The Trains that Subsidize Suburbia - GO Transit Commuter Rail

Commuter rail is a rail system designed to bring people from the suburbs into a central business district for work. But is it really an efficient transit system, or just another subsidy provided to car-dependent suburbanites? This video explores commuter rail in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the train system known as "GO Transit."

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1G0Lyh3uik

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References & Additional Reading

Thumbnail images:
Municipal Affairs and Housing, CC BY 3.0,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ontariomah/24320665437
By Richard Sunichura, CC BY 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38050704

GO Train Commuting statistics
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330133451_Commuting_Mode_Shares_in_the_Commuter_Rail_Catchment_Areas_Trends_Status_and_the_Role_of_Policy_Interventions_in_the_Case_of_GO_Transit_in_Greater_Toronto

GO Transit System Map
By Natural RX - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65767880

Historical GO Train footage:
Dirt Roads to Freeways … And All That (ca. 1970s)
Archives of Ontario [YouTube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5fg0RACd8

GO Transit Launch: 1967/Lancement de GO Transit en 1967
GO Transit [YouTube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbp9nWbGxEE

Toronto Parking Authority Statistics:
https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/city-administration/city-managers-office/agencies-corporations/agencies/toronto-parking-authority/

Citadel Rock butte, Green River, Wyoming, (1868)
By Andrew J. Russell, Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs divisionunder ID ppmsca.03147., Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4458664

Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad (1877)
By Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) - Getty Center, Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21995753

Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900 - Land Grants
https://www.loc.gov/collections/railroad-maps-1828-to-1900/articles-and-essays/history-of-railroads-and-maps/land-grants/

By Danielle Scott - originally posted to Flickr as GO Cabcar 237, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10007821
By Scott Santoro - http://scottsantoro.blogspot.ca/2010/04/going-to-toronto-zoo.html, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31921748


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Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:07 VIA Rail
0:40 Let’s GOOOOOOOOO!
1:16 Riding the GO
2:38 The History of GO Transit
3:14 The Success and Failure of GO
4:18 The Insanity of Commuter Rail
6:01 Non-Commuting Trips Aren’t Possible
7:02 Parking as a Subsidy
9:20 The Future of GO Transit
10:19 Bloomington GO
13:13 What is the Purpose of Transit?
14:49 Conclusion
15:12 Patreon Shout-out
15:26 Outtro