What happened to London's trams?

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  • Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025

Комментарии • 7 тыс.

  • @kleerude
    @kleerude 4 года назад +7956

    It’s amazing how many times the answer to “why didn’t this thing happen?” is “Kensington and Westminster.”

    • @daroldcarold3443
      @daroldcarold3443 4 года назад +377

      *it- its kensington and chelsea*

    • @SportyMabamba
      @SportyMabamba 3 года назад +396

      Kensington & Chelsea council still at it today, trying to stop a Crossrail 2 station being built there

    • @daroldcarold3443
      @daroldcarold3443 3 года назад +108

      @@SportyMabamba typical Ken and Chelsea

    • @damienheads7151
      @damienheads7151 3 года назад +8

      Thank god for both of them

    • @daroldcarold3443
      @daroldcarold3443 3 года назад +98

      @@damienheads7151 yeah, Kenny and Chelsea are real trouble makers, brother and sister alike

  • @christopher19894
    @christopher19894 5 лет назад +3758

    "Not enough plenty of money."
    "A mere most of the time."
    Top notch lines.

    • @gonesnake2337
      @gonesnake2337 5 лет назад +219

      "Trams suddenly, all of a sudden had gradually started to all of a sudden become appealing again."

    • @jamium0
      @jamium0 5 лет назад +132

      “The twenty-oneth century.”

    • @AnhThuNguyen-zz2hm
      @AnhThuNguyen-zz2hm 4 года назад +15

      "number's" uh"

    • @morelia_mia
      @morelia_mia 4 года назад +31

      “In oldy woldy times.”

    • @Jack-ui4wp
      @Jack-ui4wp 4 года назад +5

      im pretty sure thats the point because of the context but eh

  • @LukasDiSparrowOfficial
    @LukasDiSparrowOfficial 4 года назад +4353

    7:43 that confidence, talking on a tram next to strangers looking at you like SHUT UP

    • @Turbo_TechnoLogic
      @Turbo_TechnoLogic 4 года назад +108

      Well it must be a terrible place if you have to be aware of such things tbh

    • @Dkaz79
      @Dkaz79 4 года назад +6

      E

    • @ahuman487
      @ahuman487 4 года назад +283

      @@Turbo_TechnoLogic um yeah... its london

    • @rvbxn04
      @rvbxn04 4 года назад +70

      @@Turbo_TechnoLogic ahahahaha welcome to normal
      ppl place suburbian

    • @khy_1777
      @khy_1777 4 года назад +30

      @@Turbo_TechnoLogic not really, ppl just don’t like to be distracted

  • @cat_in_a_sock1948
    @cat_in_a_sock1948 2 года назад +446

    i love how they filmed the riverside footage right at the beginning, green screened in jay wearing a jacket, then the girl too BUT made sure that he was actually there on location when it came to him wearing the flowery dress.

    • @Demiglitch
      @Demiglitch 8 месяцев назад +24

      Well it's his dress, he's not going to leave it with her.

    • @alizekazmi3301
      @alizekazmi3301 7 месяцев назад +2

      im so glad someone else noticed that too! xD

    • @agalah408
      @agalah408 6 месяцев назад +6

      Jay asked someone: "What shall I wear in London? Answer: "Neat casual dress" Jay:"Ok."

    • @coquimapping8680
      @coquimapping8680 5 месяцев назад +2

      Pretty sure it’s only the woman that got green screened.

  • @Bready_Player_Bun
    @Bready_Player_Bun 5 лет назад +5159

    "Okay Mr.TRAIN, what do you want to call this mode of transportation that runs on rails?"
    "Tram."

    • @Elenrai
      @Elenrai 5 лет назад +203

      .....I wish someone had that conversation with him, and punched him in the face when he answered

    • @jamesgrimwood1285
      @jamesgrimwood1285 5 лет назад +141

      He was clearly off his trolley...

    • @TheEnglishTrainSpotter2021
      @TheEnglishTrainSpotter2021 5 лет назад +5

      Btw 1000th like

    • @Zijk1291
      @Zijk1291 5 лет назад +5

      "Tram, call it Tram" xD

    • @gabri_maybe
      @gabri_maybe 5 лет назад +4

      Write It Down,WRITE IT DOWN

  • @calldfwp2230
    @calldfwp2230 4 года назад +2102

    "The network was reduced slightly but no-one cared, actually lots of people cared and were very upset about it but nobody who mattered cared" basically explains the beeching cuts.

    • @CycolacFan
      @CycolacFan 4 года назад +64

      SovietChungus Productions also explaining how the UK government make the majority of decisions.

    • @MartinJames389
      @MartinJames389 4 года назад +53

      That's true. People were seething angry about the Beeching cuts. He became a hate figure. If it was happening now, he'd have been getting death threats, but that wasn't the style in those days. I'm old enough to remember.

    • @nsuro80
      @nsuro80 4 года назад +11

      @@MartinJames389 He was the patsy. Marples was the real criminal.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 4 года назад +28

      Explains a lot of economics and infrastructure, really.

    • @Medieval_Arpad_cooks
      @Medieval_Arpad_cooks 4 года назад +12

      it Explains the UK

  • @kemp10
    @kemp10 4 года назад +7245

    "Is London tramsphobic?" - tonight at 9

    • @AndrooUK
      @AndrooUK 3 года назад +150

      Everything is discriminatory against everything, if you believe the liberal agenda.

    • @catstealer3454
      @catstealer3454 3 года назад +14

      PLSSSS

    • @slimetrash8942
      @slimetrash8942 3 года назад +494

      @@AndrooUK bro shut up

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 3 года назад +75

      @@slimetrash8942 See you proved Andrew Williams point with your liberal agenda trying to censor him.

    • @Mr-Nuke.
      @Mr-Nuke. 3 года назад +102

      @@slimetrash8942 how about we all just shut up. Forever

  • @JofromItaly
    @JofromItaly 2 года назад +448

    My mother, who's 91, went to see the last tram in London at the end of its journey.

    • @corcorsma
      @corcorsma 7 месяцев назад +12

      In Holland trams were suddenly removed from all cities in the 1960s. The 3 biggest cities however never lost their trams, partly because a lot of routes can't be driven by buses (trams can make tighter corners because they are built of smaller compartiments), partly because trams can transport more passengers, I don't know all the reasons.

  • @CityBeautiful
    @CityBeautiful 6 лет назад +4194

    Your explanation of omnibuses, trams, and horses is so much better/funnier than mine! *enthusiastic applause*

    • @crisp-waffle
      @crisp-waffle 6 лет назад +166

      Eyyyyyyyy! It's City Beautiful. Your videos really brighten my day! :)

    • @mukrifachri
      @mukrifachri 6 лет назад +250

      Maybe a cross-pond collaboration ?

    • @crisp-waffle
      @crisp-waffle 6 лет назад +35

      @@mukrifachri I would love a co-lab!

    • @awesomelyshorticles
      @awesomelyshorticles 6 лет назад +30

      When two worlds collide, sparks fly. This is a special moment.

    • @NeighborSenpai
      @NeighborSenpai 6 лет назад +11

      Didn't know you watch quality content like Jay Foreman, i wanted to suggest you to watch his videos but you beat me to it XD

  • @TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs
    @TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs 6 лет назад +6549

    Jay made this video just so he could put on a dress :P

    • @kirovskiecrab1365
      @kirovskiecrab1365 6 лет назад +94

      I did not expect to see you here.

    • @41-Haiku
      @41-Haiku 6 лет назад +235

      I don't think he's the kind of guy who needs an excuse.

    • @HakanKoseoglu
      @HakanKoseoglu 6 лет назад +4

      Weeeee! That was good.

    • @thomaster8870
      @thomaster8870 6 лет назад +61

      Why can't he just enjoy dressing beautifully?! He finally comes out and everyone treats it as though it was a joke.
      At this point I believe, should he ever get seriously get injured in a traffic accident and lose a limb, rows of people would encircle him, pointing their fingers and drowning out his pained screams with discordant laughter, thinking it to be some sort of slapstick comedy...

    • @jamief-h3044
      @jamief-h3044 6 лет назад +6

      lol shouldn't you be landing on carriers or smth

  • @Balagergo
    @Balagergo 5 лет назад +3177

    Ah, the benefits of living in Eastern Europe! We never got the resources to phase out trams and trolleys, so they've never actually went away.

    • @Dozeji
      @Dozeji 5 лет назад +143

      Here in Lublin, we actually expanded on them. But some cities did phase them out

    • @boomerix
      @boomerix 5 лет назад +287

      In Budapest they slowly wanted to phase out trams, but Luckily they quickly realized that it was a bad Idea and have instead expanded them and are still expanding them :)

    • @DanCojocaru2000
      @DanCojocaru2000 5 лет назад +66

      Not Your business Why would they? I mean, seriously, especially the trams running on the sides of the Danube are amazing'

    • @bandvitromaniaios1307
      @bandvitromaniaios1307 5 лет назад +90

      Yup lol. In Romania we wanted to get rid of the trams but we ended up with purchashing and modernizing trams and trolleybuses 🤣

    • @georgesimpson1406
      @georgesimpson1406 4 года назад +31

      First place I heard the word 'trolleybus' was a school Russian language class. (as its loan word pretty much)

  • @newcarpathia9422
    @newcarpathia9422 2 года назад +487

    I honestly don't know how Toronto avoided closing down its streetcar lines, but I'm glad they're still open.

    • @kinkisharyocoasters
      @kinkisharyocoasters 2 года назад

      do you miss the CLRVs?

    • @newcarpathia9422
      @newcarpathia9422 2 года назад +24

      @@kinkisharyocoasters Not really. My house is right on a streetcar line and they were rather noisy. The new ones are much quieter. That aside, however, I did like them.

    • @moho472
      @moho472 2 года назад +19

      Thank people like Jane Jacobs, and Steve Munro. They protested the plans to remove the streetcar network. Unfortunately, some streetcar lines like Rogers Rd, and Mount Pleasant were removed due to neglect by Metro Toronto.

    • @harrisonofcolorado8886
      @harrisonofcolorado8886 2 года назад +17

      I honestly don't know how San Francisco's trolleys, Boston's trolleys, light rails, and subways, and New Orleans' Streetcars survived the onslaught of cars becoming popular either. But, I'm glad that any original network that did survive the onslaught of cars becoming popular in the 40s, 50s and 60s are still around today. And hope that those networks, and really any network that has opened or are opening up in cities where cars are dominant, ultimately succeed.

    • @88porpoise
      @88porpoise 2 года назад +19

      There are two huge factors that kept Toronto's streetcars. First, they survived the post-war rush to remove such systems because they got a ton of rolling stock and other equipment cheap from other cities getting rid of them. That bought the streetcars enough time that public sentiment was changing some dedicated individuals managed to fight a long campaign to keep them until they started to come back in style.

  • @boewin756
    @boewin756 6 лет назад +2433

    Maybe this series won’t remain unfinished itself after all...

    • @thisisgreg
      @thisisgreg 6 лет назад +26

      Who are you kidding

    • @Jesse__H
      @Jesse__H 6 лет назад +57

      Right? I knew there was a reason I stayed subbed for many months of no content! This was totally worth it.

    • @gorg8882
      @gorg8882 5 лет назад

      *cough* seven months ago *cough*

    • @lassievision
      @lassievision 5 лет назад +5

      Well it needs an update already, since London does now have 100% electric buses.

    • @thelatenightgamer2624
      @thelatenightgamer2624 5 лет назад

      DUN DUN DUN DAN DDADAA

  • @ThatOneIrishFurry
    @ThatOneIrishFurry 4 года назад +1501

    Most of London just built by people with special interests
    "How do we help as little poor people as possible"
    "How do we sell as much tarmac as possible"

    • @pavarottiaardvark3431
      @pavarottiaardvark3431 4 года назад +181

      Honestly stuff only gets good when the interests temporarily and coincidentally align
      "Let's built those poor people a cheap and efficient transport system so that they can get to work in MY factory!"

    • @jonahnichols2158
      @jonahnichols2158 4 года назад +12

      *the world

    • @ThatOneIrishFurry
      @ThatOneIrishFurry 4 года назад

      @PolSmokesPot { ولد الوجيهي } you got me their

    • @Tinfoil_Hardhat
      @Tinfoil_Hardhat 4 года назад +5

      @PolSmokesPot { ولد الوجيهي } And that's why most of the worlds inventions and innovations come out of capitalist countries.

    • @IkeOkerekeNews
      @IkeOkerekeNews 4 года назад +3

      @PolSmokesPot { ولد الوجيهي }
      Not really.

  • @ArthurSieg
    @ArthurSieg 4 года назад +4845

    I am not from London or England and I care little for public transport and infrastructure, but this is so entertaining that I've just binged your entire channel.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 2 года назад +261

    While the double-decker trams may be gone from London, it DID influence a whole new system in Hong Kong where it is still used today and very popular carrying an average of 200,000 passengers per day. You can even book for a special antique-style sightseeing tram or charter your own party tram

    • @PiousMoltar
      @PiousMoltar 2 года назад +26

      Top comment as usual from Dear Leader Kim.

    • @israellai
      @israellai 2 года назад +2

      Too bad they're not very practical for actual commuting

    • @PollotarianTeacher
      @PollotarianTeacher 2 года назад +17

      Sir Supreme Leader are there any trams in Korea.

    • @madingthree
      @madingthree 9 месяцев назад +5

      Supreme Leader is always the best when it comes to geographical knowledge

    • @Ostralucia
      @Ostralucia 4 месяца назад +1

      hi supreme leader, I am from Hong Kong and I can confirm those exist but only really on the western side of HK island. their speed is the perfect speed to trick pokemon go that you’re walking though

  • @conormurphy4328
    @conormurphy4328 5 лет назад +729

    6:41 wonderful bit of context for this scene and the funny word. Noel Edmonds is talking about a school boy who got killed by a tram because he took drugs.
    “What is cake? Well, it has an active ingredient which is a dangerous psychoactive compound known as "dimesmeric andersonphospate". It stimulates the part of the brain called "Shatner's bassoon", and that's the bit of the brain that deals with time perception. So a second feels like a month. Well, it almost sounds like fun, unless you're the Prague schoolboy who walked out into the street, *straight in front of a tram.* He thought he'd got a month to cross the street...”

  • @phospenguillite8895
    @phospenguillite8895 6 лет назад +1666

    1:20
    Guy: *HELLO THERE*
    *RUNS LIKE A PREDATOR*

    • @mfaizsyahmi
      @mfaizsyahmi 5 лет назад +62

      iirc the guy commented on this video. couldn't find it now.

    • @phospenguillite8895
      @phospenguillite8895 5 лет назад +5

      coudnt find what

    • @jboxmm
      @jboxmm 5 лет назад +10

      Justin K. the comment

    • @shapeovertime6364
      @shapeovertime6364 5 лет назад +1

      Why has no one said General Kenobi

    • @FakePale
      @FakePale 5 лет назад +8

      General Kenobi!

  • @wasaent
    @wasaent 6 лет назад +528

    Oh it seems my bike made a slight cameo in this video as he talks about the Kingsway Tunnel...

  • @scalylayde8751
    @scalylayde8751 2 года назад +40

    Love the absolute hero on the tram at 7:44 who is clearly annoyed but not enough to ruin the shot

    • @probium2832
      @probium2832 7 месяцев назад +3

      21th century

    • @Darkness_8163
      @Darkness_8163 6 месяцев назад

      @@probium2832 twenty firth???

    • @probium2832
      @probium2832 6 месяцев назад

      @@Darkness_8163 twenty oneth

  • @jholotanbest2688
    @jholotanbest2688 6 лет назад +543

    These videos are a extremely rare treat.

    • @arfski
      @arfski 6 лет назад +11

      I say, hope you do not mind me pointing out that the letter 'e' is a vowel.

    • @jholotanbest2688
      @jholotanbest2688 6 лет назад +5

      @@arfski God dammit why dose this stupid language even have articles :p

    • @TheV-Man
      @TheV-Man 6 лет назад +2

      @@jholotanbest2688 English has it pretty easy as compared to German, for example

    • @jholotanbest2688
      @jholotanbest2688 6 лет назад +1

      @@TheV-Man Articles are still stupid.

    • @TheOneLichemperor
      @TheOneLichemperor 6 лет назад +1

      @@TheV-Man Michael Jackson reference, per chance?

  • @normiewhodrawsonpaper4580
    @normiewhodrawsonpaper4580 3 года назад +935

    Fun fact: Jay sawing the penny in half slightly made pennies more valuable in the economy.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 3 года назад +18

      Monetarism in practice.

    • @stephenderry9488
      @stephenderry9488 2 года назад +91

      Sadly, when he glued it back together, the economy collapsed.

    • @PurooRoy
      @PurooRoy 2 года назад +3

      It could be a fake coin.

    • @Becky_Cooling
      @Becky_Cooling 2 месяца назад

      Fun fact: defacing money (such as sawing it in half) is illegal, with a £200 fine !

  • @landscapedetective4064
    @landscapedetective4064 6 лет назад +634

    Back in the late 1970s I was living in Hong Kong. The main island had a tram system. If you looked closely at the side of the tram cars, beneath the paintwork could just be made out the words 'Reading Transport'.

    • @tedthesailor172
      @tedthesailor172 6 лет назад +88

      That was for people who like reading transport.

    • @samchan212
      @samchan212 6 лет назад +34

      The tram system in Hong Kong that was built in the early 20th century is still running today

    • @MrBannystar
      @MrBannystar 6 лет назад +7

      I visited a couple of years ago and rode on the trams on the island. It was a cheap and interesting way to see a lot of the island.

    • @NickRatnieks
      @NickRatnieks 6 лет назад +19

      Hong Kong's very first trams were made by Dick, Kerr of Preston and shipped out as new- this company becoming a part of the famous English Electric industrial group. Since the 1920s all Hong Kong trams have been made new in HK and the system has never bought in old trams- although some Hong Kong trams were exported to the UK a few years ago for use on new build heritage tramways. Hong Kong's trams use 3 foot 6 inch gauge while Reading trams were built for a 4 foot gauge system- a non-starter. However, old British buses may have been exported to Hong Kong for use there which may be what you saw.

    • @wilsjane
      @wilsjane 6 лет назад +6

      Reading tramways operated until 1939, when they were replaced by trolleybuses. It had its own DC power station right in the current city center, which continued to power the buses for some years.
      Like London that had 3 DC power stations. (Lott's road, Battersea and Greenwich) to power transport until the early 1970s, it became redundant when the national grid upgraded to 3 phase 11,000 volts and rectification to produce 740 volts DC became possible

  • @tescomealdeals
    @tescomealdeals 8 месяцев назад +36

    As someone who lives in Melbourne I've never understood the whole "but the cables are so ugly" argument. Melbourne has the single largest tram network in the world, all of which to my knowledge use overhead cables, and I can assure you that I 1. barely ever notice them and 2. even when I do I actually think they look quite nice

  • @MarkusIfquil
    @MarkusIfquil 4 года назад +2920

    I'm wondering if the guy waving at the camera and Jay running after him was a skit or entirely unscripted.

    • @trent_k
      @trent_k 4 года назад +439

      Or the kid in a costume that waves to the camera

    • @MarkusIfquil
      @MarkusIfquil 4 года назад +74

      @Charles Calvin THIS IS THE GREATEST PLAAAAN

    • @gpaderx6105
      @gpaderx6105 4 года назад +279

      I'm convinced it's unscripted. looks pure, if not, he's making a pure comedy

    • @riesenflugzeug
      @riesenflugzeug 4 года назад +80

      1:19

    • @robinvivalavida
      @robinvivalavida 4 года назад +65

      @@gpaderx6105 look at it again, the man isnt even real, it was edited in.

  • @descalzitao6779
    @descalzitao6779 4 года назад +591

    You can still see the old British double decker trams in use today ! Not in London where they completely disappeared but in Hong Kong, where they remain a pretty popular transportation in the district of Central on the island of Hong Kong. They're actually cheaper than the subway (MTR) and offer a great view as well as a very authentic experience of HK, I would totally recommand it to anyone traveling there.

    • @berniethekiwidragon4382
      @berniethekiwidragon4382 2 года назад +25

      Sometimes they are even faster than the bus when congestion is bad.

    • @VideoDotGoogleDotCom
      @VideoDotGoogleDotCom 2 года назад +11

      I would love to see them, but not with the way China (the CCP one) is and is heading. Won't be seeing any Russian rail infrastructure, either...

    • @VideoDotGoogleDotCom
      @VideoDotGoogleDotCom 2 года назад +6

      @MR Blaze Pukka As far as I know, running even old trams is more economical than operating a corresponding bus route. I actually have data to support this, but it's not in any language you'd know, I'm quite certain (English is my third language).

    • @craigcook9715
      @craigcook9715 2 года назад +1

      That's cool. Not the London double-decker, but SF does have a tram line that has all (or almost all) stock that consists of historic streetcars from around the world. It runs from Market and Castro (near the famous predominantly Gay neighborhood) up Market and then along the Embarcadero until Fisherman's Wharf (a major tourist spot).

  • @kal9001
    @kal9001 4 года назад +1252

    The point about the Hybrid busses while accurate is also hiding a big point.
    Where normal busses typically have between a 6 and 9 litre engine, which is very heavy (~1 ton for the engine, and another ton for the transmission/diff/shafts etc) because the thick construction is needed to handle the forces needed to propel a ~15 ton vehicle.
    The engines only make 2-300 HP, which can easily be achieved by a 0.8L motorbike engine! but the engine would die due to lack of torque and structure. If the transmission were to jolt during a change it would likely just sheer off the crank shaft!
    In a Hybrid, the engine is not driving the vehicle directly, instead it's just a generator so rather than having to push along a ~15 ton bus, it only needs to push a ~20 kg rotor in a generator. As such the engines produce the same amount of power, but are only 1.3~2.0L like you'd find in a car, they are MUCH more efficient running at preset and tuned power steps, to keep the batteries topped up. rather than an engine that has to produce reasonable power over as wide a range as possible.
    The Hybrid busses are MASSIVELY more efficient, where Jays statement made it seem like most of the time they are just as bad.

    • @kal9001
      @kal9001 4 года назад +85

      ​@mandellorian In theory higher emissions from a single, stationary source can be more easily managed than lower emissions from millions of mobile sources.
      The mines will...*should* be cleaned up as they are depleted.
      You're also removing the source of those emissions from towns and cities where most of us live. Lowering air pollution related health problems.
      What else do you suggest? Lets all just go back to leaded petrol, gas guzzlers that are cheap and easy to make but cause lots of pollution through their lifetime. Or perhaps just abolish all transport, make everyone walk everywhere with baskets of produce on their heads... because that's realistic.

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 4 года назад +26

      @mandellorian You know the materials for the other parts, including the motor of car also need to be mined.
      In case of batteries Lithium mining is one of the if not the least environmentally damaging type of mining for a metal. Perhaps you you should first look at how various metals are mined, before pretending to care for the enviroment, which I highly doubt that you do. Lithium can be easily recyled, it's not depletet like fossil fuels.
      Also, a battery can be fully recycled. Why don't you have a problem with the horrendous costs and environmental impacts of e.g. Aluminum mining, or Gold mining or other form of mining? Why do you give a shit about the up to 62 different types of metals build into your smartphone? Are you pro Nuclear power? You know Uranium mining (also Thorium mining) is environmentally destructive and very very expensive.
      Be honest, you give a shit about the enviroment and that's why you like to throw around naive assesments of the situation.
      Displacing "the shit" to another place is beneficial for those living where the cars are moving. I guess you love to inhale exhaust fumes and prefer to live in a City full of smog.
      Now to the energy costs of building cars. Do you think cars running on gas are created by magic with no enery required to produce them? You act like the only thing that consumes energy is the production of a battery, as if the car around does not. You totally ignore the energy that goes into the production of a normal car.
      Now, the thing is, you don't need to use fossil fuel to power the production of a renewable car, or a car in general. Once you expand your renewable energy sources, you'll eventually have carbon emission free cars. Sure for now, most of the energy comes from fossil fuels, but that can only change when you gradually increase the amount of renewable energy sources.
      Next you'd probably say, but solar panels etc. take energy to produce. Yeah, sure they do, however, once you have enough renewable energy sources, you'll be using those renewable energy sources to buil your solar panels etc. Of course you'll have to make the initial investment to get there.
      One really wonders how the people in the past could have ever build anything with the attitute that people like you show.

    • @rogerfroud300
      @rogerfroud300 4 года назад +32

      @mandellorian - Methinks you over state how bad it is to make batteries. If you go down the total environmental cost road, you need to factor in the cost of drilling for oil, transporting it, refining it, delivering it and finally pumping it into ICE vehicles. That's hideously inefficient. Go to the 'plug life' channel if you want to know the electrical input required to refine oil, it's collossal! Maybe you expect alternative solutions to the really bad ICE vehicles to have no environmental impact at all? That's not exactly treating them the same now is it.

    • @KuraIthys
      @KuraIthys 4 года назад +43

      It's always fascinating watching people go 'but what about the batteries!?' with electric vehicles.
      Read the damned research.
      Including manufacturing costs of the vehicle itself and all lifetime maintenance, it takes just 3 years of use for an electric car to catch up with a petrol one in environmental impact, and everything after that point is ALL in the electric vehicle's favour.
      It's like you people are being willfully contrary without even bothering to read the actual research on the subject.
      Just like the people that talk about how petrol vehicles are less polluting than electric ones... And then justify it by assuming 100% of the electricity comes from the most polluting type of coal power plant in existence, and generally also ignoring the HUGE amount of electricity that goes into operating a fuel refinery, and all the other environmental disasters that oil production entails...
      But a hybrid isn't even that...
      You ever ask yourself why roughly 95% of diesel trains are in fact hybrids? (Diesel engine running an electric generator powering electric traction motors)
      They certainly aren't using batteries in this setup beyond the bare minimum such a vehicle would need anyway...
      Yet this is surely a rather pointless bit of extra complexity, right? So... Why is it the norm for trains rather than the exception?
      But seriously. Maybe instead of mindlessly parroting 'dur, lithium mining bad', you actually look into this properly, hmmh?
      Because while your point isn't wrong in isolation, it is far from a complete picture, and it sure as hell isn't an argument for saying electric vehicles cause MORE pollution - that simply isn't true.

    • @kal9001
      @kal9001 4 года назад +13

      @@KuraIthys Also these people usually don't consider that battery technology is constantly evolving.
      Tesla recently announced cobalt free batteries which removes some of the environmental, and humanitarian issues associated with mining that metal.
      It won't be long before more breakthroughs happen and new methods and materials are developed.
      It's because there is a need for these things that the research is happening. If there was no demand for electric vehicles there would be little or no improvement in the technology and ICE would just be around forever hiding behind the "well batteries aren't good enough" sentiment. It's sort of a chicken and egg problem. Someone had to take the first step. And it won't be easy or efficient the first few steps, but then it will get better, and in a decade we'll be wondering why we bothered to burn so much fossil fuel when electric cars are faster, quiet, more reliable, cheaper to run...etc.

  • @muhdsyakiib8798
    @muhdsyakiib8798 2 года назад +86

    0:15 The art of wearing your wife's clothes in public is an art masterfully perfected by Jay

    • @Meshakhad
      @Meshakhad 8 месяцев назад +2

      Wait, is that Jay's wife?

    • @nakul6969
      @nakul6969 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@Meshakhad yep her name's jade nagi

    • @Demiglitch
      @Demiglitch 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@Meshakhad She's the director as well I think.

    • @stresswaves01
      @stresswaves01 4 месяца назад

      GOD DAMNIT HE'S TAKEN

    • @LoyalisterMcUlster
      @LoyalisterMcUlster 4 месяца назад +3

      ​@@nakul6969 Jade and Jay

  • @HopeRock425
    @HopeRock425 4 года назад +427

    8:47 I don't know why but something about that girl made me laugh so much.

    • @morganreading1127
      @morganreading1127 4 года назад +26

      8:45

    •  4 года назад +17

      @@morganreading1127 8:45 if you want to have some intro.

    • @stabbityjoe7588
      @stabbityjoe7588 3 года назад +2

      Lmfao I love it

  • @AdeReeves
    @AdeReeves 5 лет назад +968

    The "London" series....strangely entertaining for non Londoners too... 😃

    • @JalanBax
      @JalanBax 5 лет назад +14

      1:15 filming in a posh suburban street

    • @ixlnxs
      @ixlnxs 4 года назад +9

      I hate London and love this series!

    • @mhk3231
      @mhk3231 4 года назад

      Ye

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 4 года назад +1

      And non-Brits, too.

    • @ixlnxs
      @ixlnxs 4 года назад +4

      @IAH I hate London for many reasons: car-infested, tolerant of the most intolerant ideologies, homophobic, and with dilapidated infrastructure.
      Compare the tube to the Madrid metro, for instance. Plus the lack of bicycle infrastructure, the lack of car-free streets, but most of all: radical islam. I don't want to see mummified toddlers being chaperoned by homophobic preachers.
      I am a frequent visitor for the museums, but I'll take Paris, Vienna, Madrid or Venezia any day. In case you wonder, live in Hanoi myself but I'm a Belgian of Lebanese origins with a Turkish husband and lived in Morocco before.

  • @johnjoyce1671
    @johnjoyce1671 6 лет назад +382

    I love the advert indicator in the top right at 9:23.

    • @zappawoman5183
      @zappawoman5183 6 лет назад +2

      I noticed that!

    • @ryanchapman2636
      @ryanchapman2636 6 лет назад +3

      John Joyce I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to notice.

    • @danellis-jones1591
      @danellis-jones1591 6 лет назад +1

      I saw that too! I love his little twiddly bits

    • @Zizzily
      @Zizzily 6 лет назад +5

      Yep, they're called cue dots! Also, the network logo is called a bug or a DOG.

    • @kingrobert1st
      @kingrobert1st 6 лет назад +6

      I love the little AdBlock icon above my browser.

  • @no1wasgeorgiebest
    @no1wasgeorgiebest 2 года назад +26

    I was born in Blackpool and live in Melbourne, feel very lucky to have been around so many trams! The ones here a little bit better than the ones I used to get to school.

  • @Ginold
    @Ginold 6 лет назад +818

    This some incredible work on editing, small sound and visual jokes and storytelling. I jiggled so many times! Really refreshing to see a serious topic with so many funny details.

    • @TheWhippingPost
      @TheWhippingPost 6 лет назад +28

      Yeah, great visual gags. I also find the word "jiggled" very funny.

    • @autismobinch135
      @autismobinch135 6 лет назад +13

      Jiggled?

    • @BenchFox_
      @BenchFox_ 6 лет назад +16

      Oh, yeah. You definitely jiggled.

    • @harbottle99
      @harbottle99 5 лет назад

      and unfortunately so many inaccuracies!!

    • @aidanennis9449
      @aidanennis9449 5 лет назад +2

      Jay's hair makes me jiggle

  • @jennybrockartist
    @jennybrockartist 5 лет назад +190

    9:29 love that little reference to 'we are nearing an ad break!' in the top-right corner :D

    • @doxielain2231
      @doxielain2231 5 лет назад +28

      Is this a British thing? I was wondering what it was.

    • @kyal
      @kyal 5 лет назад +21

      Doxie Lain yeah they legally have to do that on tv before adverts come on, I think only on live tv but I’m not sure. Obviously he didn’t need to do that here but it’s a nice reference

    • @MarkPentler
      @MarkPentler 5 лет назад +17

      Nothing to do with legality and everything to do with alerting your colleagues further up the broadcast chain.

    • @neobe195
      @neobe195 4 года назад +15

      It was to let regional broadcasters know when to show regional ads.

    • @KeirThomas
      @KeirThomas 4 года назад +2

      Some VCRs could pause recording during these as well I seem to remember.

  • @P8REN
    @P8REN 5 лет назад +696

    Interesting that Hong Kong still have the double decker trams like London did; I wonder if this was from British influence.

    • @Marcel-um1cu
      @Marcel-um1cu 5 лет назад +122

      Since Hong Kong used to be a british colony they probably brought it there

    • @runlarryrun77
      @runlarryrun77 5 лет назад +122

      Unlike Britain they obviously had the sense to say "hey this works let's keep it".

    • @lhk7006
      @lhk7006 5 лет назад +13

      Yes, just like the double decker buses. My brain is confused while watching.

    • @yuenlucia5454
      @yuenlucia5454 4 года назад +61

      Hong Kong Tramways establish in 1904. Trams in Hong Kong were built that year, and British colonized HK from 1841 to 1997. Of course the HK Trams was from British Influence.
      So do all the Double Decker bus, Ferries, Peak Tram, Underground, and all the road signs you can find in HK nowadays....

    • @atlantic_31
      @atlantic_31 4 года назад +16

      Yes, it's a British influence
      Since the British arrived at Sheung Wan,Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong
      There are trams only in Hong Kong Island thought
      PS:I'm from Hong Kong

  • @wanderingfirbolg6738
    @wanderingfirbolg6738 2 года назад +33

    Actually the technology for electric buses without cables is already here. In Geneva (CH) where I live, one alternative we have, aside from trams and traditional trolley buses, is a bus that gets a few seconds of fast charging at every stop.

    • @abarette_
      @abarette_ 5 месяцев назад +1

      Can you delve deeper into how this works? Is the charging manual? Is there infrastructure on the ground? Is such a project economically viable in a country that isn't Switzerland?

  • @aguila17
    @aguila17 6 лет назад +777

    Double-decker trams would become an instant icon. Bendy trams are too "continental".

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  6 лет назад +152

      What's wrong with continental things?

    • @aguila17
      @aguila17 6 лет назад +121

      Jay Foreman nothing really, it’s just that they’re already all over Europe and having those kinds of trams in London this late in history wouldn’t be as innovative as having double deckers. People would associate them with London instantly, just like double decker buses and black cabs. I don’t live in London but it’s undeniable the city has a very different personality to the rest of Europe, and having its infrastructure match that would be nice.

    • @kriegh94
      @kriegh94 6 лет назад +52

      @@JayForeman They're, like, big and not surrounded by water, you know...

    • @anessenator
      @anessenator 6 лет назад +44

      The UK is a European country, and the British need to deal with that.
      - A Brit.

    • @aguila17
      @aguila17 6 лет назад +41

      Daniel Eyre I know that, I lived in Manchester for little less than a year and there too they have double decker buses. However I would say that red double decker buses are one of the many icons of London. Many people where I come from (Latin America) instantly associate those big red buses with London and by extension with Britain. Not so much the case with mancunian magic buses...

  • @Meowskeed
    @Meowskeed 4 года назад +119

    "And trams suddenly all of a sudden had gradually started to suddenly become appealing again" lmao

    • @MarceloBenoit-trenes
      @MarceloBenoit-trenes 4 года назад +1

      Suddenly not. After two oil crisis and a lot of political promises, trams started to be reborn in France in 1975 (but only 10 years after that the new tram arrived at Nantes) and USA in 1981 (San Diego).

    • @MarceloBenoit-trenes
      @MarceloBenoit-trenes 3 года назад

      @Nicholas Natale and the point is?

  • @Real_Retrophilia
    @Real_Retrophilia 5 лет назад +302

    7:46 That guy on the right isn't pleased XD

    • @panner11
      @panner11 5 лет назад +46

      maybe he was really upset about hearing twentyoneth xD

    • @MrLukejstephens
      @MrLukejstephens 5 лет назад +17

      I was on that tram when he filmed this shot, they took a lot of takes in between stops and having to hear him miss say a word that many times was a little annoying.

    • @смиренный-х2б
      @смиренный-х2б 4 года назад +3

      @@MrLukejstephens lies it was on a green screen

    • @Abigart69
      @Abigart69 4 года назад +1

      My favourite is 8:46

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 2 года назад +19

    Seeing that Kingsway tram tunnel reminds me of another abandoned tram tunnel, the Cedar Street tunnel in Newark, NJ which allowed PCC streetcars and later buses access to the subterranean level of the Newark Public Service Terminal. While the terminal was demolished to make way for PSEG's headquarters, the tram system has remained, and the track leading to the terminal was re-purposed for a new branch to Broad Street Station. Yup, Newark, NJ has a light rail system (though the people there like to call it the Newark City Subway because some stations are underground). If you've seen The Dark Knight Rises then congrats, you've seen a station of the Newark City Subway.
    And that's not the only abandoned train-related thing in Newark, behind the Prudential Center on Broad Street by Lafayette Street is a facade for the former Central Railroad of NJ Lafayette Terminal, which served the Newark and New York Railroad line to its Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City (now in Liberty State Park) until 1946. People like to talk smack about Newark and how it's rundown, maybe it is...but it's a rundown city with GREAT transit. With its location so close to NYC, Newark is a strategic location to live in for transit commuting

  • @thelexico5972
    @thelexico5972 6 лет назад +152

    Anyone else appreciate that he used the OMNIBUS archers themetune over the normal one. Good on you sir.

    • @willwragg9707
      @willwragg9707 6 лет назад

      Aahh, of course!

    • @dodsg
      @dodsg 6 лет назад

      Was he anywhere near Paddington when that theme tune was played?

    • @westparade4366
      @westparade4366 6 лет назад

      The man is an undisputed genius of our times.

    • @TheOneLichemperor
      @TheOneLichemperor 6 лет назад

      I was absolutely chuffed by that choice too.

    • @jamierobinson9985
      @jamierobinson9985 Год назад

      Thank god someone else noticed

  • @kingdomdeen4105
    @kingdomdeen4105 6 лет назад +173

    Looking forward to the next episode in 2022

  • @Trolligarch
    @Trolligarch 6 лет назад +66

    "Tramsphobic" God damn it xD
    9:24 Also that stripy thing on the top right corner (I don't remember what it's called) is a nice touch.

    • @Tevildo
      @Tevildo 6 лет назад +10

      Trolligarch - It's called a "cue dot", and it _really_ should go off 5 seconds before the advert starts. I second your opinion on the best joke of the episode.

    • @AndyNicholson
      @AndyNicholson 6 лет назад +4

      @@Tevildo Why 5 seconds, I'm sure I read somewhere it was a 60 second marker?
      Also, this should be mandatory on all RUclips videos with any form of advertising in.
      Also also, the quality of Jay's videos are getting better each time - there's so much work and thought that goes into them like this that I think a lot of people will miss.

    • @Tevildo
      @Tevildo 6 лет назад +4

      @@AndyNicholson Standard (IBA) practice was for the dot to appear 60 seconds before the adverts started and disappear 5 seconds before they started. I _think_ this was so that the adverts could be started manually (as a human operator can't be expected to time an accurate 60 second interval, but should be able to get a good enough 5 second interval to avoid complaints), although I'm not certain. In the later years of analogue broadcasting the adverts were started automatically, so the 5 second delay wasn't necessary, but changing it wouldn't have had any real benefit.

  • @jacobroeland
    @jacobroeland 2 года назад +14

    I swear I've seen this at least a dozen times. And just now have I understood the "All change" joke at 4:44. Wow...

  • @stuspawton
    @stuspawton 6 лет назад +334

    What always annoys me is the fact that they got rid of the trams in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Falkirk because the toffs wanted Scotland to be more like england. Trams dominated Scottish working class towns and cities for years, until rich people wanted us to follow suit and get rid of them.
    In falkirk we only have a small amount of track left in the old high street.
    It's a damn shame, especially when you've lived in places like adelaide and melbourne that never got rid of their trams, its such a convenient way to get around, and really allows for expansion.

    • @Evsta101
      @Evsta101 5 лет назад +13

      1) Flippin' love that there is another Bairn in these comments.
      2) Absolutely agree, a damned shame they got rid of them and then an absolute farce when they reintroduced them to Edinburgh.
      It does make me wonder how they did so well putting them back into Manchester in comparison to Edinburgh...
      Also makes me wonder if we'd see some kind of revitalisation of trams elsewhere in Scotland.

    • @leopold7562
      @leopold7562 5 лет назад +7

      @@Evsta101 We did it slowly in Manchester. We only had one line for a long time, running between Altrincham and Bury on mostly disused and underused railway lines (except for the stretch at Navigation Road, where there's only two lines, one each for tram and train and it's a right hatchet job). Only the centre of the city got any really new lines, running across the city, between the two mainline stations. Victoria was easy because it's massively underused and had platform space readily available. Piccadilly was made easier by using a set of tunnels that ran under the station which were probably meant for something else.
      Most of the rest of the routes use existing roads and knocking down of houses to achieve their aims, a very expensive job, but it seems to be working out okay on the whole. Except for the poor unfortunate people who were forced to move, of course.

    • @davidt5194
      @davidt5194 5 лет назад +6

      Aye it's a fuckin tramesty.

    • @alanwann9318
      @alanwann9318 5 лет назад +1

      Maybe they wanted vehicles using oil .

    • @ishbelcoulter8681
      @ishbelcoulter8681 5 лет назад +5

      if they'd just built proper trams in glasgow instead of the fucking great big motorway n like maybe NOT knocked down half the city it'd be so different

  • @BaddaBigBoom
    @BaddaBigBoom 4 года назад +351

    I re-watch this regularly to hear the words "un-betrammed" "p-neumatic" "tramfrastructure" and "...use their diesel engines a mere most of the time".

    • @petermoto409
      @petermoto409 3 года назад +25

      And 21th century.

    • @grantorino2325
      @grantorino2325 3 года назад +4

      And he also pronounces *Thames* as "Tahms" instead of "Tehms."

    • @EdwardCree
      @EdwardCree 3 года назад +4

      But surely "un-betrammed" should have been "untrammelled".

    • @PiousMoltar
      @PiousMoltar 2 года назад +8

      You forgot "prohibititively unpractacacactable" and "tramsphobic".

    • @BaddaBigBoom
      @BaddaBigBoom 7 месяцев назад

      @@petermoto409 No...

  • @TheWoogeroo
    @TheWoogeroo 3 года назад +314

    Such a tragedy, even more so in other UK cities like Birmingham where the trams were ripped up despite not having a tube network, and no replacement at all. Cars cars cars to this day.

    • @jeric_synergy8581
      @jeric_synergy8581 3 года назад +54

      Gee, I wonder who made THAT happen? ::cough:: oil companies ::cough::

    • @barrysteven5964
      @barrysteven5964 2 года назад +3

      Birmingham does have a tram.

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen 2 года назад +12

      @@barrysteven5964 But it's really really crap. I'm local so I know.

    • @handlesarefeckinstupid
      @handlesarefeckinstupid 2 года назад +15

      Sheffield is even better. They ripped up the tram lines and then built them again, but really badly.

    • @seafoodpizza
      @seafoodpizza 2 года назад +1

      Corruption ended everything

  • @Silverwing2112
    @Silverwing2112 2 месяца назад +9

    1:18 This will never not be funny to me.

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz 6 лет назад +689

    8:46 Jay's video's are so out there, I don't know if this was in any way purposeful or not

    • @qrogueuk
      @qrogueuk 6 лет назад +5

      Welcome to N22

    • @jadeforeman131
      @jadeforeman131 6 лет назад +2

      qrogueuk we’ve lived in N22 for 5 months now 🤓

    • @Shardok42
      @Shardok42 6 лет назад +37

      The kid is downright awesome in every way... I really like that parents exist today that will just let their kid rock such a look without a care.

    • @WASIURPA
      @WASIURPA 6 лет назад +1

      Welcome to M25

    • @mcbain23
      @mcbain23 6 лет назад +8

      big up zombie girl!!

  • @mikepeirson1150
    @mikepeirson1150 4 года назад +83

    I remember the trams in south London when I was a kid. Used to scare me a bit with the noisy ground shaking and rumbling along. Walking to the middle of the road was bad enough to get on them. Sitting on the wooden seats that were as slippery as hell. Cold and draughty, but when they went I missed them very much. Even now some 70 years later I still get a bit sad when I see films of them. Part of dear old London.

  • @UselessDuckCompany
    @UselessDuckCompany 6 лет назад +325

    I like our "trams" in Toronto, but I sure do wish we had more subways too

    • @tanngerin
      @tanngerin 6 лет назад +3

      Lmao ODS I LOVE YOU. Btw you should do more 24h challenges

    • @red2theelectricboogaloo961
      @red2theelectricboogaloo961 6 лет назад +5

      Took one, it's so cramped.

    • @KommandoCraftLP
      @KommandoCraftLP 6 лет назад +7

      Come to my city, we have trams that are subways and subways that are trams, both recognisable by their sign which is a huge "U" that stands for "Stadtbahn"

    • @MrChampken
      @MrChampken 6 лет назад +4

      I like them in Toronto for historical value, and prefer them to our busses that are so ugly, and carry even smaller capacity of people, making them way over crowded, more so then even the Streetcars.
      However our streetcar system design is 120+ years old, they were probably great when they only shared these roads with horses. However, they share the roads with cars and traffic lights today. They travel on above wires in the center of the roads rather then along the side with connection to sidewalks or without there own sperate road of traffic. The congestion on the roads is very heavy, getting around on Streetcars is very slow moving. Our Subway system was neglected for decades and should have been expanded to replace some of these other streetcar routes, because Subway system are more expensive to build, but they function way quicker and easier to get around.
      I like Streetcars, but id only want them built today if they were rebuilt more like the Croydon Tram in South London, most of the journey is on seperate track from the road. Toronto Streetcars are so slow. It's one of the oldest things in Toronto considering how young this country and city is, it's part if the city charm and history, but it's part of the city headache. Some of it could of been replaced with subway by now, other parts perhaps could have been re-designed. Anyways it looks like they aren't going anywhere.

    • @Token_Nerd
      @Token_Nerd 6 лет назад +10

      Because Toronto politics are shit. They could build a line anywhere, it'd get half decent ridership, and people would still bitch.
      Every area of Toronto in a nutshell:
      Downtown: "We deserve the most subways because we have the most crowding"
      Uptown: "We deserve the most subways because we have the most growth outside of Downtown and have huge economic potential"
      Midtown: "We deserve subways because the Eglinton Crosstown is not enough to cope with Eglinton travel demands"
      Scarborough: "We deserve subways because we are the largest area in the city without much if any rapid transit"
      Etobicoke: "We deserve subways because SUBWAYS SUBWAYS SUBWAYS"
      Vaughan: "We deserve subways because you're already extending the subway to York University"
      Richmond Hill: "We deserve subways because we have the busiest bus corridor in Canada that needs relief"
      Pickering (wtf...): "We deserve subways because everyone else deserves subways"

  • @WillowSmithHaircut
    @WillowSmithHaircut Месяц назад +3

    8:46 she was so exited to be on camera for 0.5 seconds

  • @MrJohnL21
    @MrJohnL21 4 года назад +95

    London actually had the biggest trolleybus network in the world at the time. Lots of Londoners thought that London Transport were mad getting rid of them - they were smooth, quiet, reliable and fast. If you want to find out for yourself, have a ride on one at the Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum near Doncaster.

    • @zalromir
      @zalromir 2 года назад +2

      I remember watching the last London Tram. We lived in New Cross and the New Cross Gate tram depot was just round the corner from Grannie's house.

    • @kennethgarland4712
      @kennethgarland4712 2 года назад

      When I was young, in the 50s, we often stayed with family friends in Carshalton Beeches, and it was always a great treat for me to be taken on a trolleybus to, say, Sutton. Some years later, as a student, I had a year in Lyon, France, where they had both trolleybuses (though single deckers) and motor buses with preselector gearboxes.

  • @matthewreed6181
    @matthewreed6181 3 года назад +132

    I live in Croydon and our trams are great, it gives you an excuse to ride a train for super short distances!

  • @philipyeo574
    @philipyeo574 4 года назад +28

    The analogue ad-break icon just before the end of the video is SO UNDERRATED. I just love everything about this video.

  • @DoubleDeckerAnton
    @DoubleDeckerAnton 2 года назад +8

    Love your sense of humour with these very informative productions.

  • @DinseeNuffin
    @DinseeNuffin 4 года назад +61

    I can just remember the London Trams as a kid. Clang Clang Clang as they went along the rails, the backs of the seats could be reversed at the Terminus for the return trip, and the Kingsway Tram tunnel was awesome

  • @riesenflugzeug
    @riesenflugzeug 3 года назад +42

    "From now on, any entrepreneur wanting to build tramways in-"
    **guy passes buy**
    **jay walks aggressively**

  • @topfelya
    @topfelya 6 лет назад +428

    What's happen here 1:19 ? By the way great videos as always !

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  6 лет назад +713

      Someone on a bike went in front of the camera and waved. So I ran after him. That wasn't staged by the way, that really happened.

    • @topfelya
      @topfelya 6 лет назад +20

      I see now ! Thank you for your interesting and funny videos. I love to watch them so much !

    • @ujjwaljha2402
      @ujjwaljha2402 6 лет назад +18

      @@JayForeman that's why I love you.. You know that right

    • @benwhite8157
      @benwhite8157 6 лет назад +17

      If you playback at 0.25x speed you can see the cyclist's expression as he goes by.

    • @desdemona3273
      @desdemona3273 6 лет назад +4

      Jay Foreman but... why?

  • @IzzyMann
    @IzzyMann 2 года назад +10

    the humour in this is world class!

  • @brelade-gb
    @brelade-gb 5 лет назад +183

    i think my favourite part was the advert loading thingy in the top right corner, i miss that on tv!

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega 5 лет назад +9

      Was that common in UK television?
      I wish it was common in the US

    • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
      @TheSmart-CasualGamer 5 лет назад +12

      Yep. An old throwback to analogue TV. It's been gone for ages now though, so it's just a little nostalgic relic.

    • @brandonmartin-moore5302
      @brandonmartin-moore5302 5 лет назад +4

      It's still there sometimes on ITV.

    • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
      @TheSmart-CasualGamer 5 лет назад +1

      It basically is.

    • @StuartClary
      @StuartClary 4 года назад

      Known as a Cue Dot: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark#Cue_dots_in_television

  • @torrace12
    @torrace12 6 лет назад +115

    WOW a youtuber that have gone in with hes whole heart in to hes project
    Man how i have missed this wonderful personal uniqueness on youtube

  • @floxroxbo
    @floxroxbo 4 года назад +189

    Using the Archers omnibus theme tune while talking about the omnibus is just 👌

  • @ahsimiksnabac6576
    @ahsimiksnabac6576 Год назад

    well done jay, keep up the good werk!!

  • @lawrencecalablaster568
    @lawrencecalablaster568 6 лет назад +103

    I can't believe that a guy whose last name was Train worked on public transportation xD this show is brilliant

    • @NeighborSenpai
      @NeighborSenpai 6 лет назад +6

      This was his passion

    • @bernhardknabl4587
      @bernhardknabl4587 6 лет назад +8

      Nominative Determinism at it's best

    • @trainy1223
      @trainy1223 6 лет назад +3

      ay no joke my last name is Train too

    • @PKMartin
      @PKMartin 6 лет назад +5

      When someone asks me who invented a thing I go with the formula (fanciful Restoration era name) (uncommon middle initial) (name of thing).
      "Who invented cornflakes?"
      "Hieronymus J. Cornflake"
      "Who invented the banjo?"
      "Cornelius W. Banjo"
      "Who invented trams?"
      "Ezekiel K. Tram"

  • @Conceptcreator
    @Conceptcreator 5 лет назад +133

    in Arnhem in the Netherlands we still have trolley's and apart from sometimes disconnecting no problems

    • @neilgurling8666
      @neilgurling8666 3 года назад +2

      I used to live on the outskirts of London and now live in Arnhem, it's amazing how cleaner the air feels here, thanks to the trolley's and cyclists

    • @nomercyformayhem2238
      @nomercyformayhem2238 3 года назад +1

      When I visited Arnhem I was surprised that they had trolleys

  • @Tsukiko.97
    @Tsukiko.97 6 лет назад +298

    Most importantly what happened to Jay Foreman?

    • @RingoYote
      @RingoYote 6 лет назад +18

      Hes been on tour!

    • @thepilotman1hg
      @thepilotman1hg 6 лет назад

      Sam Hyena I went to the one in York

    • @TheDJHoller
      @TheDJHoller 6 лет назад +10

      More like what's happened to his hair?

    • @-SUM1-
      @-SUM1- 6 лет назад +10

      TheDJHoller His hair looks great.

    • @arfski
      @arfski 6 лет назад

      @@thepilotman1hg Golly, there is more than one? Has he cloned himself or are we talking about the possibility of twin identical triplets (or truplets for our American friends)? /s

  • @romulusnr
    @romulusnr 3 года назад +2

    I wish I could have sent this to Kemper Freeman a few years ago. Because 3:00 is literally identical to his attitude towards the light rail from Seattle to Bellevue, WA which he spent millions fighting.

  • @jwillisbarrie
    @jwillisbarrie 6 лет назад +677

    Thanks for having captions for Deaf.

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  6 лет назад +106

      No problem! :) Let me know if you have any feedback for how they can be improved.

    • @yawnguy94
      @yawnguy94 6 лет назад +2

      Ca cap cap what carnt hear you

    • @rodrikforrester6989
      @rodrikforrester6989 6 лет назад +43

      Not deaf, am Russian. Appreciate captions too.

    • @Ice_Karma
      @Ice_Karma 6 лет назад +10

      @@rodrikforrester6989 From Wikipedia: "In the United States, the National Captioning Institute noted that English as a foreign or second language (ESL) learners were the largest group buying decoders in the late 1980s and early 1990s before built-in decoders became a standard feature of US television sets. This suggested that the largest audience of closed captioning was people whose native language was not English. In the United Kingdom, of 7.5 million people using TV subtitles (closed captioning), 6 million have no hearing impairment."

    • @RestlessFisher
      @RestlessFisher 5 лет назад +1

      🖐️👌🖖🖕🖐️👉✋🖖👆🦵👉🦶✋🖐️✌️👉🤞🤘🖖

  • @NateandNoahTryLife
    @NateandNoahTryLife 6 лет назад +379

    “That uses its Diesel engine a mere most of the time”

    • @jaimelvehansen868
      @jaimelvehansen868 6 лет назад +2

      @Harry M them 0-100 times

    • @jaimelvehansen868
      @jaimelvehansen868 6 лет назад

      @Harry M Yeah, but it was a bigger bus meant for long drives on highways

    • @szymongorczynski7621
      @szymongorczynski7621 6 лет назад +10

      @Harry M Because moving off uses up a huge amount of energy, which is what makes hybrids a lot more economical.

    • @TheSnahsnah
      @TheSnahsnah 6 лет назад +3

      @Harry M because you can recoup energy from braking and reuse it when accelerating. In congested traffic where you're braking and accelerating the entire time, that is quite a bit. But in all other scenarios it's not anyhwere close to actual electric.

    • @wilsjane
      @wilsjane 6 лет назад +3

      +Harry M. The answer to that is simple, but the government do not want to admit it.
      Their is simply not enough electricity available to charge the buses overnight. The average bus garage only has enough power to charge 2 or 3 of them.
      To change London buses to electric, or replacing them with trams, would consume the output of a nuclear power station and the entire national grid would need to double in size and capacity. In addition, all of that power needs to be rectified into DC.
      The same problem exists with electric cars. At the moment, we are getting away with it by overnight charging, but as soon as the figure reaches 10%, the problem will rear its ugly head. To completely change over, we will need 8 additional power stations, but although the government are well aware, they are simply burying their head in the sand.
      No one have even mentioned goods vehicles yet. LOL

  • @FirewolfX7
    @FirewolfX7 6 лет назад +73

    YES MORE UNFINISHED LONDON... but where are the Map Men?

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  6 лет назад +44

      Coming in February 2019.... probably...

    • @NeighborSenpai
      @NeighborSenpai 6 лет назад +5

      Coming soon to a map near you!😂😂

    • @Shardok42
      @Shardok42 6 лет назад +1

      @@JayForeman Why would you not make a Map Men video every day given it is clearly the greatest series idea you have ever had and has the single greatest intro ever.
      Actually, here's a quick video idea. Extended Intro for Map Men. You can figure out the lyrics, though I would suggest using more Map and more Men.

    • @TissueCat
      @TissueCat 6 лет назад

      Ooh, my birthday's in February 2019. And also February of every other year.

    • @Klikkitse
      @Klikkitse 6 лет назад

      Why yes, Map Men is very important. I'd even be happy with just the intro.

  • @fatlad9035
    @fatlad9035 2 года назад +2

    7:46 It’s the “twenty-oneth” century for me! 🤣. Just brilliant!

  • @NyanSten
    @NyanSten 6 лет назад +94

    Trams are superior to trolleybuses in capacity, flow (how easy and fast can people get in/out) and operating costs. European (continental) cities nowadays usually go with dedicating the city centre to trams in pedestrian zones and banning cars altogether. Trolleybuses are then supplementary service filling gaps between tram lines or feeding passengers from low density areas where the cost of building and maintaining a tram track would not be worth it.

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  6 лет назад +13

      Operating costs? Really? That was the one thing I thought trolleybuses had going for them over trams.

    • @NyanSten
      @NyanSten 6 лет назад +27

      Operating cost of a single tram is higher than of a single bus but trams have much higher capacities (up to 300 passengers compared to New Routemaster's 80) so if there is enough demand, they win easily.

    • @Erik-ou3tl
      @Erik-ou3tl 6 лет назад +8

      Unless the city handles a lot of cyclists. I know Jay has been lamenting the demise of cycle culture in Britain, and trams are a right pain to combine with cyclists. a number of Dutch cities operate tramways, most notable of which is Amsterdam. while the tramway is a very efficient way to transport people, the tracks are a serious hazard for high volume cycle traffic. my city (Groningen), used to have a tram, but removed it during the car period. there were ideas being floated to reintroduce it recently, but it got shot down rather quickly due to inability to combine with the cities' high cyclist population. however, there are a fair few fully electric busses driving around. I am not sure if they are a pilot, and they are damn terrifying when they sneak up on you, but fully electric city busses ARE possible.

    • @TheLaualamp
      @TheLaualamp 6 лет назад

      @@NyanSten it really depends on the rail with and so on. They make sense in denser parts of the city where there actually are over 80people to service every couple of minutes. It's really a mix and match type of deal which in return again raises the costs.

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow 6 лет назад +2

      @@JayForeman Hey Jay, I thought you might like to know that Tel Aviv is doing that Amsterdam thing to its streets now. It's amazing how much they've pedestrianized or re-cobbled in just the past year. And it's working.

  • @MartinJames389
    @MartinJames389 6 лет назад +140

    Glasgow claims to have had the biggest tram network. It had trolley buses, too, but not many. Many places which never had trams had trolley buses. Their flexibilty was over-hyped. It only took a driver getting a bit too flexible for the pantograph to come off the wires. Then a powerless bus, usually at an awkward angle across the road, caused a snarl up.
    London abandoned trams early and sold some of its fleet to Leeds, where the tram system ran mainly on separated track until it got near the city centre (many vestiges can still be seen if you know what to look for). The ex-London trams were small, rattly and were like being in a tumble dryer when at speed. The bigger Leeds originals were much nicer. They accelerated smoothly and could get up to a fair lick on the separated track without shaking you to bits.

    • @Marcus51090
      @Marcus51090 6 лет назад +5

      Being from Glasgow myself but not lived their since I was 8 I know they have a small underground... but does anyone use it? Lol
      Also how’s Edinburgh’s princess street teams going? I read it was terrible

    • @Jonathan_Doe_
      @Jonathan_Doe_ 6 лет назад +7

      Trolley busses could be very flexible today with a battery fitted, they could even make short transitions between areas without overhead cables, and I’m sure the techs there to automate detaching and attaching to the cables.

    • @Marcus51090
      @Marcus51090 6 лет назад +2

      Johnathan Doe the current thought it to replace roads or make a bus lane of a smart road that recharge the battery by induction, the problem is battery’s have not changed much since they where invented, crystal batteries are set to come soon which are enormously more efficient but again not ready yet.
      Also replacing roads with smart charging roads is erm going to be on the pricy side to say the least

    • @mats7492
      @mats7492 6 лет назад +2

      a lot of major cities still have trolley busses.. San Francisco for example..

    • @andymcl92
      @andymcl92 6 лет назад +4

      @@Marcus51090 You mean the clockwork orange, one of the oldest undergrounds in the world? Yes, it is still very much in use! In fact, most of the stations have has a major re-haul in the last few years and there have been big discussions about changing to driverless trains.
      But one of the coolest things in the Glasgow Subway is the regenerative braking (again, one of the world's oldest examples). The stations are slightly higher than the tunnels, so the train slows down as it rolls uphill into the station. Then, as it leaves the station, the downhill slope gives it a little kick to get it going again. (Probably has a much lesser effect now than it used to, but still cool to know!)

  • @griffinrails
    @griffinrails 6 лет назад +203

    9:40
    "Hi, I'm Richard"
    "And I'm not Richard"
    (laughter)
    "And welcome to..."
    "M8s Bantz!
    (laughter)

    • @RMSLusitania
      @RMSLusitania 6 лет назад +1

      And.... Youre the laughter!

    • @jboxmm
      @jboxmm 6 лет назад +11

      the audio quality is really terrible

  • @alexandrejosedacostaneto381
    @alexandrejosedacostaneto381 2 года назад +3

    I have only visited London once, over 10 years ago, and only for a few days. Despite this, I'm binging this series (again) because it is so interesting I can't get enough of it

  • @CZ350tuner
    @CZ350tuner 6 лет назад +122

    Mr Train didn't invent the word "Tram" as it was already in use before he arrived in Britain.
    Originating in the 1700's a "Tram" is a wagon or ore cart on rails hauled by a horse or oxen or any other animal capable of pulling it along the rails.
    A "Dram" is a wagon or ore cart on rails pushed by a person. In the 1700's and 1800's Drams were propelled in coal mines by children cos the tunnels were too small for adults to fit through.
    (According to some old Yorkshiremen this practice still occurred in Yorkshire in the 20th century with Yorkshiremen claiming that, as children, they worked a 72 hour shift pushing Drams, miles underground, in pitch darkness through neck deep snow under the hot summer's Sun for half a farthing a month and that, "Times t'were hard t'when they t'were t'lad" and that, "You youngsters don't know t'meaning of hardship", etc. during old Yorkshireman rants).

    • @maddyg3208
      @maddyg3208 6 лет назад +2

      Andy Reid Yes you're right, "tram" was originally a mining term. It's also used historically (at least in Australia) in relation to short rural non-mechanised railways for hauling timber etc. And there were convict-powered trams (the convicts ran alongside and pushed) for transporting guards and officers in Port Arthur, Tasmania in the 1830s.

    • @paulvale2985
      @paulvale2985 6 лет назад +2

      @Andy Reid Brilliant mate, t'ram was abridged from train pulled by a ram!

    • @samiraperi467
      @samiraperi467 6 лет назад +1

      A wee dram sounds like a good idea right now.

    • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
      @Inkyminkyzizwoz 6 лет назад +2

      I must admit I did wonder about the statement that Train called them trams, since Americans usually call them streetcars

    • @Scruffi
      @Scruffi 5 лет назад +3

      But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

  • @captainboing
    @captainboing 6 лет назад +138

    607 is not really a hangover from trolley buses... it was reinstated a few years back... for decades the only bus that ran that route in its entirety was the 207... I hate myself.

    • @antonievandermeer34
      @antonievandermeer34 6 лет назад +9

      awww i hate you too

    • @sednabold859
      @sednabold859 6 лет назад +3

      I used to catch both of those busses home from school but I live in Australia so unrelated.

  • @4ever242
    @4ever242 6 лет назад +118

    Hi.. I'm from Prague. Although the base of our public transport is the metro (underground), Prague is indeed a "Tram City". Our tram system is one of the largest in Europe and is widely used by residents and tourists. So I wish more trams to London, I think it will bring only positive things!

    • @4ever242
      @4ever242 6 лет назад +7

      @fbw71u Wow, thanks a lot bro' for youre lovely words. Yes, these trams from ČKD Tatra are really legends and especially very resistant. It is just a pity that these classical trams disappear very quickly from Prague's tracks. These Tatra's are replaced by modern low-floor trams with air condition. The old cars are either scrapped or sold to Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Bulgaria) or to Pyonyang, DPRK 😂 I think is unbelievable, how many different countries on the world use our Tatra and Škoda trams, and trolleybuses too. BTW, I have been in Romania when I was a child (1982 or 1983) in resort Mamaia. It was my first vacation by the sea, I will never forget it. Greetings from Prague to Romania :)

    • @borispesenson226
      @borispesenson226 6 лет назад +2

      fbw71u tarta t3 only tram I can drive.

    • @4ever242
      @4ever242 6 лет назад +1

      @fbw71u Yes, the export of czech trams to the USA is also an interesting thing. Škoda trolleybuses also run in San Francisco. To your question, Mamaia in the 1980s was a relatively luxurious holiday place, we lived in a nice, modern hotel. It's a shame that it's been so many years ago and I can't remember everything so well. I would like to visit Romania sometime in the future, I am interested in mountains and Czech villages in Banat, for example.

    • @4ever242
      @4ever242 6 лет назад

      @fbw71u It seems to me very interesting. The Czechs and Slovaks came there sometime in the 19th century. Many of them still speak Czech. It is a very traditional village life, something that disappeared in the Czech Republic many years ago.

    • @thelondontrainspotter9991
      @thelondontrainspotter9991 6 лет назад +2

      Having visited Prague I find this accurate

  • @RealEyesRealiseRealLies
    @RealEyesRealiseRealLies Год назад +2

    4:19 “several affairs of what? 😮 literally spat my coffee out 😂😂😂

  • @samborpuskas
    @samborpuskas 6 лет назад +438

    Poland is a perfect example of where the trams and trolley busses survived

    • @090giver090
      @090giver090 6 лет назад +69

      As almost everywhere in Eastern Europe and ex USSR. Soviet authorities didn't have such a knack for autos as western, so they have to do with public transportation. Trams, buses and trolleybuses were a common beasts from GDR to USSR.

    • @jacobhayes5245
      @jacobhayes5245 6 лет назад +13

      @@090giver090 As is often the case the soviets greatest gifts are finally able to be appreciated now they've gone the way of horse drawn trams.

    • @szymongorczynski7621
      @szymongorczynski7621 6 лет назад +45

      And we still use trams and trolleybuses from Soviet times lol.

    • @BuXnAMaN
      @BuXnAMaN 6 лет назад +3

      Belgrade , Serbia too.

    • @henrygordonproductionsnwr7559
      @henrygordonproductionsnwr7559 6 лет назад +4

      Sanfransisco

  • @DJMavis
    @DJMavis 6 лет назад +113

    At 7:46 that guy does not look impressed with your use of "21th"

    • @nathanb385
      @nathanb385 6 лет назад +1

      Which person? You can really only the the face of the guy on the far right and it looks like he barely reacts to the phrase

    • @DJMavis
      @DJMavis 6 лет назад +2

      @@nathanb385 It was a silly comment. I don't think he was really angered by it. I think he was just grumpy and wasn't that impressed with the whole filming thing.

    • @k1an24
      @k1an24 6 лет назад

      @@DJMavis Most of Jay's videos He green screens

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 6 лет назад

      He doesn't suffer fools gladly

    • @DJMavis
      @DJMavis 6 лет назад

      @@k1an24 hmm, you might be right, even there. If he does, he's good at it!

  • @thebarak
    @thebarak 4 года назад +86

    5:24, that sounds exactly like one.

    • @morganreading1127
      @morganreading1127 4 года назад +5

      I think he acted it using the sound from an actual bys

  • @olefredrikskjegstad5972
    @olefredrikskjegstad5972 2 года назад +5

    2018 really was the most productive year for this absolutely cracking series

  • @drdewott9154
    @drdewott9154 6 лет назад +251

    Actually we do have a solution.
    In Copenhagen We're experimenting with 2 types of electric buses. Standard battery buses that'll be recharged at the garage, and a new concept where at the end of the line a pantograph will rise from the roof of the bus to a recharging station above the bus stop. With this the on board battery is fully filled up again after 3 minutes. Now the transport company DOT is planning to have phased out every diesel bus in their catalogue by 2030. Pretty impressive huh? All the benefits of electric buses but without the massive costs of putting up wires along most of the route

    • @tou7331
      @tou7331 6 лет назад +5

      We have those in london on an experimental scale, a version of the boris bus runs on the london bus route 37 (putney through peckham) has a white box on top for charging using a pantograph, havent seen it used yet tho i think it charges in the garage

    • @koninkrijkdernederlanden8711
      @koninkrijkdernederlanden8711 6 лет назад +9

      Indeed. It isn't just Copenhagen. The buses from the Chinese brand BYD are pretty good and used all over Europe, including in London. If you don't like BYD, then European alternatives like the VDL Citea Electric are out there with the typical pantograph.

    •  6 лет назад +1

      But you need more buses, so it always can wait at the end of the line.
      Btw this can work with trams too.

    • @jeroenschmidt6685
      @jeroenschmidt6685 6 лет назад

      Alkmaar in the Netherlands has been experimenting with electric busses too they currently drive on the lower population lines as a try out

    •  6 лет назад +1

      Same in Uppsala, Sweden, and several other cities. I didn't understand that part of the video really, the technology is almost here now

  • @martinstravels9594
    @martinstravels9594 5 лет назад +335

    7:30 makes it look like he's about to get run over by the tram

    • @Alucard-gt1zf
      @Alucard-gt1zf 5 лет назад +7

      Conor Murphy it’s a green screen....

    • @runlarryrun77
      @runlarryrun77 5 лет назад +20

      Allow me to introduce you to the radical concept of "stepping out of the way".

    • @MrGameManIsCool
      @MrGameManIsCool 5 лет назад +8

      @@Alucard-gt1zf yea he knows he's just saying that's what it LOOKS like

    • @Alucard-gt1zf
      @Alucard-gt1zf 5 лет назад +1

      Aiden he edited the comment so it says something different than before

    • @MrGameManIsCool
      @MrGameManIsCool 5 лет назад

      @@Alucard-gt1zf ahh , what did it say before?

  • @oisin_smith
    @oisin_smith 6 лет назад +20

    This series has the most inconsistent upload schedule in the world. I love it

  • @jasanand5597
    @jasanand5597 9 месяцев назад +1

    Aldi waldi Aldi waldi Aldi waldy Aldi. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Like the man sitting in a horse!!! 0:26

  • @thedoublek4816
    @thedoublek4816 4 года назад +230

    Regarding that tram tunnel:
    Berlin had a similar story. In the historic city centre, the early 1900s tram network was split into a northern and a southern part, only separated by one single street. Unfortunately, that one street, Unter den Linden (which goes from the Brandenburg Gate to the Alexander Square) was a broad boulevard, the posh heart of the city, where the emperor had his palace at and where also more governmental institutions, as well as the museums and the Humboldt University were located.
    The emperor himself has forbid a tramway to cross that boulevard, mainly because of the overhead cables, so a short, four-track tunnel was built, the Lindentunnel.
    After WW2, the tunnel was taken out of service, despite being located in the (socialist) eastern part of the city (which, in contrast to West Berlin, didn't fully dismantle its tram network), but was reused as an operational base for the GDRs state intelligence agency, so the security forces could quickly get into action to strike down any riots or demonstrations.
    The tunnel still exists to this date. A part of it is used as a storage space of a nearby theatre, one of its access ramps is used as an underground garage entry.
    A small section of the tunnel, located under the Bebel square, right in front of the Hedwig Cathedral, was transformed into an underground memorial monument. It's a small room with an empty bookshelf, visible through a window on the sidewalk, reminding of the Nazis publicly burning books written by Jewish authors on that very place in the 30s. That book burning scene was also depicted in the Indiana Jones III - The Last Crusade movie.
    Some more useless facts:
    1 - it wasn't the first tramway tunnel in Berlin. The first one was the Stralauer Tunnel, built at the end of the 19th century, which crossed the Spree River and connected the Stralau peninsula with the Treptower Park. It was taken out of service somewhere in the 1920s after it became leaky and river water started getting in. It still exists, although it's certainly flooded and one of its access ramps got demolished (the other one, on the Stralau peninsula, being filled in with soil).
    2 - Not far away from the Lindentunnel's northern entrance, there is a tram route still in service to this day. It used to be a part of the tunnels access route (now its a part of a terminal loop) and is also the oldest tram route of Berlin being still in service. It exists since the construction of the city's very first horse tram route about 150 years ago.
    That's quite an achievement, considering that Berlin's tram network lost 2/3 of its peak size (from more than 600km before WW2 down to about 200km nowadays) since the 1950s.

    • @karlwilhelmmeinert7592
      @karlwilhelmmeinert7592 2 года назад +5

      It has a german wikipedia article for those who are interested. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindentunnel

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow Год назад

      This is why all the streetcar lines in New Orleans terminated at Canal Street.

    • @RabbiHerschel
      @RabbiHerschel Год назад

      Hmmm, I wonder what was in those books that they burned?

  • @jackandrews5478
    @jackandrews5478 4 года назад +42

    You can tell how proud Jay is of his bus impression

  • @johnsmusicbox7595
    @johnsmusicbox7595 6 лет назад +247

    Solution: Just destroy London and start all over again.

    • @tentringer4065
      @tentringer4065 5 лет назад +19

      We tried that in 1666.

    • @Floral_Green
      @Floral_Green 5 лет назад

      Fully agreed.

    • @arifbayusatrio1028
      @arifbayusatrio1028 5 лет назад +9

      @@tentringer4065 and late 1940s, only partially though.

    • @nathanw9770
      @nathanw9770 5 лет назад +2

      We did that with the docklands

    • @tubilar111
      @tubilar111 5 лет назад +9

      Don't worry, they have found a solution, it's called *Brexit*

  • @zinc_ave
    @zinc_ave 2 года назад +13

    10:12 the pain in the eyes is too much

  • @DavidPeveto
    @DavidPeveto 3 года назад +32

    Seattle, WA over in the states loves its hanging wire electric trolly bus network. We have wires all over town, and we even had a celebration a few years ago for their 50th anniversary. They're not totally electric, they all have diesel generators on board so they can run partially in neighborhoods without cables or in case the network is down, but it's still a weird point of pride for the city.

  • @laika6661
    @laika6661 3 года назад +45

    I never realized how uncommon and enigmatic trams were. I’m glad Toronto has kept them alive. 🇨🇦

    • @MightyWinz
      @MightyWinz Год назад

      We destroyed most of them like London you blind patriot

  • @spOmes
    @spOmes 6 лет назад +402

    1:18 = Instant subscribe

    • @Pantsmode
      @Pantsmode 5 лет назад

      I want to like the comment but I don't want to ruin the count.

  • @paulcombs-bomuse6172
    @paulcombs-bomuse6172 3 года назад +7

    Jay Foreman is a true son of Monty Python.

  • @McFS15
    @McFS15 6 лет назад +73

    Shout out to the kid photobombing at 8:45

    • @murrayjones694
      @murrayjones694 6 лет назад +3

      Well now we know when he filmed this lol

    • @Shardok42
      @Shardok42 6 лет назад +1

      @@murrayjones694 wha? How?

    • @Shardok42
      @Shardok42 6 лет назад +1

      That kid looks downright awesome. Love that they can rock a look like that without a bunch of snooty old folk telling them off.

    • @bishplis7226
      @bishplis7226 6 лет назад

      its not a photo.

    • @Shardok42
      @Shardok42 6 лет назад +2

      @@bishplis7226 And? The term photobombing is still used when it would be "video" bombing and here's a very good reason why...

  • @spencexxx
    @spencexxx 5 лет назад +123

    8:47 "My brother likes turtles."

    • @DumOcaso
      @DumOcaso Год назад +1

      “I like tortoises”

  • @nat1bott
    @nat1bott 6 лет назад +716

    Why is he dressed like Chairman Mao?

  • @michaeld5888
    @michaeld5888 2 года назад +18

    I always fondly remember the Cardiff trolley buses. One feature was the stops to put the pickups back on the overhead lines. I have read the combination of coal smoke and the diesel smoke when electric was replaced with Diesel was a big factor in the great killer smog. I remember when we lived in Harrow on Hill we wiped soot off the indoor window sills every day with the railways blasting it out in the distance. Hear hear to the idea of bringing back trolley buses. I suppose living East of London we breath all this Diesel smoke with the prevailing winds.