Urban Rail in Canada

For many decades, Canada has been experiencing a real boom in the expansion of its urban rail transport. While in Toronto a large first-generation streetcar network has survived, coexisting with the modern subway since the 1950s, the other major Canadian cities followed later, be it with the rubber-tyred Metro in Montreal in 1966, the light rail systems in Edmonton (1978) and Calgary (1981) or the driverless SkyTrain in Vancouver (1986). Not only have these networks been gradually expanded, but new urban rail systems have also emerged in recent years, although their classification is not always easy, as they are often hybrids between tram and metro. In this book, each transport system is presented separately – and as always, illustrated with numerous colour photos and detailed network maps.