The LightRail in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2018
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The light rail network in Pittsburgh - While most RUclipsrs focus on downtown, this video focuses on the segment where the light rail mixes with car traffic.
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The Pittsburgh Light Rail (commonly known as The T) is a 26.2-mile (42.2 km) light rail system in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; it becomes a subway in Downtown Pittsburgh and largely as an at-grade in the suburbs south of the city. The system is largely linear in a north-south direction, with one terminus just north of Pittsburgh's central business district and two termini in the South Hills. The system is owned and operated by the Port Authority of Allegheny County. It is the successor system to the streetcar network formerly operated by Pittsburgh Railways, the oldest portions of which date to 1903. The Pittsburgh light rail lines are vestigial from the city's streetcar days, and is one of only three light rail systems in the United States that continues to use the Pennsylvania Trolley (broad) gauge rail on its lines instead of 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Pittsburgh is one of the few North American cities that have continued to operate light rail systems in an uninterrupted evolution from the first-generation streetcar era, along with Boston, Cleveland, New Orleans, Newark, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Toronto. ~Wikipedia
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Every major American city that needs an inter-urban rail solution of one kind or another gets one... except Columbus, Ohio. I am SO damn sick of that.
Sad that there are only two streetcars lines left, but good to see some investment in the two remaining lines
There WAS a 3rd (Brown) Line until 2011. It still in use as an emergency bypass but it doesnt have regular service anymore.
Routes have been combined into one or two. For instance, the 42 Dormont, 42/38 are all one now. The Library remains the same. There are cars that travel via Overbrook too and still a lot of miles of rail. I don't see where it's sad, really.
@@waltkeast9777 They used to have a LOT more, until the 1960s.
Really, there needs to be a more comprehensive network than what exists...
There used to be a train that ran local in downtown because trains bypass stations with no passengers
I live in beechview so I see the street running trolleys all the time, kind of take it for granted, but that's really something that is pretty special that isn't seen very much anywhere anymore.
Pittsburgh is a large city with changing demogtaphics, more fteeesys, cars, money and politicians. Interest in expansion of the remaining lines will come when the city is awarded money for transit projects
Thanks Tim for sharing.😀
Pittsburgh need to have a NBA team.Make it happen my friend beautiful city.
Didn't they have one many years ago called the Pittsburgh Condors? And they played at the Civic Arena? I remember going to a few games with my father way back in the day.
They used to have a aba team
Pittsburgh has an arena that is second to none.
@@davideck2331 There was the Pittsburgh Pipers back in the 70s, an ABA team.
Man I wish we had light rail in Orlando Florida the traffic is horrible we need more mass transit to get around we need trains and people movers and monorail s to get around cantreal Florida because of the horrible traffic
I was there in 1974 and Pittsburg used to have tons of trolleys. Glad they still have them!
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Most of the PCC cars are gone now, wish they were still going
All of them are
@@woxyroxme No, they still have some, they're just temporarily down at the moment for an overhaul whilst busses and the light rail take over
Sadly most of the old streetcar lines have been abandoned.
Εξαιρετική δουλειά! Ευτυχώς έχετε κάνει αυτά τα κανάλια στο You Tube και γνωρίσαμε τόσα για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες και τα δημόσια συστήματα μετακίνησης αυτής της μεγάλης χώρας. Στο συγκεκριμένο δίκτυο light rail οι αρχές έχουν ξοδέψει πολλά χρήματα και έχουν κατασκευάσει σημαντικά έργα υποδομής. Το σύστημα επεκτείνεται και στις συνοικίες της πόλης δείχνει άψογο από πάσης άποψης. Ένα ελάττωμα του βρίσκω ότι δεν το προτιμούν οι επιβάτες. Και αυτό είναι κάτι πολύ δυσάρεστο, ειδικά στην προκειμένη περίπτωση που έχει γίνει μια πολύ μεγάλη επένδυση με πολύ ικανοποιητικό αποτέλεσμα.
Cool trams
Excellent capture my friend 👏👏👏 like 👍
I wish Orlando Florida had light rail Orlando s traffic is horrible we need more mass transit to get people around I hate auto mobile traffic
Bello.
I find it odd that these cars only have one low-level door on each side!
But I like the bells that they have! they remind me of the bells Russian streetcars have!
I'm a little bit late, in downtown the trolleys become subway cars so that's why
what a beautiful video
Great quality video. Are all of the stations high platformed? It looks like there is a front door that allows for street level entrance but maybe this is just for emergent situations.
MrReddygarcia This system has both high level boarding and low level boarding. For example, stations downtown and on the North Shore are high level, but street stations in Beechview (the street running in this video) are low level.
Jarrett Stewart
This is the first time I’ve noticed cars with both types of doors.
@@Jayayess1190 . . . Which does have the disadvantage that loading and unloading is a pain in the street level boarding areas if you have a lot of people wanting on/off at the stop (especially if the car is already crowded), because they all have to funnel through that small low-level front door. We have the same problem on Boston's Green Line even though all doors are low-level and the front door is the same size as the others, because we have had such a problem with fare-jumpers that a few years ago the MBTA started instructing the operators to let people on and off through only the front door. To make matters worse, the fare boxes are really badly designed and unreliable as well, and from some of the interior footage in this video, it looks like the Pittsburgh cars have essentially the same lousy fare boxes as ours.
@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio Sounds like the MBTA needs to move to off vehicle fare payments.
@@Jayayess1190 I wish . . . the Red, Orange, and Blue Lines have always been pre-payment, but Green Line on the surface (except Lechmere, renovated Science Park, and pre-renovation North Station) has always been on-vehicle. And the fare boxes have gotten worse with each generation.
Come back in 2020. We should have a brt by then if everything goes according to plan.
How did the plans go?
@@jamesparson 2023
That sounds like the worst decision the port authority made since my birth
Tim, sometimes I get really frustrated with your choice of shots. Why don't you show us how the cars board at street level? Are there fold-out steps, or is access limited to the narrow front door? It would also be nice to see a better view of the cars' interior configuration.
The right corner door of each car is a stairway for "street-" level boarding. The other three doors following is "raised" platform level boarding - in the the downtown area and at a few stations in the South Hills - so that's why at the street stops it's only one-door operational next to the operator's cockpit.
Thank you for the feedback. I will incorporate this into future videos.
Vestigial - well, that's new way of using the word.
Is it planned to make a Video in Salt Lake ? ^^
YEP!!!! Sorry for the late response. Be on the lookout.
Thats cool :) Thank you :)
That’s my neighborhood
Nice video. Have considered coming back to Houston to record the Metrorail?
Stay tuned...
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Nice filming Timosha.
Are they operated by bombardier?
Siemens and CAF cars.
Oh ok Thanks
No siemen and CAF
Ridership appears to be declining from previous years. People are leaving the areas served by this line?
During the recession the Port Authority made massive service cuts. They've restored some of the service in the last few years but it's still down from what it was 10-15 years ago.
No, ridership isn't declining but this was clearly shot during off-peak hours on a Sunday maybe? I was in Pittsburgh within the year and the "T" was thriving.
They should change them.
No because these are good cars we rarely have problems and also the cars were made speciffically to run here
Dude that's a streetcar
It's a light rail, according to the Wikipedia. Not only that, it goes underground as well.
Wikipedia is not an authority. It runs on the street in mixed traffic, boards at street level (at least some of time), and runs at fairly low speed. It even has a bell. It's a streetcar. (Streetcars have been running in a subway for over a hundred years in Boston, and also ran underground in parts of NYC.)
Light rails have bells too. It's a light rail
It's a light rail that integrates itself into a streetcar. It's virtually everything a light rail does but once it reaches further into the South Hills it converts into streetcar, similar in every way to San Francisco's MUNI. So with that being said, please tell me what do you call MUNI's rail network?
A light rail on the street I guess
just asking, why last year’s video considered (rare footage)?
Last time I filmed the lightrail there was little footage of it outside downtown on RUclips.