Sounds cool

Very true. Each line has it's own style and also the different sections of lines, depending on when they were extended. The trains are also differ on each line. U6 has completely unique trains. U3 tends towards an older model, U2 is only modern models and U4 got some of both. Very cool video. Nice to see for oneself. The old people always argue about what extension was which year and so on.

@@florianklee9405 also, mildly amusing is that some of the underground is overground :)

@@higgins007 Is mostly bilding extortions overground is way cheaper.

@@florianklee9405 U3 can only have the older model because it is Insulated and caning trains would give holes again.

Also check out Tram Sim: Vienna!

I'm happy that somebody is still playing Cities in Motion too.

The first "Cities in Motion" is such a charming little gem of a game. I also enjoy the soundtrack from it.

Agree. Beautiful architecture, colourful buildings and roofs, dignified atmosphere - a picture-perfect city representing the Europe I had always wanted before the World let itself become stupidly Americanised, cheap and vulgar.

I live there and it's ok. It's like most other big citys, loud, expensive and a shot ton of people. But the Ubahn Netz ( subway ) is quite good. It takes about one hour to get from one end of the city to the other. The architecture is nice but most of it is only in the center ( like a few miles radius) the rest is normal boring houses. But there is quite a bit of greenery and if you want you can reach almost everything by bike because the bike lanes are amazing. Most of them are not on the street and they are big enough that cars could drive there

But not anymore for all people!

You need to tell me wich line this is on

@@stekra3159 I didn’t ask, but my guess is U4

Wtf that's so weird but really awesome to know

almost every circle lines have that feature..

I live in Vienna and no U-Bahn has to do that. The trans can operate in both derections without turning. All Tram Lines musst do that becouse the dors are only on one side. I hope i could help.

Gönn doch einfach

4. Michelbeuern didn't REopen in 1987 (it was only a freight station until 1927) 5. In May 2021 U2 stopped operating between Schottentor and Karsplatz Still a great video!

6. Schottenring was a U2/U4 cross-platform station until U2 was extended further to the east in 2008, so between 1980-2008 the routing around Schottenring should look a bit different, since they built a whole new station for the U2 extension. 7. There was a brief period of time between 05.09.1981 - 25.09.1981 where lines U2/4 and U4/2 existed.

I’d like to add: The U6 does also have the station Niederhofstraße between Längenfeldgasse(Transfer with the U4) and Meidling

The viaduct which was connecting the Gürtel line with the danube canal line is also still there but has been repurposed as bicycle and pedestrian lane. This is actually a fairly quirky and spectecular connection between the major danube canal cycling corridor and the heart of the 19th district. The viaducts along Heiligenstädter Lände are currently rotting away, although a certain share of them is used as storage etc. There are plans of doing somethign "NYC Highline" style, even if less fancy but those plans are just that, plans.

The viaduct is still there. The building was build on top of it. You can have a good look of it from the line U6.

Nah you can't, since Rathaus is after a curve. You can see Museumsquartier and Lerchenfelder Straße (if the lights are on) from Volkstheater. But seriously, why is everyone spitting nonsense in this comment section?

@@kensukefan47 Sorry, I confused that. It is Volkstheater and Museumsquartier, you are right. I don't live in Vienna but use to visit it often due to private reasons. But except my confusion I didn't wrote nonsense, did you refer to my own comment?

@@GUNordDX it mostly refers to the top comment with turnabouts.

The closure mostly happened because the platform length on the U2 was extended (originally it only used 4-car trains, but was upgraded to allow for 6-car trains like the other lines). With the close proximity between the stations that would have meant that the platforms would have almost touched. Today the former station is used as an electrical substation and for ventilation (that's why the old access buildings still exist on the surface).

I read U5 like US lol

@@leobragaurbe xD

Maybe not. With the Messiahs fall from grace ;)

@@Avatar2312 insiderwitz ;-)

The bridge collapsed on August 1st 1976, I don’t think that’s the direct reason it was extended to Kagran, but re-building it they transposed the plans to include metro too and so it was already possible to open Kagran by 1982. originally Kagran wasn’t planned in the first years of metro service.

Wiener lmao

@@leobragaurbe Oh, sorry Vienna U-bahn/metro-English Wiener U-bahn-Deutsch (German)

U6 (1989) The first section of the line opened in 1989, and was completed at its present length in 1996.

Eh...

Plus a commuter rail tunnel under the Bosphorus

The underground tramway is just a few km of standard tramway network built underground to avoid conflict with heavy overground car trafic. Same carriages are used as on the surface. Tramway is usually used for shorter distances, with stops closer to each other and its tracks are often next to or in the street, on same ground level as other motorized transport. You can compare it with a standard road network. Subway is typically underground (which is not fully true for some of the lines), faster, stops are wider apart from each other, and the tracks are always exclusive with no crossings. --> highway network. The U2 line from Karlsplatz to Schottentor is currently interrupted and undergoes preparational rework for the U2/U5 extension, e.g. all platforms are beeing equipped with sliding doors for the new driverless trains. The part of the U2 line from Karlsplatz crossing the lower end ofMariahilfer Strasse will be taken over by the new U5. The future U2 will cross Mariahilfer Strasse at Neubaugasse (sharing a station with U3), 6:39

@@mazchen Thank you! Driverless trains? I had no idea. So the sliding doors protect riders on the platform from the track? I was on the U3 the other day past Ziegler, Neubau heading towards the MQ, when the ride felt a bit longer than usual. It was at that moment I realized a station had been closed when I got off at Volkstheater.

@@thomasspool exactly, a new era for Viennaa. U3 actually hasn't changed, but you just can't change to the U2 at Volkstheater until fall next year (and then only for a few years until that branch of the U2 becomes the U5)

Was too close to the next one. You could actually see the next station already.

No, weight wasn't the issue. After all, the line was built for steam trains and also with a military aspect in mind. The problem was that the higher platforms would have required massive changes to the heritage-protected buildings.

I mean the U6 is just a rebranded Stadtbahn

See those blue lines? Those are the S-Bahn.

Dude there's the Südbahn from Meidling. Why the hell do you need a U6?

Actually there are plans to increase the number of tracks to Mödling to four, which would allow to reduce the time between trains vastly.