropriate eventually. Then again that seems antithetical to what the city is about...
How would a downtown tunnel seem antithetical to what the city is about? I also wonder how slow it is compared to Phoenix. It takes an hour and a half to go along the entire 28-mile line, assuming it’s on time. The slowest stretches are downtown Phoenix and ASU Tempe.
I've been viewing all these videos since the Jersey video, and makes me wonder if you could go over Philadelphia's metro? It's not the most modern, but it is pretty old.
What is the frequency like on the branches considering all that interlining? Or are there multiple sets of tracks e.g. Downtown and across that bridge over the river?
All of the lines run pretty much every 15 minutes for most of the day. So any stop where there's more than one line would have that many trains by every 15 minutes. There's only one set of tracks across the river.
No, only one set of tracks in each direction. Each individual line runs at 15 minute headways, so a train every 7.5 minutes or so on sections where two lines share track, and every 5 minutes where three lines share. The bridge across the river between the Rose Quarter and downtown is just one track in each direction so it is quite the chokepoint.
Couple minor corrections: -You didn't mention the streetcar. I know it's only partially owned by trimet (as is WES, and IDK if the areal tram is even related to trimet) and isn't quite the same thing as full-blown rail (just like the mentioned bus-only roads and the areal tram) but it's still important to mention. -Trimet calls the Orange line a separate thing but it really is just an extention of the Yellow. All Orange trains cross the river and become Yellow and *most Yellows become Orange when they do the same. -I noticed you pronounce the river right at the beginning but then later you mispronounced it. I know it's minor but as a local I notice these things. *I don't know the exact frequency but occasionally there are Yellow trains that only go to the Rose Quarter and then become Blue and follow that line. I believe there are also Blue trains that do the reverse.
I use to ride the Red Line to work at the Portland Airport for quite a few years. Now that I no longer live in Portland I miss having a Rail system to get around, I was always impressed with all the effort Portland put into this rail system. Always extending it or adding new lines It's a shame the city can't get its act together on anything else. At least they got the rail right.
I’m surprised that the rail network of Chicago, Illinois is not in the Evolution pages yet. Chicago is a major rail hub, and is also our 3rd largest city in the United States. I haven’t been to Chicago, but I do know that there are trains that operate within Chicago’s area.
you said Chicago was coming at the end of this year and it is the end of the year so are you done on it or pushed it back up to 2022, if you pushed it back to 2022 its ok take your time i just wanted to know when will Chicago video come out.
Still don't understand why the Yellow Line and Orange Lines are considered separate lines. Why not just call it all the Yellow Line and have it run from Expo to SE Park
It’s because the orange line sees significantly more ridership than the yellow line. Some Orange line trains will just loop around and some will change to yellow line trains.
The only other example that i can think of is Taipei metro network until some years ago, where the red and green lines change colour at a certain point and called different names, where in fact the trains run through the two colour-lines most of the day. To me it's not really practical to keep the two names/ colours on the same line.
They need to extend the red line to the north end of the yellow line...cross the top... I think it's kinda silly to act like the yellow and orange lines are separate lines when they are through-routed together
To connect the Red and Yellow, the Red would have to bypass the airport, which is basically the entire reason for the Red. Plus, I'm not sure how much demand there is for a line from the Expo Center to the airport along Marine Drive. As far as the Yellow and Orange goes, it goes against what Trimet is doing with separating longer routes. When the fare included limited transfers, the longer routes made sense. With a timed ticket with unlimited transfers, the shorter routes work best. Less likely for delays to screw up a route miles from that delay.
Hello I’m a little confused no this I don’t know where it actually is started but when I was down in Portland back in 1987 I was on a light rail that took me to Clackamas town center and I started from pioneer Square where all the light rails met up I’m not real familiar with the map but you made it sound like it just started and the Portland mall I worked on it and it was not opened in 1977 it was opened in late 1988 or early 1989 because unless there was another mall there which I was there for a year and a half working on the mall so I really don’t know what mall you’re talking about unless you got the date wrong
I was planning on releasing it today, but I had a busy December so I wasn’t able to unfortunately. I promise it is being worked on though, so hopefully January or early February.
I still want to know why you won't do NYC. That is my hometown and if your willing to go as far back as the 1800 in NJ then why won't you go just as far back for the biggest and best transit system IN THE COUNTRY?????
Impressive, tho given the size of the city and the numbers of light rail lines wouldn't a limited metro system made sense? Can somebody explain why lightrail was chosen instead?
@@herlescraft The language here is a problem.Here in the USA we use the terms "Subway""Light Rail"Heavy Rail" "Streetcar" "Trolley". Plus each American Transit city has a affectionate name for its system like the "T" or the "L" or the "Rapid"ect...Europe has "Trams""""""" Metro"and U Bauns and S Bauns. Which mean different things. Here a Tram is used in a Zoo and a Metro is a GQ man who is a high class hetro vain man who is into being a pretty boy as in Metrosexual
I ride the MAX every work day. Yes, it's convenient but most of the time there's a disturbance on a train because someone is either on drugs or mentally ill. The homeless shit and piss there. So the history is appreciated but city policies make Trimet travel more dangerous and uncomfortable than needed.
So Portlamd should put its light rail downtown underground is now the consensus here...Pittsburgh did that in the 1980s and it worked but disruption to downtown buisness that we are trying to save works be huge.
A little bit surprised you didn't include the streetcars in this, but I guess that will be a separate video. A shame that Portland voted down the Green Line extension along Barbur Blvd which would've given you more material for your future segment.
VU never talks about street cars
I was so sad when the Green Line expansion was shut down, would've brought Max right to my neighborhood
Streetcars aren’t as frequent or in a dedicated ROW
@@Preygrantess same!!!
I think the same thing with the blue line heading out to Forest Grove
We see PGE Park at 0:28 when it's a baseball stadium. Not only did it go through two further name changes, it's now one of the most iconic SOCCER stadiums in the country, hosting successful clubs in both the men's and women's leagues.
Yep, called Providence Park now!
Cincinnati has a much better one sorry.
Max light rail operator here! Cool video! Neat to see my job on you tube.
Fun Fact: The Red Line to Portland Airport was only open for 1 day, before closing for 3 days.
I rode it on opening day! And then 9/11 happened...
@@GraceSerenityK Here's a Fun Fact , on June 28th 2021 Portland Oregon reached its Highest recorded temperature 🌡 of 116 degrees the entire Light rail system had to be shut down.
@@davidwesley2525 yikes. I wonder if they can learn from Phoenix when it comes to summer-proofing their network, especially if those extreme heatwaves are going to be a somewhat regular occurrence.
I visit Portland a lot and enjoy their transit system immensely!!!
What I really like about Portland is that they have Belgian Light-rail cars. Over here we nickname the LRV's from BN/ACEC simply "BN", turns out that they do the same in Portland. So that's pretty cool :)
They’re not. They were built by Bombardier.
@@QuarioQuario54321 BN/ACEC is bombardier...
I lived in Milwaukie at the time the Orange Line was being constructed - I was so proud that this dinky little suburb got a quality rail connection to Portland.
Never mind that we voted no - Tri-Met forced it on us anyway. The government mafia always gets what it wants!
Love the video. Can I ask why the Portland Streetcar was not included in the video?
Only ran with minor on street stops and in mixed traffic
I typically don’t include mixed traffic streetcars unless they’re shown in detail on the agency’s rail system map, such as Salt Lake City’s S-Line.
@@VanishingUnderground I love your videos but I'm going to register an objection here. Tri-Met treats the streetcar as an integral part of its rail network and it has been part of their rail system map since 2003, at least. It was also the catalyst for redevelopment of many brownfield sites in the Pearl District and remains its primary rail service. It also serves River Place and is the only direct rail connection to the aerial tram. Also-also, it serves neighborhoods east of the river which are not particularly close to MAX lines. Also-also-also, it adds another river crossing north of the Rose Quarter. Also-also-also-also, it connects several MAX lines to each other outside of downtown, performing rudimentary loop functions. It absolutely IS a mandatory inclusion, especially if you're including the aerial tram, which (I've been told) is NOT a train. :D
@@colormedubious4747 but it's basically a fancy bus. I understand not including it, as a streetcar isn't truly useful for transit. The redevelopment stuff has no bearing on its usefulness as a mode of transportation. Being considered as part of the system to transfer between lines could be done by a mixed traffic bus as well
@@nihouma11 "The redevelopment stuff has no bearing on its usefulness as a mode of transportation." -- Andres Duany, Peter Calthorpe, and the entire membership of the CNU (as well as APTA) would beg to differ with you on that. As would I, especially when you consider that Portland is where the LUTRAQ concept originated. There are more than 6,700 average daily riders that would certainly disagree with you. The streetcar is an important circulator and clearly attracts more riders-by-choice than any bus service could.
I live in Portland but honestly, they should incorporate Orange line into Yellow line just for simplicity.
It would be nice if there was a version that had the city layout, to see how much coverage the LRT had over the city.
Trimet website
@@heyheytaytay ooooh thanks.
Hey, I'm a local who uses the rail pretty extensively!
The rail has bad coverage without a bike, and completely misses Northwest and most of Northeast, and a large chunk of south east.
Good access to downtown, but it struggles to access large portions of the city sprawl.
@@callusklaus2413 It's not designed for extensive coverage of the whole city. More of a Transit Center to Transit Center set-up.
Once I was driving the line 9. It went over the Tillikum. Something happened to a MAX somewhere on the alignment which shut down all the trains. When I passed in the opposite direction there was 2 MAX, 3 or 4 buses( 17 and 9), and at least one streetcar all stalled on that bridge before we got directions to reroute across the Ross Island bridge.
Did you know that Portland opened the first "modern streetcar" line in the United States in 2001.
@@ChatGPT1111 San Diego Trolley is a fancy name for light rail
@@ChatGPT1111 The San Diego trolley is actually a light rail system according to Wikipedia.
Since the cars were made by Skoda, it was the lead story in Plzen.
The Green Line is also going to be extended south along Barbur Blvd to Southwest Portland, Tigard, and Tualatin. The project is nearly shovel ready and is essentially just waiting on funding.
This is great! I started riding the max in the early 90's and had no idea how long it existed before then, and I knew about all the expansions but had forgotten when that was all new. Good history
Pretty intensive. That's why you can't mention Portland without mentioning it light rail.
For American standards, this is decent LRT. Nonetheless, much works needs to be done to get it to the level of European LRT and to make Portland less car-dependent
Sure pay more taxes and have Socialism.
@@raytylicki9001 Socialism has nothing to do with transportation.
Spread your socialism somewhere else.
@@raytylicki9001 The World: 'Let's invest in some decent public transport and make our streets more pleasant.'
America: 'Oh my God! Socialism! We're all going to die!'
I’m kind of curious when Europe is gonna state paying for its own defense and military?
I think it is fine the way it is. It is pretty intensive for a city of it size. If the people want a more intensive LR, they will request it. In the meantime, I think they are happy with their system.
Love this! Can't wait till you do Philly soon.
great video 🚈🚉👍hoped you had a good Christmas
Great video, can't wait for the next one
I moved to Portland in 2009 and never drove and thus relied on the transit system all this time.
I remember fareless square where inner DT was all free to use. Then it changed to Free Rail Zone where only the max line in inner DT was free.
Now that's all gone and you have to pay 2.50 for 2 hours or $5 for full day use.
Yeah it's so crazy, I just leave my cars on the street and never drove them that much
During the pandemic they've extended the Honored Citizen Hop Card, which low income people and people with disability are eligible for. With the Honored Citizen card fares are cut in half, so $2.50 for the day, or around $25 max for the month I believe.
Yes is capitalism, a free sample for later creating a perceived need, communist countries might be best for you.
Great video as usual!
Thank you for putting up all these really wonderful videos. I love your videos!
These impeccably made videos are a joy to watch, and I watch them with great interest from the Netherlands!
The Hollywood/NE 42nd St stop was where that horrific stabbing occurred.
Great video but I wish the streetcar was included since it's the biggest system in the US.
You should bring back the old title sequence. I loved how kinetic and exciting it was.
Fun fact: the area west of Beaverton Central was originally an Oregon Electric right-of-way, which was why the blue line extension to Hillsboro happened so quickly. The project would've been done sooner, but the Robertson Tunnel took longer than expected to build.
Not showing Portland Streetcar network is a disservice to the transit coverage in Portland.
Nice!!! I life in Portland!
Portland does a lot of things well. MAX (and TriMet, generally) is one of them.
True, like the lack of rats being detracted by garbage by their sanitation system of prevention.
It's great to see this historical growth or the rail system captured here. Would like to see the inclusion of the information regarding the evolution of the streetcar service lines as well, thank you!
I have always wondered why the orange and yellow lines are separate when they could be the same..
so weird that Portland of of all cities in North America has the deepest train station! I wonder if the yet-to-be completed stations on Vancouver's Skytrain will go deeper?
Can’t wait to see Philly soon
That's quite a network!
But I read on the internet that people in Portland are talking about building a subway under downtown Portland to alleviate congestion on the city streets and improve transit travel times. Any truth to this?
It's being studied but hasn't been approved. It certainly seems like an obvious solution to the low speed limits in the core of the system and the bottleneck of the Steel Bridge.
I've lived in downtown Portland for 20 years and use MAX regularly. While there is talk on the internet about going underground, the reality is I doubt it will happen in my lifetime. We can't even get funding approved for additional above-ground light rail projects (the Barbur extension of the Green Line, as others have mentioned) so it seems extremely unlikely we will approve funding to replace a reasonably functional system that goes through the most expensive real estate in the city. Eventually it will be needed, sure, but I doubt it will happen before 2050 or later.
@@magiciangob Yo, I feel the same way. It seems like total crap that PDX cannot do something like the Green line In Los Angeles or Orange line in San Jose, CA. The system is very old as with some of the streets in Portland. The State of Oregon is even more broke than California!
@@Cupertinorail California is far from broke, which might be why it has better transit systems
@@davidp2707 ugh you could say that again but one transit expansion project in California can take up to two decades to complete.
Any railfans from the PDX area here? I am from Tualatin.
My city ( Basel/Switzerland) has 7 train lines and 10 tramway lines in 3 different countries but has only about 350-400k inhabitants in the area…and a tariff- union for all transport in 425 square miles…for about 87$ a month.And its NOT expensive if you see what service you’re getting 😃
i'm surprised you haven't done philadelphia yet!! i am from nyc but i visit there sometimes; would love to see it happen!
I was just riding this light rail line a few days ago. It's the best tram system in the world. Also I love the WES train a lot. It could be nicer if the board members allowed Weekend service on WES because it's something I need every day almost.
There has been a lot of discussion about increasing Wes service down to Salem. You should write your representative that you want to see that
Yeah well I need the Weekend service more than an expansion to Salem
Best tram system in the world? How about best tram system in Oregon.
@@davidp2707 it’s honestly one of the best in the US.
Really hoping you can do Chicago soon.
Will-LAM-ette River. Not to be confused with Wil-METTE, Illiinois. ;-)
Ooooooookkkkkkkkkkaaaaayyyyyyy
My favorite rhyming reminder: "It's Willamette, damnit."
I suppose this question has already been asked…and answered…but why was the Portland Streetcar route not included? When Washington DC was considering a streetcar system I went out to Portland in 2005 on a civic fact finding mission and used lightrail from airport to transfer to streetcar. They seemed tied together.
they are, they really are! The streetcar goes right down to the waterfront and also connects to the Tram in the Sky
Sweet video! Did you remake this video, because I thought I already saw it?
No he has not
I grew up in the Portland/Gresham area and watch the development of trimet so thanks for this video it was awesome to see! 👍
Glad to see yours works. We’re on phase two of ours in Ottawa, Canada. It’s been down more then it’s been up and it’s only a couple years old. Only reason the contractor is working on this is because he’s friends with our Prime Minister. Phase 2 is already 9 months behind
Another great video. I love Portland and how "weird" it is... Weird as in different from most American cities. The only downside is the average running speed of the Light Rail is painfully slow. Like the worst of any city I've ever visited... It's great if you're not in a hurry but otherwise it feels like a novelty ride meant to increase cool points... Maybe a downtown subway and/or express services would be appropriate eventually. Then again that seems antithetical to what the city is about...
How would a downtown tunnel seem antithetical to what the city is about? I also wonder how slow it is compared to Phoenix. It takes an hour and a half to go along the entire 28-mile line, assuming it’s on time. The slowest stretches are downtown Phoenix and ASU Tempe.
I've been viewing all these videos since the Jersey video, and makes me wonder if you could go over Philadelphia's metro? It's not the most modern, but it is pretty old.
Choo choo! Happy New Year! I'm a train and I approve this video!!!
Great video
Interesting looking at some of the maps, that now have closed/out of service stops.
What is the frequency like on the branches considering all that interlining? Or are there multiple sets of tracks e.g. Downtown and across that bridge over the river?
All of the lines run pretty much every 15 minutes for most of the day. So any stop where there's more than one line would have that many trains by every 15 minutes. There's only one set of tracks across the river.
No, only one set of tracks in each direction. Each individual line runs at 15 minute headways, so a train every 7.5 minutes or so on sections where two lines share track, and every 5 minutes where three lines share. The bridge across the river between the Rose Quarter and downtown is just one track in each direction so it is quite the chokepoint.
It is a choke point. And is it a draw bridge. Every once in a while it lifts up and nothing is going across.
VU never ceases to amaze me
cant belive theres no mention of the street cars. good job on covering the history up till that point
Will Chicago be next zack?
Couple minor corrections:
-You didn't mention the streetcar. I know it's only partially owned by trimet (as is WES, and IDK if the areal tram is even related to trimet) and isn't quite the same thing as full-blown rail (just like the mentioned bus-only roads and the areal tram) but it's still important to mention.
-Trimet calls the Orange line a separate thing but it really is just an extention of the Yellow. All Orange trains cross the river and become Yellow and *most Yellows become Orange when they do the same.
-I noticed you pronounce the river right at the beginning but then later you mispronounced it. I know it's minor but as a local I notice these things.
*I don't know the exact frequency but occasionally there are Yellow trains that only go to the Rose Quarter and then become Blue and follow that line. I believe there are also Blue trains that do the reverse.
Love this video
I use to ride the Red Line to work at the Portland Airport for quite a few years. Now that I no longer live in Portland I miss having a Rail system to get around, I was always impressed with all the effort Portland put into this rail system. Always extending it or adding new lines It's a shame the city can't get its act together on anything else. At least they got the rail right.
the Aerial tram not complete without the street car
*Why isn't this #1 on trending*
Nice to see the progression of the LRV system
I’m surprised that the rail network of Chicago, Illinois is not in the Evolution pages yet. Chicago is a major rail hub, and is also our 3rd largest city in the United States. I haven’t been to Chicago, but I do know that there are trains that operate within Chicago’s area.
you said Chicago was coming at the end of this year and it is the end of the year so are you done on it or pushed it back up to 2022, if you pushed it back to 2022 its ok take your time i just wanted to know when will Chicago video come out.
Will NY commuter rail include CTrail?
Still don't understand why the Yellow Line and Orange Lines are considered separate lines. Why not just call it all the Yellow Line and have it run from Expo to SE Park
I love on the orange line and I’ve asked myself this a million times.
It’s because the orange line sees significantly more ridership than the yellow line. Some Orange line trains will just loop around and some will change to yellow line trains.
@@awschmitt93 Actually, accordingly to TriMet's own ridership stats, no it doesn't.
The only other example that i can think of is Taipei metro network until some years ago, where the red and green lines change colour at a certain point and called different names, where in fact the trains run through the two colour-lines most of the day. To me it's not really practical to keep the two names/ colours on the same line.
Good.
You're a little off on Portland metro's population. It's about the same size as Vancouver, around 2.4 million
Will-AM-et river.
Suggestion: Evolution of the Chicago “L”
Could you please make a video on the Tyne and Wear Metro in the UK.
Are you thinking about eventually doing the evolution of systems in the UK or Europe like London or Paris
Why Do not do a Network Evolution on the Sheffield Supertram
I second this. "Breakfast in America" is an excellent album. Didn't know they were from Sheffield, though. ;)
Can you please do Philadelphia
Could you do Athens, Greece please?
They need to extend the red line to the north end of the yellow line...cross the top...
I think it's kinda silly to act like the yellow and orange lines are separate lines when they are through-routed together
To connect the Red and Yellow, the Red would have to bypass the airport, which is basically the entire reason for the Red. Plus, I'm not sure how much demand there is for a line from the Expo Center to the airport along Marine Drive.
As far as the Yellow and Orange goes, it goes against what Trimet is doing with separating longer routes. When the fare included limited transfers, the longer routes made sense. With a timed ticket with unlimited transfers, the shorter routes work best. Less likely for delays to screw up a route miles from that delay.
As a local, I can confirm that the river's name is pronounced "wuh-lam-it"
Been there and have rode Tri-Met.
Try Doing Nashville Next
You should do a chicago metra video
Please do a video on either Chicago or New York City
Not bad, but not including the Streetcar lines makes it incomplete. I'm just sayin'.
We call it the max it’s literally a bus that is connected to the road lol
In the future blue line will be extended to Sandy .....
Nothing about the street cars?
What’s next? All that’s left right now really are Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York.
Portland should build a subway under Powell Blvd or Division St to Lents and/or Gresham. I know I'm crazy for even suggesting that.
There should be another crossing of Willamette River
Hello I’m a little confused no this I don’t know where it actually is started but when I was down in Portland back in 1987 I was on a light rail that took me to Clackamas town center and I started from pioneer Square where all the light rails met up I’m not real familiar with the map but you made it sound like it just started and the Portland mall I worked on it and it was not opened in 1977 it was opened in late 1988 or early 1989 because unless there was another mall there which I was there for a year and a half working on the mall so I really don’t know what mall you’re talking about unless you got the date wrong
Sooo, does the system pay for itself, operating expense and construction expense, or is it subsidized by the general public?
Can't remember the exact figure, but only about ~20% is from passenger revenue. The rest is funded by payroll taxes, grants, and a few other things.
Nice one, quite a big network by American standards. Btw when in Viarail part 3 coming out you said it'd be here by the end of the year
I was planning on releasing it today, but I had a busy December so I wasn’t able to unfortunately. I promise it is being worked on though, so hopefully January or early February.
do a evolution of vienna metro
What country is this?
Portland, Oregon USA
The United States of America. West Coast. State of Oregon.
I still want to know why you won't do NYC. That is my hometown and if your willing to go as far back as the 1800 in NJ then why won't you go just as far back for the biggest and best transit system IN THE COUNTRY?????
I would probably take a half a year to do NYC properly
Maybe he can do Staten Island
Day 3 asking for Chicago
Impressive, tho given the size of the city and the numbers of light rail lines wouldn't a limited metro system made sense? Can somebody explain why lightrail was chosen instead?
Sure lots and lots of Rain..Flooding
@@raytylicki9001 many metro stations in asia are in flood prone areas, there are ways to build around the possibility
@@herlescraft The language here is a problem.Here in the USA we use the terms "Subway""Light Rail"Heavy Rail" "Streetcar" "Trolley". Plus each American Transit city has a affectionate name for its system like the "T" or the "L" or the "Rapid"ect...Europe has "Trams"""""""
Metro"and U Bauns and S Bauns. Which mean different things. Here a Tram is used in a Zoo and a Metro is a GQ man who is a high class hetro vain man who is into being a pretty boy as in Metrosexual
The light rail lines run from Transit Centers to Transit Centers. From each, multiple bus lines run to the other parts of town.
Not all cities have to be NYC or Boston and just have Subways…
I hate that the closed the mall stop. It was just so convenient
Where's Philadelphia at
seriously?
He already did it dude
Coming in the new year. The commuter rail video is about 50% done, while the subway video is at about 25%
It's in Pennsylvania. You're welcome!
No he didn't he did Pittsburgh
1.8 mill shhhh fs... LMAO
Portland Oregon is my Hometown , the Greater metro population is close to 2.5 million.
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This is why there is drugs crime and homeless people everywhere in or around Portland metro area.
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This is just one more reason to leave Michigan and take my poor gay ass to Portland
I ride the MAX every work day. Yes, it's convenient but most of the time there's a disturbance on a train because someone is either on drugs or mentally ill. The homeless shit and piss there. So the history is appreciated but city policies make Trimet travel more dangerous and uncomfortable than needed.
So Portlamd should put its light rail downtown underground is now the consensus here...Pittsburgh did that in the 1980s and it worked but disruption to downtown buisness that we are trying to save works be huge.
If they bore the tunnel rather than using cut and cover disruption would be minimal. More expensive, though.