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- Which American City Has the Best Tram/Light Rail System? Let your voice be heard in the comment section here:
• What is the Best Light...
Most capitals in Europe have some sort of tram/light rail system. What is your favorite system and why? (Is it because it carries a lot of people? It is an old system? The stations are really beautiful etc.) Share your opinion in the comments section!
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Included are all the capitals in Europe that have a tram system, no matter how big it is. A video would be over 10 hours long if all tram systems in Europe were utilized; therefore, only capitals were included. Wikipedia was used to provide the facts and unfortunately it did not always provide good information as some systems are rather small.
-Which of the largest cities in Europe has the best tram system?
Let it be known here! • Which European City Ha...
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For complete videos of the systems:
Amsterdam:
• Trams in Snowstorm in ...
Athens:
• Egg-shaped Trams in At...
Belgrade:
• Video
Berlin:
• Straßenbahn Berlin 201...
Bern:
• Trams in Bern - SVB - ...
Bratislava:
• Električky v Bratislav...
Bucharest:
• 75 Tramvaie in Bucures...
Budapest:
• Trams in Budapest, Hun...
Dublin:
• Luas Trams in Dublin, ...
Helsinki:
• Trams in Helsinki, Fin...
Kiev:
• Trams in Kyiv
Lisbon:
• Beautiful Old Trams in...
London:
• Trams in London, UK 2015
Madrid:
• Metro Ligero Madrid Pa...
Minsk:
• Minsk Tram (2018)
Moscow:
• Трамваии в Москве 30 M...
Oslo:
• Trams in Oslo, Norway ...
Paris: (1.2 Million views!)
• Trams of Paris 2016 - ...
Prague:
• Many Trams in Prague, ...
Riga:
• Trams in Riga, Latvia ...
Rome:
• Trams in Rome, Italy 2016
Sarajevo:
• Trams in Sarajevo (2018).
Sofia:
• Транспорт в София, Бъл...
Stockholm:
• Trams in Central Stock...
Tallinn:
• Tramline connection to...
Vienna:
• Trams in Vienna, Austr...
Warsaw:
• Warsaw: a Ride on a tr...
Zagreb:
• Trams in Zagreb // Tra...
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0:07 Amsterdam, Netherlands
1:28 Athens, Greece
2:32 Belgrade, Serbia
3:21 Berlin, Germany
4:31 Bern, Switzerland
5:19 Bratislava, Slovakia
6:21 Brussels, Belgium
7:30 Bucharest, Romania
8:22 Budapest, Hungary
9:30 Dublin, Ireland
10:34 Helsinki, Finland
11:39 Kiev, Ukraine
12:21 Lisbon, Portugal
13:19 London, England
14:27 Madrid, Spain
15:17 Minsk, Belarus
16:02 Moscow, Russia
17:10 Oslo, Norway
18:19 Paris, France
19:28 Prague, Czechia
20:41 Riga, Latvia
21:43 Rome, Italy
22:49 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
23:21 Sofia, Bulgaria
24:22 Stockholm, Sweden
25:40 Tallinn, Estonia
26:37 Vienna, Austria
27:52 Warsaw, Poland
28:30 Zagreb, Croatia
Thanks! Such a time saver.
@Timosha21 Please add this list to the info below the video. This should allow us to skip to the point in the video even more easily
In the USA we used to have an extensive and very effective tram system both in Chicago and in the first city to its north Evanston, both in Illinois. But our auto industry lobbied to have them torn up literally to _force_ people in the USA to buy more cars (although it was framed as “making more room for cars, should people happen to want to buy them”), and you can still find the old tracks here and there poking through where the asphalt has worn, often along what remain major arteries for travel, albeit now clogged by automobile traffic. What a dreadful shame.
Budapest , Hungary
Bydgoszcz has the best system :)
Living in a city which has no trams, I find any city with trams is 'the best'.
indeed
I grew up in Mannheim, Germany. I could get anywhere I needed to go in the city as well as neighboring cities (even in other states!) by riding the Straßenbahn or OEG trams. I never needed a car, infact no one in my immediate family owned a car until the 1980s. Everyone just rode bikes or trams. If you missed one, there would be another one soon. Mannheim's tram system was connected with Ludwigshafen on the other side of the Rhine river as well as the cities of Heidelberg, Weinheim, Heddesheim, Viernheim and Seckenheim. It was awesome and I really miss not having a light rail system where I live now in Texas. Our bus system sort of sucks, I don't even know where the closest stop would be, I have never seen a marked stop for the buses.
@@Siggy4844 based and trampilled
@@Siggy4844 Unfortunately the tram from Eppelheim to Schwetzingen will not be reinstalled anytime soon. Same goes for the Tram to Nußloch. Greetings from Dossenheim.
@@insatsuki_no_koshou When I was younger I took many bicycle rides from MA-Wallstadt to Dossenheim.
Zagreb, Prague, Budapest, Vienna and Stockholm are my favourite.
I find the Stockholm tram system very often over crowed and not on time. I used to take the tram to school, until last year, and it was expected that the trains would run 15-30 min over time. Normally in the late nights when no-one is riding it, it takes about 15-20 min fastest to get from Årstaberg to Sickla Kaj. But in the mornings and on afternoon the ride becomes up to 40 min and some cases even more. And also is very over crowded. The SL in my opinion itself is a very bad company and could do better if it was pushed harder, it's busses are good but not satisfactory, there's always something wrong or broken with everything, the trains, the trams the busses. Only thing that works really properly for them is the small boat line in the middle of Stockholm. I prefer the Tallinn's tram system over the one of Stockholm's, and I so love Estonian busses, the quality is just different. Haven't been to Zagerb, Prague, Budapest or Vienna though, should go visit them one day.
Vienna and Prague...Perfect Trams,Perfect Metro,Perfect Systems...
True.. But I would add Budapest to them.
Vienna has One of the best Subway and Trams system. And Prague Tram system is good too you can get anywhere by a tram in Prague, but Subway in Prague suck (for a European standart). There is only 3 lines and you can get by subway only to 25% of a city. Vienna Subway is better it has 6 lines and it is almost everywhere plus there is S-bahn. Now i am living in both cities so I can compere.
@@Nickayz2 Austria-Hungarian Empire has a best public transport system.
@@twolopsandonedutchbunnies7640 Vienna have 5 Metro Lines,the U5 is under construction.Greets from Tirol
@Martin Hodal Praha nemá KT4, ani T4.
Top 3 (from 1 to 3):
1. Vienna
2. Prague
3. Budapest
By the way, 👋 from Romania!
There are more kinds of trams in Prague!
Thanks from prague (and btw. It is fun like many people wrote here Prague system is good even in this video is old video from prague
Frate îmi este rusine sa spun ca sunt roman văzând celelalte tramvaie europene
@@FC-nt3lq rușine sau nu, sunt român, nu am ce face. Râdem noi de unguri, dar ei sunt cu mult peste noi. La fel și sârbii, se dezvoltă mai repede decât noi. Bulgarii sunt cu puțin peste noi. Rămânem la stadiul de legumă ca popor, dar tot nu pot să-mi ascund identitatea.
FCDB PCH unicul oraș care nu se vede in videoclip este Bucureștiul rușinos . Nu știu dacă ai văzut circul făcut de Firea cu tramvaiele ....
Prague is my favorite. On my trip to Prague is was astonished by their network. I dont understand Czech but as my russian knowledge allowed me to understand annunciation from a tram driver wich was: Dear passengers there are accident on a tram tracks ahead so we are taking little around route to avoid the standstill ! I mean wich other city you know where tram can take a little detour and drive around! And to top it off, they have trams on every bloody street in center and every second outside the centre
The Skoda manufactured trams in Prague were so futuristic.. no doubt one of the best in Europe..
Vienna is magnificent. And Budapest, Prague, Warsaw. But there are also... Brno, Zurich, Krakow.
*Thank you so much! Great footage! Best regards from Vietnam*
Vienna ... Prague ... Budapest...
Moscow, Russia.
Serbia
Nie bo Polska
@@michawasilewski712 Zapomnieli o Tramwajach Śląskich
@@Technos94 i nietylko
Lisbon, Bratislava and Sofia look very beautiful! I think trams are the best way to see a (big) city. You get to see the ordinary everyday life and other sights than just the touristy ones, which are pictured in postcards and photos a thousand times. Plus, trams usually drive in the beautiful old/historic districts of a city!
Prague and Warsaw. But at the moment Polish capital has better rolling stock (large modernization in the last few years).
Tender for Warsaw trams was the largest in Europe - and was named "contract of the century". The first part of contract was won by trams Pesa Swing and Pesa Jazz (about 300 units) --- now (june 2019) another part was won by trams Hyundai Rotem (213 units).
Prague. In general prague has one of the best public transportation systems on the continent.
Nah, according to many independent studies it is Switzerland
"One of" doesnt mean the best eh@@fibonaccibre8734
Blue Skies Flyer true
Berlin London Paris
Seanie The Commie
- Are the trams on time?
- Good infrastructure?
- Reliability
- Safety
- etc
Happy Channel Birthday! My favourite tram system was in Bern. they looked very modern and they sounded very nice! Liked!👍
Prague, Vienna Zagreb and Warsaw - the first two ones are very extensive and dense in the city centre (but I think Prague is more utilized due to smaller metro and train system), Zagreb has an amazing number of daily passengers (almost equal to the city citizens number) while Warsaw is I think one of the best maintained tramway system - also it has to be noted that the system was destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt in late 40's and 50's in a different shape and those of the tracks which stayed had their gauge changed from 1525 mm to 1435 mm. Bucharest tram network is basically dying from poor maintenance (although impressively big), while Paris and Berlin have interesting suburban systems, but they are too fragmented - and Bern is a good one but the city is much smaller than most European capitals.
I believe Paris canceled trams, but decided to bring it back. So it is impressive, as they are one of the few who built large system in 80s, other cities had them since horse pulled trams.
@@Pyrochemik007 that is correct, and in that Paris succeeded, but admittedly Ile-de-France tram is quite faulty in how most of the lines are disconnected from each other.
@@Wielkobabita Arent they connected through metro?
@@Pyrochemik007 they are, but metro won't send a replacement tram if one is broken and trams en route cannot enter metro tunnels if for example there was a crash on its route, so when the routes aren't connected to each other, they are very prone to accidents.
Best transportation video I’ve ever seen!
Great job!👍
Budapest, Hungary has the best tram system in the world. It has over 30 lines including Line 2, the most beautiful tram line in the world, Line 1 one of the longest tram lines in Europe and Lines 4/6 which are the busiest in the world! We even have the longest trams in the world! They are CAF Urbos 3 come in 3,5 and 9 cars long! An honorable mention goes to Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna and Zurich (Even though not the capitol) equally impressive systems!
Daniel K I live in Pécs Hungary
I actually traveled on the Caf s and it is truly the longest Tram car but Budapest also has more car types Than what the video shows
@@Valaki415 I haven't been to Hungary in 3 years so it's been a while and want to ride around on the BKK. They've made a lot of improvements and progress on the past few years.
Budapest also hires the team of the most aggressive ticket inspectors in Europe
@Leonard Andrei I haven't looked too close into Romanian tram systems but I do like them! They are vary similar to the ones in Hungary! In term of Budapest vs. Bucharest, both capitals have an immense network the is the backbone of the public transport system as a whole. I'd love to go and travel on the Romanian transport one day!
Zagreb, Lisbon and Prague! ❤️
I am from Prague
Fantastic Video, bravo thank you sooo much !11
Hello Tim, at first after some delay my yery congrats to your 10 year channel jubilee and for this very good and well researched Video conscerning the tram system in the european capitals. 👍👍👍
That is a big challenge to make a video of so much cities, many of them you took on cam yourself others shown in videos cited by name of the producer. And of course it's impossible to show all details of each tram system with all their specialities, their dates and their advantages and also their defects, especially all that exactly up to date of the present time. So don't worry about the comments about having shown not actual video material in some cities.
--- And now my comment to the tram systems. I love all cities with tram- and/or with metro-systems. Not considering the view of the railway- or tram-lover but to take the view of a user, i think a transport system has to be measured with all his parts, like suburb railways, Metro, Tramways , Trolleybusses, Busses or other public transport like ferries or boats, funiculars and cableways, and then the people, who live there and use this complex system, have to decide if it's a good solution for the city or not.
--- Bye the way I love these complex public transports in Berlin, Vienna, Zürich, Prague, London, Paris, Budapest and many more, and I don't want to specify which of all could be the best. 🙂
-- And last comment to the Berlin (my capital 😁) -- The tram of West Berlin was completely closed until 1967 and also the suburban railway net lines (S-Bahn) in West Berlin totally went down until Zero, because of its ownership in hands of the former German Democratic Republic. So the growing U-Bahn-Net (Metro) and Busses in W-Berlin took over all public transports. In East Berlin the system of U-Bahn had only a few lines. So the S-Bahn and the Straßenbahn (Tram) (plus Busses) had to manage all transport services. So the tram system there is big and in good conditions. --- And I really would love to have more new tram-lines in West Berlin too (or extensions from east to west). As well I would love new Metro lines (or extensions) in the east.
Unfortunately, none of the cities I have lived in or continue to live in offer a tram service. I’ll just say that each tram in this clip has its own charm, its own make, its own characteristics. One thing I like about most trams is that they are newly designed and thus designed to be environmentally friendly-a big plus for twenty-first-century transit. The other thing that amazed me was the tram livery (I’m a big fan of warm colours such as red and yellow; I like seeing them combined with cooler colours such as blue, or even bright colours such as white).
Many thanks for sharing this video with us. (-:
Of the one's which I've used, Prague and Vienna are both excellent. Lisbon's are the most scenic. They have lines that run up some of the city's steep hills and provide great experiences and views.
Very well done, it was a pleasure to watch
While not having been on any of these two, Vienna and Zurich definitely look like two extensive, good tram networks.
Helsinki is definitely my favourite that I've ridden.
Perkele!
Welcome to Finland again! :-)
What made you think of Zürich?
Of the ones I've ridden on, Vienna and Prague are a close 1 and 2. The most fun one is Lisbon's trolleys.
Yeah...Prague and Vienna system is very simmilar according to my experience. I am from Prague and Viena public transport looks really familiar to me.
European capitals are mostly flat, whereas Lisbon is known as "the city of the 7 hills", and the tram looks like running on a waterdown rollercoaster track at some places.
@@davidpelc pravda bro
@@PrimiusLovin you will be maybe surprised, but Prague is also located on 7 hills 😉
@@davidpelc I do spend some time on OpenTopoMap and I do know that the Check Republic is mostly hilly and mountainous around the borders... but how hilly Prague is I don't know, I've never been there.
Also, they call Lisbon "the city of the 7 hills" but it's still relatively flat for me!
I guess that when you spend a few years living in the Alps everything else looks too flat!!
Nice update.Enjoy it thank's
I love your videos as always.
For me in order....Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam, Berlin, Lisbon, Oslo, Rome and Minsk.
Winner: Prague.
Beautiful Trams, Nice lines. Birthplace of the Tatras.
Or maybe a MetroTram
@@dakampi8198 For example, there are 250 new Skoda 15T trams in Prague, which all are not older than 5 years. They are completly low-floor. Unfortunately, not even one was taken in this vid. And this type is not one low-floor type in Prague. There are T3R.PLF, 14T, KT8D5.RN2P too.
More than 70% of journeys are done by low-floor vehicles in Prague.
CKD Tatra KT4
Tatras? Where are you from?
@@zinzi4831 im Form erfurt/Germany. And Tatras are my favourite trams.
Very nice vido!
Stockholm had a large network of tracks and many trams until 1967. In 1967, Sweden
changed from traffic drives on the left to traffic drives on the right. Idiots in the city administration in Stockholm
who decided at that time removed 90% of all tracks. Instead, they put in dirty buses.
They have slowly started to rebuild the tram lines over the past 20 years.
Stockholm began with trams in 1877 drawn by horses, in 1887 there was a steam tram. In 1901 came the first electric trams
One of the very best!! Terrific!
Nice video, thumbs up! I'm only wondering, why didn't you put the same information for every Tram system (for example, since when is it operational, number of lines...)? Anyways, greetings from Zagreb!
Prague, Helsinki and Lisbon are my favs.
Happy 2021 everyone!
Such trams do not drive around Warsaw, this movie is from 2010 :)
They are still operating on routes.
@@SzaraVytra but now we have pesa swing, pesa jazz and pesa Bydgoszcz is making another model of tram for Warsaw transport
@@zemeem3295 You are wrong. There is not any tram in production for tramwaje warszawskie. Hyundai Rotem is waiting for contract with Warsaw. Pesa have nothing to do with this contract.
Same for Moscow!
KacpeG Kw Yeah, amsterdam has modern futuristic Audi trams rn
Omg!! The one in Bucharest its enormous.
Ce bune sunt alea noi, moderne!
not that enormous. The length given must be track length (332 km seems a bit too much even for total route length), including depot and service tracks.
Bucharest is an extremely densely populated city (it has more people than Budapest (2.2 Mio in the former vs. 1.8 Mio for the latter), but only half the area). urbanrail.net/eu/ro/buc/bucuresti-tram.htm claims 143 km, which is much more believable. Also, due to Metro construction, Bucharest has lost some of its network in the past few years (e.g. old Rt. 20). Also, trams are rather slow due to bad track condition (even those mentioned two "light rails" (which are probably 21 and definitely 41) rarely go over 30 km/h, much of the rest of the network is traveled even slower. Also, many timetables are rather thin, so if I would judge "light rail" by its timetable I would add routes like 1, 10 and 32 to the mix.
However, they appear to have tendered 100 new low floor trams, and the network is slowly but steadily overhauled/modernized. If the car drivers learn to not stand on the tram tracks when turning left, the network could become quite efficient...
@@sepruecom So Bucharest has 189 km of auxiliary track? lol.
332 km seems legit considering route overlap(ie routes using the same track for a certain length), actual track is 145 km (137 km in 2016). Someone probably added all the route lenghts together and came up with 332 km.
Bucharest is double track troughout (which doubles the track length obviously), that leaves us with 43 km unaccounted for. Also depots (+URAC) are surprisingly large (even if we only count the some 300 V3A-varieties, that's an extra 9 km if they are standing back-to-front, and there are other tram types running too). Since there were more trams in use in the past, the depots are larger than necessary today, have track harps to connect the storage tracks, etc.
Also, since the video was made, some pretty big changes were made in the route layout (new Rt. 3; Rt. 34, 42 and I believe one other were closed without closing any track), so while track lengths and network length remained the same, the route length decreased by a fair amount. And all while the sections between Pta. Presei, 1 Mai and Mezes (sorry for missing squiggles/typos) profitted from vastly improved time tables, increasing trams per hour from 1 to 6-8 on the former section and from 3-4 to 9-12 on the latter.
The problem of this video is the inconsistant measures used for the network size. There is generally track length (adding up all tracks in use, double track counts double, depots usually also counted), route length (summarizing all the routes' length), revenue network length (only counts lines without overlap and regard for single-track, double-track and not including service track sections) and network length (includes service track sections, regardless single track/double track, usually w/o depots).
A network like Melbourne/AU, were there are only very few parallel-running routes, despite being the largest tram network of the world loses out against many other networks. Also, as you probably know from Bucharest, many routes there have pretty bad timetables. Other cities have less routes which run more frequently, falling behind your "route length count" while still offering vastly better service. (Especially in Russia and other ex-SU countries there is often the issue that 3-4 routes run parallel to each other pretty much everywhere, but having really bad timetables, resulting in very few trams/hour despite high route length).
Beyond the statement of "use the same measurement on all networks if you want to have comparable valued", there is of course some discussion which of the measures above make the most sense. Track length does not tell too much, since single-track sections only count single, regardless of service levels. Route length is also a bad count imho, since it does not represent service levels at all, just the number of routes. Revenue network length is much more telling, since it only counts tracks with (usual) revenue service. Network lenghts gives a better overview of the infrastructure, but in some cases can be less informative if large sections of the network are not used for revenue service.
tl;dr: read the first paragraph, it answers your question/statement
Warsaw has approx. 35 lines, comparable to Prague,though the hill routes make Prague and Lisbon my favourites. Vienna, Berlin and Amsterdam are great too
Warsaw has 26 tram lines (at weekends only 25 + tourist line operated by vintage trams), but it can use 33 tram loops. Theoretically, it may even have more than 528 tram lines, because you can travel from loop to loop along different routes. The city has 518 square kilometers, of which over 300 kilometers. sq. is closer than 1000 meters (less than 15 minutes walk) to the tram stop. Waiting for the tram is about 5 minutes during rush hours (if you use the schedule, it is shorter or longer if you like to have a spare) and up to 15 minutes in the early morning and late evening. Departing from any stop you can take the tram with at most one change to almost all other stops. Trams run from 4 am to 11 am. Trams have separate tracks and are unlikely to be stuck in traffic jams, so the longest journey from loop to loop should not take longer than 40 minutes.
1. BEAUTIFUL CITY OF ROMA!!! ( ITALY!!! )
2. Lissabon old, very romantic and beautiful Tram!!!
Lissabon are adding new trams to not steep areas of the citty, but the iconic old ones are the most beautiful.
Rome is a beautiful city but it’s tram network is very scarce
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They aren’t different companies, STIB is French for Société des Transport Intercommunaux de Bruxelles, and MIVB is Dutch for Maatschapij voor het Intercomunaal Vervoer te Brussel, just saying...
It’s one big company!
Belgians use the abbreviation of their choice to match their language; Either Dutch or French. But since this video is for non Belgian and probably English speakers too it's better to include both abbreviations :)
@@ailinos The video description says "operatorS" and that's wrong.
As someone with basic knowledge of French, it's either "Transport Intercommunal" or "Transports Intercommunaux". 🙂
Vienna has absurd amount of tram lines :) I mean, not the most km, but the density... havent explored that much of the city yet, but most places I have been to, almost anywhere I looked, there were rails :D ... and the tram junctions at Westbahnhof are mindboggling :D
great video!
Kyiv of course! But I liked Tallinn so much and Vienna also!
Atleast someone mentions tallinn
I like the Amsterdam tram because there is a conductor booth in the rear of the tram. For buying tickets and they provide tourism information with folders in different languages. Also with the differents camera's, the rear conductor can overview the whole tram, he will make an announcement who doesn't pay or make sure that the passengers keep the tram clean.
Munich / Bavaria also has an old and important tram system. The tram line was founded in 1876 - electrified between 1895 and 1918, once had a length of 134 km (before the construction of the subway) ... today it is 85 km with up to 126 trams and a total of 122 million passengers annually.
however it's not relevant in a video about tram systems in capital cities
I love it 😂 Luxembourg just got a tram shortly before I am going of to liege/lüttich (Belgium) to study who just announced that they will start a tram project^^'
The 95,000 little city of Grudziądz (ex Graudenz during Kaiser times) in Poland has trams since turn of past century - still running today, therefore very useful.
Prague, Brussels and Stockholm are my favorites:)
Nice, 23:10 epic view of the side of the tram. I'd love to film in one of these trams alongside with my tiny train, future video ideas... Subbed! Much love from Canada
Great vids, but one question...: Could you consider voice-narrating your good work? It seems I have to keep shifting focus to read the informative text, but kinda lose track of too many visual details in the process... Maybe just me, but I find it easier to “watch” the great footage, and “learn” the important facts by ear (audio). A somewhat simpler multitask, I guess... 👍😊
Not a capital city either, but the innovative network in (and far beyond) Karlsruhe is my favourite.
von Karlsruhe nach Kandel .
Von Karlsruhe nach Achern
The best tram in Budapest: 4-6
The best land in romania
Transylvania
which you will never get
Nice video, LIKE..
Im moving to lisbon in 2 weeks and I hope I can get around nicely with public transport :)
If you hadn't picked capitals, I would have said Zurich, no questions asked. Extensive network when compared to city size, spotlessly clean and impeccably maintained fleet. And of course always incredibly punctual. I do wonder who can beat that...
In that case I'd say Rotterdam. It's the only system I've seen to use exclusively low-floor trams that allow access to the disabled on wheelchairs.
And Milano
roffaleft by far zurich is better
you are right about Zurich! I forgot for a moment that Zurich is not the capital of CH, although it feels like the capital there.
Only Indian Railways I guess.
I live in Zagreb. I really love the Sarajevo trams because they have a lot of diversity. Zagreb also has a decent amount of tram diversity, it's a shame only one model was shown here.
Fukso servantska.
Munich also has an excellent tram network covering several suburbs and going right into one of the central pedestrian streets. Very well maintained old and very modern new rolling stock - whenever in Munich, I try to use the tram rather than the underground - and that's a high benchmark because their underground is excellent, too!!
at the same point Munich tram has great coverage from west via downtown to the east of the city, however large parts of the north and south of the city are completly left out in the network; Plans of a far more wide-spread systems existed a century ago already, but most of it never got realized, and some parts which were built until like half a century ago, they are out of service and built back already
maybe Prague is very special, but if we are going to pick from the video alone for Bucharest you should have selected some of the iconic spots, ex. around the st.george church or maybe some of the modern heavyweights. there is a huge system including some particularly narrow lines which are interesting to see. cheers!
Vienna & Budapest... greetings from Bratislava:)
My favorites are Berlin, Karlsruhe and Prague.
Karlsruhe isn't included because it's not a capital city. If others were included I would vote Mannheim/Ludwigshafen/Heidelberg/Weinheim, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe
Siggy Mueller what about München?
Thanks, man!
prague is the best choice
@Timosha21 Small correction for Bratislava "Verejna hromadna doprava" mean "public transport". The owner is "Dopravný podnik Bratislava". And in Vienna it is "Wiener Linien". Thanks for video ;)
Amsterdam, Prague, Warsaw, Berlin and Athens, as all of these are mix of modern and traditional tram systems (althrough of that the third, fourth and fifth ones are more modern than others). Also, the Athens one is a big boom on the coastline and all of these have at least few bilingual signs (unlike my city, Krakow, which has (mostly) unilingual ones, in Polish) and modern branding. I like also Vienna, which has large system, beautiful trams (Rotax/Lohner/SGP type, the same, as in my city, my colleague, Irmina Opach (has a FB page) also likes them, too) and some places, which tram confuses with another urban rail types, i.e. Metro (tunnel under Margaretenguertel and Wiener Guertel, althrough of a standalone metro system, which exists in this city) and commuter rail (Badner Bahn).
Prag, Zürich und Amsterdam
Zürich is no Capital! :P And I think the Zürich Tram System is not good. One accident in the Station region and everything is blockaded! :P
I don't know what European capital has the best tram system, but I think the most beautiful tram designs are in Dublin, Ireland, Athens, Greece and Brussels, Belgium with Dublin and Brussels' trams having near similar designs.
By the early 1900s, most big and medium-sized US cities had streetcar systems as well, some of which were very comprehensive. But the USA soon had the bad luck (in the long run) to have become the country with the highest number of motor vehicles, which in turn eventually forced the shutdown of most of these systems. Most were replaced by buses, and all the infrastructure of tracks and electric lines was then torn out.
All of them are very nice. And each one is unique in its beauty! ::))
1. Budapest - because of the nostalgic old trainsets
2. Vienna
3. Zagreb
The BKK also has nostalgia trains on sundays that you can ride /the Care are from the 30s
We have not just old trams. We have some from The 60's but we also have newers from 2016
In my opinion Warsaw has one of the best (if not the best) tram networks in Europe. Extensive, punctual, clean and modern.
Poznań is better
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But the autor obviously do not like Poland because again he showed almost nothing fron this country.
Warsaw bought recently 213 new Hyundai Rotem trams.
@@ataksnajpera But Poznań isn't a capital city which is the point of the video.
@FoxyKing93 ®
Warsaw unlike Poznań again does not support local polish companies. All new trams and also buses in Poznań are made in Poland! (Solaris/Modertrans ). BTW. So what that warsaw bought 213 new trams? I wonder how many years will it take to deliver all of them ;)
I remember a city in France (forgot which) having some sections of their tram system powered not by overhead lines, but by a recessed 3rd rail. Made for a very clean looking setup. The 3rd rail seemed to be divided into small sections, and (one would hope) only be electrified when the tram was passing that section.
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You only really notice the difference if you didn't grow up in a city with trams/trolley busses. Like, I don't see those overhead wires if I don't specifically want to lol
Super video tram 👍
Prague! Covering most parts of the city, frequent service, night lines, many different lines, ...
Other European Capitals with good Tram networks: Brussels, Budapest and Vienna.
Reasons why not the following;
- Athens, London, Paris, Dublin and Madrid have only a few lines which each only cover a little bit of the city.
- Berlin is almost entirely missing out the west part of the city (historic reasons)
- Rome: lack of trams, many cancellations, infrequent service, small network, not covering enough of the city
- Bucharest: way too slow!
I have only considered tram networks which I have already used.
Thanks, man!
This Video is only abaut the Tram Network i now but If you lock at the complet network of publik Transport in Berlin i think Its the Best in the World or one of the Best in the world
To be really honest, the "London" Tramlink should be considered Croydon Tramlink.
@Oel Reiemerdden have you taken any public transport in Berlin recently? Yes the network itself is quite good, many many lines and different options, thousands of trains and buses crisscrossing the city.
But the operations are getting worse and worse, trains getting cancelled all the time, buses stuck in traffic resulting in for example no buses in half an hour and then suddenly 5 buses at once, ...
especially on the S- and U-Bahn the trains are getting into age and are completely worn out, resulting in those trains spending more time at maintenance than being on the line and carrying people.
@@sxflyer5410 so i live in Berlin so jes i juse them evry Day and i dont andershant way evry badi hate the public Transport so luck at Essen ther cams also evry half an hauer an bus but raguly and ther often delay and in Berlin on the kudam cams evry 5 minuts A bus but ok i understant that thay haf A delay and go old and you have to act but is i think Not that bat evry budi say
Zagreb Croatia, definitely :)
Used to live in Zagreb and now I live in Austria and i have to say I miss the trams so much.
In Budapest we have Combino (Second longest tram), CAF Urbos (longest tram in the world), Tatra T5C5K, Ganz and TW6000. Aand oc some nostalgic tram.
It is sad in some way that for Warsaw, which has one of the biggest and and advanced tram system in europe, you showed only video of some tracks from back window and one of the old tram (but even do not show polish tram PESA Swing, which is symbol of modern Warsaw trams, but you'll showed it in Sarajevo xd)
But wideo good.
Widocznie autor zestawienia nie znosi Warszawy ...ale dla mnie skandalem jest pokazywać wszystkie składy Talina czy Oslo ale dwu-milionowej ogromnej majestatycznej Warszawy to nawet Pes Swing nie pokazał...widać że Autor nie lubi Polaków...
All Winners! :)
west city looooost ;)
Yep
ugliest: Brussels, but winner too
Milan, Italy.
13:22 is the best london trams tfl I live in England and they do too :)
For Paris trams, there are 2 lines that are considered as LightRail, these are T4 (with Transilien branding) and T11 Express (with SNCF Carmillon branding).
great-video
At 24/7 365 days for 32CZK ( les than €1.5) for up to 1.5 travel hours on any public transport within the metropole - not many can beat Prague ❤️❤️❤️
Having visited many of these cities, I’d say my personal favourite is Warsaw. It’s cheap, frequent, reliable and historic along with it going everywhere you need.
The Estonian tram system used to be much larger in the past. The Soviets really invested hard into it, and in the 1980's there was one year when the ridership rose to 105 million, that is much more than the inhabitants of the city at that time (I think that it was something like 600k). They had nearly 150 trams at that time, and many new tracks under construction, with some planed to be high speed. Sadly the investments into the projects stalled with the fall of the Soviet Union and the Estonians didn't have the money to keep up all of the Tram, Trolly and buss lanes, so they made huge cuts and shrank their size to be profitable in the capitalistic market. Otherwise the tram system hasn't gotten much of upgrades lately, with the latest one being, that it was connected with the airport, and a new project that just started construction looks to connect it also with the port. The tram isn't seen as the best solution because of it's high price, so the city is looking more into new Trolly's to replace the tram in the places where it used to be, or was suppose to be but was either never built or was removed from there.
nice video
Berlin might not have most artistic trams but some of the routes which it goes through are really pretty. Apart from that, WIth Bus, U-Bahn, Trams, S-Bahn.It is one of the most complex public transport systems but extremely efficient and covers the almost the entire city and then some....
Berlin has the thied largest tram system in the world a very good underground system and the s bahn is awesome
@@BLACKSTA361the S-Bahn is also a metro in Berlin, just one that extends to other cities outside of Berlin itself
Old and Short video from Warsaw... ? It's not fair! 😏
Same in finland....
Czarli W Niestety, Warszawa została potraktowana po macoszemu😡
@jutubaeh GDAŃSK did you mean?
Yes, and the information is not accurate as well. There's 275km of tram tracks in Warsaw. I wasn't even trying to find the info. It's on the company's website.
Same in moscow
Love trams. What about Brno, Czech Republic? I've used the trams in Praha, Vienna, Bratislava. But, why not include the Metro of Praha? Or, the light rail system of Vienna? Nice video.
It's just tram networks in capitals.
In Europe I've only been to Dublin and that system was a great way to get around I can only compare it to the T in Boston Portland OR, Tampa FL and everything in San Francisco.
But Dublin' s LUAS currently only has 2 lines: the Red (east- west) and the Green (north- south). They cross near the famous O Connell St in central Dublin. More lines and extensions to the existing 2, are being considered. That includes one to Dublin Airport, currently one of the few European Capitals with no rail link at all!!
And I suggest you making also the same video, but by comparing not the capitals, but the largest tram network by country. In this case we would have importang changes: Goteborg instead of Stockolm, Manchester instead of London, Porto instead of Lisbon, Barcelona instead of Madrid, Milano instead of Rome, Zurich instead of Bern, Sankt Petersburg instead of Moscow, Vitebsk instead of Minsk, and also Denmark will have a chance to compete with Aarhus. By the way, you have completely forgot about Luxembourg. In such case, Zurich will definetely deserve winning, but also Goteborg will be in top 3.
Yes, Not to mention Rotterdam instead of Amsterdam for that matter.
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Porto's Tram network is tiny compared to Lisbon's, though if you are talking about the modern network, I wouldn't consider it since it is a Light Rapid Transit, and not a Tramway.
@@tpmiranda It is operated with normal tram vehicles, so it's a tram network branded metro.
@@xilophysis But in Portugal a Tram is a bus that runs on rails. Unlike the Vintage tram that runs on the road Mixed with the other road traffic, the Metro is a segregated service operating under a automatic block signal system. It's far closer to a train in operational terms than a Tram.
@@tpmiranda isn't the Lisbon tram the narrowest in the world?
Vienna should be in first place!
Budapest has the longest tramcars of The world. Caf Urbanos = 56m, Siemens Combino= 54m. And we have 30 lines ;) but The other favorites for me is Vienna and Prague. They have The longest tram network in Europe :)
CAF Urbos not Urbanos.
Not fair that you missed to show that Lisbon has the old but also modern trams. 7:13 I love that sound .D
I went on the trams of Prague and Vienna on a Europe trip a few weeks ago. I think the Prague tram was cooler.
Thanks, man!
Thanks from Prague
There are more kinds of trams in Prague!
You mean the air conditioner was working too well?
For me Warsaw, Lisbon and Prague
@Adam Marcinkowski no, Szczecin has faster fast tram than Posen
@Adam Marcinkowski Poznań as well as Warsaw don't even count in as they aren't capital cities. Therefore, the best trams're found en Cracovie.
@Adam Marcinkowski Też jestem Poznaniakiem, ale proszę cię, nie rób scen. W tym filmie chodzi o stolice krajów - w tym sensie Polskę reprezentuje Warszawa, niezależnie od tego czy lubisz Legię czy nie.
@@Mmmichaex Warsaw is the capital of Poland, not Kraków.
@Adam Marcinkowski Kraków stolicą Polski koniec kropka.
Personal favorite is Helsinki, although I've barely ridden any other trams aywhere else. The video from Helsinki showed the classic old Valmet cars and the Variotrams, but not the newest Artic trams! I think the Artic is a really beautiful tram, the smoothest and best I've been on.
And those Variotrams are no longer running in Helsinki, because they were so poorly suited to Helsinki conditions and were always broken somehow. They were even nicknamed "Vauriotram" = "damaged tram". By 2019, they have been sent back to the manufacturer and are being used elsewhere in Europe, I think.
After seeing this I understand why people from Europe take so much pride in their tram ( light rail/ streetcar) systems when comparing them to the north American equivalents in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Not only have they been doing it longer than alot of places in North America, but tbh, you can make the argument they do it better. And as a American, I have no problem admitting that.
I'll go for Bucharest because of the size of its network.
Incidentally, in the UK a better example than London (Capital) is Manchester which has an extensive network and always building anew. This is a city on the go!
The only reason why the Croydon tram network is unreliable is because the warehouses on Purley Way keep blowing up.
Thanks for Bucharest appreciation: indeed, I did not know it is one of the largest networks and I was born here. But I also know is one of the oldest ones starting with horse drawn carriages :D. AS for today, rather punctual, trams are kind of old and heavily repainted, 5-6 depots still running and hoping for the best.
well, it's not one of the largest, the number in the video is wrong and probably stands for the track length, or perhaps the route length. urbanrail.net says 143 km network lengths, though I don't know if things like Rt. 5 or ex Rt. 20 are factored in there. Still, of course, it is pretty big, though it could take a bit more frequent and faster service ;-)
Bucharest has an extensive network, however the rails are broken in some places and the trams need to be replaced *urgently*. The ones that you saw are like 30 years old
sepruecom Still Bucharest public transportation is the 4th largest network system in Europe, so yeah it is FOR SURE one of the largest tram systems even for your number!
Use the Warszawskie Tramwaje (Warsaw's Tramways) in capital of Poland, and you are going to be instantly AMAZED !!!! > Trams there, they are modern, punctual, safe, clean and absolutely reliable !!!!
I think Berlin trams are better suited, but Warsaw trains are very nice (although I don't like the city much)
Pan sobie żarty stroisz? Warszawa? Zniszczona infrastruktura, zaniedbany tabor i nieciekawe, zapuszczone miasto. Tyle w temacie.
@@bosman8983 ty żarty sobie stroisz niezadbany tabor? Weź pojedź to warszawy i przyjrzyj się uważnie
Cool, you show the tramway station in front of my block 🤗
14:35 That is the ‘light metro’ . It goes through the suburbs of madrid. The ‘metro’ goes through the city center underground like a normal metro
DEFINITELY PRAGUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
You forgot the new tram line in Luxembourg City, capital of Luxembourg.
Exactly.
Edinburgh is technically a capital. You should check out that Tram system. New and growing, but nice!
I'd definitely go for Bucharest. I live there, and the tram system is 143km, not 326, but it still takes you almost everywhere in the city. We also have the light metro lines (like 41 and 1) which go in almost every important part of the city.
Ba și 32 și 10 și 21
My favs: Vienna, Lisbon and Sofia.
Lisbon's old trams are very iconic, but Vienna and Sofia are better!
@@nacht98 not if you need to climb a hill!