Best looking transit liveries in Canada

[SkahHigh]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Do they run on rubber wheels? What's up with that, by the way?

Makes pratically no noise when entering/exiting the stations.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Even better when they look like this:



Boopitybop by Fob Rord [imnotbanksy], on Flickr

You are such a rebel

[SkahHigh]

^ kinda gives a Gotham City feel to it

[Metro-One]

Kinda gives a shit hole no respect feel to it.

Sorry, but tagging trains is horrid to public transit.

I love how clean the transit system is in Japan. It gives a real sense of civic pride and comfortable accessibility to all.

[SignalHillHiker]

I love the tagged trains. I just love it. Not joking or being sarcastic. It's beautiful to me.

[mistercorporate]

I think he was being sarcastic , but if he wasnt ....

Best liveries:

1) Vancouver (like the sky train but the buses are just okay)
2) Ottawa (like the double deckers and confer line train)
3) Toronto (like the new streetcars, buses and GO transit. The new subway cars are okay but could be more colourful/sleek like London)
4) Montreal (like the new subway trains, not the buses though)

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

I love the tagged trains. I just love it. Not joking or being sarcastic. It's beautiful to me.

I always find people from small towns have this romantic view of big city vandalism.

Bottom line, it is not ok. Unless you own the surface or have permission to use the surface from the governing body, it is vandalism.

And where do you stop the tagging? If you let it continue soon everything is tagged, including windows, maps, and way finder systems, not to mention safety and emergency systems (I have seen this happen in areas where tagging is allowed to go unchecked).

It is also highly subjective if it is beautiful as well.

Public transit is for the public in general, and many people will be turned away from transit if such graffiti is present. It creates a sense of lawlessness and lack of security. In other words, it makes transit feel unsafe for many potential riders. It also shows a lack of care and civic pride.

One of skytrain's best benefits is it is kept fairly clean (especially for a North American standard).

Cleanliness and manners are very important for creating a welcoming, safe, encouraging, and healthy transit system.

I am sure you would not enjoy someone going around and tagging all the house fronts in your neighborhood. Many people have similar such pride in their transit systems, and wish to keep them clean.

[TownGuy]

Well since this turned into "this is my hometowns..." I will post Cobourg.

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

I always find people from small towns have this romantic view of big city vandalism.

Bottom line, it is not ok. Unless you own the surface or have permission to use the surface from the governing body, it is vandalism.

And where do you stop the tagging? If you let it continue soon everything is tagged, including windows, maps, and way finder systems, not to mention safety and emergency systems (I have seen this happen in areas where tagging is allowed to go unchecked).

It is also highly subjective if it is beautiful as well.

Public transit is for the public in general, and many people will be turned away from transit if such graffiti is present. It creates a sense of lawlessness and lack of security. In other words, it makes transit feel unsafe for many potential riders. It also shows a lack of care and civic pride.

One of skytrain's best benefits is it is kept fairly clean (especially for a North American standard).

Cleanliness and manners are very important for creating a welcoming, safe, encouraging, and healthy transit system.

I am sure you would not enjoy someone going around and tagging all the house fronts in your neighborhood. Many people have similar such pride in their transit systems, and wish to keep them clean.

I understand - but I love things being tagged here too. The only type I hate is if it's just a boring name spraypainted in black. If there's colour, I love it.

This is what the graffiti here looks like (not to be confused with our approved murals, which often look quite similar, ):

(I just mean to say it's not completely foreign to me, tagging and all that. Not saying we're not a small town, we are from your and most world perspectives - but it's not postcard perfect. It's not a resort town or anything.)

I love everything about it. If we could put that stuff on our buses, I'd be golden.

Transit is a great place for grit, especially in cities that are pretty.

[TownGuy]

Originally Posted by Ashok

Montreal's new subway cars.

Looks like an LRT...which would be fine if it was one. Much prefer the old, and more appropriate, metro trains.

[MonctonRad]

That Mercedes doesn't fit in with the ambience unless it belongs to a pimp or a pusher.

Sorry Signal, but I agree with Metro-one on this one. Tagging is vandalism period, and does create an impression of lawlessness and insecurity in a neighbourhood. It needs to be eradicated.

[SignalHillHiker]

I disregard your opinion because St. John's is covered with "HUB CITY!" grafitti from Monctonians (Monctonites? Monctogonians? Octagons?), and am holding you personally responsible for it.

(That's actually the downtown BMO's parking lot. It's an alley that connects McBride's Hill with pedestrian-only McMurdo's Lane.)

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by mistercorporate

I think he was being sarcastic , but if he wasnt ....

Half sarcastic. It's hard to defend as being something positive that we should strive for, something to the benefit of the common good; but I personally do appreciate graffiti on trains, and in general of course (where appropriate...with the exception of trains). It's colourul, organic, and adds ephemeral, personalized texture and layers to the cityscape.

That, and I've been on a bit of a "New York in the 70s & 80s" movie kick lately. Taxi Driver, The Warriors, Style Wars, etc.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by TownGuy

Looks like an LRT...which would be fine if it was one. Much prefer the old, and more appropriate, metro trains.

More appropriate ?!?

[nas1787]

A couple of years into my time at Guelph, they bought a bunch of new buses and introduced a new livery, which I've always liked. Nice colour scheme.





For reference, this is what Guelph had previously:

[matt602]

To go back to the topic of those tagged up TTC trains: if I recall correctly, they were retired trains parked in the dead line which never went into public service like that. It's very, very rare that the TTC would allow a subway train to go into revenue service with any sort of graffiti on the outside, unlike New York of the '70s and '80s. They keep them pretty damn clean, inside and out, especially the Toronto Rocket trains.

[MonkeyRonin]

The TTC's policy is to not run tagged trains, so unless they get bombed while waiting in a station you won't see them in service, but they can still sometimes be seen in the train yards.

[beatlesque]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

That, and I've been on a bit of a "New York in the 70s & 80s" movie kick lately. Taxi Driver, The Warriors, Style Wars, etc.

Those are accurate reference points for my impression of Toronto's subway system when I spent a couple months there earlier this year, although I guess we disagree on whether that's a good thing. A lot of it felt run-down and utilitarian. At least on one line the recorded woman's voice sounds like she has a cold and is annoyed.

The street cars are nice enough, but often seemed to be overcrowded or to 'short turn.'

There are some promising elements to Toronto's system - maybe those could be built upon with a more public transit-friendly mayor or council.

For example, I really like the font for your subway, although agree with the former official who described some stations as "early Canadian washroom architecture.”

http://joeclark.org/appearances/atyp...TTC/inscribed/



Montreal's and Vancouver's new trains look good.

[vid]

Washroom architecture? Please. Washrooms have nowhere near as many leaks as a TTC station.

[J.OT13]

STO in Gatineau, Qc has recently rebranded their bus system with the opening of the RapiBus fail system.

Old Logo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...u_STO_logo.png

Old buses and paint jobs. Pictures taken on Rideau Street, Ottawa.


http://www.michaeltaylor.ca/bus/sto/9118a.html

http://www.michaeltaylor.ca/bus/sto/7901.html

New logo and buses and paint job




http://www.rapibus.sto.ca/index.php?id=208