The Red Line Podcast

The Red Line Public Transit Podcast discusses transit topics near, far, small, and big. Listen in as we dig deep into common transit issues as well as ones that may have never crossed your mind.

The Red Line Podcast is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 131 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Red Line Podcast, a news show with 131 episodes published.

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  Sonic's Least Favorite Train - The Eglinton Crosstown: Episode 132

  Aug 19, 202649 min

  Today on the show, we're talking about one of Toronto's most controversial and long-awaited transit projects, and one that opened earlier this year: The Eglinton Crosstown. Just how did Toronto's first LRT line become such a nightmare, and where might it be going next? All this, after The News. (Rob Ford mentioned) Thumbnail: "Chaplin station platform stair view" by Transportfan70 is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) Links and stuffs Merch: https://shop.trlpod.com/ Twitter: @TheRedLine_pod YouTube channel: The Red Line Podcast Spotify: The Red Line Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theredlinepodcasters Email: theredlinepodcasters@gmail.com Website: https://www.trlpod.com/ Timestamps 1:17 news intro 1:28 Doug Ford fan theories 1:57 News: USDOT has decided to defund all transit 5:37 Dooming over the midterms 6:38 Dooming over the Great Salt Lake (parallel drawn to the Aral Sea) 10:14 Aral Sea in 1989 vs. ten years ago 12:50 Ship in the empty Aral Sea 15:53 SLURM's TRAX Speedrun 17:30 News end. 2007: Mayor David Miller 20:47 Transit City promised 7 new LRT lines 28:01 Inevitable cuts to Transit City; subplot: SF housing 30:31 Subplot: loyalty tests & Bubba 33:05 Rob Ford helps out 36:18 What if we put the entire line underground? 40:25 Construction officially begins 46:09 The trainset (Bombardier Flexity) 48:01 Outro & Patrons References & notes [1] Mass Transit: APTA responds to USDOT's proposals for surface transportation reauthorization bill [2] KSL NewsRadio 102.7 FM: Salt Lake City could break another temperature record on Monday [3] USGS: Great Salt Lake Hydro Mapper [4] Wikipedia: Line 5 Eglinton [5] Wikipedia: Transit City [6] Wikipedia: Eglinton West Line [7] Rail for the Valley: The Eglinton Story (Part 1) [8] Steve Munro: Eglinton Crosstown LRT Chronology (Updated) [9] Toronto.com: TIMELINE: A brief history of Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT project [10] Infrastructure Ontario: Eglinton Crosstown LRT [11] Wikipedia: Darth Vader grotesque [12] Eelam StyleZ: Network map of future LRT and BRT lines indicated in the Transit City project. [13] Dillan Payne: Flexity Freedom train at Eglinton station

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  Is the GO Train GOing to Become an RER?: Episode 131

  Aug 6, 20261h 16m

  Today on the show, we're continuing our Toronto series with a discussion of GO RER - or is is GO Expansion? - the Toronto region's ambitious plan to transform the way people use Government of Ontario Transit. All this, after The News. Links and stuffs Merch: https://shop.trlpod.com/ Twitter: @TheRedLine_pod YouTube channel: The Red Line Podcast Spotify: The Red Line Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theredlinepodcasters Email: theredlinepodcasters@gmail.com Website: https://www.trlpod.com/ Timestamps References & notes [1] Mass Transit: Metra finishes in-house rehabilitation of 302 passenger railcars [2] Wikipedia: GO Expansion [3] City of Toronto: Appendix 1 - GO Transit Regional Express Rail Overview [4] Metrolinx: GO Expansion [5] CPTDB Wiki: GO Transit Regional Express Rail [6] Wikipedia: The Big Move [7] Wikipedia: The Big Move rapid transit projects [8] Toronto Star: They were promised two-way, all-day GO train service. Confidential Metrolinx documents show these lines may actually get slower [9] Czech Digital Library: Defenestration of Prague, illustrated by Czech history painter Adolf Liebscher c. 1900

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  GO Transit & its Hawker-Siddely Coaches: Episode 130

  Jul 29, 20261h 6m

  Today on the show, we're talking about Government of Ontario Transit, which normal people call the GO Train. Just how did Toronto get one of North America’s most extensive suburban rail and bus networks, and where might it be GO ing next? All this after The News. Links and stuffs Merch: https://shop.trlpod.com/ Twitter: @TheRedLine_pod YouTube channel: The Red Line Podcast Spotify: The Red Line Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theredlinepodcasters Email: theredlinepodcasters@gmail.com Website: https://www.trlpod.com/ Timestamps 0:46 fire discussion 2:39, 3:42 Firework restrictions [15] [16] 4:20 Daniel S. Tuttle 5:56 trip report start 15:47 trip report end / news start 17:38 Ben McAdams beats everyone else 20:43 CoCo 23:51 news ends 23:57 Toronto: the Denver of the north 26:42 Provincial study in 1962 27:32 Jet Lag: The Game mentioned [17] 29:47 and 32:17 Single-decker Hawker-Siddely coaches [21] 31:09 Stadler FrontRunner reveal [18] 33:14 PAC-12 36:19 CPKC [14] [19] 37:08 Expansions 39:44 FrontRunner towing [20] 47:05 GO ALRT (Patreon exclusive) 49:19 Financial shock 49:38 ?? 50:26 Canadian political party names 52:36 - 57:40 CW distasteful 9/11 jokes 54:29 GO system map [13] 55:13 Episode 18 (about maps 56:22 Higher ridership now than in 2017 57:26 SLC demographic perceptions 59:47 Introducing the serices 1:02:43 Scarborough RT episode (Patreon exclusive) 1:04:44 Patrons References & notes [1] Mass Transit: Virginia Railway Express acquires Seminary Yard from VPRA [2] Mass Transit: Wisconsin submits grant application to USDOT for expanded Amtrak passenger rail service [3] Wikipedia: GO Transit § Ridership [4] Wikipedia: GO Transit bus services [5] Wikipedia: Milton line [6] Wikipedia: History of GO Transit § Recent developments [7] GO Transit: Our Past & Present [8] High Speed Rail Alliance: GO Transit: A Case Study in North American Regional Rail [9] Metrolinx: Back in time: The remarkable evolution of your GO train [10] Wikipedia: GO Transit rail services [11] Wikipedia: GO Expansion [12] Metrolinx: GO Electrification [13] Transit Maps: Official Map: Go Transit System Map, Southern Ontario, Canada [14] STB: CPKC system map, showing CP tracks in red and KCS in black. Does not include trackage rights. [15] Utah Fire Info: Active Fire Restrictions [16] Deseret News: Where you can and can't light personal fireworks in Utah this Fourth of July [17] Jet Lag: The Game: Stateside Scramble - Episode 1 [18] City Weekly: UDOT eyes locally-built Stadler trains for next generation of FrontRunner. [19] CPKC: Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern Execute Agreement to Combine, Creating First Single-Line Rail Network Linking U.S.-Mexico-Canada [20] Utah Public Procurement Place: UDOT250192MP-1 - UDOT RFP- UDOT/UTA FrontRunner Train Sets Acquisition - IN LIEU OF - document "00. FR2X Section 6 Technical Specifications (Addendum 1).docx" page 43 (TS 1.4.4 paragraph 29) [21] David Wilson: 19680706 27 GO Transit Oakville, ON

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  What's UP Toronto? - The Union Pearson Express: Episode 129

  Jun 12, 20261h 4mS0

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  Kitchenloo's ION - A CHARGED LRT: Ep. 128

  May 27, 20261h 1mS0

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