How This American City Builds Transit on a Budget
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One of the biggest barriers to getting more transit built is the high price of construction - fortunately, this American city cracked the code and will double the size of its subway network in a decade! Learn more in today's video.
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Ever wondered why your city's transit just doesn't seem quite up to snuff? RMTransit is here to answer that, and help you open your eyes to all of the different public transportation systems around the world!
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I'am from Chile and live in Santiago, I look into the thumbnail and think "Hey this metro map looks exactly like our own! ... wait a minute?!!......"
I just clicked because of that.
You've been had my compare
Somos el mejor pais de chile hermano
Pensé exactamente la misma wea
me paso la misma wea XD
Indeed those Chileans know their way around engineering! Greetings from Caracas, Estación Central.
Wuajajajaja Caracas, Estación Central
😂😂😂 the mejor comentario, Brother
LOL
KDKAJSKAJSKAJSKQS
GUAAAJAJA, Me cage de la risa, Caracas estacion central 🤣🤣🤣
We are the best country in Chile bro 🇨🇱
Somos el mejor país de chile y que wea
en inglés no hay chiste porque country tiene varios significados
@@peepo1297 Country these balls
Jajja 😂
Jajajaj
The metro from Chile looks amazing. I wish I could visit it sometime. Greetings from La Florida, Switzerland
Incredible My friend, greetings from The Forest, Sweden
chiste repetido sale podrido, fome.
jajaja greetings from la cisterna, sweden
Yes, it looks like a nice metro system. Greetings from Kong Xa Li, China.
@@bosquenativo3503 seee. falta que salga el awe... que diga; somos el mejor pais de....,
me encanta como pueden tranquilamente hablar de cosas de chile, y hay un montón de chilenos que habla ingles y puede entender e interactuar con estos videos, haciendo que los extranjeros puedan crear contenido especializado, y ganando vistas por eso
El milagro de Google translate.
La mano si eres un gringo youtuber es sacar un video tirandole flores a algo de Chile u otro país tercermundista pa ganar miles de likes y seguidores inmediatamente.
Nuestro sistema de educación nos enseña inglés desde muy pequeños, ya sabiendo un inglés "basico" cuando salimos de la escuela.
@@Nevermore1990
A mi de 5 básico me hicieron inglés.
Hay colegios donde enseñan ingles de kinder.
creo que somos uno de los paises de sudamerica con mas % de entendimiento de ingles, si no el que mas % tiene.
What I, as a Santiaguino, have learnt from this video is that folks in the US can't replicate our subway system because they're too busy complaining about what 'American' means. Just know that, for every comment that you leave, we get one more station.
Exactly. Americans means those who live on the American continent, not just the US. That simple.
Mi hermano en cristo escupiendo puras verdades 🗣️🗣️🗣️ y cagándose en los gringos jsjajs
I have never encountered anyone from the US (or Canada or Mexico) complaining about what 'American' means. Only people from South America. There is no one on the other side of the "debate" and no one telling you that you're wrong. Thus, I must conclude that these complaints are what fund the expansion of the Santiago Metro. So keep doing it.
😂😂😂😂😂
Folks in the USA know that America means the USA. Folks in latin america think america means 2 whole continents.
I just wanted to mention the cultural part of the metro. And that is that many of the stations are beautifully decorated with mosaics, paintings, or even dioramas representing the surrounding area or the name of the station. For an instance, Christopher Columbus station has a diorama of the 3 ships, sailing out of Puerto de Palos, or Puente Cal y Canto has one showing the construtuon of the bridge, not to mention that while digging up to build the station, they found the remains of the original bridge.
Man I was gonna troll the hell out of you. But then rmtransit had they be civil message pop up. So insert whatever crazy thing you think I would've said to criticize Columbus.
@@afroabroad I'm not praising colombus at all, I'm just saying an artist made a diorama of his expedition, that's all
@@senorbolainas2991 I completely understand. I just think its interesting that once I wanted to troll rm transit already called me out on my bs.
Coolest thing about the dioramas is they're all made by the same guy, 'Zerreitug'. Some of the more recent installations have also included the station's surface buildings and surrounding areas, like in Parque O'Higgins, Bellas Artes or Universidad Católica.
@@juanjuri6127Si. Zerreitug es pulento. Lo sigo en instagram y es increíble cómo hace las maquetas
Loved the "American City" bait. America is a continent, not a country :)
They SHOULDNT be on a budget though. Public transit should be properly invested in for the best service possible 😤
That was a nice detail.
Or according to some, a pair of continents.
Oh you're one of those...
Nice wordplay
I may not like living in Santiago, but you can bet that my favorite part of that city is the eficient public transport system. Both the metro and the public buses share the same payment system so you can change between the two at the cost of the same ticket (less than a dollar). You can pick a bus to arrive at your closest metro station, then you take the metro to move across the longest distances, and then you pick another bus that finally leaves you on your destination. A trip that crosses the entire city, for less than a dollar.
And so Santiaguinos are so ungrateful of our very cheap fare. The rest are funded from the national treasury, even from the provinces.
Great video! As a Chilean, I would like to add two things:
1. Every major infrastructure project here is built through a government and private sector partnership, either by the government offering just the construction or also granting rights to its exploitation in exchange of the private taking care of the maintenance.
2. Santiago’s Metro is so profitable that it subsidizes buses operations in the Greater Santiago area. The “Red Metropolitana de Movilidad” (or Metropolitan Mobility Network in English), comprised by the Metro, Buses and Suburban Trains, as a whole looses money and frequently triggers a political conflict between Santiago and the rest of Chile due to its high cost and being financed mainly through the national government. Still, only the buses are the problem (suburban trains have recently managed to make a profit, I think).
De todas maneras es una visión incorrecta ver como algo malo el hecho que reciba subsidios, el transporte urbano casi nunca es rentable y donde no se aplican subsidios o son bajos (como en regiones) el servicio es pésimo. Por otro lado metro tiene una afluencia grande porque es alimentado por los buses (lo cual es la gracia del sistema integrado)
Los trenes ni idea, porque aunque están integrados estos los opera EFE no RED.
Its always interesting how countries conflict with their primate cities, even when such as the case with Santiago they are critical to the national economy!
But I'm guessing the bus network is essential for bringing people to the Metro network. Certainly I need a bus to take me to the nearest Elizabeth line Line station.
@@RMTransit there are studies in Chile saying that building a metro line in Concepción (2nd biggest city) or an extension in Valparaíso (3rd largest city) would be more cost effective (money invested per passenger) than the current and future projects in Santiago. Surely the expertise building cost effective metro lines in Santiago can be applied in other parts of Chile. Sadly, the national government doesn't care much.
@@Lapid34 no fue mi intención plantearlo como algo malo, si no solo describir el conflicto que surge de Santiago vs regiones.
Ahora, creo que el transporte público en Chile debe ser competencia de los gobiernos regionales, de manera que sea el gobierno metropolitano el que deba gestionar los subsidios de Red con el límite del propio presupuesto regional y no el gobierno nacional, por ejemplo. Lo mismo con el resto de gobiernos regionales con sus respectivos sistemas. Esto supone que los gobiernos regionales tengan más plata y atribuciones, y ojalá con fuentes de financiamiento fijas.
Soñar no cuesta nada (?).
Chile's Metro is truly amazing, I wish more countries would have the will of doing such a great work with the public transport as Chile does. I'd Love to visit it sometime! Greetings from La Pintana, Norway.
Los de La pintana esta off limits
I saw the thumbnail and thought "that looks suspiciously like the Santiago metro system". And indeed it was. This dude used the proper meaning of the "american" word!
From the USA, lived in Santiago for a few years. Their metro system is a thousand times better than anything ive experienced in my home country.
I do love USA, I'm not an gringo hating asshole, but I do have to say, I've seen compilations of what goes on in NY metro and... I'm scared for you guys.
Have you come to Chile? It’s pretty interesting to see how well engineered the metro system is because of earthquakes. It’s almost unbelievable that our metro system is built with a lot more of ground mechanics studies, high precision engineering and expensive anti seismic technology than the ones in Europe and eastern USA, being at the same time more efficient
As a chilean, it was actually fun to see this video. And yes, if there's one thing that impresses me in our metro, is our standardisation for EVERYTHING surrounding the metros and their lines. For instance, the "older" line 4 is a hassle to expand because it was built with older standards not currently in use. So it was easier and cheaper to build an entire new line 9 and to connect it at the tip of Line 4 in Plaza Puente Alto.
Merci Paris, if there was one awesome thing you gave us, was the know-how to build metros.
They also gave us pan francés [gets pelted by marraquetas]
Et vous êtes les bienvenus en France! Venez quand vous voulez!
The French also started the independence process by taking over Spain
@@MatiasEspinosa1 what?! I didn't know France was dependant of a country at the time it started to build metro lines.
@@ronflexleprocrastinateur9888😂😂😂
What are you saying kid???
Ever since I rode the Santiago metro, I haven't been able to find a better one, even in Europe
As a worker from EFE (Railway company of the State in english) that currently is working in the construction of two railway lines independent of the metro's lines, i could say company is working at the moment in the goal of maintain an EBITDA zero, so in the future could be more cost effective to get fundings to build new lines. We are far from that for now, but those are long time goals from strategic objectives of the company.
That said, the new lines are being constructed in the same way as metro, including the private sector in different sections of the train line to make them compete for the best cost/benefit project. Additionally there are projects of expansion for lines in other cities of Chile, for example Valparaiso.
Gracias por su trabajo compa!
grande EFE, me encantaría trabajar ahí! Se han logrado reinventar de manera super exitosa. Si se logra construir el tren a Valpo - aunque sea via el MOP - sería increíble
Gracias máster @@vichomangiola
Unos grandes, mis respetos y agradecimientos por el trabajo que hacen :)
Gracias por crear tan buenos metros, saludos desde Conce
Probably one of the best things about Metro de Santiago is the fact that the entirety of the system aims to run on 100% renewable energies by 2030. Nowadays it's around 80% solar powered.
solar powered metro farts
The sad part about this is a lot of people, mainly those born in Santiago, don't really appreciate their amazing and modern metro. They always look at me weird when I say the thing I liked the most about the capital is the metro.
This labor and material costs argument always makes me laugh. Spain and France aren’t developing countries, they borders the UK and are among the richest countries in Europe. But they manage to build hundreds of kms of metro extensions for around INT100M/km (of which 95% is underground), there are new extensions openings almost every single year there, the next one being Lyon line B extension on October 20. Regularity makes transit cheap, developing country or not.
For sure, but it comes up every time I discuss costs!
Spain at least does have much lower average wages than other developed countries, but not to the point that it explains the massive transit cost gap
@@RMTransitI want to ask, if you build cheap protected bike lanes all over the city then is it really necessary to even build a transit system afterwards?
@@makisekurisu4674 You didnt ask me but i´d say definitely. What public transit does is saving time and providing (more or less) reliable transit regardless the weather. Thats something bike infrastructure usually cant provide. Also long distance travel on bike isnt really for everybody.
@@makisekurisu4674 Not every journey is suitable for bikes, and not everyone is able to ride a bike.
(Another) fellow chilean here! The one problem I personally have with our subway system is Santiago is that, despite the expansive look it may seem to have, it does not cover the peripheral urban expansion the city currently has! And this is a massive problem as Santiago is an extremely centralized city with some of their administrative subsections holding much more resoruces and services than others, specially when compared to the peripherical ones. As of now, the new lines in construction seem to solve at the very least a part of the problem, but there still exist territories in the city that have no plans for any direct public transport connections whatsoever (buses system in the peripheral areas are such an awful and messy mafia).
Also, big respects for mentioning and including footage of the metrotren system! Most people in Santiago have no idea it exists!
My mother worked in Metro until 2010 aprox. and she told me - in that time - that there were 52 working subterranean fronts... that is a crazy amount of tunneling machines, earth displacement and working crews. The security standards are crazy high, and the construction top-level ant-seismic.
And yet can be done cheaply because the incentives are ver well placed between private a state... which in Chile is a notable exception, alongside other few infrastructure.
You mention the earthquakes and I instantly remember that I was in a 7.2 Ritcher replica of the 2010 earthquake in the 4th line, build in a railway bridge. This is something that we don't even consider in Chile and is really strange for foreigns, to build big estructures with 8 and above Ritcher earthquakes every 2 decades 😅
Dear RM, absolutely agree on the quality of Santiago’s metro. Even though I experienced this system two decades ago, it’s one of my favorites for the frequency, trains, stations and especially the ease of use are all an absolute plus. Even though my knowledge of the Spanish language is rudimentary, the way the different pedestrian traffic is signed, named and assisted with pictographs is absolutely outstanding. Further, Chileans and Santiagans are overall very helpful in general, and what also helps, is that they’re proud of their metro system, which really gives them an incentive to be of assistance. Disclaimer, my experience was in 2001! Cheerio
That's a good thought. Being proud of metros and because of that building more.
I remember thinking the metro in Santiago sucked, up until I saw how things were in other countries, and I figured the Metro was doing just fine d:
Great video, always love to see outsiders' takes on aspects of our country, it's usually very refreshing, and I wish more people paid some attention to the things we do down here
the same thing happened to me, i thought it was horrible until i saw people talking about the nyc subway 💀 from what i've seen in videos, it's full of rats, crazy people and the smell of piss. it really puts things into perspective. our metro could be better, but at least it's not like the nyc subway 🙏
Como santiaguina una no cacha lo bacán que es el metro 😹 dolerá el pasaje si sales a diario pero es un sistema muy bueno y cada vez se expande más, la cantidad de micros que se conectan a cada estación también.
To fix North American transit construction...you have to fix our system of frivolous slow lawsuits, environmental reviews, expensive and slow "feasibility studies", and fractured funding model which makes too many parties (especially Nimbys) have to agree on consensus.
That sounds mostly like the American situation, Canada has problems too - but different ones!
@@RMTransitand the problem of politics which makes it difficult to even start transit projects much less good ones
@@RMTransit Ahem... REM de l'est ? Montreal NIMBY Sh#$% Show.
British legal system. I don't think it can be fixed.
We have all of those in Chile, except the fractured funding (only because Chile is very centralized, which isn't good).
I'm always amazed by the amount of people line 1 moves, in the station I use once a week, two million people move through it every month! (we have less than 20 million people in the whole country)
The extension of line 3 to plaza quilicura in the north of the city, changed my life. My commute was 1.45 hours. Now, its just about an hour. I can sleep more and be on time still. thanks Metro de Santiago!!
I lived in santiago 2 years ago and used the metro a lot, it's incredibly efficient and amazing to think that it's gonna expand even more! can't wait to try out the new lines next time I visit. by the way, i thought the title meant 'american' as in América (spanish word for both south america and north america as one continent), because the truth is santiago's metro is the best I have ever used, including most major cities in the US.
Hello! A Santiagoan here. Thank you for this video! It is difficult for us sometimes to appreciate just how good our metro system is (despite being almost universally beloved). I do want to point out some outstanding issues I see in our network:
- Passenger comfort was HEAVILY deprioritised in the 2000s, as many poorer Santiagoans do not have the money to use cars, or live too far to use bikes. This meant that in one point, the transport system relied on having up to 7 people per square metre (or every 9 square feet). Lines operate at capacity virtually all the time, because to keep costs down the metro system almost always relies on passengers to be crammed inside, whether it is rush hour or not. The government invested in air conditioning for older lines, but never really implemented them, making travelling on metro quite challenging (or even dangerous) in the summer.
- Cost cutting also affected safety. While cameras and safety lines have been implemented, staffing plummeted in the 2010s, with many new lines relying on just a handful of employees to serve massive stations. Security guards are scarce, which has led to theft and physical attacks increasing in recent years.
- The construction of new lines dropped the walkable model of the french system originally envisioned, and now rely on very sparsely located stations. This can be good because it provides cost-effective coverage, but we must not forget that poorer neighbourhoods where new metros is being built see one metro station ever two kilometres or more, whereas wealthier areas can benefit from the old walkable stations. It also extends overall travel time, as people usually NEED to combine modes of transportation to reach their residential destinations.
Keep up the good work ❤
Crammed carts wasn't a choice. Between the failure of Transantiago and the expansion of Metro, ridership grew enormously while the infrastructure of older lines was still the same. Line 1 at rush hour literally can't fit more trains. It operates at its maximum capacity. That's one of the main reasons they're building Line 7 to run roughly parallel to Line 1.
Distance between stations is more of a feature rather than a problem. Metro trips are designed to be lengthy instead of convenient, to deter induced demand. Otherwise you have the same issues as in line 1, where you have a station every 500-700m on average, increasing travel time and unnecessarily crowding the subway.
I do like the convenience of the older lines (I mean, it’s really nice having to take two relatively short sets of stairs to get to the train) but the downside is that you give up too much for that convenience alone.
el chileno siempre chaquetero
@@joaolisboa7775 That's true, Santiaguinos are always very ungrateful, it's time for all among us to check our privileges.
1. El colapso de la L1, L2, L5 y L4 en horario punta es algo totalmente habitual en toda ciudad del mundo, pero tampoco normalizaremos pagar un pasaje de casi 1 dólar y viajar apretado, por lo cual el gobierno en el 2019 ya proyectó 3 nuevas líneas de metro: L7 para mitigar la sobre-colapsada L1 y llegar a puntos importantes de los nuevos sectores financieros de Santiago; L9 para abordar al sector sur y periferia de Santiago, incluso, con el nuevo trazado hará que el sector sur y sur-oriente pueda optar por 2 líneas de metro para llegar a sus destinos; L8 que será otra forma de llegar al sector sur-oriente para mitigar la sobre-colapsada L4 y L5.
2. Los problemas de seguridad es un tema más profundo dada a la alta inmigración y al desorden económico actual del país, con cambios culturales y más que se necesitará de la dotación de los ministerios de seguridad.
Aún así todavía es seguro viajar en metro que en micro, ni hablar de viajar en auto propio.
3. El caso de las largas distancias entre las nuevas estaciones de metro sólo se presenta en la L6, donde el único lugar pobre es entre estación Biobio y estación Ñuble, donde marca 2.5 km. y es que es justificable ya que graficamente se construyó una avenida vía subterránea para conectar estos 2 puntos donde sólo existen casas por arriba. Por otra parte, la futura L9 contaría con 3 estaciones de metro para Bajos de Mena. Sinceramente tu punto es una mentira. Además, para la gente de barrios marginales es más beneficioso que las estaciones estén separadas por al menos 1 km. que de 650 mt. como lo era la L1 ya que su viaje será más rápido.
¿Cómo hacer Pastel de Choclo?
Ingredientes
INGREDIENTES
Para el pino:
1 cucharada de aceite
2 cebolla en cuadrados pequeños
500 gr de carne picada (posta negra)
1 cucharadita de Comino Molido Gourmet
1 cucharadita de Ají Color Gourmet
1 cucharada de Orégano Entero Gourmet
1 cucharadita de Condimento para Carne Gourmet
½ taza de pasas
6 trutro cortos sin piel, cocidos doraditos y jugosos
3 huevos duros, cortados por la mitad
½ taza de aceitunas negras
Para el pastel:
10 a 12 choclos pasteleros
1 cucharadita de Albahaca Gourmet
1 cucharada de mantequilla
¾ taza de leche
1 cucharadita de sal
5 hojas de albahaca, picadas
Para cubrir:
2 cucharadas de azúcar
It can be bought in the metro for about 3 dollars a piece
Ya pero te falta receta po
@@hahinrichsen this but unironically
My dad was one of the engineers in charge of underground construction of a large part of those lines. Thanks to the concession system in Chile and the autonomous fiscal administration of state companies (state companies that must be self-sustaining) this was achieved, added to the genius of engineers like my dad who made the tunnels without interrupting the daily activities of the city.
It is also incredible the engineering of some station. Cal y Canto for example will allow you to transfer to 4 lines. I think this low cost model should be "sold" in order to increase better transportation in other cities.
The stations are fantastic, as nice as pretty much anything you'd find around the world
@@RMTransit Fun fact, that same station is also an example of planning for the future. It was already built as a transfer station almost 50 years ago, even though at the time it served Line 2 alone. It was only in 2019 with the construction of Line 3 (a line projected in the original design of the network) that the transfer parts of the station were put to use. There are other stations like that in Santiago, there's even one that has a train platform underneath to acomodate a multimodal transfer in the future.
@@vichomangiolaDo you think the "final plan" is to connect these 4 metro lines with the future train to Viña del Mar? I think that'd be awesome
@@Marconorte1 It would be cool, it would replicate the use of Estación Mapocho. But no, the transfer station to the train to Viña is going to be Quinta Normal in Line 5. The platform and the conection to Estaci´n Centralare is already built.
And remember Cal y Canto have a build station underneath...."phantom station" never used....there Is other like this in case it's neccesary
This seems similar to DC's original approach with the Metro. They designed most of the system in the 1960s and then spent the next few decades building it out. The middle part of the Green Line opened just two years before 9/11, and the last line extensions from the original plan opened a few years later. The problem is that they finished without another long-term plan in place. They need to come up with Metro 2.0 to guide the next few decades of projects.
Santiago's strategy also seems similar to the approach Paris and LA are using to expand their transit systems, no? ID a long-term set of projects, and then build it out over decades?
In fact, the original metro plan didn't got to be realised as it was planned after the 1980s, because the master urban plan on which it was included was scrapped, so the city started growing in places that wasn't supposed to. The clearest evidence for this in the Metro is that lines 5, 4 and 6 were built before line 3, and save for the latter, all of them were built in significantly different places to where they were projected originally.
What's being built now isn't incoherent, but doesn't match any comprehensive master plan; it rather answers the growth of the city (lines 8 and 9) and the need to reinforce overcrowded axes (line 7).
@@matieyzaguirre The 1985 earthquake forced to postpone the construction of Line 3.
@ Already in 1980 the original route for Line 1 was changed from Vitacura to Apoquindo, because of the scrapping of the 1960 Metropolitan Regulatory Plan.
Yes DC is complicated further without some type of master plan as it needs to not only overcome it's own planning process, but also that of Maryland and/or Virginia.
In Santiago's case, the expectations of the original plan were Dwarfed in less than two decades from the first line opening. That why they developed Line 1, 2 and 5 and followed the population's need to build around the lines. Right now, the plan is to build to connect as much as possible with the ever increasing and always moving population.
Santiago has a specially difficult trend of housing because it spirals like a Snail from the center.
With the current plans shown they hope, midway through construction, to plan on the projections for the population's growth
I spent some time in Chile this summer without a car. The red, green, orange, and brown lines have a lot of fantastic stations with great art and personality. I took the entire purple line out to puenta alto before catching a mikro up the cajón del Maipo. I also rode the metro in Valparaiso.
All trains were in good shape with pleasant rides and convenient to where i wanted to be. Bus coaches were all in good order.
The only transit that was out of the comfort zone for an American was the mikro buses. Cheap, quick, and seemingly only a little dangerous.
If you go to Valparaíso, you pay for a micro and get a free roller coaster ride.
If you go from the inner cities to Valparaíso (or vice versa) at a friday night you can expierence F1 but with microbuses.
@@fele09 It's more akin to NASCAR but yes, that's true even in some Santiago suburban routes.
Plus the cumbias and reguetón blasting all the way in the buses, except the RED network in Santiago. There's no space for rock or pop music in the micros, what an awful state.
It would be awesome to see some N American cities build subways at this scale and speed !
Guadalajara isnt doing poorly at all.
We have some. The northeast Corridor big cities from DC to Boston, New York City being the biggest of transit network. Chicago, Toronto, and San Francisco also has massive transit networks. The rest of the North America has limited to almost no transit networks.
@@inquisitrmikey7920"build" is different from "built 120 years ago and left to rust"
@@inquisitrmikey7920build is present tense
@@inquisitrmikey7920Toronto is hardly massive. If anything, it‘s extremely undersized for the city it serves. It is becoming better with the ongoing (and partially terribly delayed) projects, but as of now metro coverage is poor.
That metro network really brings Santiago onto my map of cities to visit besides also being one of the safest cities in South America. I do not like taxis and will never rent a car. I once made a vacation to a city which had a very bad public transport network. That really spoiled my vacation. That city was Los Angeles. It has tons of buses, but many of them only came in 90 minute intervals. It took me three hours to get from Downtown Los Angeles to Newport beach with public transport. And another three hours back. So six hours just to visit a city 75 kilometres away. In Germany I could go do Frankfurt within three hours and that is 400 kilometres from my hometown. So after Los Angeles I stopped visiting cities with bad public transport. For Santiago I made wait until those mentioned lines are completed.
It'd be even better if we'd automatize all lunes and figure out a way to operate the trains 24/7 without skimming on mainteinance. Greetings from Stgo!
No need to wait, those lines are primarily for residents. Most touristy areas are near line 1 (the oldest and most used one), and the bus system is integrated to the metro so you can basically get anywhere in the city
and line 1 combines with the bus terminals and the central train station. You can visit coastal cities like Valparaiso or Viña del Mar which are 100KM away (90 minutes by bus) and return in the same day.
No need to wait, most if not all tourists attractions in Santiago, you can go via the metro right now. And buses are pretty good as well
not anymore
I took BART yesterday from Powell St to Millbrae and all I could keep thinking about is imagine if there were more BART lines in SF. Like how cool would it be to just go to Japantown on BART. But I’ll probably never see this in my lifetime… and I then stopped wondering lol. The US should do more! Just sad to think of how politicized public transit has become when it never should have.
Geary St needs streetcars.
@@CheeseRat12 no no Geary St needs a bart line and more density! as does most of San Francisco and the Bay Area
I agree. BART really should increase its coverage in SF city limits, but I understand if geology and nimbys would make it challenging to just build tunnels any old where in SF
@@alcubierrevj the hills could make it hard to build, but i think most of the problem is underfunding, as they have been on the brink of bankruptcy for a while now.
We as Santiago inhabitants are proud of Metro, always clean and easy to use.
Expanding the NYC Subway to Secaucus Junction would complement the Gateway project! An expansion to Hoboken would also be great to solve overcrowding on the PATH. And yup, a big plus about the Santiago Metro is that it's built to handle earthquakes! They've invested in rail fastenings which mitigate the impact of frequent earthquake activity, whilst ensuring their long-term performance and resilience. An 8.8 magnitude earthquake shook the southern part of Chile back in 2010, but the majority of the Metro survived well! And in April 2017, an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 reached Santiago after starting around the Chilean coast, whilst once again, the Metro remained largely unaffected.
It is common practice that in earthquake zones around the world, once an earthquake is detected, trains are immediately stopped, after which operation is continued at reduced speeds or is suspended, depending on the strength of the shock. When a solution is in place like SEE-SD which allows for large vertical adjustment, it gives metro systems far greater resilience which ensures the return to normal operation can take place much more quickly.
I feel that the bus network is interesting as well.
2,9 million daily riders with the biggest fleet of electric buses outside of china and many Semi-BRT bus corridors.
the buses are very crowded and kinda rowdy, but indeed the bus corridors are neat and the chinese electric buses are great (and some still have usb chargers and wifi!)
I love using Santiagos metro. I can go anywhere and its cheap
Thank you for using the word america to refer to the whole continental mass, as it was originally meant
Reece is Canadian, so it makes sense.
@@a2falconeCanadians use North and South America
Maybe he is French Canadian, they could use Étasunien (male) and Étasunienne (female).
@@kjanckunorth and south america implies that the whole thing together is america… so still correct
Well duh. Lol. But collectively you would say "The Americas" not "America"@@juandanielcastillogomez4712
Honest to god, this is a better video than usual, for me at least.
I have a fictional country, an island, where it’s many towns and cities are connected by either InterCity, Regional or Commuter services, whilst 2 of the island’s cities have their own transit network, one with 5 tubes and 1 tram, the other with a DLR like solution, spread over 4 lines.
The reason this video hits differently, is because of the way he explains it of how Santiago does it with low costs. My fictional island’s railways has expanded so massively over the years, i keep questioning the costs. Like how the island could finalize all of these expansions that the railways and transit networks had. This video explains it. With Santiago’s way of doing it, it finally made sense of how my fictional country got it’s massive railway network in such a short time and cheap budget.
I thank you for explaining that. Now i have an excuse for more transit for the island 😂 👍
Have you played Cities Skylines 2?
A bit off topic, but I'm happy to see more people with fictional countries. Whenever I talk about my fictional country people look at me weird. Your island sound cool
And their rolling stock is Paris and Mexico City standards! The NS 74 and NS 93 stock are based on the MP 73 and MP 89 stock of the Paris Metro respectively, while the NS-88 and NS-2007 stock are based on the FM-86 and NM-02 stock of the Mexico City Metro respectively. All rubber-tired stock is preceded with the acronym NS (for Neumático Santiago). All steel-wheeled stock is preceded with the acronym AS (for Acero Santiago). The number representing each type of rubber-tired and steel-wheeled rolling stock is the year of design of a particular rolling stock, not year of first use, similar to the practice in both Mexico City and Paris.
The name "Santiago" was chosen by the Spanish conqueror Pedro de Valdivia when he founded the city in 1541, as a tribute to James the Great, the patron saint of Spain. When Valdivia founded the city, he named it "Santiago del Nuevo Extremo" or "Nueva Extremadura," in reference to the territory he intended to colonize and his home region of Extremadura. The name was eventually replaced, and to differentiate it from other cities called Santiago, the city is also called Santiago de Chile.
Fortunately I have known the NYC subway and London Tube, and I have confirmed that our Santiago Metro in many ways it better.
And, obviously, I use the Metro here in Santiago daily basis.
Great video, good job dude.
Chilean ego is something else xd
Satiago's metro is great, especially the new and more modern lines and trains. Some of the older stations have beautiful art pieces in them though. There is no better way of transportation in Santiago than the metro, I guess that's why houses and apartments located in the proximity of metro lines increase their value.
Have you considered covering Leeds it’s the largest city in Europe without a rapid transit system
I want to make a video about Leeds!
Leeds did submit a plan to the UK Government for a tram system, similar to Manchester and the Metrolink I imagine, yet it was rejected based on traffic of all things. (Which this tram would fix.) 🤦♂️
It would certainly be a good example of a "what might have been" video, a City that got rid of Trams, invested in Guided Busways that could become tramways in the future, then asked about bringing back Trams, only to be told no.
I currently live un Santiago, before I lived in a small city in the north of the country, and boy, the metro has really changed my life, I live near two metro lines and I feel I can go anywhere for really cheap (230 pesos or 0.2 usd cuz I pay student fare)
I no longer have to dealt with the risky micreros haha
I'm from Santiago and lived in the US for several years, and one (of the many) things that caught my eye is how difficult is to be a pedestrian in the US. Chilean subway system is part of a positive loop where a dense station grid feeds to higher buildings (driving construction jobs up), which in turn make things more difficult for surface dwellers, driving people to the subway.
Frequency is the other main factor, I notice that in the US they still use schedule for their trains rendering them useless for their use inside a city.
The Santiago system is successful, enough so they can self finance. American systems can't attract enough ridership so they are eternally dependent on being subsidized. Solving getting people to actually USE a transit system is key to making the system better.
With US American systems it's like trying to come up with the chicken and the egg when neither exists. Now you need density in order to justify building transit but historically as in New York City they built the transit line and the density followed, often swiftly: for example the 7 Flushing Line which was actually built out into farmland! Something which was replicated in Hawaii just recently.
dc suburbs are densifying around metro like around the silver line
Self financing has been a key for Santiago Metro since it's inception. However, until 2004, Santiago Metro was kinda "elitist", in the sense that coverage was very limited (just 3 lines and 51 stations, none of them north of the Mapocho river, and none to two of the most populous suburbs, Maipú and Puente Alto) and expensive (pricier than the buses and no integrated fare system) so most people used the strong but heavily unregulated bus services. Then, extensions on L1, L2 and L5, the inauguration of L4 and L4A between 2005 and 2009, and the integrated fare system of 2007, increasing ridership three-fold, from 1Million to 3Million a day. However, since the integrated fare system allowed a lot of people who didn't have access to metro, or were unwilling to pay multiple fares for a trip, you can't exactly say that is self-financed when obviously the demand was induced from now multi-mode passengers.
Santiago's interconnected transit system (buses, metro and rail) also loses money, like all transit systems in the world. That's no excuse
Chicken and egg. People love metro systems that work. If you build it they will come. Car ownership and the roads they drive on are massively subsidized. Why must we expect rail to compete on a completely different playing field to asphalt?
Cuantos chilenos de corazon hay aqui! ILARI ILARIE!
Estación Cristóbal Colón (L4)
Estación Hospital Sótero del Río (L4)
Estación Unión Latinoamericana (L1)
Estación Plaza de Maipú (L5)
Estación Alcántara (L1)
Estación Lo Ovalle (L2)
Estación Orientales (L4)
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Not only Santiago's network is great, its stations are incredible!
True masterpieces in themselves!
mostly the older stations, but sometimes the newer stations surprise too.
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Yes, indeed...!
As someone who uses this system everyday, I really enjoyed this video. Thanks
damn almost a dieciocho post
One ha to add that Chileans have a better literacy rate than people of US.
American literacy rate is 79%, while Chilean is 97%. USA does get more Nobel prize winners than Chile, but if one has a better educated populace , more mundane i.e. transport issues are better executed.
Literacy in the US is 92%. Did you seriously thought 1 out of every 5 American adults can't read? And how is literacy relevant to public works that are always designed and executed by educated proffessionals? The 5%-10%-20% least educated sector of the population isn't in charge of these projects.
@a2falcone have worked with these people, they all know how to read and write. Unfortunately, I have taught adults in us and some of them have marginal schools.
In some schools parents complain that their children received 89%, not 90+. Their kids, just like they must go to Harvard 😀 . But I know some valedictorians, who don't know who is Mozart.
One doesn't have to know who is Mozart, but if the person is a valedictorian, I think that person should. In addition, there is a huge amount of remedial classes for adults. People have diplomas, but they do not understand what they are reading. I was teaching in one of such classes.
@@a2falcone Just go and search "USA literacy rate" and you'll literally get the answer: 79%.
@@a2falcone i can explain how is it related... Or at list how in chile. Most of the stations are huge and have several corridors that lead to either the plataforms, combinations or to exits (at least two in different streets, often more) the only way to get around is by reading the sings on the walls or hanging above the entrance points of those corridors
I'm from Paraguay, everyday I pray so a politician here comes with a subway sistem for Asunción
Guess I'm gonna still be praying😂
Cool DC takes!! WMATA under new management is making some really exciting things happen. Go Bloop!!!
Yeah, its looking really good service wise!
Wow the new innovation leader, especially in the low build cost space.. Cheers Reece,.
Yeah, Chile really has impressed me
May I had, as a Chilean person, Building and construction in Chile is not cheap, we have to have specialized Engineering because we are a Seismic contry, so it takes a lot to make those lines and stations =)
I misread the title as North American, and thought "didn't Reece cover Mexico City already?"
Mexico City is probably expanding less than it should be!
Would be pretty cool if you did a video on Dominican Republic. They are building 2 new train lines (3&4) in Santo Domingos Metro, a third cable car line, a tram, and a monorail in the second biggest city Santiago de los Caballeros with 2 cable car lines connected to it. That’s pretty impressive for a small half island.
Amazing analysis! I use Metro de Santiago every day to commute to work and it’s such a time and money saver compared to going by car. I always comment to my friends that it’s a perfect example on how to ease congestion on a dense city.
Congrats, great job man
So we just learned we need smaller projects to incentivice competition, cutting costs and simplifying some stuff...
Yeah, sadly Barcelona's council didn't think about that when building L9... but we'll have the line completed 20 years after the initial date! Better than nothing I guess xd
Now out of jokes, Santiago's expansion is incredible!
Indeed Santiago is amazing, and Barcelona is great too haha
Great video, it would be amazing if you made a video about Naples in italy, it has a very interesting system.
Great video! you changed the way i see the metro. One thing that i can add based on my experience of living in Santiago is that the organization of city, organized in communes with their owns planification and budget, lead the jobs are in the centre of the cities and in the rich communes (East area), so the people from suburbs (West and south areas) has to travel around 2 to 4 hours to go to their jobs every day. For example, my girlfriend has to travel around 2 hours to the office evertyday. Owing to this, is common to see in peak hours (7 to 9am and 5 to 7pm) the metro and bus network can't cope with. That is why i think Santiago needs a global city plan to descentralize the city, the network could be used more efficiently and the people could be more happy.
I love metro, I love public transportation and be able to go everywhere and also we're expanding to regions so this is going to be so good in just a few years, what a time to live in Santiago!
Could we get a video on the San Diego Trolley? It has great ridership and was just expanded two years ago!
No
It’s building a grey line to connect to the airport too. It desperately needs more lines though. The Nimbyism is strong in San Diego though. So bad that Claremont was featured in a segment Jon Oliver did on nimbys
Eventually!
@@cllax14Instead of an airport Trolley branch San Diego plans on building a rubber tired automated light metro connecting Santa Fe with the Airport with 2 minute frequencies.
@@cllax14The nimbyism is bad but the TOD is massively impressive--SDSU Mission Valley and Riverwalk will each have over 4,000 units and at least 1M sq ft office space. Meanwhile Denver voted against a golf course infill TOD that was similar to but smaller than Riverwalk.
Quick FYI, according to the latest revision, Line 9 will actually extend north of Santa Lucia station to Puente Cal y Canto station, where FOUR lines will converge (2, 3, 7 and 9).
the metro from Santiago looks beautyful. I wish could visit it. Greetings from Saint Ramon, Finland.
Great video, good info!
This subway is wonderful. Before its implementation I lost many hours just waiting for the bus to arrive, and many more on the road. Now, one of these stations, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, is located less than two blocks from my house.
Glad to watch a video of Santiago Metro system and placing Chile in the spotlight. Red Regional de Movilidad (a new branch of the system working on Santiago) is currently working on rail system starting from Santiago's Central Station towards different cities and towns to bring people from outside Santiago and viceversa. Also the new studies that encourages the government to start building new metro systems in different cities (new lines on Valparaíso Metro or Concepción BioMetro. They are even bringing a whole new unified bus system all across the country, all of them being completely electric.
Chile's geography makes everything harder due to the long distances between northern and southernmost cities with Santiago, but on the last 10 years everything is getting better for everybody step by step
great content , kudos!
Awesome video, Greetings from High Bridge, Australia.
Hopefully Santiago can export its expertise to other cities (including Concepción, the 2nd largest city in Chile which already has a good suburban railway system) and countries around the world. Good video as always!
Didn't think i would see another Santiago metro video. But i have to agree that they are building at an amazing rate. The announcement of the line 7, the soon to be build "bullet" train Santiago-valparaiso, the train between santiago-concepción, and the incorporation of new buses for other cities. Things look great to be honest, but i still hope that new project can be brought to different regions, apart from Santiago.
A "fun" fact is that in 2019, a raise of 30 CLP (somewhat like 30 sents) in the metro ticket triggered a massive uprising. It was the lest stra with generalized discontent and people showed it with massive protests. Some of them ended up with the burning and destruction of some metro stations.
And yet the Santiaguinos lack the civic spirit of our ancestors, they complain about duties and responsibilities (although this could be said about my own generation, the Millenials, as a whole, plus our successors the Generation Z).
Interesting video, I love this subway, I have to see Santiago right now 😍
Santiago surely has an incredible subway system. Greetings from Cerriyork, US
Could be Ñuyork I guess
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The description of the method Santiago uses to build branch by branch its metro, reminded me a bit of what happened with Milan metro line 5.
As its number might suggest, the project was born after the one of M4. Both M4 and M5 were meant to be (partly) built with private project financing funds.
But M4 was struggling finding investors as the whole 15 kms route, passing through historic city center, was very expensive to build.
So, for M5 they thought to go with a short stretch, of about 6 kms, on a relatively simple route.
They found money quickly and started to build it. Construction started in July 2007.
After that they planned to go with an extension of about the same lenght and found the money at once. Started to build it immediately and by autumn 2015 the line was completed as we can still see it today. 13 kms of lenght, just a couple of kms less than planned M4, and 19 stations.
In the meantime M4 kept struggling to find money and its construction, which anyway was more complex than M5's, started only in 2012, just few months before the first stretch of M5 entered service.
Now M4 is already under construction, even if partially opened since last November, and its completion is forecasted for the end of 2024.
So M5 project overcame M4's, went faster and was cheaper. Thanks to its more 'affordable' approach.
And now the project to double the line in its extension toward Monza is about to start as well
hey @rmtransit, thanks for the video :) i live like 3 blocks from one of the new stations in the line 3 of the metro, and it was really life chanching, from 1 hour and half to go to my work AT LEAST, to less than 40 minutes, also the metro doesn't depend on how is the traffic, or with the bus system here , if three of the same bus passed from you, you'll likely be waiting for some time before another comes. the metro always passes every 2-3 minutes, and the new line 3 has air conditioner so it's very convenient to use.
Aussie living in Santiago here. I really, really wish the authorities would finish line 4A so it can connect to line 5 at Plaza de Maipu or Del Sol. There is literally a railway reserve in the middle of the highway that circles the city, specifically set aside for this purpose. This extension could be built faster and cheaper than any other new line in the east of the city, where there are already multiple lines. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the southwest of Santiago that either have no line, or only line 5. Having a second east-west connection also provides a great back up for line 1 in case of any issues there. (I know line 7 will partially do that, but it only helps folks in the central and northern parts of Santiago, it's no help for folks in the southern suburbs.) Also, regional cities like Concepción, Valdivia, Viña del Mar and Valparaiso, plus the coastal cities in the north also deserve to get improvements to their public transport as well. Unfortunately, the priority seems to be Santiago first, daylight second, and regional cities a distant third. But also, great video as always.
I live at the corridor that could be served by that expansion, to the point that at times I can imagine the metro trains rolling around the freeway's median.
@ Yep, that would be great. In a previous job I had to travel between Maipu and La Cisterna. There is a bus but it's uncomfortable, infrequent and gets stuck in traffic. That median is crying out for a metro line!
first RM transit video i started watching before the discord ping lol
Kudos! Thanks for watching!
Are those San Diego trolley line signs in the background? :D
I sent those signs!
its so fun seeing people from other countries discovering our treasures!
might be late on this
i lived in la serena until i was 18, when i moved to santiago. before that i visited the city for concerts and tournaments. regional transport sucks ass, especially up north where we don't have trains or anything, just buses and colectivos (like a taxi, but you share it with random people). the metro felt bigger than life and i was just amazed at how easy was to move through santiago thanks to it (it's a very big city compared to LS)
i moved back to la serena in 2019 and i don't leave the house that much so i rarely use public transport. i still visit santiago from time to time
i had a vacation last year, where i went to europe, but had to stop at NYC first (going there and back) and man, as soon as i entered the jamaica station for the first time and had to wait for like 30+ mins, i understood i took the santiago subway for granted
NYC subway sucks ass, long live metro de santiago (i just wished it worked all day and night but that's too much to ask)
It would be funny if you choose Paris instead of London as an example to build extra 70 km of tracks of metro. Only the third of the current construction would be done.
Paris doesn't need help with big expansion!
Fancy doing the Metro Manila (Philippines) railway system soon?
asking him isn't really going to change whether he makes it or not. The only thing holding Reece back is how much free time and footage he has. He's addressed this several times in livestreams lol just let him get videos out when he gets them out
The Metro system looks like a pretty fun ride! Greetings from Shi-Yang, Taiwan
Recognized Santiago's shape in the thumbnail immediately haha
I loved hearing about Santiago’s transit building system, could you do an “Imagine If” for Southern Ontario?
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:14 🚇 Santiago's Metro system in Chile has undergone impressive expansion, adding new lines and stations, making it one of the fastest-growing systems in the world.
01:50 🚄 Santiago Metro is constructing new automated lines (Line 7, 8, 9) and extensions, set to increase its stations from 117 to 184 within a decade, enhancing city coverage and capacity.
03:12 💰 Santiago's Metro success is attributed to political will, cost-effective construction, and an in-house engineering and planning team, allowing them to manage and execute projects efficiently.
05:04 🏗️ Santiago's Metro benefits from a stable environment for tunneling, strong ridership, standardized designs, and the ability to fund its expansion through its revenue.
07:10 🗺️ The video presents conceptual expansion plans for New York, London, and Washington, D.C., showing what a similar scale of expansion could look like in these cities if they adopted Santiago's approach.
08:46 💡 Lower costs in transit construction, similar to Santiago, could enable cities like New York and London to achieve substantial metro and regional rail expansion.
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Recently I had the chance to visit new york for the first time, and I hated the metro there. It felt like a maze, there were no guards at any point, there were basically no screens telling how far the next train was, and there were no maps to know where I was or where I was going. No reminders of which line goes where nor clear signs to know how to get from one side to the next. I my week there I got into two difficult situations with other passangers, and I've had NONE the past five years living in Santiago. I missed my santiaguian metro. Granted, Santiago's metro is way newer and smaller, so they could keep better track of these things.
Right now we have the Pan American Games going on, and just two days ago a Jamaican man approached me asking how to get somewhere. In ten minutes (less than my ride) I had explained how the line worked, how the card system worked, who to ask if he got lost, I showed him how to read the maps (inside the cart!) and he even caught up so quickly he added information (and his deduction was right!).
Ever since thta week in NYC I had a profound respect for the santiaguian metro. I was not born in Santiago, I moved there to study at uni, and I had nailed down the system in a few weeks (except for some special cases, like some of the biggest combination stations, but its a runing joke that it's hard to get out of them).
Loved your video Reece. Saludos desde Chile.
My boyhood is linked to the Metro de Santiago as I have gone to ride both lines in the Nineties. I remember the sense of greatness in its clean stations, I can assure this was (and still is) the most Japanese-like experience you can have in Central Chile.
Lol I was about to say, I was trying to figure out which U.S city actually had platform screen doors. Yeah, we're not ready for those yet :P
Hopefully someday soon!
The closest is Honolulu which has platform screen gates. Kinda wish they had doors like some of the elevated lines in Seoul
Is quite a nice video. I wasn't expecting to see myself at 1:26 though hahahaha. Love this channel
me hace muy feliz ver videos sobre el metro de chile, apenas vi la miniatura de reojo supe que necesitaba ver este video!!