Fun fact: About a half of the jokes Czechs say about Slovakia is based on them not having a metro.

Lol belgrade has been planning a metro for like 80 years

But when are you gonna talk about the fact that Lithuania looks like a mini version of Africa?

All the Scandinavian countries only have one metro each. Honestly, we probably all did that just so we wouldn't end up as that one Western European country without a metro, that would have been embarrassing (yes, I'm looking at you Ireland!)

That map is outdated. Seville has a metro and it's the southernmost metro in europe. Valencia also has a metro.

More facts about Metros I've been: Budapest has the 2nd oldest metro but also a self driving metro! Seoul has always glass doors at metro stations, which prevents you from falling onto the tracks. (probably bc of the high suicide rate) Taipei (and Hong Kong or Bangkok idk) has a coin as a metro ticket. Taipeis metro is extremly similiar to the Hong Kong ones. You mentioned the security checks at metro stations at Moscow and Bangkok. New Delhi has one too. Vienna and Berlin has a weird metro naming system... Vienna has U1-6 except U5. (they're building it right now) The missing 5 went to Berlin... They have U5 and U55 Hope you enjoyed

You didn't talk about Helsinki having the northernmost subway system

Metro's are amazing. No discussion possible.

Thats a verk old map of the Moscow Metro. They most recently opened up 8 stations in August.

They call it "metro" after the Metropolitan Railway now the Metropolitan Line in London.

The soviets were very much in favour of building metro lines, since they doubled as bomb shelters for the population. Great example: Metro 3 in Budapest

Budapest M1 metro line is for sure 2nd oldest and also it was the first "electric" metro in the world

18:44 Having more than one interchange station is not a flaw of the design, it’s actually a very good idea. If you had one station on all three lines, in addition to connecting all of them to the entrance/exit, you would have to build tunnels to connect all lines to each other. This causes two potential problems: 1. there may not be enough room below ground to build all of the tunnels and 2. The majority of passengers on the metro would go through just one station which makes it prone to overcrowding. (With three lines it’s not so bad, but imagine six metro lines all going through one station and you can see how insane it would be!) Having separate interchanges for each pair of lines helps alleviate this problem, as each interchange station is smaller and less crowded than a single interchange would be. The general rule of thumb for building a metro system is to build as many interchanges between routes as possible, but not all of them in one place.

Nice video You didn't talk about the Athens metro which was one of the trickiest to make (in Europe) cause all the ancient stuff that were underneath Athens and all the old buildings wich might have been destroyed

Spain has metro lines in Valencia, Seville, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca and Granada, in addition to the ones you have shown (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao), so the total in Spain is 8. (Edit: added Granada)

If you want to believe communism was the cause of there not being metros in some of these cities it is worthwhile to acknowledge the fact that many of the existing metros were built, extended or renovated by communist governments, Moscow, Kiev, Prague and Bucharest to name a few. Huge public projects were the way in which those governments advertised themselves to the people. Communist Yugoslavia dug out two stops in Belgrade just before its end and in almost 25 years of capitalism no work has been done since, even though Belgrade is a highly congested city of more than a million citizens (in fact the largest capital in Europe without a metro.

Portugal has 2 metros. One in Porto and one in Lisbon

I am from the U.S but visit Austria, Vienna a lot, and I absolutely love their metro system. The trains are clean and actually pretty comfortable. You aren't crowded at all because there is so much space, it is so convenient. The metro is absolutely everywhere there and I never have a problem finding it. This is something I think we lack here in the U.S.

Newcastle has a metro as does Liverpool

Fun fact about Riga. There was a metro system planned in Soviet times. Like there had been geological tests and the stations were planned out. There would have been 16 stations and 10 of them would be in shallow depth and 6 would be deep underground. It wasnt built because there were protests against the project.

Spain has 7 not 3.

Glasgow used to be called the underground. The logo used to be a big orange U in a circle. I think it was changed back to Subway in the 200’s, certainly after I left the city in 1999. Of course, nearly everyone affectionately calls it the Clockwork Orange. Nearly everyone in and around Glasgow has attempted the Sub Crawl: getting a drink at the nearest bar to every station (I’ve never made it much past halfway).

Fun fact: The Vatican is going to have metro access in a few years

This is the only channel I will watch for this type of content and I love it

The metro in Rennes (Brittany, France) only has one line but has been building the second for over 3 years now and it should be out in 2020. And I've been there, and it is a very nice looking metro, so you should consider it in your list

Fun fact about Naples metro, while working on one of the stations (Municipio), they found an ancient Roman harbor with at least one ship. Also I remember being told that Rione Alto station is the deepest in Europe (you can only reach the platforms via elevators)

20:15 Paris metro has smooth walkways and they curve so sometimes you loose sense. 25:11 There is also a boulevard called Stalingrad in Ivry/Vitry.

Greetings from Thessaloniki, a city that is having a nightmare of a time building its metro.

Metroline 4 in Budapest is autonomous.

I believe Glasgow's is the Third oldest metro after London and Budapest. Budapest's line 1 is really really old (finished in 1896). If you have the chance to take a look at line 1 stations line "Oktogon" you will see they still have the "original" stations with that industrial revolution vibe! Really worth the trip on its crappy soviet carriages! :P Edit: BTW, your european metros map is missing my city: Valencia, Spain. Its a pretty new metro, but i think it's worth mentioning as it works as an "Underground train"...

By the standards of some of these metros Australia also has them, that first map said we don’t. Melbourne and Sydney both have have underground systems in the city centres.

Few precisions for French métro : - Rennes is a quite tiny city but its population is increasing quite fast, they're building a second line, which i find amazing for the size of the city. - Bordeaux may plan to build a metro system (the proposition has started to be discussed a few weeks ago) because it's one of the most dynamic French city, it's aglomeration would reach the million inhabitants within the next decade while it's urban area is already way over it. :) ALSO : What is a metro and what is not really depends on the country. In some european countries, underground trams are considered as metro (which i can understand), but for instance an underground tram would still be called a tram like in the city of Rouen. :)

You would love the history of Pragues metro: -it should have had the lightest trains but it ended up getting old Moscows trains (they even had to rebuild one bridge because of it -it has the longest escalator in Europe -it has river tunnel that they've built on the shore and then inserted in the river

In Europe there are many commuter trains and trams that have underground sections, but in reality they are not subways in the literal sense of the word.

Hello.The Metro map of Europe (2:19) is not up to date by any chance. At least when it comes to Spain. Cities like Valencia, Seville and Palma de Mallorca has Metro systems.

First Underground inside of European Continent (except the British Islands) and also the world's first electric underground: Budapest Millennium Underground Railway (Also known as "little underground" , today line name is M1 (Yellow))

1:53 the map doesn't include newcastle

I have taken a ride on the Moscow subway. Escalators just like what you showed for Kiev. My understanding is that the stations are so deep so that they could double as bomb shelters. Since both Moscow and Kiev would be Soviet systems, it makes total sense

Did you finish your point about the Catania metro? I was looking forward to hearing about it!

Toycat in Denmark we don't call it a T bane we call it a metro we have Københavns metro (Copenhagen metro)

Jakarta has been planning to build metro system since the 80s though never went into construction phase. After many years they finally get their first metro started construction in 2013 and the first phase (16km) of line will be opened by March next year. Meanwhile, a 42km light rail system is currently being built in the city and expected to open in 2018 _(spoiler alert, that didn't happen because of land acquisition and stuff, maybe 2020 lol.)_

Oslo’s metro map is so nice

Singapore metro (or the MRT) isn't as cheap as that. What you have stated is the student fare. Adult fare starts at about SGD 0.80 (EUR 0.51), usually a one way commute from the suburbs to the city will cost about SGD 1.30 (EUR 0.83) to SGD 1.80 (EUR 1.15), depending on distance. But it's still fairly cheap though. When I went on the London Underground I strongly believed that they were robbing my money. A ride on the Tube gets you a full meal in Singapore.

Seville in Spain also has metro, only one line and mostly overground but it has one :)

The Budapest Metro came before the Glasgow Subway. Budapest metro line 1 started operation in May 1896 while the Glasgow Subway started in December in the same year. It is debated that Budapest's metro system was conceived before the London Underground as both were indeed conceived around about the same time; around 1844.

Nice to see my country and my city in your video(Ukraine, Kyiv), and yep, that can be really boring to ride escalators in some stations

What to me personally seemed interesting about Prague metro, is that there are absurdly short intervals between stations. You hardly have left the previous one, but you are already entering the next one.

I love how in Tokyo the metro there has jingles at each stop. Here in LA we used to have one of the largest metro systems in the world b4 it was dismantled in favor of freeways. (If u wanna do a vid on freeway systems this is a great topic to cover)

If you ever do a video on S-trains, please do not limit it to only the scandinavian capitals. There is at the moment a boom in urban train systems in Denmark, that could be interesting to cover. P.S. The Copenhagen Metro is called Metroen(the metro)

I think you forgot to mention that Lausanne (Switzerland), the smallest city in the world that has a metro system, doesn't only have 1 little line, but the third line is planned to be opened in a few years;)

8:19 Madrid Cercanías commuter rail system used to have a line similar to line 5 in Stockholm, line C-7. First it left fuente de la mora and went through the core section, after that it encircled Madrid going through príncipe Pío, then it went up to the Pardon forest before going back down the main section and off to the Henares corridor as it's called. Now tye section from Atocha from príncipe Pío has been removed alongside the stop in fuente de la mora, so it now goes Príncipe Pío-Pardo forest-Main section- Henares corridor.

There is a bus service going from keflavik airport to reykjavik and buses serving the city. I do think they need a metro though with even just one single line from keflavik airport to the edge of reykjavik.

1:54, Valencia actually has a metro system

The reason why Slovenia doesn’t have a metro is becouse it doesn’t need it.

I think the artwork in Stockholm's tunnelbanan is a great idea, simply because people look at the works while waiting for the train, it's different from a museum experience. Besides, I hopped in and out of Tekniska Högskolan station daily for a year when I was a student there

your enthusiasm is amazing

In Denmark we do not call the metro T-bane, we just call it metro.

1:56 Valencia in spain has also a metro system

Fun fact: Rennes is building a second line,´and it should open within the next few month. and you mentioned Frankfurt in the beginning, but Frankfurt is not listed on your map, because like most German cities (except Berlin, Hamburg, Munich & Nuremberg) it has no classic metro but more like an underground tram.

it used to the USSR had very few cars, so buses and trams work just fine without a tunneled metro system

That map of metro systems in europe seems to be a little bit inaccurate. I spotted a few cities that should appear there in my Region alone, like Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn or the Cities of the Ruhr-Area. Maybe they use a very limited definition for a Metro System, though...

Cyprus does have an underground. There are networks of underground tunnels all over the island where people can ride donkeys to get to their desired destination.

They’re making a metro in Dublin in the next few years and a type of LUAS in Cork and I can’t wait

I like your energy and exitement about metro's! Made half of the video mate. ;)

Lol you left us hanging with the Budapest metro, but nice video :D

nothing about madrid´s metro? :(

In Spain Valencia has 27km of underground metro which is quite a lot. You forgot to draw it in your map

1:15 Fun fact: The shortest metro in the world found is Hifa and it called the Carmelit (about 2 km long) So the map is not accurate (and there will be metro in Tel Aviv next year)

Liverpool has a metro

Seville has a metro, so that would be the southern metro in europe I guess

Well, Usually when you have the Star formation of lines (one huge intersection in middle) you have the cyrcle of other transportation to back it up and make it effective. In Prague we have the same station arrangement as Kiev (3 lines + 3interchanges) and it has buses connecting the outer edges of the metro and trams forming a web in the center to make public transpor be very near from anywhere.

Fun Fact: Metro Warszawskie Has alot Of Awards like Most Improved Metro and Best Maintenance Program in 2011, Metro Warszawskie was opened in 1995, it uses The Russian Wagonmasz 81-717.3, Alstom Metropolis 98B and Siemens Inspiro

The Helsinki Metro is the northernmost metro system in the world.

Nobody ever talks about Madrid's Metro... =(

In Ireland, construction of our very first metro line will begin in a few months in Dublin, linking the city centre to the airport and a large urban settlement just north of the airport. It'll be called the Metrolink North. There are plans for an orbital line too. We're all so excited.

Hello! I loved your video as I am interested in these things as well. Although, as I live in the Vancouver area, I have to point out the mistake that Vancouver has the subway called the "Skytrain". I don't know what subway LA has, but I just wanted to clarify that.

In Serbia we plan metro more than 70 years LOL...but politic and wars make it impossible for now.

The metro map is missing Valencia...

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth have been recently upgrading their rail networks to make them into a modern metro network with the one in Sydney set to open in 2022.

Baltics be like "we have sausages on wheels"

The reason why Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia don't have metros is because we are far too small population wise for it to make sense for us to have metros.

Athens metro map looks like the Kiev metro map

There were 2 proposed metro lines in bratislava, most notably one from the biggest housing estates (petržalka) in the south, all the way to the airport. The estate was built with the metro planned to run straight down the middle, which can be seen just by looking at the road map of the area. One tunnel was built near where the southern terminus was supposed to be and it still is there today (and it can be seen on streetview). The metro plans are scrapped now and instead there is a tram line being built exactly where the metro was supposed to go

omg best video EVER!! :) i would not have expected it from your channel. Wish you had spoken a bit more about my city (Paris) but you're going there soon so excused. When in Paris, if you can be sure to check out Arts et Métiers station, located on line 11 (the world's very first rubber-tired metro line) which looks like a submarine ; Liège station on line 13 which has offset platforms and amazing ceramic decorations ; Concorde station on line 12 which has the Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen's text covering its walls ; and Bastille northbound platform on line 5 where there are remains of the Bastille fortress.

Yes please do a video on s trains

Fun facts about The Bucharest Metro: It is completely underground. There are no above ground stations. Apprarently it is the only metro in the world with 3 different generations of trains running simultaneously (Astra IVA, Bombardier Movia 346 and CAF). Bucharest Metro was the only one in the world that operated with passengers during tests. You gotta love Communist health and safety :) In the 1980s, the speed of building the network (4 kilometers / year) placed the Bucharest Metro on the second place in the world, after Mexico City Metro. During the Communist regime, the metro was built exclusively with Romanian people, resources and equipment. A big feat for a poor country at the time. Since the track gauge is standard, the same as the train network in Romania, sometimes late at night actual full size diesel cargo trains use the tunnels as a shortcut through the city. You hear them coming from miles away because the diesel locomotive is very loud and the tunnels vibrate a bit like in Beneath Planet of the Apes (time index 53 min) but lower pitched. And yes, it gets very smoky and loud on the platform briefly as the train passes through the station.

0:14 "...which I know sounds absurd on the surface" Get it? Because they're underground trains! So they sound absurd on the surface!

I've just realized that here in the sf bay area, literally nobody calls it a generic name (metro, underground, subway...) if you call it anything but BART you'll get funny looks

As a Hungarian, I'm starting to think you're purposefully avoiding talking about anything related to Hungary.

LMAO dude just called my city's metro BS, I'm so hurt, plus it's pronounced Ren not Rennes

In Los Angeles, we call our subway and bus system Metro or MTA. Our subway is specifically referred to by the color or of the train runs along a major street. For example, we have six lines of subway which are either referred to by their colors Red, Green , Blue, Gold and Purple one that goes along a major street , the Expo line, Expo is short for Exposition . The Expo line runs along Exposition Blvd above ground from about the USC campus to Santa Monica. Several lines of of LA's subway meets at Union Station in Downtown LA and Down town LA's 7th street Metro station . The thing about LAs metro stations is that very few of them are close to people's homes where passengers can walk to a station. And that's because LA is very spread out and the only ways to get to a metro rail station is for someone to drive and park their car a in a park and ride lot or parking structure and get on the train, or to take a bus to a station.

In Germany actually U-Bahn does not stand for underground (Untergrund) but for independent (unabhängig) from other traffic. Some trains operate underground but others operate on seperate tracks at ground or even above ground level.

The best metro is in Serfaus, Austria

21:59 it's always a pleasure to desecend into hell as part of your daily routine

Sevilla (Spain) have metro as well but doesnt appear in your map

Sydney has had an underground circle since the 1920s. The rest of the network is mostly above ground. Stage 1 of the new Sydney Metro opens in about four months. Stage 2 will be a second harbour tunnel and stage 3 will be the southern and western sector. You can follow the progress at Transport For NSW. Also the new southeast light rail line will open in 2019.

Ride the Los Angeles subways. LOL haw haw teehee

Only 400k people live in Zürich not a million

Love your geeky tidbits. Strictly speaking Jakarta's metro is currently being constructed. Loads of TBMs along the main boulevards adding even more disruption to the streets. The MRT is currently going trials with rolling stock received. You should check out Bangkok's skytrain and metro

Very interesting! You're right about Jakarta being in much need of a metro system. But it's building it right now. Phase 1 is due early 2019. Jakarta already has MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) which in some sense could classify as metro since some of the stations in the city are below ground (the map you showed after talking about Jakarta not having a metro, in fact has a red dot right on...Jakarta). However both metro and MRT must be scaled up a lot if it's to make a significant dent in the massive air pollution and the eternal traffic jam. For most people who live and work there, the most efficient way to get around in the worst hours are by motor bike, which you drive yourself or a taxi motor bike.