Whatever happens next with this series, I want to thank you for all the work. Altengrad has given me a massive amount of entertainment and was a good starting point for my new intrest in architecture. Hoping to see the city grow when the time comes.
Hell yeah, public transport my favorite subject is finally back. Well done video and build as always. Take as much time as you need. We will be patiently waiting here for another masterpiece ;)
You are doing great work here. I love the whole series. Take the time you need, but make sure that Altengrad continues. There is still so much to explore and to showcase. Thank you for your passion!
we are so back 🎉 edit: Take all the time that you need, i understand how work can influence something and i hope you will continue doing videos about my favorite cs series.
The Barrandov tram extension was always one of my favorite tram lines in Prague, I can still remember when I was a child and we used to "call out" the station color and name with my siblings every time when a traffic jam to the Barrandov bridge eventually moved 😆 (Ring wasn't there yet). So definitely one of the most iconic. My opinion on the stations tho are mixed. Well, not really, I love them all except the blue one - "K Barrandovu". The style is not great, it's super overengineered, huge and not really fitting. And even though it's super big the design is super bad, for example when it's raining (no wind btw) you can't hide and the water is flowing from the "sails" above right behind your neck 💀 So overall, great memories and interesting tram line to this day with one horribly designed station. And finally, as a Czech I love this series, how amazing it looks and how some places are familiar with (especially) Prague and other cities. So thanks a lot!
However the future unwinds, this series is a monumental piece of work as is - 100+ episodes of knowledge-packed, quality egnaging stories. Being from central europe myself (Poland) it was a great pleasure watching this, finding so much of it similar to where I live, not to mention apeearances of please where I live and even my childhood neighbourhood! Certainly it had an impact on my interest in architecture and urbanism so I need to thank you for that!
I love these y2k futurism architecture. I hope we will see more of these during 2000s. It really show how people were excited for 2000s and millennium.
Thank you for giving inspiration for doing a central Europa road tour this summer. The places look different when you have seen your episodes. Take your time, no worries.
I live by a tram line in Warsaw, near a new developement. The new tram lines are very needed and frequently used, and people love it! Part of the new tram line is placed exactly where there already was a tram line in the communist era, but was dismantled in the late 70s or 80s.
The good thing about train stations being colorful and having crazy shapes is that they are easily recognizable, making it easier to differentiate and locate even tourists.
Mentioned on other videos but my comments seem to get buried, I think doing national embassies would be a cool episode, looking at the multitude of designs of embassies around the world and giving Altengrad some relevance on the international stage, it would also do well for some cool worldbuilding, Im surprised that you havent done any 'in-character' decriptions by saying anything about in-universe things or rhetoric, it would seriously add such a level of interest to this project, its certainly something id love to see...
@@TheOrderOfDanos altengrad is small by other cities standards. Why have an embassy in a small city instead of the capital city. San marino has embassies because the city they're located in is big by san marino's standards
@@Ok-tl1dv I was under the impression that Altengrad was its own country, I havent heard a single reference to it being part of another. I just thought it was a cool idea to consider, by all means continue shredding it lmao
I’ve been too busy myself to catch the Twitch streams or to build on my city so I really understand the need to step back to avoid total burnout. I have enjoyed your building and banter for many years now and I do hope you come back at some point; I really enjoy your skills and rational on projects, as I’ve said before, but your videos are intellectually stimulating compared to most Cities Skylines videos. Na zdraví, Sláinte!
I've loved this series for years now, without knowing very much about the person behind it, but if this series is a metaphoric ice cream sundae, knowing your views on everything from trams to diversity in urban fabric is in line with my own is the metaphoric chocolate shavings on top. I savour the indulgence. It's always sad to come to the end of something, but so good to have had the pleasure. Thank you for all your creations, they've been such a delight, I'll always be a fan.
Hope to see future episodes some day, a new first person tram ride in Altengrad would be fun to see some day. There is a few videos from Pruage that I really enjoy "riding". Life's life, make the most of it, Ha det gött!
Hope you are soon back. Your historical architecture knowledge will be missed. I learned to appreciate east european architecture in a completely new way.
Really interesting video. I live in Strasbourg and it was one of the first French city to rebuild a tram network in the 90's and I see it growing every year. But when I was in Brno I realized how extensive and effective an old system can be, it was really interesting.
As a tram driver in Gothenburg, Sweden I find this incredibly interesting haha. I totally agree with you, and the architect of these crazy stations, it's way better to build something unique and cool than just a standardised stop. However maybe it could be done in a more.. mature way. Something for you to try in the next decades. :) In our system you can really feel the different eras and the different ideas, in the city centre it's very complicated with tracks going all over the place and the tracks sharing space with busses and cars.. there's really a big need for something more optimized here. Then we have the later projects in the outskirts of the city with standalone track, one of the lines, the one to Angered is actually built as a subway, but those plans never became a reality. Overall I'd say our city is really in big need of something like a subway, but it's cheaper to just add a cheeky turnout here and there and squeeze in another tram line in the city center, where all except one line goes lol.
Always found these videos to be super relaxing and pleasant. Appreciate you won't be updating as much as you have, but you never had to do this in the first place. Thank you for all the work you have done so far. Hope you will revisit this in the future, but if not, all the best!
you are so refreshingly honest with your time on cities skylines. we all know, adult life kicks hard and that`s just how it is. we appreciate any content from you in any time that feel like it fits, we can wait. good things take time.
I & many others who watch this series want to see it go on, right up to present day, maybe further , if you can Akruas. It has been a gr8 historical & awesome series like your others.
I've loved watching your videos over the years. Take time for yourself. You've given us so much insight into Eastern Europe. Hoping you'll come back when you're ready.
Great video, as always! The new tram stops are really nice and detailed, i agree that they fit, and yours are resonobly complicated, so they wouldn't t be so hard to maintain. The last cinemwtic where we see trams of different ages is so cool and realistic, where i live we have 5 diferent types of trams rangig from 70 yers old to newly produced. Last thing, i completely understand that you can not pump out dese videos as some cind of factory, but please don t stop the series before you arrive to the present day; The series has been a historical masterpiece, actualy explaining city development, there is nothing out there like this.❤❤❤ And if you go eaven into the future and transform it into something like asturis or aurelia, it would be sooo coooool. And honestly i just love your videos so much every time i see your chanel in my notification i rush to wach your new video.
I'm from Almaty Kazakhstan and we used to have a tram system. During the Soviet Union the system used to be a very integral part of the city. Unfortunately by the early 2000s the entire system fell into decay due to the lack of maintenance. Also, apparently there have been quite a few road accidents between the trams and cars, everybody blamed the tram drivers for being reckless but something tells me it was the other way around. There were talks about rebuilding and relaunching the system, but as it usually goes in Kazakhstan, it probably will take a few decades for the plan to be realized.
regarding the GZM tram system in southern poland in Poland - a lot of funds are being poured in to modernize it, and expansions are constantly happening. the future seems quite bright with big tram orders. Katowice in particular are aiming for a long-ish new segment very akin to light rail
I have lived on Barrandov for a decade and I can say those stations are the most impractical ever. On the blue ones (the huge monstrosity with fabric canopies), you can't even use the benches in winter, because there is a risk of snow falling drom the canopies. Not to mention all the structures get really dirty as they're impossible to clean and the expensive marble stairs just fall apart.
Wow! First and foremost, let me express my admiration for the complexity of the approach - it's truly delightful to see how deeply you immersed in the material. The historical dive into the video’s topic is stunning. The intricacy of execution and the level of detail in the game are also impressive. Thank you so much! I stumbled upon this video by chance, and I genuinely enjoyed it - amazing work 👏🏻It's a pity it takes so much time, but that's understandable. I'll be eagerly waiting for new videos.
The tram renneisance is very much a thing in central Europe. In my hometown in northeastern Poland we built a new tram network from scratch in 2015 with a total of 3 lines. Last year it got expanded to 5.
I'm really happy to see a modern video in cities skylines 1, I much prefer the game to the second. Your city and its detailing is extremely impressive, you most certainly earnt my subscription!
Hi Akuras, take as much time as you need between episodes. Nobody's paying you to do this, every episode of this series you give to us is its own gift. Switching gears, I have a suggestion for this decade in Altengrad's story: I think you should build a Holocaust memorial somewhere in the city. A good number of famous holocaust memorials were erected in Central Europe during the 2000s, such as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin (2004), Budapest's Shoes on the Danube Bank (2005), the Empty Chairs of Krakow (2005), etc. Many of these memorials also have that 90s-2000s "postmodern style", for lack of a better term. I would caution against going too "wild" with the memorial's design given the topic, and instead look to real-life Holocaust memorials from this time period for inspiration. A large Central European such as Altengrad would have had a sizeable pre-war Jewish population. Although Altengrad itself may not have been the site of a ghetto or a massacre, I would imagine that most-if not all-of the city's Jews were deported to the many ghettos and concentration camps situated across Central and Eastern Europe. Something massive like the Berlin Holocaust Memorial I mentioned earlier would be too large for Altengrad's scale; a relatively modest memorial would fit nicely into one of the city's parks-be it present or future-or a square in the Old Town. I hope you read this! Thanks for everything. EDIT: Spacing between lines was off
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This channel is a youtube gem, the amount of work you put into your builds is beyond crazy ! I first started to watch because it was satisfying to see you build Aurelia, but then I randomly started to watch Altengrad during the ww2 episode and damn I fell into the rabbit hole 😂 It has been a pleasure to learn about architecture and mostly about the prefab' era since I grew up in one of those neighborhood Take your time, we'll be here if you come back 💪🏻
In my opinion, tram stop, train station and such should be part of the most interresting and decorated buildings in town. Hundred and thousand of people pass through them during a single day, and everyone use them from time to time at least. If not this place wich one is more suited? Great video as usual!
15:45 what do I value in a city (read: public transport)? Knowing where I am at a quick glance. "Oh, it's the green station, I'll get off here." "I'm' visiting grandma, let's go via the Blue Station". Making navigation easy is important, and colours and distinctive shapes are the easiest way to do that. Imagine all these stops looked the same... you'd be craning your neck trying to read the name of the station to know where you were.
There's also one massive argument for beauty in transit construction: its a positive expirience for the riders. And as far as I know, we want to get as many people on transit, bikes and out of cars as possible, because of Air pollution, sptial and economic issues and oh yeah the climate crisis! We want to attract people to transit, which necessitates it becoming a system for our whole society. So what transit system do we want? Of course, frequent reliable, of course. But Im elated at good stations with good architecture. It says "we as a society value this, we want it to look good". And that sends a message, also to those who don't normally use transit. Good, not minimal transit design is a statement about its role in society, imo. That's my view, I know some people I know in, for example, Vienna want their stations to be rather utilitarian. Apart from that, phantastical episode and I enjoy you diving into more theoretical topics like "what do we value in a city". Because a city is its people, its a social space, and a mirror of its society. The built environment then is the manifestation of that society, the good, the bad, and the ongoing conversations.
Thank you so much for all your content! Yes, it's really not easy to provide content to us greedy masses. Hope, you'll find the time again, when you can.
I explored this tram line on Google Maps and always thought it looked so out of place, It was so cool to see a version of its style in Altengrad! Life comes before TH-cam, though. Don't feel pressured to pump out content if you've got bigger things ofccc.
Yipiiiiiii NEW episode and it about trams! I remember one day after some drinking edped up on the Barrandov at my budy. Didnt remember how i got there but rh way back to the city center was just like slide show. Combine with heavy hangover it was just like from other world. I loved the stations, but I think it was just because of the prior drinking, and completely understatnd its flaws, but still, much more cooler and thought out then the Fugnerova station in the Liberec. I think that the Kotas peaked at the tram stops, and I love the Střížkov metro station! I dont care how expensive it is, but I belive that that was his peak regarding transport architecture! Anyway, hope get back soon, but of course take your time. We will be patiently waiting for return of the King!👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑
15:30 it seems that designing transit stops to be visually pleasing rather than utilitarian, reduces vandalism in those areas. I guess it gives people more respect for the spaces..
I lurked, but let me say thank you for the best Cities Skylines content out there. I hope you get through this busy time in you life. Be safe and do great things!
imho tram stops should be nice, you sit there and wait! if you're waiting somewhere it should look nice, plus variety makes identifying stations easier and makes it more memorable where you are, aiding wayfinding
What I'd mostly question about those overly expensive, huge tram stops is ... do they actually provide any sort of rider comfort? It's something that bugs me about a lot of public transit - you're lucky if you aren't standing in the rain or blazing sun, but that's about it. If you're spending that much money, I really feel you should make being in such places a better experience ... Of course, project planners usually quite deliberately want the opposite, so how much that's any architect's fault, I don't know. But it sucks.
I lived on Barrandov for a decade. They are impossible to keep clean, the benches are disgusting and not used unless necessary (unlike the simple benches in the standardised shelters elsewhere) and on the blue station they can't even be used in winter, as there is a risk of snow falling from the fabric canopies. Full-length covered platform is nice, it sucks when the small shelters are crowded, but putting in multiple would be much cheaper and more practical.
Honestly I was just in Prague and trams were very common and nice there so it makes sense there are many here Berlin has them too but not as beautiful trams as in Prague honestly Prague has older looking well preserved trams and it fits in perfectly with the old town feel
4:00 this thing about metro not being there reminded me about something, lately there was an anniversary of removal of statue of Feliks Dzierżyński [isn't there to much of "of" btw] (as there were no statues of stalin or lenin in warsaw he kinda served that role) the oficial reason was "to clear the space for metro station" the thing is metro station was built only few years later. Every one new the reason for the removal of statue yet even after communism has ended people now in charge needed to find an excuse as it to not annoy the soviets (btw there were still a lot of soviet troops in poland) or maybe that was just mentality, but still kinda interesting in my opinion
15:45 I for one am a huge fan of these designs. It’s neat to see something that’s different than just a plain bus shelter, and it helps a lot with wayfinding given the distinct nature of each station. I wish more transit was designed with unique ideas in mind. The recent Sydney Metro, Melbourne Metro Tunnel, and the Elizabeth Line are all great examples of really well done station designs that actually make you feel something. I love them, to be honest, and it’s so disappointing that here in the US we have no real interest in these sorts of things, with the only recent exception being the new Moineham (definitely don’t know how to spell it) train hall in New York.
Thanks for the great series, i lerned new things about my neighbor countries. The only kritic i have is that you like to forget Vienna, expecially for this episode. We have a realy big tram network and never destroid it. I hope you include Vienna more often.
So sad that my city tore up our trams in the 80s :( They recently bought many fleets of metro buses, but honestly they just feel like a cheap replacement
Looks nice indeed and quite fitting for the progression. But damn there are a lot of glitches going on. Trams phasing through cars and trucks or vice versa,people passing through everything.... I don't remember it being so extreme earlier in the series, or in other cities like Aurelia...
Man and I thought my home country of Denmark was late with the tram revival. For context, we had 3 national legacy tram systems across our 3 biggest cities, which closed in 1952, 1971, and 1972 respectively. And though murmurs of tram revival proposals started as early as the 90's, we wouldnt see our first new line until 2017 in Aarhus, with a 12km line and a rebuild of 2 regional railways into tram-train routes. Then in 2022, the city of Odense got a new 14km line. And in Copenhagen a 28km line is being built as an orbital line around the city along a busy ring road. Still trams have sadly become controversial here. In Aarhus they've in their first few years had issues with operating in the cold because politicians skimped out on freeze protection measures to lower spending costs. And in Odense theres complaints about noise, further aided by using a trackbed construction thats bad at dealing with vibrations combined with using cheap trams with fixed bogies that also cause excessive vibrations. Though the more damning thing has been ridership. Billions of kroner have been poured into both systems and both still underperform to some extent. Thankfully the tides are turning. Both systems that are open so far are growing their ridership at a faster rate than other parts of public transit, and getting teething troubles fixed. And thankfully the left wing politicians in both city have a majority thats in favour of phase 2 extensions. Copenhagen, the capital, is the oddball though. Our revived tram isnt finished yet, and is the most expensive of all, running entirely in the suburbs along a large car-oriented orbital ring road connecting institutions like universities and hospitals, residential areas, office and industrial parks, and radial S-bahn routes. We also have a lot of people here who simply believe the cost of trams is too high and too disruptive to the flow of cars and inflexible, and rather wanting Bus Rapid Transit instead. We also had a proposed phase 2 to our trams, essentially reviving a former tramline in the northwest of the city which was the last to close in 1972. Said corridor today also has the busiest bus route in the city and 2nd busiest in all of Europe. The national government even provided co-funding for this tram proposal in an infrastructure deal in 2021, which usually never happens for projects in the capital. But the city politicians and their majority at the time rejected it all on the spot. 2 politicians even went as far as comparing tram tracks to the Berlin Wall, as if having them in the middle of the main street would tear the neighbourhood apart and make it life threatening to cross the street and kill all the businesses. BS excuses in my opinion but it did get the national co-funding cancelled. The city continues funding assessments but now without co-funding, and with BRT as the primary solution. Why BRT? Because politicians believe this makes it easier to build an underground metro there in the long term with BRT essentially being a cheap stopgap. Which is just bad. The city's politicians cannot commit to an expensive metro, certainly not with the financing model they have for it with state guaranteed loans to be paid back by ridership profits and real estate sale, theres no available real estate along that corridor.
And in Sweden, trams never went away where they where built in 2 / 3 big cities that built them in the first place, Göteborg has the same trams now as day one, that is over a century ago, same in Malmö, Stockholm has one old line left and made new ones.
@@MarcinW76 I was told it was one old still standing. Might missunderstud something. I know for a fact that Göteborg has a ton of them, Stockholm has one that is really old and built new ones. Djurgårdslinjens has one tram that is 116 years old or something like that, tram 24.
Im not sure about others, but if you just talked about urbanism and historic development without altengrad involved, i would love to hear you talk, specially because i'm from a "far reality" (brazil) and its cool to compare everything! Just my thought...
At 4:57 you stretch cracks on concrete... how ???? To be honest it blown my mind because I didnt knew that option. Would youy be so kind to tell me how You did it ?
sadly in my city once exited a beutiful tramway network so large that exended all the way to other cities and villages but now is simply abbandonated tracks in the nature and many lines deleted an many substituite by buses
Whatever happens next with this series, I want to thank you for all the work. Altengrad has given me a massive amount of entertainment and was a good starting point for my new intrest in architecture. Hoping to see the city grow when the time comes.
Thank you so much.
Hell yeah, public transport my favorite subject is finally back.
Well done video and build as always.
Take as much time as you need. We will be patiently waiting here for another masterpiece ;)
Holy, thank you so much!
You are doing great work here. I love the whole series. Take the time you need, but make sure that Altengrad continues. There is still so much to explore and to showcase. Thank you for your passion!
Thank you very much.
we are so back 🎉
edit: Take all the time that you need, i understand how work can influence something and i hope you will continue doing videos about my favorite cs series.
please take all the time you need to take, we dont want to see series like fall into something more rushed. Btw love how that last Tram station looks!
The Barrandov tram extension was always one of my favorite tram lines in Prague, I can still remember when I was a child and we used to "call out" the station color and name with my siblings every time when a traffic jam to the Barrandov bridge eventually moved 😆 (Ring wasn't there yet). So definitely one of the most iconic.
My opinion on the stations tho are mixed. Well, not really, I love them all except the blue one - "K Barrandovu". The style is not great, it's super overengineered, huge and not really fitting. And even though it's super big the design is super bad, for example when it's raining (no wind btw) you can't hide and the water is flowing from the "sails" above right behind your neck 💀
So overall, great memories and interesting tram line to this day with one horribly designed station.
And finally, as a Czech I love this series, how amazing it looks and how some places are familiar with (especially) Prague and other cities.
So thanks a lot!
Dík :)
This nation used to build tram tracks...
and now we are so back Altengradbros
However the future unwinds, this series is a monumental piece of work as is - 100+ episodes of knowledge-packed, quality egnaging stories. Being from central europe myself (Poland) it was a great pleasure watching this, finding so much of it similar to where I live, not to mention apeearances of please where I live and even my childhood neighbourhood! Certainly it had an impact on my interest in architecture and urbanism so I need to thank you for that!
I love these y2k futurism architecture.
I hope we will see more of these during 2000s.
It really show how people were excited for 2000s and millennium.
Thank you for giving inspiration for doing a central Europa road tour this summer. The places look different when you have seen your episodes. Take your time, no worries.
Thank you
Hey, life happens, dude. We completely understand, and want you to take as much time as you want/need.
I live by a tram line in Warsaw, near a new developement. The new tram lines are very needed and frequently used, and people love it! Part of the new tram line is placed exactly where there already was a tram line in the communist era, but was dismantled in the late 70s or 80s.
You mean the Wilanów line?
@@_kiewicz6340 yeah, near the Puławska-Spacerowa junction
The good thing about train stations being colorful and having crazy shapes is that they are easily recognizable, making it easier to differentiate and locate even tourists.
When you reach current day and age, I'd like a showcase of each decade, as if it was recorded by someone at the time. Itd be very very cool
Mentioned on other videos but my comments seem to get buried, I think doing national embassies would be a cool episode, looking at the multitude of designs of embassies around the world and giving Altengrad some relevance on the international stage, it would also do well for some cool worldbuilding,
Im surprised that you havent done any 'in-character' decriptions by saying anything about in-universe things or rhetoric, it would seriously add such a level of interest to this project, its certainly something id love to see...
I don't think altengrad is big enough to be relevant enough to house embassies
@@Ok-tl1dv San Marino has several embassies, as does Andorra, i think it would be a cool project considering the theme of the videos etc
there is already a former soviet embassy in the city centre, not sure if it got update after 89 with less red color
@@TheOrderOfDanos altengrad is small by other cities standards. Why have an embassy in a small city instead of the capital city. San marino has embassies because the city they're located in is big by san marino's standards
@@Ok-tl1dv I was under the impression that Altengrad was its own country, I havent heard a single reference to it being part of another. I just thought it was a cool idea to consider, by all means continue shredding it lmao
I’ve been too busy myself to catch the Twitch streams or to build on my city so I really understand the need to step back to avoid total burnout. I have enjoyed your building and banter for many years now and I do hope you come back at some point; I really enjoy your skills and rational on projects, as I’ve said before, but your videos are intellectually stimulating compared to most Cities Skylines videos. Na zdraví, Sláinte!
I've loved this series for years now, without knowing very much about the person behind it, but if this series is a metaphoric ice cream sundae, knowing your views on everything from trams to diversity in urban fabric is in line with my own is the metaphoric chocolate shavings on top. I savour the indulgence.
It's always sad to come to the end of something, but so good to have had the pleasure. Thank you for all your creations, they've been such a delight, I'll always be a fan.
Hope to see future episodes some day, a new first person tram ride in Altengrad would be fun to see some day. There is a few videos from Pruage that I really enjoy "riding".
Life's life, make the most of it, Ha det gött!
Thanks for telling about the line 20 in Prague. If I'm there, I hope I will remember to board this line
Hope you are soon back. Your historical architecture knowledge will be missed. I learned to appreciate east european architecture in a completely new way.
O yeah, through those years I get to understand more the place where I'm living even though I moved out 2 times in that time
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Really interesting video. I live in Strasbourg and it was one of the first French city to rebuild a tram network in the 90's and I see it growing every year.
But when I was in Brno I realized how extensive and effective an old system can be, it was really interesting.
hey man - i really really love this series. not only is it very relaxing to watch but also it has given me so many insights on postwar architecture!
27:15 That dead end will absolutely become a parking lot a week after the project has been finished.
As a tram driver in Gothenburg, Sweden I find this incredibly interesting haha. I totally agree with you, and the architect of these crazy stations, it's way better to build something unique and cool than just a standardised stop. However maybe it could be done in a more.. mature way. Something for you to try in the next decades. :)
In our system you can really feel the different eras and the different ideas, in the city centre it's very complicated with tracks going all over the place and the tracks sharing space with busses and cars.. there's really a big need for something more optimized here. Then we have the later projects in the outskirts of the city with standalone track, one of the lines, the one to Angered is actually built as a subway, but those plans never became a reality. Overall I'd say our city is really in big need of something like a subway, but it's cheaper to just add a cheeky turnout here and there and squeeze in another tram line in the city center, where all except one line goes lol.
Always found these videos to be super relaxing and pleasant. Appreciate you won't be updating as much as you have, but you never had to do this in the first place. Thank you for all the work you have done so far. Hope you will revisit this in the future, but if not, all the best!
you are so refreshingly honest with your time on cities skylines. we all know, adult life kicks hard and that`s just how it is. we appreciate any content from you in any time that feel like it fits, we can wait. good things take time.
thank you for these videos, they've been keeping my interest in city planning and the built environment alive as iv'e been going through a tough time
I really wanna say: your series about Altengrad is awesome and such a good piece of work 🎉❤ thank you! I really like it!
"robust public transport in american cities"
very funny !
I love the color you chose for the new Altengrad trams! Very unique
I & many others who watch this series want to see it go on, right up to present day, maybe further , if you can Akruas. It has been a gr8 historical & awesome series like your others.
I've loved watching your videos over the years. Take time for yourself. You've given us so much insight into Eastern Europe. Hoping you'll come back when you're ready.
Great video, as always! The new tram stops are really nice and detailed, i agree that they fit, and yours are resonobly complicated, so they wouldn't t be so hard to maintain.
The last cinemwtic where we see trams of different ages is so cool and realistic, where i live we have 5 diferent types of trams rangig from 70 yers old to newly produced.
Last thing, i completely understand that you can not pump out dese videos as some cind of factory, but please don t stop the series before you arrive to the present day; The series has been a historical masterpiece, actualy explaining city development, there is nothing out there like this.❤❤❤ And if you go eaven into the future and transform it into something like asturis or aurelia, it would be sooo coooool. And honestly i just love your videos so much every time i see your chanel in my notification i rush to wach your new video.
I'm from Almaty Kazakhstan and we used to have a tram system. During the Soviet Union the system used to be a very integral part of the city. Unfortunately by the early 2000s the entire system fell into decay due to the lack of maintenance. Also, apparently there have been quite a few road accidents between the trams and cars, everybody blamed the tram drivers for being reckless but something tells me it was the other way around.
There were talks about rebuilding and relaunching the system, but as it usually goes in Kazakhstan, it probably will take a few decades for the plan to be realized.
Yes! A dedicated tram episode! I've been looking forward to this...
regarding the GZM tram system in southern poland in Poland - a lot of funds are being poured in to modernize it, and expansions are constantly happening. the future seems quite bright with big tram orders. Katowice in particular are aiming for a long-ish new segment very akin to light rail
I have lived on Barrandov for a decade and I can say those stations are the most impractical ever. On the blue ones (the huge monstrosity with fabric canopies), you can't even use the benches in winter, because there is a risk of snow falling drom the canopies. Not to mention all the structures get really dirty as they're impossible to clean and the expensive marble stairs just fall apart.
Wow! First and foremost, let me express my admiration for the complexity of the approach - it's truly delightful to see how deeply you immersed in the material. The historical dive into the video’s topic is stunning. The intricacy of execution and the level of detail in the game are also impressive.
Thank you so much! I stumbled upon this video by chance, and I genuinely enjoyed it - amazing work 👏🏻It's a pity it takes so much time, but that's understandable. I'll be eagerly waiting for new videos.
Really interesting video and discussion, excellent stuff. Take all the time you need. Good luck with everything 👍
i like, that you use the trams, who are being used by the berlin tram network
Thank You for this video. If I saw the pictures of Prahas Barrandov, I visit it. And take awesome pictures of the tram stops. Thank you for tip.
The tram renneisance is very much a thing in central Europe. In my hometown in northeastern Poland we built a new tram network from scratch in 2015 with a total of 3 lines. Last year it got expanded to 5.
I'm really happy to see a modern video in cities skylines 1, I much prefer the game to the second.
Your city and its detailing is extremely impressive, you most certainly earnt my subscription!
Hi Akuras, take as much time as you need between episodes. Nobody's paying you to do this, every episode of this series you give to us is its own gift.
Switching gears, I have a suggestion for this decade in Altengrad's story: I think you should build a Holocaust memorial somewhere in the city.
A good number of famous holocaust memorials were erected in Central Europe during the 2000s, such as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin (2004), Budapest's Shoes on the Danube Bank (2005), the Empty Chairs of Krakow (2005), etc. Many of these memorials also have that 90s-2000s "postmodern style", for lack of a better term. I would caution against going too "wild" with the memorial's design given the topic, and instead look to real-life Holocaust memorials from this time period for inspiration.
A large Central European such as Altengrad would have had a sizeable pre-war Jewish population. Although Altengrad itself may not have been the site of a ghetto or a massacre, I would imagine that most-if not all-of the city's Jews were deported to the many ghettos and concentration camps situated across Central and Eastern Europe.
Something massive like the Berlin Holocaust Memorial I mentioned earlier would be too large for Altengrad's scale; a relatively modest memorial would fit nicely into one of the city's parks-be it present or future-or a square in the Old Town.
I hope you read this! Thanks for everything.
EDIT: Spacing between lines was off
This channel is a youtube gem, the amount of work you put into your builds is beyond crazy !
I first started to watch because it was satisfying to see you build Aurelia, but then I randomly started to watch Altengrad during the ww2 episode and damn I fell into the rabbit hole 😂
It has been a pleasure to learn about architecture and mostly about the prefab' era since I grew up in one of those neighborhood
Take your time, we'll be here if you come back 💪🏻
In my opinion, tram stop, train station and such should be part of the most interresting and decorated buildings in town. Hundred and thousand of people pass through them during a single day, and everyone use them from time to time at least. If not this place wich one is more suited?
Great video as usual!
15:45 what do I value in a city (read: public transport)? Knowing where I am at a quick glance. "Oh, it's the green station, I'll get off here." "I'm' visiting grandma, let's go via the Blue Station". Making navigation easy is important, and colours and distinctive shapes are the easiest way to do that. Imagine all these stops looked the same... you'd be craning your neck trying to read the name of the station to know where you were.
There's also one massive argument for beauty in transit construction: its a positive expirience for the riders.
And as far as I know, we want to get as many people on transit, bikes and out of cars as possible, because of Air pollution, sptial and economic issues and oh yeah the climate crisis!
We want to attract people to transit, which necessitates it becoming a system for our whole society. So what transit system do we want? Of course, frequent reliable, of course. But Im elated at good stations with good architecture. It says "we as a society value this, we want it to look good". And that sends a message, also to those who don't normally use transit. Good, not minimal transit design is a statement about its role in society, imo.
That's my view, I know some people I know in, for example, Vienna want their stations to be rather utilitarian.
Apart from that, phantastical episode and I enjoy you diving into more theoretical topics like "what do we value in a city". Because a city is its people, its a social space, and a mirror of its society. The built environment then is the manifestation of that society, the good, the bad, and the ongoing conversations.
Thank you so much for all your content! Yes, it's really not easy to provide content to us greedy masses. Hope, you'll find the time again, when you can.
Maybe any transport interchange, something like Rataje Roundabout or Mogilskie Roundabout
I hope you look at the Miasteczko Wilanów district in Warsaw and it's very interesting history
Now this is the episode I've been waiting for
I explored this tram line on Google Maps and always thought it looked so out of place, It was so cool to see a version of its style in Altengrad! Life comes before TH-cam, though. Don't feel pressured to pump out content if you've got bigger things ofccc.
Once again Akruas gives us a history lesson disguised in a city skylines video.
Do another one of those POV ride through videos
loved the video, until next time!! (whenever that may be)
Yipiiiiiii NEW episode and it about trams! I remember one day after some drinking edped up on the Barrandov at my budy. Didnt remember how i got there but rh way back to the city center was just like slide show. Combine with heavy hangover it was just like from other world. I loved the stations, but I think it was just because of the prior drinking, and completely understatnd its flaws, but still, much more cooler and thought out then the Fugnerova station in the Liberec. I think that the Kotas peaked at the tram stops, and I love the Střížkov metro station! I dont care how expensive it is, but I belive that that was his peak regarding transport architecture!
Anyway, hope get back soon, but of course take your time. We will be patiently waiting for return of the King!👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑
Awesome to see a new tram episode! :-) thx!!
14:41 I wanna go to Prague just to see this now lol
15:30 it seems that designing transit stops to be visually pleasing rather than utilitarian, reduces vandalism in those areas. I guess it gives people more respect for the spaces..
Not always. It's a bit more complicated than that.
@ Yeah this was a more simplified comment, I’m interested to read more about it when I get the chance.
I lurked, but let me say thank you for the best Cities Skylines content out there. I hope you get through this busy time in you life. Be safe and do great things!
I will miss you Akruas. But I certainly won't hold your absence against you either. Can't wait for the day you're back.
Great! Btw, I think that you should grow the old trees bigger, among these 50-60-70s districts
imho tram stops should be nice, you sit there and wait! if you're waiting somewhere it should look nice, plus variety makes identifying stations easier and makes it more memorable where you are, aiding wayfinding
This is exactly what I was waiting for
There is also the recently finished Tram-Train between Szeged and Hódmezővásárhely in Hungary if your going to talk about “intercity” trams later
What I'd mostly question about those overly expensive, huge tram stops is ... do they actually provide any sort of rider comfort? It's something that bugs me about a lot of public transit - you're lucky if you aren't standing in the rain or blazing sun, but that's about it. If you're spending that much money, I really feel you should make being in such places a better experience ...
Of course, project planners usually quite deliberately want the opposite, so how much that's any architect's fault, I don't know. But it sucks.
I lived on Barrandov for a decade. They are impossible to keep clean, the benches are disgusting and not used unless necessary (unlike the simple benches in the standardised shelters elsewhere) and on the blue station they can't even be used in winter, as there is a risk of snow falling from the fabric canopies. Full-length covered platform is nice, it sucks when the small shelters are crowded, but putting in multiple would be much cheaper and more practical.
Honestly I was just in Prague and trams were very common and nice there so it makes sense there are many here
Berlin has them too but not as beautiful trams as in Prague honestly
Prague has older looking well preserved trams and it fits in perfectly with the old town feel
4:00 this thing about metro not being there reminded me about something, lately there was an anniversary of removal of statue of Feliks Dzierżyński [isn't there to much of "of" btw] (as there were no statues of stalin or lenin in warsaw he kinda served that role) the oficial reason was "to clear the space for metro station" the thing is metro station was built only few years later. Every one new the reason for the removal of statue yet even after communism has ended people now in charge needed to find an excuse as it to not annoy the soviets (btw there were still a lot of soviet troops in poland) or maybe that was just mentality, but still kinda interesting in my opinion
15:45 I for one am a huge fan of these designs. It’s neat to see something that’s different than just a plain bus shelter, and it helps a lot with wayfinding given the distinct nature of each station. I wish more transit was designed with unique ideas in mind. The recent Sydney Metro, Melbourne Metro Tunnel, and the Elizabeth Line are all great examples of really well done station designs that actually make you feel something. I love them, to be honest, and it’s so disappointing that here in the US we have no real interest in these sorts of things, with the only recent exception being the new Moineham (definitely don’t know how to spell it) train hall in New York.
Thanks for the great series, i lerned new things about my neighbor countries. The only kritic i have is that you like to forget Vienna, expecially for this episode. We have a realy big tram network and never destroid it. I hope you include Vienna more often.
The series focuses on (former) Eastern Bloc
So sad that my city tore up our trams in the 80s :( They recently bought many fleets of metro buses, but honestly they just feel like a cheap replacement
The Warsaw truck you have showed was actually built in 2015
Looks nice indeed and quite fitting for the progression.
But damn there are a lot of glitches going on. Trams phasing through cars and trucks or vice versa,people passing through everything.... I don't remember it being so extreme earlier in the series, or in other cities like Aurelia...
Man and I thought my home country of Denmark was late with the tram revival. For context, we had 3 national legacy tram systems across our 3 biggest cities, which closed in 1952, 1971, and 1972 respectively. And though murmurs of tram revival proposals started as early as the 90's, we wouldnt see our first new line until 2017 in Aarhus, with a 12km line and a rebuild of 2 regional railways into tram-train routes. Then in 2022, the city of Odense got a new 14km line. And in Copenhagen a 28km line is being built as an orbital line around the city along a busy ring road.
Still trams have sadly become controversial here. In Aarhus they've in their first few years had issues with operating in the cold because politicians skimped out on freeze protection measures to lower spending costs. And in Odense theres complaints about noise, further aided by using a trackbed construction thats bad at dealing with vibrations combined with using cheap trams with fixed bogies that also cause excessive vibrations. Though the more damning thing has been ridership. Billions of kroner have been poured into both systems and both still underperform to some extent.
Thankfully the tides are turning. Both systems that are open so far are growing their ridership at a faster rate than other parts of public transit, and getting teething troubles fixed. And thankfully the left wing politicians in both city have a majority thats in favour of phase 2 extensions.
Copenhagen, the capital, is the oddball though. Our revived tram isnt finished yet, and is the most expensive of all, running entirely in the suburbs along a large car-oriented orbital ring road connecting institutions like universities and hospitals, residential areas, office and industrial parks, and radial S-bahn routes. We also have a lot of people here who simply believe the cost of trams is too high and too disruptive to the flow of cars and inflexible, and rather wanting Bus Rapid Transit instead.
We also had a proposed phase 2 to our trams, essentially reviving a former tramline in the northwest of the city which was the last to close in 1972. Said corridor today also has the busiest bus route in the city and 2nd busiest in all of Europe. The national government even provided co-funding for this tram proposal in an infrastructure deal in 2021, which usually never happens for projects in the capital. But the city politicians and their majority at the time rejected it all on the spot. 2 politicians even went as far as comparing tram tracks to the Berlin Wall, as if having them in the middle of the main street would tear the neighbourhood apart and make it life threatening to cross the street and kill all the businesses. BS excuses in my opinion but it did get the national co-funding cancelled. The city continues funding assessments but now without co-funding, and with BRT as the primary solution. Why BRT? Because politicians believe this makes it easier to build an underground metro there in the long term with BRT essentially being a cheap stopgap. Which is just bad. The city's politicians cannot commit to an expensive metro, certainly not with the financing model they have for it with state guaranteed loans to be paid back by ridership profits and real estate sale, theres no available real estate along that corridor.
Yooo tram episode! And poland trams mentioned ❤
Hell yeah 🎉
Awesome
And in Sweden, trams never went away where they where built in 2 / 3 big cities that built them in the first place, Göteborg has the same trams now as day one, that is over a century ago, same in Malmö, Stockholm has one old line left and made new ones.
There are no trams in Malmo, only a small museum line. There are trams in Norrköping tho. And newly built line in Lund.
@@MarcinW76 I was told it was one old still standing. Might missunderstud something. I know for a fact that Göteborg has a ton of them, Stockholm has one that is really old and built new ones. Djurgårdslinjens has one tram that is 116 years old or something like that, tram 24.
9:22 Where did you get this tram track asset from?
Always inspired
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Im not sure about others, but if you just talked about urbanism and historic development without altengrad involved, i would love to hear you talk, specially because i'm from a "far reality" (brazil) and its cool to compare everything! Just my thought...
At 4:57 you stretch cracks on concrete... how ???? To be honest it blown my mind because I didnt knew that option. Would youy be so kind to tell me how You did it ?
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sadly in my city once exited a beutiful tramway network so large that exended all the way to other cities and villages but now is simply abbandonated tracks in the nature and many lines deleted an many substituite by buses
Leipzig is actually the fastest growing city in Germany at the time
will there be another series like aurelia?
Will you do metro?
Please do a tram ride video with this new route
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I will be born soon!
I hope you start a new futuristic city in CS2 now that there's so much new stuff available.
ur one of 2 people in history to want a cs2 series
sad to hear about the lack of time, but i get it, i also play wayyyy less than i used to, adult life be adult lifing.