to the rest of north america when all of this is said and done it will have been a couple decades in the making and that just shows you the size of the project the size of the project attracted some of the world's greatest railway operators and planners those include mtr from hong kong operate the mtr network ratp the paris metro and rer operator as well as sncf then deutsche bahn now before i tell you how things have turned out a quick message from our sponsor now if you're fortunate enough to be located in a canadian city and you're watching this channel chances are you're taking public transit streetcars buses and maybe even subway trains with the canadian winter in full force i made sure to save my local bus stop and subway station and rocket man so that i can check when my next transit vehicle is coming before even walking out of the door i also use rocketman to stay informed with real-time transit delays and alerts right in the app and i can even find out exactly where my bus is with live vehicle locations for a seamless travel experience on transit join me in using rocketman today check out the link in the description and download rocketman for free on both ios and android the crazy thing about rer which is my preferred name for the network even if it is more of an s-bond type thing is that we've been building it for more than NUMBER_TOKEN years already a decade ago most of toronto's regional rail lines consisted of single track a ton of grade crossings low quality infrastructure and incredibly low quality stations and over the years we've added track done tons of grade separations including some major rail rail grade separations some of this stuff is still ongoing as well as modernizing stations and a lot of this has been core to the stuff i've been covering on my youtube channel this project is massive and i think looking back in NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN years a lot of people will think it's incredible that they missed that this was going on now at this point most of the key grade separations station improvement projects and corridor expansions from one to four to six tracks have already happened though some are still ongoing the contract being fought over by the european rail giants is called encore or on corridor and what it's for is the trains the operations and maintaining the trains the planning of the service that the trains will operate which should be combined with the trains because the service and the trains are kind of inherently linked hard to operate a fast service without fast trains as well as the reconfiguration of the central station in toronto union station as well as some random infrastructure bibs and bobs all over the place and of course electrification this alone is one of the largest transit projects in the world even with all the previous projects which have been completed many of which would probably qualify as mega projects in their own right to give you a sense of the financial scale of this project it's massive which is evidenced by the fact that only sncf and deutsche ban are still even in the running for it being the largest of the companies that were interested they're also of course the companies with the greatest global reach they along with teams of companies working with them in areas like rolling stock manufacture and construction are the ones vying to operate and design toronto's future regional rail what's so amazing about the fact that one of these companies is going to be taking over the rer
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