Scarborough Rapid Transit

The subtle sound of this train is distinctly diffuse and is easily allowed to go unnoticed. Toronto's afternoon commuters and midnight drunkards are all very thankful that they don't have to deal with loud screeching metal, or offensive waning signals like some other famous underground systems. In this calm subterranean space you could fall asleep for hours. The Scarborough RT is a rapid transit line on the Toronto subway and RT system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1972, the provincial government announced the GO-Urban plan to build an intermediate capacity transit system across suburban Toronto using the experimental Krauss-Maffei Transurban. But that system failed to come to fruition. The Scarborough RT opened in March 1985. Only three years after it opened, the TTC had to renovate its southwestern terminus at Kennedy Station, because the looped turnaround track, originally designed for streetcars under the earlier plan and not needed for the bi-directional ICTS trains, was causing derailments; it was replaced with a single terminal track and the station was thus quasi-Spanish solution, with one side for boarding and another side for alighting, though the boarding side is also used for alighting during off-peak hours. The line follows a roughly L-shaped route: first northward from Kennedy Station, parallelling the Canadian National Railway/GO Transit's Stouffville line tracks, between Kennedy Road and Midland Avenue, 4 km (2.5 mi) to Ellesmere Road; then eastward between Ellesmere and Progress Avenue, through Scarborough City Centre to McCowan Road. This sound uses the following file from Soundsnap: http://www.soundsnap.com/monorail_or_rapid_transit_train_riding_with_voices_and_accelerating_with_a_groan_pa_and_stopping_at_lawrence_east