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Size matters: What Berlin’s rapid transit would look like in Toronto

Young, Leslie
http://globalnews.ca/news/1498993/size-matters-what-berlins-rapid-transit-would-look-like-in-toronto/

Publisher:  Global News
Date Written:  08/08/2014
Year Published:  2014  
Resource Type:  Article

Berlin has about 600,000 more people than Toronto and encompasses about 250 more square kilometers, so it's reasonable to expect there to be more subway lines. But not this many: Berlin has 25 subway and urban rail lines; Toronto has three – four, if you include the Scarborough RT. That's 403 kilometres of track in Berlin, compared to Toronto's 68.3 km.

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For fun, and to give you a sense of the massive difference in scale, I've superimposed a map of Berlin’s U- and S-Bahn systems on top of Toronto below. Even with the S-Bahn lines extending off into Lake Ontario, you can see the vast difference between Berlin's system (red) and Toronto's (yellow).
For this map and analysis, I included Berlin's S-Bahn above-ground rail system, but not Toronto's GO Transit.
Unlike GO, the S-Bahn is fully integrated into the Berlin transit system. Both U- and S-Bahn use the same tickets, are printed on the same maps and share many stations. The S-Bahn is also useful for travelling between points within Berlin itself, even in the city centre. The same can't really be said for GO.

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