>>1257694Eh, there were a large number of railways which covered a lot of Northern Ireland, but they were dismantled after a report was commissioned in the 1960s, parallelling the infamous Beeching Report in Britain. The Railway which would have connected Lisburn to Omagh and to Derry was dismantled and countless narrow gauge rail lines were also dismantled, partly due to how few people were using them, and how the bus and the car seemed to be far easier to go with than modernising narrow gauge lines.
I must say though, I prefer Toronto's public transport. I was last there in 2013, so it's been a while. The Streetcars (or trams, let's call them) were pretty good, and I understand a lot of the aging stock has been replaced with Bombardier Flexities. They came into service after I was last there, but I have used a lot of Flexity trams in Berlin.
The subway was pretty good too, especially the newer rolling stock which have connections throughout the whole of the train.
I never used the GO Transit in the GTA area or VIA Rail, but I did take a Maple Leaf train from NYC Penn Station to Toronto Union Station. I must say that I really did like that journey, all except the part at the Canadian border. CBSA can go........ do a thing..... I find it hard to imagine that the people at Pearson airport are somehow more reasonable than the people at Niagra Falls. CBSA almost interrogated me because I flew back to Dublin airport instead of a UK one...
Anyway, I like Toronto. It's a nice city with a lot of neat features like the PATH. I after getting a souvenir, I also decided to be weird and buy Blue Jays baseball caps. I don't follow baseball much, but if people wear Yankees caps because it's fashionable, why can't I wear a Blue Jays cap?
