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Learning From the World’s Best Transit Systems
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
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Cities all around the world have different transit systems, but they often face the same problems. In today's video, we talk about how thinking about transit globally can make it fundamentally better.
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I think one great way you can make sure the next generation is both passionate and knowledgeable about global transit, is to just expose your kids to as many different transit systems as you can, as early as you can.
I think this is a great idea. It's hard to visualize how great transit works if you've never experienced it and know no-one who has. Personally, I'd been interested in rapid transit systems before, but I had never actually BEEN on one. A trip to London basically rewired my brain chemistry and opened my eyes to how deep the solutions can go.
Honestly very good point, and highlights the value of travel!
@@WilliamChan definately. I've seen two of the world's absolute top tear before i was 8, ano another one before I was 16. Even though neither of my Zparents were transit enthusiasts, here I am...
Australian transport departments seem to have a problem with this - they keep bringing decision makers in from the wrong side of the English Channel, with predictable results.
Agreed. France has a somewhat consistent national strategy for building transit, while the UK pretends only London is important.
@@crowmob-yo6ry France is still incredibly capital-centric, actually famously so. If you want a truly more decentralised approach, you need to look at countries with multiple major urban areas that can actually compete with each other.
Sydney's current network is fine as is. Once the metro opens it'll be on par with other Tier 1 Western rail networks.
@@bahnspotterEUTo be fair, France is capital-centric because that’s where their population is. The population density is basically just a star centered on Paris.
@@bahnspotterEU At least there's metro and high speed rail across France.
Transit lover here and have cut my driving by 90% here in the Toronto area post COVID. Life is more relaxed avoiding the highways.
Thats great to hear, hopefully your quality of life is still very good, meanwhile you and everyone around you benefits from less driving.
Spot on! Here in Britain there are (above all) two people who should be watching this video. The new (Labour) Minister of Transport Louise Haigh, and her assistant in the House of Lords Lord (Peter) Hendy. Yes, the current chairman of Network Rail! He will presumably have to step down from that role.
Not to be a pedant but the new Transport Secretary is Louise Haigh, not Claire Haigh.
@@smokeyeyes__ Thanks, i have made the necessary correction.
@@Fan652w with all respect to Reece and in fairness to Peter Hendy, the latter has managed many transport systems of different modes in different countries. He's also got a strong personal interest in transport, and would be able to teach us all a thing or two.
@@joegrey9807Hendy has certainly vast experience in managing British buses and trains. But what is the foreign experience you are talking about? The (admittedly rather brief) biography in Wikipedia does not mention overseas appointments. Did Firstbus send him overseas? If so, where?
@@Fan652w I understand he was involved in either Singapore or Hong Kong.
There are organisations such as the Community of Metros that help. But I think the main problem is politicians getting in the way of transport professionals who generally do know what goes on around the world because they're usually interested in the subject. There always will be local issues - physical and political geography, funding, historic infrastructure etc that have a huge impact on possible solutions, but there does seem to be to much 'exceptionalism', especially in the US.
Learning from other countries is not unpatriotic at all. In fact, it's very patriotic to want to compete to have the best public transit on the planet, even if it involves seeking help from elsewhere.
@@crowmob-yo6ry indeed, luckily most places seem to be pretty good at looking elsewhere
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For sure they do help, but I am actually more cynical about many transport professionals and less of politicians. I have seen politicians save transport agencies from themselves many times, and I've seen transport professionals dismiss good policies many times!~
@@RMTransit possibly in North America but here in Europe that's not the case. Where there are apparently odd decisions, you generally don't have to delve too far into the operations or finances to work out why that decision was made. And in some cases politicians will blame operators for decisions that ultimately came from them.
Learning from other people with knowledge and experience? Yes!
Underrated!
Tank You! for Mentioning the Santiago metro I feel honored. that our capital metro system is one of the best in the world. Something that many other cities without public transport could look up to.🙌🇨🇱
I am in Istanbul right now and the metro here really is special in many good and bad ways. I was surprised that there is a transfer station, but it has different names on the two lines that meet there. Other stations share a name, but a far apart. The price of a trip depends how often you have to transfer.
Yeah that is . . . not great
Even in Auckland NZ multiple subsequent trips are priced as one trip (assuming you have an AT Hop smartcard)
One of my favourite things when visiting a new city is working out the public transport system. Currently in Oslo, its so satisfying once you start recognising lines and stations
Maybe a video on lessons for countries like Australia and Canada from the Rail Baltica project? Higher speeds without breaking the bank by not going for gold standard 300km/h, use of single track, integration with freight....
Actually the US regulatory agency NHSTA has outright REFUSED to allow the advanced auto-dimming headlight technology from Europe over here. After a decade or so of heel dragging they finally allowed something that not only does not exist anywhere, but probably will not exist because of the costs to make it happen! 🤦♂️
RMTransit has over 300k subs and less than 1k patreon subscribers. He has a $1/mo tier. Let's support the good work he's putting in to educate and improve transit everywhere. 🙌
Hey, uh, Reece, since you included a train from the Buenos Aires suburban train network, when's that video coming?
And yes, I'm starting to get desperate
He already made one
@@gamewarrior010 I believe he did a video on the Buenos Aires Subte (Subway), not the metropolitan train network
I am always working on more videos - but its a ton of work
On-Station developments are extremely common in Asia, especially in Japan with private rail operators being real estate developers on their own stations, and Hong Kong's MTR getting exclusive development rights on and around their stations. On-Rail-Yard developments are common in Hong Kong, but there is even more of them in the Chinese Mainland, whether it be metro yards, or more recently even HSR yards.
Great video! Sometimes when my family and I travel back to India from Singapore, we'll be in a city and use the metro (in this case the Kochi Metro). It uses Alstom Metropolis rolling stock, which is also used in the Singapore MRT, and you can't tell either system apart honestly. The trains on the Kochi Metro are just as modern as Singapore's MRT trains. If I'm not wrong other metros being built in the country are also following a similar trend, providing world-class transit to people in cities! Now we just gotta work on our buses, and improving our streets so that people can walk to transit safely...
I had a blast riding the trains in Japan. Never ride trains in my hometown of LA
You are clearly brainwashed by sensationalist news media and its fear-mongering about crime.
Trains/transit is underrated in LA. Definitely has issues but most places aren't ridiculously built and spread out like LA. And for that reason Tokyo is probably the best example LA should look to for transit, both because their obviously top tier in transit and because they're very polycentric and spread out like LA. Being completely car free in LA is pretty hard unless you live and work in convenient places, but taking transit for leisure to popular spots on the weekend without the hassle of parking is underrated.
You should ride them! Otherwise why would they build more!
Hi Reece, have you thought about doing a transit explained on Bilbao/Basque region? It's a seems like a really unique area transit-wise with narrow gauge lines being gradually upgraded to metro standards.
Hey, you know what, I realise something, you never talked about cable gondala cabins as public transit. Yet another thing that no one really think about except in a few places
He has though? Anyways, cable gondolas are useful but very niche. Basically, where you really need a good transit link over steep or impassable terrain but ridership is low, and don't mind spending a lot per passenger.
Ridership doesn't have to be super low. Modern gondolas can handle up to 4000 passengers per hour per direction. They also operate 5 or 6 cabins per minute. No other mode can offer such frequency.
I think costs and low speeds (20 km/h) are the biggest downsides.
(The stats are all from La Paz, Bolivia which has the largest gondola network in the world.)
@@szurketaltos2693 La Paz Cable Car moves 200 000 passagers per day, more than Miami Metrorail
The cost isn't high at all.
You can operate a multi-station gondola line for cheaper than a bus line while transporting more people with constant high service.
The first gondola line being built in Paris, Cable C1, will open next year with 5 stations over 4.5km of line.
Providing a similar service with busses would be more expensive and much slower.
The building cost is the main one, but it's very reasonable and pretty cheap over the lifespan of the system.
Cabins' lifespan can cover 2 to 4 generations of busses, maintenance is actually usually simpler than for bus fleet, and you need fewer employees. The machinery lasts for decades, only the cables need a change at intervals.
Sure, gondolas are more useful on "obstacle routes", which don't need to be mountains or hills. In Paris, Cable C1 goes over a rail yard, a high-speed line, and a high voltage line, with very little elevation differences. It extends metro line 8 from its Eastern terminus to some isolated neighborhoods.
It's called C1 because it's introducing the Cable category, as there are several other potential projects of the type in the Greater Paris area.
This one will serve a bit as proof of concept.
Creating a new category is indicative that they are quite confident about the usefulness.
While in Toulouse, they've opened a 3-station 3S gondola line fairly recently that's connected to a subway line on one side.
People like it a lot, and there are plans to extend it further West to connect to another subway line.
This one travels over a hill and a river with large cabins.
Maybe Reece will do a video of the Paris one when it opens or feature it in another one.
If you search "RMTransit Gondola" on RUclips you will find it! ruclips.net/video/iNr59pNkCHI/видео.htmlsi=q12o6RFYvCjkVUb8
i just simply love the whole topic
Thats good to hear!
@@RMTransit i guess i started to get fascinated by metro and trams around 2010 when I first lived in a large city abroad, but as child I liked to go to see trains in stations. Unfortunately I used to live in a small town where the closest station is 15 km away and you can just reach it by car, or at that time by few busses a day. Afterwards I just tried to get to know the field, and I ended up on this channel around 1 year ago or more. And I got to learn always new stuff. Very cool idea
Couldn't agree more. In Melbourne I suspect the problems are a mixture of being inward and backward looking, very conservative and the funding going to the wrong places. The poor split-brain public/private multi-organisation choices that have been made also spread responsibility across too many agencies and companies. It's astonishing that even the easy-to-fix details (like passenger information displays, good signage at stations, map design, announcements, how works and delays are messaged) have only really just started to be addressed over the last couple of years. Australians travel overseas a lot, so I would find it surprising if almost everyone involved hasn't been to a city where they have this better sorted out; and yet it still takes an age to happen here. I think it would be really interesting if you could talk to the people involved in different cities and find out what actually does hold them back (or has enabled them to succeed).
Reece you be lookin slim and healthy as hell man!
Yay b roll of the LUAS, celebrating 20 years last month
Luas footage🎉
Yes its just French LRT on Irish streets, but the Irish cultural psyche now thinks of them as a Luas and not a "tram", and potential new lines being luasanna (plural)... Even though that makes no grammatical sense, as it means "fast".
Only one outside of Dublin currently in any form of planning, which is for Cork City. But talk of a Galway Luas or G-Luas has been in conversation for years, some even advocating a very-light rail / vLRT smaller scale system.
Oh and the pending branch extension of the Dublin Green line to Finglas is sometimes dubbed the Fingluas🤣
Could we get a video talking about what u think are the most successful methods/cities at transfers, construction, coverage, etc? Like what are some systems most successful at?
Thank you, Reece! So many cities don't bother looking very far and repeat the same mistakes over and over again.
. . . Like the MBTA in the Boston area won't even look as far as New Jersey . . . .
I definitely agree with you video. I have travelled to different cities around the world and I have definitely seen good and bad on all the different systems I have encountered. I have also witnessed attitudes within my city where planners or individuals involved with their local system get very defensive about their own systems and don't like exterior input. I wish more planners would be willing to learn from others.
Don't underestimate Eastern Europe, more spcific, Bucharest and Sofia metro systems
I do agree. Public transportation planning can be very annoying at the moment, because there are many limiting factors. The two biggest factors are cost and labour. Many western countries nowadays struggle with a shortage of workforce. Also the financing of the public transportation sector is often not easy 😢.
Tangentally, cars not using Touch Screens for any of the functions involved in Operating the Car would be a Good thing.
Yay 🎉 Chile 🇨🇱 was mentioned! Great video
I haven taken urban rail transit in all seven metro areas in Canada where available.
300K - Congrats!
i think a good rule of thumb is to have good transit hubs ie a place where all local and regional and intercity lines meet.
that makes for good connectivity :)
and of course good marketing is always important
think global, act local
Indeed
This could almost be a new trailer for the channel! 😊 I mean that in a good way. It’s super smart and really good - and describes your ethos & MO really well.
You're doing the Lord's work with this one. It always shocks me how little most Americans know about transit in other countries. We can make better connected cities at home, too, but we need to pay greater attention to what others around the world are doing!
Just going to add to the chorus here and express my frustration with the local transit agency (Halifax Transit) and their insistence on constantly reinventing the wheel. Everything is approached as a ground up, locally developed solution even if the end result takes a decade of studies and planning and just implements something that somewhere else has already done (probably better - looking at you electronic fare system that took over 12 years to implement). Or even more frustratingly, seemingly low hanging, simple improvements or fixes that could be done if they were just aware that other places were already doing it. Argh. So insular.
Hi Reece, I would love to see a video about my city (Medellín, Colombia). Your content is amazing!
Hearing somewhere outside Argentina talking positively about Buenos Aires public transport network feels surreal. Turns out there are places with worse public transport than us. Yay...?
I hope you do a video about Claudia Sheinbaum’s plans to expand rail in Mexico on a huge scale!
A great 'big picture' clip. Hard to disagree with a single word of it.
FYI one of my other interests is defence. There's a RUclips channel under the name of 'Perun'. He is an Australian defence economist, with a talent for turning complex matters into riveting presentations. I don't know if anyone in transit is doing quite the same thing, but I suspect you might be among the closest. Might be of interest to take a peek.
trains, trams, busses and in some cases boats, ( waterbusses )
jakarta/indonesian video please
As an expat who grew up in the country, it's garbage lmao. Also the decision to outsource the bullet train development to China instead of Japan is an asinine one.
Just a corrupt mess of a government.
Cities around the world should learn a thing or two about public transportation from Reno NV!
Before you start typing your Angry Negative comments, i am being Sarcastic.
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BRT is a good solution for some cities
You know it's a good video when you see your home in the first second. God I miss Shenzhen
I hope there's a follow up video that drills a bit deeper into specifics that should be standardized worldwide... Here's mine shortlist... 1-Automated trains that are labor/strike proof 2-Open-carriage rolling stock with transverse seating 3-overhead wires vs third rail for obvious reasons of safety and just MORE POWER! 4-Platform screen doors or at least barriers... 5-Strong heating, ventilation and most importantly AC...
It was 36c in Edmonton yesterday, 45c in some parts of the North side where I live and of course most people here don't have AC built in as standard. So even the coolest city in North America is boiling over at this point... It seems foolish to not made it a human right for 6 months that people can emergency cool access spaces like subway stations, libraries, etc. when the temps are over 25c....
Cut New York City construction costs please!
Good points. Recently, when people tell me how elevated rail is terrible in the US, I started defaulting to the reply of "yes, because you guys make it so". I then show Tokyu Toyoko Line segments and elevated stations. It really does feel like that NA transport activists and builders and politicians alike lack imagination and don't look elsewhere for solutions that already existed 20, 40, even 100 years ago.
Americans don't travel.
Well said Reece!
Thanks Paul !
Video idea: comparisons of fare schemes from different countries. E.g. I find Vancouver's pricing seriously hinders ridership, but other schemes could actually improve the system, like HK.
*World's best transit systems
*sees Buenos Aires
Me: I'm gonna have to watch this now
He doesn't use Mitre line to commute to work for sure.
Mitre line: crowded as always, now at turtle speed! 💀
Look at Copenhagen Denmark
I have a theory that big infrastructure (or infrastructure-adjacent) issues such as transit or healthcare are highly politicized, and as such they become a game of political gains/national pride, where it's much harder to bring in international expertise. I honestly think Canadian provinces could really benefit from a French transit minister for example, or a Finnish health minister. And I don't see it ever happening. So we end up reinventing the wheel over and over again.
Great video! Btw when could you make a video about Moscow they got amazing three circular lines!!
He basically had video about MCC in Moscow, but when Russo-Ukranian conflict started, he deleted this video
They should all learn about how the Japanese do it. Look at how in Tokyo, you have through running between JR East, Tokyo Metro, Toei Subway and multiple private rail companies. And most importantly of all, *ONE* unified payment system using Suica or Pasmo payment cards or mobile app.
Mass transit stations needs to have connections to walking, running, cycling, ebuses, escooters and open green spaces.
Mobility matters. Bicycles matter. Stations need safe places to lock and store bicycles and other forms of transit. like escooters.
Yup! All transit stations need to become multi-modal hubs that you can walk, bike, scoot, skip, uber, car-share, park or take a bus from... In Edmonton they are community hubs for all types for better or for worse if you know what I mean. You might as well legitimize them as the centres of activity that they are...
Learn from Athens transportation system: use time - based multiple tickets or do not use any tickets (as is common in Athens)
Aren't there professional organizations for transit that trade best practices and information on what each community or region is doing to manage their systems? I have to assume that there are. So, what are those organizations doing to reach out to professionals, communities, and elected officials? What are the private companies that manufacture busses, trains, etc. doing to educate their current and future customers?
As a GIS Analyst for a local government, there are a plethora of professional organizations that I can and do join at a local, state, and national/international level. I have to assume that the same is true for transit planners, manufacturers, maintenance personnel, etc.
They exist, but that doesn't mean their mandate is fulfilled. People often fall into using stuff like that as a box filling exercise.
I'm curious as to whether any of you who've rode on subways prefer the bench seats or the two per row seats? Which do you think are safer? 🤔
It would be nice if the global outlook were implemented more in America for sure. Canadian cities tend to look to Europe for inspiration, while American cities look to each other instead.
Too many American politicians and their supporters have the absurd idea that looking to other countries for ideas means we're "America-hating globalists!!" or something.
Americans on average don't acknowledge the rest of the world on anything. Why would transit be different?
Your comments about busses hits very close to home. I live in Marin County which is just north of San Francisco and our transit agency Golden Gate transit several years ago bought a whole bunch of new motor coaches.. To put it mildly I was dissatisfied with the motor coaches that they chose and refer to them as pieces of junk. The new coaches have less seats than the coaches they're replacing approximately 1/3 of the seating on board the buses have obstructed legroom, they make a lot of noise inside the coach. Upside is they do have low level boarding. However the low level boarding serves less than half of the seats on the bus the rest your climbing steps. The reason given to me why they purchased these motor coaches was because they were made in America. That's just pathetic, I'd be willing to bet if they got a bunch of transit agencies together they could offer up a combined contract for enough vehicles that a manufacturer would build and operate a manufacturing facility in this country to produce those new coaches that would actually serve the customers well.
Whilst Reece focus on large well know global cities, there is a lack of what is happening in other countries, like making New Zealand into one national urban metro public transport system especially since the Government has changed the law to allow regional councils (regional local government administration) to work together to allow their public transport services to cross regional boundaries, the roil out of an 'open loop' national 'tap & travel payment system the cab used across the country, the reintroduction of frequent regional and inter-regional passenger rail services on an under utilised national rail network that has a potential of catchment on 80% of the county's population, with connecting regional bus services that connect with local urban buses, the creation of public funding mechanisms at central and local governments and so on. I am currently involved in the concept and its is interesting to see what will work and what wont.
🤦♀️ He can't make videos about every single thing that happens in the world
This is a stranger thought by the decades (of economical change). We speak about “cities” deciding transport systems - but except China & some far east, “cities” across OECD don’t _own_ these resources (IP, tech, engineering, logistics…) or the land needed. They just pay the invoices, and that’s not investment. That’s paying bills, like any consumer.
As Reese says, the solutions look pretty much the same across “the west”. No wonder, as we now have only a few corporations making what’s needed for transit. And our “cities” usually can’t collect stock dividends to pay for “investments” - they must (by law) contract everything out.
That’s obviously expensive for any municipality, as it is for a family, local business or anyone without capital. Money is just _not capital,_ unless said money is someone’s debt.
Sorry, I just can’t get pre-2008 economic math to add up in 2024… 😅
Doesn't France do this with trams to a certain extent?
Is it true you’re moving to Montreal?
If the US would not allow cars to be imported, they would still use V8 and a gearbox with 3 gears🤣🤣.
@ 5:49 "Or even JUST a transit lover."
Ouch!........ Get out of my way! I'm trying to make it to the coach car. I'm not first or business class worthy
The fact u don’t mention Singapore in most videos is disappointing. You should make more vids on Singapore if possible. Noice vids tho
I knew ottawa was (rightfully so) going to be used as an example of a failure lol
We need international & national North American interconnected hsMetros
The ttc still has a fare cash box in their subway system. They clearly are not taking the best ideas from around the world. The ttc is stuck in the 1950s
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Scheduling trains in Swizterland is easy, distances are quite short and homogeneous.
Try to do it in the US... It would be easier to do it in Spain where Madrid is in the middle of the country.
And what exactly makes that harder? It may need more reserves for delays in form of replacement trains or reserves within the timetable, but the old "meRICa juSt to BiG" is a very cheap and bad argument...
OK, try to do it in California + Nevada, or Texas, or Florida, or the North East. Then you have something of a manageable size.
Nobody is going to take a train from Seattle to Miami unless they want to make a RUclips video about it (and then they will do the return journey by plane), they particularly hate planes, or particularly love trains. But shorter distances are very viable.
Or are not allowed to fly.
Chicago is already a major central rail hub in the middle of the USA. If only it had high-speed rail too (which it can)!
The Northeast corridor really should have an integrated train schedule.
Not that that is easy but it would be epic
Odd to not mention the Moscow Metro when its one of the world’s best metro systems.
Yes and No. I agree but there's the obvious Putin elephant in the room... I'd ghost Russia too at this point...
Moscow is lucky that western help to Ukraine prevents them doing the sort of retaliation moscow deserves@stickynorth
Possibly two of them, wink wink, nudge nudge 🤫
@@radicallyrethinkingrailwaysina , when I read similar messages, I'll become sad. Because West clucks about "Russian invasion to Ukraine" but West attacks countries on the whole world. USA is occupying part of Syria right now, but who cares... Hypocritical double standards.
This is not the first time the author pretends that the Moscow metro does not exist
I almost got baited by the thumbnail having a shot of the Macau light rail, it's definitely an example of learning what NOT to do when trying to develop a transit project for your city.
I don't get why RMTransit and so many viewers hate light rail.
Please elaborate. I'm curious to know its shortcomings. My hometown of Edmonton has high floor German-style LRT and now low-floor trams again as of last year... The latter system is pretty, but also pretty slow... And capacity constrained but was talked into by contractors who made the sale of the network as part of a P3 infrastructure scheme... Damn Conservatives!
@@stickynorth Low-floor can be just as fast.
And it allows for better city integration, etc.
In Paris, even the tram-trains are low-floor and reach high speeds. Like lines T11, T12, and T13, which are express trams running partially on mainline rails.
They are low floor so that they can have great urban integration, great accessibility, etc.
Plus, in case of collision with a pedestrian, the low-floor trams are a lot safer.
It's also much more pleasing esthetically, as all the bogies are hidden under the body of the tram. This is also great to limit noise.
In Paris, regular low-floor trams are usually limited to 70 km/h, while the low-floor tram-trains can run above 100 km/h.
So, high or low-floor doesn't have much to do with speed.
Am I the only one who thinks seeing Reece thinner is a little weird? 😂
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I'm all for another Argentinian "coronación de gloria", but the Buenos Aires transportation system has been really, really poorly maintained -- even neglected, in fact, due to political lack of interest and ambition.
A cross-city, RER-style tunnel here would be less than five kilometers here and cross the densest areas of downtown, but the single project proposal that even made it far enough for people to hear about it did not start at all. No budget, no studies, no nothing.
How does an old city like Paris manage to build surface level tramways without causing political upheaval?
It's France, I'm pretty sure political upheaval is factored into the cost.
The trams are not in the core city.
The only 2 lines inside the boundaries of Paris proper are the circular trams T3a & T3b.
But they run on the wide circular boulevards parallel to the Périphérique ring road, which really is outermost parts of the core.
Though the streets of Paris' core city saw the space dedicated to cars shrinking substantially in favor of bike lanes and pedestrians.
Keep in mind that inhabitants of the core are the French population with the lowest level of car ownership.
And in the core, driving is relegated to the 4th used transportation means well behind walking, transit, and cycling. Core Parisians driving are the exception.
Entire expressways have been closed to cars and given to pedestrians and cyclists. Rivoli street, a major artery along the Louvre museum, has been reserved for taxis and cycling, with huge bike lanes.
As for most lines that run in the suburbs, locals have understood that they can't complain against street running trams and at the same time ask for more transit. Though many still try anyway. 🤣
Suburban Parisians tend to complain about the core authorities making it harder to drive there, and complain against bike lanes way more than tramways.
But in France, complaining, demonstrating, and rioting is an art form engraved in our DNA.
So, upheaval is just another day ending in y.
If I recall correctly, you have to go back to the 70's to find a single day without any single demonstration somewhere in the country.
It should be one of the days of national mourning after the passing of President Pompidou, and I'm not even sure that there wasn't any. Just that there were not recorded.
There's always one somewhere, France without some unrest brewing or erupting somewhere would be like Japan without sushi or green tea.
It's unimaginable. 🤣
could you please make another video on bart? or like a list of american transit systems? Us americans don't really have horrible transit here, just the(Mostly republican) politicians with thier ford f150's driving around don't want better transit. also we still do have REALLY good public transit in most democratic cities/regions and i feel like we really don't get enough respect for it.
Politicising the issue solves nothing. Whenever anyone turns public transit into a partisan culture war, we all lose. The real solution is for us transit advocates to educate the ignorant people on the benefits of public transit so they will convert to join our side.
Can you pls talk abt dubai metro
Toronto is largely a quarantine city - people were collected there for a reason - they aren't supposed to leave.
But in the USA people have weapons and it is not very convenient for them to use public transport, especially since 50% of Americans have heard about a shooting in their neighborhood and 20% have witnessed a shooting. There should be a separate channel for the USA "How to build public transport in a country full of weapons"
The real problem is the sensationalist news media and its fear-mongering about crime. And those percentages you gave are obviously way too high, unless the surveys you're referencing were conducted exclusively in specific neighbourhoods where crime tends to be concentrated (like the South Side of Chicago, or the San Francisco Tenderloin). Also, safety is not limited to just crime. Ever heard of car accidents? They kill vastly more people than guns. Please note, I'm not defending gun violence; I just think we need to be realistic about crime and safety. We need both gun control and automobile control.
Well those numbers are not based on any facts, anywhere legit. 50% in their neighborhood? Please list your facts
20% have witnessed a shooting? Again, provide us with the facts
I can easily see that facts are something you absolutely live without. Bless your heart!
@@jerrytwolanes4659 44% of U.S. adults say they personally know someone who has been shot, either accidentally or intentionally, and about a quarter (23%) say they or someone in their family have been threatened or intimidated by someone using a gun. Source "America’s Complex Relationship With Guns 2017"
I agree with this. Crime is one of the, if not the biggest problem for the lack of transit expansion in America.
@@aleon7424 you realise that rural areas have much higher rates of gun violence than cities, right?
Thank you for making this video. American exceptionalism (read: too much patriotism, can we please not become nationalists?) needs to be scaled back. Videos like this will help us do that. Only then will we be able to improve things...things like our transit system!
It's just so frustrating when ignorant people stuck in a bubble call us "America-hating globalists!" whenever we suggest looking to other countries for ideas.
There's nothing wrong with being a nationalist. Why is putting the interests of your own citizens first a bad thing? If you're thinking about national socialism, well that's something entirely different.
@@brick6347 the problem with nationalism starts when people are deriving meaning, pride, or even a feeling of superiority (like e.g. when you don't even consider ideas from other places worth a try) from the completely random coincidence of their place of birth.
Also, more often than not, the abstract idea of a "nation" doesn't reflect the actual reality of different backgrounds, values, heritage, ... of the people who happen to live in an area, which eventually leads to inner conflicts (often harming minorities in the process).
@@brick6347 That's your defense?? "I'm not an _actual_ Nazi, so it's okay?" Remind me not to be your friend...