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Kezl
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Just someone with a camera and some hope for our cities
Riding Cleveland's Rapid Transit...in Fursuit
We decided to try riding Cleveland rapid transit with Whoever in my suit. This is what happened
Music: Light Rail by Jeremy Messersmith
Music: Light Rail by Jeremy Messersmith
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How to Save Light Rail in Cleveland
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Cleveland RTA's light rail system suffers from low ridership, making it difficult to justify greater system investments compared to higher ridership bus routes. How can the GCRTA increase ridership on its light rail lines? This was the first time I made such a long video on a single topic and was a massive learning experience so forgive me for the random pacing and motion graphic/audio anomalie...
Riding the STL Metrolink: WashU to the Airport
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If you're a student at Washington University in St. Louis, learn how to get between campus and the airport for free by riding the Metrolink 0:00-0:15 Introduction 0:15-0:28 Summary 0:28-0:55 Getting to the station 0:55-1:22 Riding the Metrolink 1:22-1:43 Transferring to the red line 1:43-1:58 Arriving at the airport 1:59-2:41 Going back to campus
North America Untamed
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Random footage on my PC stuck with some music so what could go wrong. Includes: -Recycled video cause I ran out -Really long intro cause as mentioned before, I don't have much video -Random title I made after looking at some textbooks and falling asleep XD
Summer 2017
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Video of all of the places I visited in the summer of 2017, music by E-soundtrax
Wild North America (short film)
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Series of shots of locations throughout North America reflecting its wild yet beautiful nature. Made in association with Bubli Inc. Visit their website: bubliinc.wix.com/main
Why haven't I used the Green Road line in 20 years? Its become completely inconvenient (only was ever minimally convenient) to get to. SHRT should have been expanded eastward and run down the median of I-271 (since wiped out by the express lanes) towards Painesville and Mentor decades ago. That would have made the line infinitely more useful for me - A guy who much prefers rail to busses (which have also become a major problem with increasingly limited useful service). Back in the early 2000s the Green Road line is how I got to Cleveland State every day - Ended up being easier and faster for reasons rather than trying to deal with a #9 bus most of the time. Also - Turn off Discord when recording voiceovers...
You also have to remember Cleveland keeps on losing population. I think light rail is way better than light rail in Pittsburgh.
Please put on do not disturb mode in discord while filming.
I don't live in Cleveland, but your argument to save light rails. Please enlighten us more when you bring non sense. Most light rails outside New York stop less places. Bus stops more places. Thats the reason eails are faster. Of course, your argument is valid. How do people get to places where rails, walk 3 miles or take bus. As the result, people prefer to take bus. That's what happens in LA. LA has built a bunch rails. Google is so smart to tell people who cannot park their cars at both end, aka non car drivers, take bus. I don't believe. I look the bus n train schedule. Taking 2 buses is faster than taking 2 buses n one train. Thats the reason people taking buses in Cleveland. It would be nice if both exist. However , if bus help people, and there is budget issue, why keep light rails. Other places are building light rails because they are following footsteps of LA to build parking lots at each station, to maintain expensive rail, LA has cut down already lousy services. You wanted Cleveland to do same thing. Public transportation in Cleveland is terrible, n you want non car drivers to suffer just to fulfill your stupid rail dreams. I hust report for your selfish.
I think you missed the point of the video. At no point did I recommend eliminating bus service to feed light rail frequency. Also, Metro systems and local buses complement each other- you shouldn't only see them as a zero-sum game if you truly understand the reasons behind poor transit quality (low ridership and poor funding)
@spd_bird my apologies. For rail videos, I usually stopped when I sense. When you compare bus route n rail route, n state rail is quicker, I got agitated. Not again, another you need car rail video. Again my apology. Your video is pro transit. Unfortunately, your video will just be dreams. LA started building TOD 25 years ago. The studio apartment was 3200 a month. That was way above average rent in the area. I understand real estate near train stations. it's true everywhere. In many places, poor people live near bus stops that will take them to train stations. Upper middle class live near train stations. In LA, very rich people live in TOD. The difference is in other countries upper middle class take busee n trains. In LA, very rich living in TOD drive TESLA, Mercedes. The director who I used to work with. She lived in TOD. she did have intention to reduce driving, but that didn't help. The company we used to work was 2 miles from train station. She wouldn't walk 2 miles. That's typical in LA. Just like the rest of world, TOD are unaffordable to many people. Transportation is only good within TOD. In some areas, only one lousy bus connecting to TOD. Past 30 years, LA has built so many rails n TOD. A lot recruiters called me for jobs in the cities that have train stations. I tried to get addresses. I googled it. It turned out it is faster to take 3 hour buses than taking trains. The sad thing is when I google, it's 1 hour bus from train stations, 45 to 75 minute walking, 5 minute driving. Those are areas are fully developed with walkable. For example, Culver city is one of them. I used to walk 2 hours to do window shopping. Lots of people live, work, shop at Culver city. Culver city is small, but getting from Culver city station to an office buildings in mid Town Culver city is mission impossible by taking bus. That's how screw up LA has been doing on rail n TOD. It's mentality. If people insist on driving to train stations, every thing remains the same. I remember sitting in my friend car. She would rather spend 2 hours finding free parking lots nearby in Chinatown than park her cars at train stations n take trains. Some People take trains so they don't have to drive long distance, but if trains don't go to their destinations, they drive. Across the nation, politicians n transit agencies listen to you need cars to use rail advocates. We can talk all we want. Things will get worst. I do agree with you. If there is budget crunch, Green line should be axed. That's like dream. Most likely, so called duplicate bus routes will be cut. I appreciate your pro transit riders n I apologize for rude statements. BTW, someone did make video on how great Culver city is with train station. I watched the whole thing. Some parts, I actually watched 3 times, so I do not make stupid comments like this. I got so agitated n fight back. That was legit because I kept watching. The comments above were insolent because I am getting tired of people praise trains. I know people get credit if I watch. I do not want to give credit to the people I do agree. Well that is the problem about my terrible comments. Thank you n sorry for misunderstanding
I love cars now
No wonder people are switching to cars
This is a solid plan- if transit agencies only catered to furries, we'd have enough funding for 3 minute headways on a random Metro built in cities the size of Toledo
@@spd_bird i went on public transit recently with some furries in a full body outfit and they are the cars of public transit, cars are big and bulky and inefficient at moving people, these people in these furry costumes took up the same space as like 4 people, it was insane and shouldnt be allowed on transit at all.
@@Kahoobb I don't think they should be banned (people carrying carts of groceries use transit all the time and take up way more room), but that's why we more or less avoided riding the Healthline. We didn't want to take up space while "joyriding" and chose to use the low-ridership heavy and light rail instead. It helps that ridership on Cleveland transit overall is incredibly low to begin with outside of 2 major bus routes at rush hour.
Ne mets pas les mains sur les portes, tu risques de te faire pincer très fort!
only in ohio 🤡
This is awesome :) i love riding transit in fursuit done it many times here :)
It's so much fun!!!
hope you are aware of how much people judge and make fun of you
@@the6ix72 Hey buddy, that's literally why we do this
“You have the local pee on the ground” 😂
Glad to hear GCRTA is now seeing over a million riders an hour thanks to this video!
Can confirm that the GCRTA has turned into a furry convention rivaling MFF!
So this is the friend of Paris' Serge the Bunny? 🤣
TRUE
Hell yeah!
Whoever maybe who
mind what you wish, and best of luck to y'all at reconciling folks' desires for their respective communities with Corporateria's kleptoparasitic barons' quest to consolidate and to consolidate .. I guarantee you that ever crooked big business is eyeing these ROWs (Cleveland's Blue and Green Lines) to dismantle and replace them with robo shuttles plying railways erected atop stilts .. I guarantee you that real estate speculation be what brings rail transit into towns & cities, narily human settlement if ever 💡 💡 💡
As someone on the Westside my biggest thing is how hard it is to get to the redline via bus or walking due to the spacing of stations and destinations. I would take the train or the bus everyday to work downtown if it wasn't a 1 hr process from the Westside of Lakewood. All lines need more buses heading to the stations and stations need more frequency to aid the redlines growth in ridership.
ban private cars from within the city limits
Yes, let's limit people's options. SMH
Really good video! I recently rode the Cleveland light rail for the first time, and my Green Line train literally ran nonstop from Green Road to Shaker Square because no one was getting on or off. West Green Road has to be one of the most baffling light rail stations I've ever seen... Meanwhile my Blue Line ride wasn't packed or anything, but the land use along it is just so much better, and at least one person used every stop.
Thanks! That definitely has been my experience riding the green line versus the blue line as well. It'll be interesting to see how that changes as development patterns in Cleveland change. Hope you'll be able to come visit again once the waterfront line is fully up and running regular service as well!
Miles when were you in Cleveland.? You got a video coming out?
I appreciate the time and effort you put into this video. Shaker has been wishy washy regarding TOD (excepting the Van Aken District) but RTA has been more proactive. RTA has studied TOD in-depth and has begun selling/leasing some of its land along the Red Line for mixed-use development. I'm just hoping Shaker and RTA come together regarding the Green Line: There is prime land to develop and the Green and Warrensville Stations. The City of Cleveland has also begun to get more proactive about density along its portions of the Green, Blue, and Red Lines. There's also the money aspect. RTA has sunk hundreds of millions into infrastructure improvements on the Green, Blue, Red, and Waterfront Lines. Hundreds of millions more is being spent on a new, universal rolling stock to serve all lines, regardless of their current heavy or light rail status. The Red Line stock is due to be replaced in 2026 and the Green/Blue/Waterfront in 2030. RTA wouldn't invest all this money to abandon the rails anytime soon. I do love your idea to realign the busses to better serve the rail lines. RTA can both cut down on bus stock and increase rail ridership. A great combo of cost-cutting and income generation. -The son of a longtime, now retired RTA Rail Department employee.
Very well done! Please make more urbanism videos like this. I dig the 70s music too, which kinda reminds me of Alan Fisher's videos, but of course you have your own style. I just subscribed. I hope your channel grows and gets more subscribers!
Thank you!
I can't believe that Cleveland has lost two thirds of its population since the 50s. I mean, I understand why, it's just unfathomable to me idk
Would you consider it a start that they ordered Siemens trams to replace the Red Line trains and maybe the Blue/Green/Waterfront trams?
I loved this video, I hope you make more Cleveland content soon! Regarding the Green line, Id love to see and extension to Cedar/Richmond and use its less-dense through neighborhoods as express perhaps and focus more on station placement and less on route throughput. :3
expand it to the highways expanding the green line to highway and making a park and ride would increase riders
That's actually the original proposal by the RTA! However, they shifted priorities and have sold off the ROW for the extension. All of the bridges going over a future extension have also been filled in, basically meaning that the RTA does not intend to extend the green line in the future
AWESOME video. I personally hope they focus on further Van Aken development and Shaker Square redevelopment. Those are places that already have some popularity, so bringing in more businesses seems doable and would boost light rail ridership. I'll also say even if it has lower ridership, I view the Green Line as invaluable. It's the only rail line in Cleveland that takes riders to nature (Nature Center, Beechwood Park). It's so nice to step off a train and be able to access nature within minutes of walking.
Man your video is really high quality. The editing and the music is especially nice. But please remove those discord notifications sounds.
Instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, I think it would be wonderful (however expensive) to re-route the Green Line up into Cleveland Heights and over to University Heights where there is a much denser and more economically diverse population, destinations (theater, cinema, bars/restaurants, concert venues, colleges), and new dense developments already underway. It would be well cheaper to do this here than in most cities starting from scratch. There is currently no good way to get from The Heights to downtown unless you bike to the Green Line.
Tyler Mac we need the vacation
A lot of us don't know too much about Cleveland's transit, let alone light rail there, so thanks for sharing the detailed look - great video :)
If it is unsuccessful, why do you want to "save" it? There are dozens of cities with these failed leftist "light rail" projects running around empty, they fail over and over, so why do you want to save them.
It's more so the potential that I see in them. I've seen successful light rail projects like St. Louis where it is a core of the transit system and keeps the city going, especially given the hard times the city has fallen on. Also, we've unfairly propped up highway expansions and other car-centric infrastructure that are much more of a financial "failure" compared to transit. It's time to stop the double standard we hold for an essential city service.
@@spd_bird So, you -that is, a tiny niche population of "public transit enthusiasts" - ride around in trolleys like good little citizens. Highway expansions actually accomplish something, because people actually use cars, unlike trolleys. A trolley is a micro-solution that works in very limited cases - tightly-packed cities. Tightly-packed cities should be demolished, not encouraged.
@@brettbuck7362 So, you -that is, a tiny niche population of "car enthusiasts" - ride around in cars like good little citizens. Airport runway expansions actually accomplish something, because people actually use private planes, unlike cars. A car is a micro-solution that works in very limited cases - tightly-packed cities (like Avon or Pepper Pike). Tightly-packed cities should be demolished, not encouraged.
They are currently redesigning Lee rd. Much of the funding is already in place. Shaker is also rezoning most of the street for larger mixed use development. Currently it is illegal to have a restaurant on the street because of outdated regulations. The real reason for people not using the rail lines is poor service. Service is scheduled for every 30 minutes. The trains are frequently broken due to lack of maintenance. You cannot expect to keep a job if your transportation is unreliable. Residents are given a choice between having a car or tossing a coin when it comes to to arriving on time.
Was just in Cleveland the other day. It has far more potential than pretty much any other rust belt city, in my opinion, due to its heavy and light rail lines. Its main problem as you said its that they've failed to develop high density areas around the stations.
As a Clevelander, I hope they expand the light rail and train system here. Being originally from Houston, it's nice having a useful public transit system.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it's worth saving. It's only 16 miles long even though it opened in 1996. 16 miles after 28 years implies a failed transit system with low ridership. LA Metro light rail started in 1990 with one line and now has 95 miles of light rail with four lines and growing. Two additional light rail lines have already been approved and will start construction in a year or two. And two existing lines are being expanded.
Having signal priority, dense housing around stations, pedestrian-oriented infrastructure, and accessibility are all keys to a successful system and a strong city. In Jersey City, the HBLR has played a role in bringing so much development to downtown. When Jersey Ave and Marin Blvd stations opened in 2000, they were in the middle of brownfields! Now, they're surrounded by lots of apartments and condos. It's not a perfect system but the HBLR gets the job done at unifying Hudson County! They went above and beyond to serve everyone, whether it's building an underground station in the Weehawken Tunnel (formerly used by West Shore Railroad/NY Central trains) to serve Bergenline Ave in Union City or building an elevator off the Palisades at 9th St/Congress St so people living in JC's The Heights can access the station down in Hoboken.
As they say, if you build it, they will come! Give people a reason to stay for a while by building nice housing with transit that makes a car-free lifestyle possible, and they will come! On Long Island for example, while it famously has the LIRR, the suburbs around LIRR stations tend to be pretty car-oriented, but Patchogue has shown that change is possible! Patchogue station serves as an important hub for Suffolk Transit, it's a short walk to Main Street where all the action is with great shops, the brewery where Blue Point beer is made, a performing arts center, and restaurants (during certain summer nights, Main Street is closed to cars for a pedestrianized festival). And Patchogue even participates in Suffolk County's bikeshare program as well as the Hamptons, Riverhead, Huntington, and Babylon!
Pittsburgh light rail has the same problem.
So well done. I lived on Overlook / top of the hill from 2010-2012, and rode the HealthLine, Green Line, and Red Line all throughout that time. Your analysis of the green line is spot-on. The streetcar-suburb history of the green and blue line is almost unique in the US and I think has a great place in the 21st century.
Thank you! Yes, the more I learned about the green/blue lines, the more I realized just how unique they were along with the city of Shaker Heights itself!
You totally neglected the fact that RTA is re-equipping the car fleet with Siemens S200 LRVs with dual platform capabilities. This will allow through-routing from the Blue and Green Lines with the Red Line to Hopkins Airport. Also, with one type of car on the roster, maintenance would be easier and parts inventories would be lower.
Yup, the $308 million rebuild I mentioned also includes the new rail cars. The reason I didn't mention it specifically was because the main cost was not maintenance but operators/wages which are holding the system back. The operator shortage right now means that the RTA doesn't even have enough people to operate the waterfront line during regular hours. I'm therefore skeptical towards new vehicles generating a significant increase in ridership but it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Perhaps that plan to unify all 3 lines into a single light rail system could help the Blue/Green lines. But I have no idea if they’re going forward with this plan or was just an idea
There have been some proposals for consolidating green/blue line service onto just the blue line but I've only ever seen it as a proposal by outside consultants and members of the public, not the RTA itself.
This is probably the best option tbh. Maybe leave the Green Line as a short route to/from Shaker Square so that the infrastructure doesn't go to waste
One thing people don't realize is the long term impact such projects have for the area. High Speed Rail between Madison and Milwaukee was going to stop in the cities between on the route and it would have made the corridor grow as a part of it as it. Madison is moving towards selecting a place for an amtrak station but no passenger rail track directly to it. So Rail is good, people want it, just the few get in the way preventing the growth of the community.
It's sad to see when a rail project like that dies. Ohio was supposed to have rail service connecting Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati about 10 years ago. However, the governor rejected federal funding and killed the proposal. Luckily, Ohio is being given a second chance now so hopefully the state takes full advantage of it.
The green and blue lines need to be straight up rerouted and de interlined and serve new areas like the museum of natural history and the university areas. The green line should be extended to places people are heading to.
Why not replace the LRT with an EL? Then extend it to new areas?
😅😂 the bottom line that no one ever wants to talk about in public transportation in America. >RACE!!
lol i recently browsed cleveland on google maps and most of the stations are just park and rides. Not to mention the city is 50% parking lots
The housing isn't the issue it's the the "squalid" conditions around the station people don't like to walk in dirty, poorly lite areas
If you're talking about just the blue line, you're not wrong! Housing density there is definitely less of an issue relative to the walkability of the area
Well I'm not from Cleveland so i can't talk about what the area looks like but where i live in the Chicago suburbs there is a train station that's surround by single family housing and a busy road and the parking lot is always packed full of cars. It sounds like the issue is accessing the station but again i don't know what the area is like
@@morewi That makes sense! I'm guessing that a lot of the demand is from the fact that Chicago has more jobs located in the city (higher job density) compared to Cleveland, so vehicle traffic and convenience probably play more of a driving factor for ridership via a Park-n-ride, despite surrounding land use.
@@spd_bird well I know Cleveland did have a pretty big population loss but how many jobs actually left the city?
@@morewi It's hard to find exact numbers but from just 2000 to 2010, Cleveland lost 78,000 manufacturing jobs, and that's well after Cleveland began its decline in the 70s. I'd assume it was much worse overall since population loss probably reflected job loss.
I really want top see the Blue Line rerouted from Shaker Square to University Circle and Cleveland Clinic. It would be a short line that would make a HUGE difference! If done right, with stations very close to hospitals, it would likely at least double rail system ridership from day one. Imagine directly connecting all those jobs and appointments at the hospitals, universities, and institutes to the wonderful apartments lining the Blue Line. With the local community non profit development org owning Shaker Square, the time is now for maximizing that investment. Added bonus, since that would be much shorter than running downtown, the Blue Line would get better frequency with the same amount of trains and staff.
For sure!
Those discord notification sounds drive me nuts...
Please i am loosing my mind!
oh my god that's what that was
Why did you put a Discord notification sound at 0:21?
I recorded the clip while Discord was running in the background. I didn't realize the notification sound was in the recording until after uploading lol