The buses built in the US looks like the first oldest models I drove as a bus driver in Sweden back in 2000. Anything built after 2000 are space ships compared to the US ones.
@@michalandrejmolnar3715 the buses that run city and regional services in Sweden are done by private companies. In the region I live in they often get a 8 year contract and the biggest reason for them getting the contract is low prices and good service. The buses are interestingly getting nicer and nicer even though they should have gotten more basic to save money for those companies. The low floor buses were introduced in my town when I was 15 and they looked more modern than what i see IS buses look like today and I’m 47 years old. It was a weird feeling getting a job as a bus driver at 23 years old and getting to drive the buses that I used to ride to school.
The first interior shot shown looked just like I remember our local city buses in Uppsala, Sweden. Admittedly I only ride the bus a few times a year but they do rattle and shake, partly due to endless amounts of speed bumps.
@@Xanthopteryx This is from an Uppsala buss and it looks similar to your example. I note that from the high line number it's a regional bus, not local (city) so it may be slightly different from the city buses. ruclips.net/video/iJRJN9hjIu8/видео.html
@@Tguson I think most areas are pretty similar. Only in Stockholm alone there are several different types. This is what were there in end of 2022: • Ledbussar (articulated): 1 060, varav (of which): -Röda ledbussar (red articulated): 760 -Blå stombussar (blue rapid transit): 279 -Blå ledbussar, eldrivna (blue articulated electric): 21 • Övriga bussar (other): 1 336, varav (of which): - ”Vanliga” röda bussar (regular red): 503 -Eldrivna röda bussar (electric red): 10 -Boggiebussar (bogie): 770 -Dubbeldäckare (double decker): 39 -Midibussar (midi size): 9 -Minibussar (mini size): 5 There have also been one or two autonomous buses in regular traffic (tests) since 2018 but that ended autumn last year. This was to gather data and now they can start launching other non testing lines.
@@Tguson That shot looked like one of the earlier MB Citaro buses, as those already had the small, somewhat raised seat right by the first door on the left of the shot. Basically took those since elementary school in my city.
Growing up in London, buses were just a part of normal everyday life. Same with the tube and trains. And later trams. I never owned a car in the 40 years I lived there.
nice, not being forced to have and operate a car, saves you so much money. hopefully in the next few years London (and the rest of the UK) are able to expand their (safe and modern) cycle infrastructure. the more options we have to get around the better. more choice = more freedom
When I went to New York on holiday in 1996, we caught a double decker bus from midtown to the World Trade Center. Whilst on the bus I was reading the old signage inside and realised it was a bus from Sheffield, England where I live. I’d probably already been on that bus years before it ever got to America.
I had a similar experience years ago in Glasgow (UK) with a river ferry. To my utter surprise, I saw signs with instructions in Dutch from the GVB (GemeenteVervoerBedrijf = gemeentevervoer bedrijf) Amsterdam. The old ferry for transport across the IJ had apparently been sold to the Scots.🙂🙃
@@grewdpastorI was in 1998 in Bulgaria riding in a bus. And there in the bus was the text: wilt U zitten, ik kan staan. Witch means: do you want to sit, i can stand up. It used to be a bus from RET, a Dutch bus from Rotterdam public transport services.
@@IWrockerWhen GM discontinued the fishbowl New Look buses in the 1970s many operators hated the new RTS buses that replaced them, to the point that they introduced the Classic bus in 1983. Again, in 1999, New Flyer introduced the futuristically styled Invero, which was also hated by operators.
Biggest problem with usa policys and regulation, is that usa does not seem to see what other countries do better and implement it. They just want to do their own thing😂 other countries understand that other countries might do stuff better and learn from eachother. Usa is in a bouble and don’t want to learn from oher countries. We in Norway take ideas from countries around the world. Even "bad"countries do some stuff better than other. We can all learn from eachother
Riga (Latvia) is far from perfect example (well, everybody knew that any big project would include some secret payments) but public transportation for me always felt "good stuff" here. Busses, troleys or trams (latest re-placement since need to rebuild old rails) all are comfy and even people who drives cars daily will often take them.
Yup i'm dutch and we have pretty much the best roads in the world (from my own experience) and its because we steel every good idee we see in any other country. You might have better ones in Norway but i only did around 200 miles there so i can't make a real assesment.
@@arturobianco848 roads in Norway are pretty safe but most roads are slow 70kmt or 80kmt is the most normal. I think many countries has better roads then Norway but we have hard terrain to build in. Montains and fjords everywhere. Ferrys etc. but yes very few people die in traffic accidents, even tho its ice roads. In 2021 86 people died in traffic accidents. But they are working to get it down to 0.- probably not possible but thats their goal and they are working on it all the time. Vison Zero In 2002, the Storting adopted Vison Zero. This is a vision of no one killed or seriously injured in road traffic. Ever since 1970, long-term and targeted traffic safety work has been conducted in Norway, and this has yielded results. The number of deaths per year has decreased from 560 in 1970 to about 100 in recent years. Don’t think its like that in the states.
I live in the UK. Not a major city, just a small town. I travel everywhere, every day by bus. To and rom work, between work sites when I have to work at more than one location, I go by bus for shopping and leisure trips an, if I need a care, I hire one - maybe two or three times a year. I didn't believe it for the longest time (I used to be a real petrol-legs) but it is surprisingly easy and convenient to use public transport as your main mode of travel. Fun fact. about ten years ago I went to visit some people at an event in Arse-End-Of-Nowhere, Indiana. I found a bus that would take me most of the way and a second local bus that would take me to the nearest town to the event. Then I got a cab to the actual event. When I turned up and told the folks how I got there, they couldn't have been more surprised if I told them I had teleported or dug a tunnel the whole distance. One local man told me that there weren't any bus services in the area and he found it incomprehensible that there were buses. Going home, he gave me a lift in his truck to the bus stop (three or four miles from his house) just so he could see me get on the bus he never knew existed. FYI, the local bus was a small minibus that doubled as a school bus at those specific times of day and was very comfortable. The Indianapolis bus was like a brick on wheels with what appeared to be NO suspension and zero seat padding. It was barely one step up from being transported as freight - the single worst bus I have ever travelled on and I have been on 100 year old, historic buses in a transport museum!
i live 12 miles from was 2nd largest city Birmingham. i was shocked i could not get in to Coventry before 8am and in wales 12 miles trip i could be in Wrexham before 8am. so i got job in Cov and i had to quite that job as you expect 8am in to city should be no issue. and from my home Kenilworth to hospital that can take hour but ten min drive, or hospital in the city it multi buses and over hour for 20 min drive max and it costs 2x times plus what it cost me in car inc parking charge. id never use a bus again, unless you want to be miles from were you want to be or spend a hell of a lot longer getting to places
Hard job. Poorly paid, irregular and split working hours, the toughest health test and annoying passengers. I have respect for that. Not everyone can handle nerves for long.
The socialist movements as far away in the past as 1870s had big influence on politics in which industrialization was big, even Bismarck reacted with concessions like government healthcare with which they wanted to take wind from their sails. After 1917 fascism was created to defeat the Soviet Union, then during and after WW2 had to make international concessions to the European socialist movements (Germany, UK, Austria, France, almost Italy, Nordic countries) and in comparison to the communist countries which legalized abortion, parental leave and guaranteed healthcare by 1918-1922
The socialist movements as far away in the past as 1870s had big influence on politics in which industrialization was big, even Bismarck reacted with concessions like government healthcare with which they wanted to take wind from their sails. After 1917 fascism was created to defeat the Soviet Union, then during and after WW2 had to make international concessions to the European socialist movements (Germany, UK, Austria, France, almost Italy, Nordic countries) and in comparison to the communist countries which legalized abortion, parental leave and guaranteed healthcare by 1918-1922
FYI, I only got my driver's license at age 39, because before that I could just walk or take public transport everywhere. It was only when I moved to the countryside that I needed a car. At 37 I got my motorbike license, but only because I wanted a motorbike.
I got my license at 26, after I lived in UK for few years. Could get away without driving for another few years, but good that I had my license by the time I started commuting for 30+miles, so that insurance was cheap. Also, I built some experience by then
Yes unless you're outside of Germany i don't know anybody (except germans and not even all of them) who calls it M.A.N. the rest of the world just pronounces it as man.
In Poland we have trolleybuses, electric buses, CNG buses with engines from Cummins company- in Krakow they recently opened an engine factory, and traditional diesel buses.
Interesting detail, the Belgian (Flemish) bus builder Van Hool is bankrupt, largely thanks to the Flemish (state-related) public transport company "de Lijn", which preferred to order buses in China rather than award the order to Van Hool, despite the fact that In the Netherlands, enormous problems and defects were reported with the same Chinese buses. Van Hool is/was known worldwide for its quality. My 2 cents from Belgium.
This might explain the recent issues with PT in Groningen. Van Hool is a very common sight in the Groningen/Drenthe QBUZZ Area, and I’ve never experienced any issues in the past few years. They switched out a couple of busses a few months ago and suddenly there’s constant delays because they can’t even get the doors of the bus to close after a stop…
Its not only De Lijn themselves that is mostly to blame, someone above them also have decided for those BYD buses since it was the lowest on the market idk what really happend but since I live in belgium aswell it wasnt only them that chose those horrible cheap boxes on wheels
@@LuanUjupi De Lijn is een semi overheidsbedrijf, net als de post, de invloed van politiek heeft zeker een rol gespeeld. De Lijn is a semi-governmental company, just like the post office, and political influence has certainly played a role.
4:10 You are right ! It's M-A-N, which stands for "Maschinenfabrik Augsburg - Nürnberg" (Machine Factory Augsburg - Nuremberg). Nowadays, it belongs to the Volkswagen Group.
I was living in The Netherlands for 5 years and working at Schiphol (Amsterdam) airport. There are I believe 12 routes connecting the airport with all adjacent areas by electric buses. Also, the regular buses with combustion engine are connecting the airport with most of the larger cities in 20km radius. And if there's no bus for you to go where you need to, you can simply hop on a train right underneath the airport itself and will take you almost everywhere. Netherlands has an amazing public transport infrastructure indeed.
Big city's yes, villages no. I have a friend in a village where bus drives till 5 once a hour, and in the weekend not at all, in the weekend he has to bike 1.5 hour to the nearest city, also everything closed on sunday😂
@@Daniel-qz8bp How often do busses go from remote rural villages in the US? .. Oh, never? I'll take the 'once an hour til 5' over 'never'. And shops are only closed on sundays in the very religious areas. In many towns, even smaller ones, shops are opened on sunday.
@@Daniel-qz8bp That sucks. I’m from the Dutch countryside too, basically as far away from the Randstad as it gets (Oost-Groningen). Our busses go regularly, until past midnight. Even my friend that lives on a farm only needs to walk five minutes to a bus stop that’s serviced every 30 minutes throughout the day. They should really start upholding the same standards country wide, because if even my region (the poorest region in the country) can do it then there’s no reason for why other regions can’t.
@@TheMrVengeance Not in zeeland and small towns in north brabant, therr everything closed. And the u.s.a. is a 3rd world country, where you pay close to no tax, so you cant compare it to The Netherlands.
I'm a french bus driver and i can add that more people use the busses in europe because more and more cities taxes the park drive in town insanely, autorities want you to park your car outside the cities and take the busses. Another add is that if the busses become better for the passenger that's not the case for the driver, please constructors just put the doors buttons on the steering wheel we push it more than a hundred time a day and can't to it in a straight position in many busses.
Yes, Sydney is like that they definitely prefer people to use public transport and made it possible to catch a bus, tram, train or ferry approx every five minutes anywhere around the city and inner suburbs! Leave your car for the weekends, or just drive through!
Here in Mexico City buses have their own exclusive lanes, often driving in the opposite direction of the car traffic and travel time is less than half the travel time. Also public transportation uses contactless payment e.g. with your phone.
It's the same in Sydney, bus express lanes! Tap on Tap off, easy transfer to another bus, train or ferry or tram with the same card or phone - not sure about the rest of Australia! 👍
It is indeed M.A.N which is an abbreviation for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg. (Machine factory Augsburg Nuremberg). Augsburg and Nuremberg are two cities in the German state of Bavaria. The company is a conglomerate that builds busses, trucks and diesel engines. It's part of Traton which is in its turn part of Volkswagen. Other parts of Traton are Scania and Navistar.
Really, you could show some cool features in European busses, like the stop buttons for strollers and baby carriages and the bus (the running board) going down electrically to the level of the sidewalk, not only for them but also for old and disabled people.
In Prague,Czechia the normal 12m(39feet) city buses have 4 doors and the longer articulated 18m(59feet) ones have even 5 doors. The shorter 8,5m(27feet) ones have 2 doors.
In The Netherlands busses have a circulation plan to help board / exit passengers as quickly as possible: you can only get in at the front door and only exit at all the other doors. So people entering and exiting the bus will not have to struggle past each other. All my local busses are fully electric, which i like a lot as there's 4 per hour coming through the narrow street where I live. When the train is out it gets replaced by old fashioned diesel busses and it's then that i notice how loud conventional busses are.
"You can only get in at the front door" ... Yyyeah, try saying that at like ANY bus stop in the morning on a route to a college/university. Good luck. 😂😂
@@TheMrVengeance there's only one bus line that has an exception in the city where i work, and it only has 1 stop which is the end destination. That bus is a direct line to the university complex from the bus station and it is indeed enter at all doors. They even got footsteps painted on the platform to show where the doors will be when the bus stops at the platform so everyone can queue up. But if there were more stops on the way, those would go by loading in the front / exiting through the other doors.
Watching video from Sweden, going to Stockholm from Värmdö, it is kind of lose kommun, 30 min trip. Sitting in quite old Scania, fastened seatbelt, 3 doors, 3 axles, low floors, smooth riding on air suspension.. But you know, what they do during the stops? Right side (doors side) lowers down every time, putting entrance on same level with platform. And USB chargers everywhere. And this vehicle is from 2016.
For short-ish metro city trips, durable seats and cushioning are usually comfy enough. Though my real gripe these days, is the seats on a bus going to the airport are MORE comfy than the economy seats on the plane!
I'm from the UK and it's not a matter of having a car or taking a bus, it's about having the option to choose. I have a car and most of the time it sits outside my house. I live on the edge of a small city so if I want to go into town I get the bus - it stops 3 minutes walk from my house, runs every 15 minutes all day, I don't have to find or pay for parking, or bother driving if I want to go to the next city I'll get buses and trains, if I want to stay longer or have a drink etc I can. If I'm going somewhere without convenient buses, late at night, or if I've got a load of stuff I'll take the car.
5:31 this futuristic bus has been in use in Belfast, Ireland from 2018😂 Up north in Derry all our buses are 100% electric, we also have a ton of double deck buses, and they are as fun as you are imagine 😂
You hit the nail on the head for "who cares what my car hit as long as Im safe." I was in a crash a couple years ago in my prius. We were T boned but it was by a slightly smaller Ford compact car. If it was a full sized truck like people frequently drive here in Indiana, me and my wife could have ended up in the hospital instead of being able to walk away with no harm done. It scares me to think about it
There is a difference between a bus and a coach. Functionally buses are multi stop and coaches are point-to-point. But structurally a coach is designed to be more comfortable for long haul rides and may even have a toilet onboard.
Thats just an english distinction, in my country its called a Bus for both of them (well technicly we do have the same sort of distinctions but nobody really usses it).
@@daveofyorkshire301 In my language, Finnish, we do distinct those bus types but we don't have a single word for each of them. We just call them longhaul buses or local/city buses and from that you know which type we are talking about.
In German we just use a compound word, ‘Reisebus’ (literally: travel bus), for coaches. One definition is that don’t have any spaces designed for people to stand, something that city busses generally have.
Me and my family took the bus to Pittsburgh City-Center a few times while staying in a hotel about 10miles north. I found it hilarious to read the adds in there for cheap stuff or addiction help programs. The ride was a bit slow but quite affordable. I mean we figured out quickly that we weren‘t the usual customers, but it didn‘t stop us from riding it again.
Guess what? I am German. I have a car. It's registered, taxed, insured and has fuel in it. It's ready to go. But I regularly opt to use public transport and leave the car at home. For all kinds of reasons: convenience, climate protection, money (I have a "Deutschlandticket" so I have pre-paid for all local and regional transit nationwide, so any additional trip I take is essentially free).
I live in Stockholm. Here we got ethanol buses in 1991, hybrid and battery buses were tried out in the 90s. Then we got CNG buses that pushed ethanol buses outwards from the city center. Now the same transition is going again. This time battery electric buses are pushing cng buses outwards and they are combined with HVO100 buses. HVO100 is 100% biodiesel from renewable sources. Vegetable based. I used to drive buses for over 25 years here. VOLVO, SCANIA and Neoplan buses mostly. Both 12m 2 axels, 14,5m 3 axels and 18-20m articulated 3 axel buses with 2-4 doors on them. I drove airport coaches for 6 years and they were the only 2 door buses. All city or suburban buses had 3 doors at least. And plush seats.
6:30 In Holland we've got them too....We also have/had busses that kneeled for you, so it is easier to enter, without a high step....So the bus was leaning towards the busstop, lowering its suspension...
When I was a kid, busses were freedom for us. Used to go all over London on busses and the tube, during the school holidays. I'd imagine American kids are very reliant on family/friends for lifts everywhere?
Yea American kids usually walk/ride bicycles in their neighborhood but if they wanna go somewhere (to the mall, restaurants, school, etc.) they have to have their parents drive them or carpool with someone else
In many European countries kids of school/university age get discounts and or free travel on public transport, even trains, it not only promotes freedom of movement and independence for kids, but also greatly reduces/removes the need for parents to take kids to and from school, and reduces the number of cars near schools.
I once worked at MAN Plant, Salzgitter. The TGX and partly also a bus were built on the line. The bus only consisted of a roadworthy, shortened chassis. Dashboard, steering wheel, engine, wheels... everything on it. The seat was a makeshift folding chair, the kind you would use for barbecuing or camping, and was only used to maneuver the vehicle for transport. It was ready to drive in priciple, just without any bodywork and only one garden chair as a driver's seat. Such a chassis can be seen in the film "The Mexican" with Bred Pitt in the scene at the intersection in the desert where he drives through the intersection on a red light and was almost rammed by such a chassis that was driving through the desert at 90 kmh. As I said, without windshields, without roof, without anything, on a folding chair. It was delivered all over the world, where local companies extended the frame accordingly and put a body on the chassis and you had a bus. Today they pack it in individual parts into transport crates and ship them that way. Jokingly called “bus in the box” at the MAN factory.
It is funny to see those „skeletons“ being delivered under its own power: The driver wears motorcycle gear complete with a crash helmet. The same thing is true with light lorries/vans like the Mercedes-Benz three tonners that become campmobiles/RVs or other custom made vehicles.
And the new trend is for even those to have illegal "temporary" registration plates, no insurance, no inspection. and there is basically zero enforcement on this because the authorities know that driving is typically necessary even for the poor so they don't bother anyone unless they break other traffic laws. Cars get rolled over and have no functioning lights and still drive around. It is madness here.
"Having your own car has some benefits as well [...]" It's important to remember that it's not either, or. I ride the bus, mostly in connection with train commutes. I use my bicycle when it's within my city. I also own a car, mostly used for longer trips or if I need to haul something/someone. I think it's often outlined as if you can only ever use one mode of transport. I cycle to work on most days but if the weather is sh** I'll take the car for those 4km. Personal transportation can easily be a mix of different traffic modes. Granted, they have to be available and viable...
but here is a question that I think most people would ask themselves...if I am already paying 30-40 grand for a car...why am I only using it for some trips...why cycle in hot or cold or rain when I can just take the air conditioned box with my music and navigation...where I have the freedom to just go wherever I want after work instead of just going home? I am paying for the car anyway, regardless of how much I use it, so why not get my money's worth out of it?
@@SummitCoyote The "mostly" in my comment is doing a lot of work here. If the weather is.. questionable, there is a high likelihood that I will take the car. It is cheaper to leave your car in the driveway if you don't have to use it. Driving your car costs money. More miles on the odometer will lower the value of the car. Every mile driven uses gas. In Denmark where I live, cost of insurance goes up with more miles driven per year. There are caveats, of course, but my point was only that transportation doesn't need to be an either/or. Just because you own a bicycle, it doesn't mean that you have to ride it for every trip. Just because you live close by a train station, it doesn't mean that you have to take the train every time. Same goes for a car. If you prefer driving, by all means, continue to do so. I'm not going to tell you how to get around. I think it depends heavily on where you live as well. For me, any trip shorter than, say 2 miles, is literally easier and faster by bike, so I use my bike. Also, I suspect only few people in Denmark would ask themselves the question you outline. In fact, most would probably begrudge using their car as much as they do, myself included.
@@SummitCoyote We in the netherlands have more cars per km2 than any other euro country but also have 1.3bicycles per person most of us use the bicycle because its quicker to get where we want to go its that simple. If the distance is too large or the weather sucks (trust me that happens) we might opt for a car if we don't have a car we 'rent' a car like a taxi or bus. Its not always easier to take a car i live in one of the 4 big cities here and if i need to go to work in amsterdam why would i take the car over a train+bicycle. Now the cost of a car is a issue thats why slowly many younger people don't see a car as a status symbol anymore and indeed go 'well i don't need a private car really' and save lots of money.
@@scb2scb2 if you blocked car access to areas and made people ride bikes, a lot of Americans would keel over and have heart attacks or get heatstroke lol. also, what do you do when you get to work or wherever all sweaty? do you just have showers everywhere? keep clothes at the office?
Not many roads are closed really its more that less space is assigned for them and more to bicycles and busses. Many places of work you can take a shower but if you watch any dutch bicycle videos you know its not needed the speed is low enough avg speed is 10mph we are not trying to win the tour the france. These days also ebikes help against the dutch winds. Here is a video i made a few days ago esp. in the mode inner city you get a good idea that cars, people and busses are just fine : ruclips.net/video/l8tfToFiLuQ/видео.html
Many busses in the US look like they were made in the 1980s, school busses do even resemble something from the 1950s. The harsh ride may be due to the use of normal truck chassis? It was like that in Europe in the past, but modern busses are designed from the ground up and do not share parts with trucks other than engines, the large manufacturers like Volvo, Scania, Mercedes and DAF design everything else especially for the use in busses, the bodies are mostly built by independent companies like Van Hool, VDL, Setra, Dennis and Neoplan to name a few, although the truck companies have also ready to use bus models of their own. Electric busses are becoming the normal here in the Netherlands, in order to keep the streets clear of overhead wires these are battery electric and are charged via a pick up on the roof which can be lifted against a live rail at the bus station where the service starts/ends.
In Finland you dont need bus schedule. They come every 5 minuts. And btw, blue eyes, red beard... your ancestors are most likely from Nordic, Norway perhaps. So you have Viking blood. Take dna test.
as a swiss , no bus company can beat our car postal service . Even in the most random village you will have at least one bus every 2 hours (during the day) that is ultra confortable , with wifi and even sometimes an outlet . They are kinda costly if you dont have an AG (it cost like 360 a month for all transportation in the country to be free) but it happened more than one time that i fell asleep in them and got either lost or the driver drove me back home
I would say the biggest problem in the US is the roads that are very big, this means a pedestrian has a hard time walking from one place to another as crossing a street is already a journey. But people that use a bus usually are pedestrians, meaning they will only use a bus to get to a place that is close to a bus stop. People transporting goods as groceries will rarely be seen in the US as most shops are not within walking distance from peoples homes, this is why everyone in the US needs a car.
As a Dutch person, what I find peculiar is the infrastructure and regulations. It seems strange that when regulators decide to invest more in road widening, they often neglect to consider the ongoing maintenance costs. This oversight can lead to poorly maintained roads over time, as I personally experienced during my vacation there.
Hi there! Here from Luxembourg, a tiny country with traffic jams in the morning and in the late afternoon (rush times). I come back to your last words and I agree with you that with a personal car , you can go where you want, when you want, how you want. The cost of owing a personal car is not relevant here, but is important. However, whenever I want/need to go in the city, I prefer tp use the bus or street car (tram) which is way cheaper because its free, because of no parking fee (and no risk of getting a ticket!) and more comfortable without getting nervous in the traffic jam (busses have dedicated lanes) and no worry to find a parking place.
These Van Hool buses from Belgium you called "futuristic" are actually in service in my middle-european hometown. A city with just a little bit more than 200.000 inhabitants, And they are trolleybuses, so fully electric. The kind of design of the bus you called "typical" for America now was last seen here in the 1990s. And you have to consider that the "life" of a bus spans from around 15 to 20 years. My city changes its entire fleet every 12 to 15 years.
The thing is most people who take the bus (or other public transport, or a bike, or who walk etc) also have a car. We have two cars, one for me and one for my husband. At my husband's previous job there was a direct bus from near our house straight to his office building, so he took the bus at least half the time. He changed jobs and while he could still take public transport, it's shorter and quicker to take the car because we live in a smaller town and there is no direct bus to his new job. He would have to transfer to a train and then another bus. But even if the car is quicker now, he would still be able to take the bus if he couldn't drive for whatever reason. It would just take a bit longer due to transfer time. If we visit a city center we park our car on a park and ride car park and take the bus. Usually you either can take the bus for free with your parking ticket or you can park for free and only pay for the bus. This is much cheaper and easier than trying to find a parking spot in the center that also costs an arm and a leg.
Exactly my thought. If you go grocery shopping to a big Supermarket on the outskirt of the city, you will clearly use your car. But when you are planning to visit the city center (which in most bigger European cities might be a "pedestrian zone", you'd have to find a parking garage / parking lot. If you planned to stay in the center..... let's say for 3 or 4 hours, a parking garage would cost approximately double the price of taking a bus or tram, if not more! In the US you won't have any problems with parking your car close to your destination, so, why should Americans want to take a bus, where they suspect to stumble upon the poorest, the homeless or the freaks who cannot afford a car? It may be true what Uncle Sam's citizens think: That public transportation is not safe because only used by hobos and junkies. There is simply no good reason to take a bus. In Europe it makes sense to own a car AND use public transportation depending on where you want to go and what you want to do. A friend of mine had a job at a university hospital. They had a parking for employees, but since many of them used it even if they were off duty (for shopping or whatever), they placed a payment barrier at the entry. And gosh, it was expensive! So from that day on she used to take her car to a park and ride and took the bus from there, it was way cheaper than going by car!
@@Herzschreiber What you Europeans do not understand is that in the USA ALL transit systems require local approval & taxes. With spread-out development, the entire transit line has fewer possible passengers within walking distance that a single stop in Europe. Therefore, it is extremely costly for the few passengers, so low-tax politicians regularly target these transit options as wasting money & local people vote against transit to save a little money. Typical comment - "why should I pay for something only some poor drug addict is going to use?" No local money - no transit at all or very little.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Okay, good point. My reply was only adressing the idea that Germans either have a car or use public transportation system, because that isn't true. An other thing I guess has to be taken into account is, that gas is way cheaper in the US, so using a car is less expensive. If people could save money and their taxes wouldn't rise, they would likely be glad to have some transit systems instead of avoiding them?
@@Herzschreiber Those options were destroyed in the period between 1946 & 1960. In 1945 the USA had excellent transit systems as well as excellent intracity rail & even some high-speed rail. That was all gotten rid of in favor of cars & airplanes. To get anything half as good as what Europe has would cost well over a Trillion $ nation wide, or about $5-to$10 Billion per city. without taxes, it cannot be done. Our corporate America would also fight it tooth & nail because they are locked into making profits from the current system.
The problem is really structural and material rather than a case of mindset and thinking. You need to buy more buses, invest more into rail, trams, trolleybuses so that people can use the service and it's convenient.
The user experience on buses in my city is superb. They are super low to the ground so folks with mobility issues can board easily. They even have retractable wheelchair ramp so if the bus driver sees you at the stop in a wheelchair, they get off, open the ramp for you, stove it back and get back into the drivers cabin. There is also a specific spot for wheelchairs and people are usually very polite about this, so they clear the space for you automatically. Within this space there is also a special button you need to press when you want to get off to notify the driver that they need to come help with the ramp at the next stop. The buses on the line that connects the main railway station with the airport have extra space with shelves for luggage. Some buses have usb ports in which you can charge your electronics. In the summer they add these special lines that go to nearby hiking and biking trails with buses that accommodate specifically for travel with your bike. Every vehicle also has at least one ticket validation box where you can pay with your credit or debit card. It even works with the nfc in your phone or watch. It is super easy, you just get on, tap your card and you’re good to go. Plus one trip costs like 1.30 € so it’s very accessible to everyone really. Plus there are so many options for buying a ticket. You can use a machine that takes coins and gets you a physical ticket, you can buy a ticket on your phone with an app, you can buy a ticket by sending an SMS, you can get a buss pass or you can load up your buss card with money and buy your ticket for each trip on the bus with it.
I rarely take public transit nowadays, but I used to. The most important thing to me was it being actually convenient and somewhat regular and fast. An alternative or complement to driving. In the US for example, taking public transit is slower than using a car in most cases. They don't run regularly enough, are inefficient, slow (like busses getting stuck in traffic), don't go to places people want to be at, etc. The issues make car traffic worse as well. If some of the people who drove their car could be at least tempted to take public transit sometimes, it would mean fewer cars on the road and less parking and road-space needed.
There is another thing here. Is it correct that USA doesn't really have widespread chip and pin and contactless debit card tech? I say this because paying for the bus with contactless is common here and it makes travel really simple. No change required.
@@IWrockerWe have special, contact less, Peggo cards in Winnipeg. But the system has been plagued with problems since it as introduced over 10 years ago. But they're talking about replacing it with a more flexible system that will accept debit, credit cards, and even smart phones.
@@IWrocker ok cool. Yes you can use that on transport in UK anyway (and almost certainly all europe) - there are also various smart travel cards you can buy so it's all cashless. (you can still use change it's fine)
I just love this sort of thing. Reactions. RUclips videos. Keep it up. I am also mad obsessed. I collect toys and diecast models. Trucks. Buses. Cars. Planes. Forklifts. Bicycles. Motorbikes. Anything with wheels. Even a shopping trolley model. Yes.
One thing I've noticed is that a lot of US transit looks very old-school and almost industrial. You have those massive, boxy vehicles, many of them chrome and without much of a soul. Think for example about the NY or Chicago metro or the buses in San Francisco. And speaking of trains: Amtrak, which just looks like a giant metro, rather than a long-range travel option. This trend had even reached the aviation industry. Remember when American Airlines planes used to be all chrome-colored and industrial-looking?
Im from Nottingham, UK and ALL city buses here and around only have 1 door at the front. There was a bendy bus in the 2000s but that was eventually taken out of service when a delivery of a bunch of double-decker buses arrived and replaced some much older buses and to allow for more frequent services on some routes. Although, since covid, the frequency of routes are much less frequent than before covid. This is mainly due tothe fact that it could be too frequent and there was a small decline in the number of drivers available iirc. Alot of most routes share a part of its length with another route. On one particular section of road, in the middle of the day, buses will pass at almost 1 per minute on average pretty much. Some routes are, at peak times (usually between say 9am-6pm for one operator) every 10 minutes and others are every 20 minutes. A couple are every 30 minutes but thats on the two or so routes that go quite far out of the city (appprox a 1 hour route/2 hour round trip at max)
As someone that makes enough to buy a brand new car every month I still take the tram to work every day here in Sweden. Sure I own 2 cars, but it takes 6-8 mins on the tram while it takes 45-60 mins with the car and then I still need to park. Sure some of that is by design but considering a tram comes every 5 mins, it's comfortable and I spend my time on it chilling with a coffee and reading something it's so much nicer than spending time in the car just to get to work. The same goes for busses, it's just easier to use here, sure I still use my car quite often but I almost always have the option not to and it's always a nice enough experience on the bus/tram that I really don't need a car. Still I live in a large city, it's less crystal clear in rural areas, sure they have busses etc as well, but you do need a car to be "comfortable" doing anything other than going to and from work for the most part.
I actually used to be on a trajectory that had the chance of getting you on a "discobus" in the evening hours, it had these 90's disco songs playing + a discoball in the middle hanging from the ceiling.
its M.A.N. : Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, a german bus manifacturer. The lion on the Logo is actually the Braunschweig lion when they merged with Heinrich-Buessing-Werke
5:03 (where) are those 14m and 15m busses Street legal? As far as I know, a single unit can only be 12m long in the Netherlands, and I would assume that does also count in the rest of the EU. Harmonica busses could be longer since the different parts count as different units, but the picture shows a single part bus.
It’s just how it is here. With the importance and development of the automobile industry here and the generally young age of our country we have individual cars for each families as our main mode of transportation.
One of the most perplexing things I saw on my trip to the US was what qualifies as a bus stop. Literally just a sign. There wasn't even a pedestrian walkway, it was just a sign saying bus stop on the green next to the road.
@@Hen_von_Amis The only thing remotely close that've seen here in Germany were bus stops with a little wooden shack as shelter netxt to the main village road, but even those were luxurious compared to that thing I saw in the US. Not that I'm categorically denying that the same thing can be in other palces, europe or wherever, or that every bus stop in the US looks like that, but the juxtaposition of that bus stop in the middle of a US city compared to what I see daily in my own was baffling.
@@Aotearas As I said the number such busstops are dwindling and the quality has risen in my area t just that they do exist in small number I don't know about Germany but do I know stops that are 1 small Platform and a Bus bollard that what I mean
@@Hen_von_Amis That was certainly common in rural areas in the UK, but these days more and more of them are at least getting a raised pavement to help people with wheelchairs or pushchairs get on/off.
It's the same in many cities in Europe. Just outside my door in the suburbs of Dublin, we have 1 proper bus stop, and the rest are just posts on the sidewalk or on grass. One thing to consider is the footprint, and the distance between stops. In Dublin the stops are way too close from each other to allow a proper stop with seating. However, having grown in the outskirts of Bordeaux, the distance between stops was greater, and cities had proper (wide to regular size) sidewalks so you could have covered stops with one or more benches, which btw were given for free by J.C Decaux (the advert company the french equivalent to clear channel) who was paying for them through the ads they displayed on the side.
7:34 - The electric bus shown in the video is not battery powered, it's powered by those overhead cables. They're like trains without tracks. Here in Portugal we call them "tróleis" (the Portuguese spelling of the English word). The used to operate in three cities, Porto, Braga and Coimbra, but now Coimbra is the only one that has them. Apart from a short interregnum, they've been operating there since 1947. 🙂
The white and green double decker at 17:10 is a GO Bus in Ontario, Canada. Unlike the London and Hong Kong double deckers, which are the regular within the city bus services, the GO Bus is more of a city-to-city service.
The Bus at 4:56 is some kind of unique in the ZVB (Zugerland Verkersbetriebe aka. Public Transport of Canton Zug in Switzerland) To have a bus with 3 axis. It connects Zug Train station and Goldau Train station by driving all along lake Zug. Usually we have 3 axis articulated bus, the two axis uses with or without a 2 axis passenger trailer. Bigger Cities (like ZVV from Zurich) often have also the 4 axis articulated bus with 2 joints.
You're becoming my fav RUclips channel :D your content is really enjoyable, and as i'm from Europe (Czech), its flattering to watch you drink our beer or react to our buses or whatever 😃😃
In Australia I believe we've had articulated (aka bendy, accordion) buses since the late 80's. They're not common and only used on more busier routes and during peak hour bus usage. In Perth, Western Australia, late last year we trialled Trackless Trams similar looking to what you see in the video at 05:34. Basically they were buses, on wheels, again as seen in your video. They follow a specific set path due to sensors embedded in the road, therefore they cannot just be driven anywhere. Love your videos by the way. Always fun to watch. Especially all the Aussies ones. :D
In Czechia, the ratio between car travel and buses is 4:1. City buses are optimized for volume with more room for standing to keep up with high demand. Inter-city and international buses are optimized for comfort, you can get hot coffee/chocolate and free wi-fi with onboard entertainment library (movies, music). You can recline your seat and take a nap.
What you and every other European posting here fails to understand is that for 95% of the USA public transit will NEVER work like it does across the pond. For the typical transit stop in Europe, there are about 1,000 possible passengers because of the densely built communities, while in the USA the typical transit stop has only 30 potential passengers because of the spread-out development. Therefore, only those unable to afford a vehicle use transit, making publicly funded transit an easy target for low-tax politicians. Given the costs to operate any transit system, is it any wonder that many USA communities repeatedly vote to discontinue or severely limit publicly funded transit?
City buses can have comfort features too. I'm in the UK, in a small-medium sized city, even our city buses have WiFi & usb charging ports. They're double deckers, so have a lot of capacity too.
@@vijay-c That is why transit almost never works in the USA. Too much capacity & too much expense for too few passengers. The only transit system that might work is if most US cities had tiny buses that held only 12-20 people, but ran every 10 minutes. However such a system would be SO EXPENSIVE that most Americans would vote to discontinue ALL transit completely.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Those buses run every 10 minutes here, on routes where there's demand. I should note that there's 2 universities in my city, meaning that approx 30% of households have no access to a car. Personally, I'm epileptic, I legally can't drive - but I get a free bus pass. There's good social reasons for a solid transit network. The real issue in the US is the crazy zoning laws that leads to miles of suburbs. It's not dense enough for good transit stops.
@@vijay-c Those zoning laws were created by the Americans coming home after WW2. They were the children of immigrants who saw a piece of land, a separate house, & a car as proof that they had a better life than what the immigrants left behind in Europe. The suburbs of the 1950s & 60s were their vision of the American Dream & they wanted it to stay that way. Their children - the Boomers - what the same things so they added to the zoning laws to keep ALL dense development away from their communities. 75% of Americans LIKE what they have created and they REJECT the type of communities you have in Europe. If you do not like what we have, fine, but please stop posting about what you have, because the USA does NOT want IT!!
MAN stands for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg = Machine factory Augsburg - Nuremburg. It was a merger of two machine factories in Augsburg and Nuremberg back in 1898, which founded in 1915 a joint venture with Swiss Automobilwerke Adolph Saurer, the Lastwagenwerke (Truck factory) M.A.N.-Saurer, first producing in Lindau at Lake Constance, then moving to Nuremberg.
Bus lanes or even bus roads exist elsewhere but ALL of that requires timed and controlled traffic lights which USA doesn't seem to have. Cars, buses and pedestrians get their own phase of the lights and it's all safe.
I have no cam so I am responding as a Lithuanian in USA just visting and pausing the video as well: 1 . hard seats. 2. NO SUSPENSION WHATSOEVER, you can feel every bump no matter where you sit. 3. the routes? 4 the timing? 5. catch a bus?
i'm from the netherlands and my dad was a bus driver for a while so i'm quite proud, but he stopped bcuz mental problems and he has had 6 collapsed lungs by now, so he just stays home the whole time, but i'm still very proud of him, he's the best dad every (srry if i didn't spell something correctly, speaking english is easier than writing)
6:54 As a bus driver in the UK, I can tell you, that is the interior of a Mercedes E-Citaro electric low-loader (low floor) bus. If you look at the top windows, you can see a lock. The buses that we have don't have the keys... Well done, Mercedes 😅 Edit: In my town, nearly all of our buses are electric, and soon they all will be. You can't hear them, and their very comfortable.
11:53 Nothing wrong with liking big trucks, just like there is nothing wrong with liking a big loud American muscle car (though there is the environmental aspect to consider, but we can ignore that for this argument), it is however really strange to not take into consideration the vehicle causes to those it hits. By those standards a Tank would be considered the safest vehicle that exists. The Corvette Stingray 1969 is one of my dream cars and part of me is sad that I may never own one because I live in Europe.
When I was in school, there was also a very small bus that drove to a few of the small villages (the only one that drove to my village). It was like half the length of a normal Bus, I think 18 sitting places. One of the two busses the line had didn't have any standing places, there was an area in the front, but nothing to hold onto. But it was really just that one Bus line. I've never seen it anywhere else.
My local bus in the southwest of England is a double decker with full high back, faux leather seats with usb charging ports and armrests with good heating in the winter and this is for a local 30min to 1 hour journeys. Btw M.A.N is an abrivation in Germany but in the uk i have always heard MAN as in a guy/bloke its always been this way. So if i verbally said it,its MAN but if i write it down then its M.A.N. Weird i know but thats the way it is been done here for many years. Same as Volvo we don't say the full name Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) We just say Volvo.
"Maybe (you use bus) even every day" Yeah, twice a day. And twice a day I use tram, and twice a day I use metro. It's 16km ride, 40mins by public transport for only 0.43$ ticket (156$ annual ticket for unlimited use of public transport and 2x15minutes shared bicycles every day). By car it's in rush hour about 30 minutes and significantly more expensive. I mean I still don't get how nobody wants to invest in good public transport in your country, because people would love it. Not a single city in USA is close to average cities in Europe, like for example Prague or Bucharest. Which are significantly poorer and smaller cities compare to New York for example, and yet Prague's public transport transfer almost the same number of people every year as MTA. City that is about 6-7 times bigger in population, and working with 22 times bigger budget (NYC budget for 2022 was about 100b US dollars, and Prague's budget was about 100b CZK which equals to 4.5b US dollars).
Once I went on a local bus on a road that was famous for is rally-driving and clifftops. The bus was 9 metres long and it went pretty much ONLY on that road.
Its funny that trolley bus are coming back. In the fifties when I went school in London I used to catch a trolley bus; they we scrapped sometime in the sixties. The reason given was that one bus could not overtake another, plus to turn a corner at an intersection the connect jib had to be disconnected and the conductor followed behind with the pole and reconnected once around the corner. Good old days.
17:12 Those are GO busses in Ontario (Canada). They are used for intercity travel and they are indeed quite nice. However I did not realized they were purchased from the UK. I mean they are double deckers so maybe I should’ve realized lol
obviously it depends how populous the area is as to how accessible buses are but in glasgow for example, u are basically able to go where u want when u want. because the public transit system is actually funded and well-implemented, there is constant service and u can hop on and off. as a side note, i've fallen asleep many times on buses in the uk. never thought about how that might be odd.
new ones look a lot better here. The reason ours look outdated is simply because they lasted longer, believe it or not. So we were slower to replace them.
Here in Czechia, SOR bus is really common. And it is really nice, here where a lot of people drink alcohol, you can't drive can you? So we rely on public transport because drunk driving will kill us all... It is just a given here, you are going to visit a friend in a different town, you are going to party, you ain't driving there. Simple as that. Edit: Sure I have sober friends that could drive me there, but they aren't always available and it is more of a mess compared to public transport that is ready once an hour at least.
Our buses here in Basel, Switzerland are all Mercedes Benz, longer with two bendy, 4 doors, a door for children carriage and for disabled, and electric
I live in a village in West Yorkshire in England, the nearest city (Wakefield) is about 30 minutes drive away, so before I got a car (and sometimes even after due to convenience and cheapness) buses and trains are part of every day life. For high school we had normal city buses but owned by a private company and were used for our school buses, and sometimes they had coaches. College (age 16-18) was the same at first, I got on usually a coach but sometimes a bus from my village to my college in Pontefract. I realised it was cheaper taking the normal public bus for my second year before I got my car so every day I'd take the 28 to Pontefract (legendary bus route in my area) that came every 30 minutes or so and I walked from the bus station to my college. In small towns like mine, buses are an integral part of life and getting around, and everyone takes the bus, it doesn't matter how much money you have, sometimes it's just more convenient, especially if you're going out drinking in Pontefract and you obviously don't want to drive there, just take a bus. Also extra note, London's buses are the red ones but we have double deckers all throughout the UK, even small towns like mine, the 28 bus was usually a double decker.
What you Europeans do not understand is that in the USA ALL transit systems require local approval & taxes. With spread-out development, the entire transit line has fewer possible passengers within walking distance that a single stop in Europe. Therefore, it is extremely costly for the few passengers, so low-tax politicians regularly target these transit options as wasting money & local people vote against transit to save a little money. Typical comment - "why should I pay for something only some poor drug addict is going to use?" No local money - no transit at all or very little.
@@gregorybiestek3431 We understand that perfectly well. But why raise American politics when giving our anecdotes on our travel experiences on buses outside the US? Your politics, zoning & transit policies are yours to fix. Even the person you're replying to is, like me, from the UK. Our public transit outside London is generally terrible compared to a lot of the rest of Europe because of various political reasons too. Better than the US, perhaps, but certainly not good enough; that's not a story for this particular comment section though.
@@vijay-c Your anecdotes mean nothing to 90% of Americans, because we do NOT want to fix our zoning & transit policies. At least 75% of Americans like having a car & a suburban house with spread-out development. Yes, there are a handful of people who want what you have in Europe, but they are small minority, at the most maybe 10% with perhaps another 15% who would try living in such a community. How you live your lives without personal vehicles means absolutely zilch to the vast majority of the USA.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Good for them. Why so aggressive? I'm not suggesting America or Americans do anything different. We're just telling you how everyone else does it. You keep doing you, 'Murica
@@vijay-c Because a huge majority of the USA want what Europe has and we think how you do it shows how poor your countries must be not to be able to afford a good life. If you disagree, fine, but quit posting telling us how you do things because we DO NOT care!
The buses built in the US looks like the first oldest models I drove as a bus driver in Sweden back in 2000. Anything built after 2000 are space ships compared to the US ones.
Actually the most of the city buses we get come from Canada what are we getting in the United States
@@scottysmith9687 depends on the city different cities has different needs and requirements
2000 try the 90's😂😂😂
Probably the good things are due to social democracy
@@michalandrejmolnar3715 the buses that run city and regional services in Sweden are done by private companies. In the region I live in they often get a 8 year contract and the biggest reason for them getting the contract is low prices and good service. The buses are interestingly getting nicer and nicer even though they should have gotten more basic to save money for those companies.
The low floor buses were introduced in my town when I was 15 and they looked more modern than what i see IS buses look like today and I’m 47 years old. It was a weird feeling getting a job as a bus driver at 23 years old and getting to drive the buses that I used to ride to school.
So funny that you say they look futuristic.
Me as a Swede are like: "They look like normal buses?" =)
The first interior shot shown looked just like I remember our local city buses in Uppsala, Sweden. Admittedly I only ride the bus a few times a year but they do rattle and shake, partly due to endless amounts of speed bumps.
@@Xanthopteryx This is from an Uppsala buss and it looks similar to your example. I note that from the high line number it's a regional bus, not local (city) so it may be slightly different from the city buses. ruclips.net/video/iJRJN9hjIu8/видео.html
@@Tguson I think most areas are pretty similar. Only in Stockholm alone there are several different types. This is what were there in end of 2022:
• Ledbussar (articulated): 1 060, varav (of which):
-Röda ledbussar (red articulated): 760
-Blå stombussar (blue rapid transit): 279
-Blå ledbussar, eldrivna (blue articulated electric): 21
• Övriga bussar (other): 1 336, varav (of which):
- ”Vanliga” röda bussar (regular red): 503
-Eldrivna röda bussar (electric red): 10
-Boggiebussar (bogie): 770
-Dubbeldäckare (double decker): 39
-Midibussar (midi size): 9
-Minibussar (mini size): 5
There have also been one or two autonomous buses in regular traffic (tests) since 2018 but that ended autumn last year. This was to gather data and now they can start launching other non testing lines.
@@Tguson That shot looked like one of the earlier MB Citaro buses, as those already had the small, somewhat raised seat right by the first door on the left of the shot. Basically took those since elementary school in my city.
As a Portuguese, same. They're just buses.
Growing up in London, buses were just a part of normal everyday life. Same with the tube and trains. And later trams.
I never owned a car in the 40 years I lived there.
sounds miserable
@@9.5.9.5 Sounds very lucky getting along without a car.
nice, not being forced to have and operate a car, saves you so much money.
hopefully in the next few years London (and the rest of the UK) are able to expand their (safe and modern) cycle infrastructure.
the more options we have to get around the better.
more choice = more freedom
@@9.5.9.5 typical American 🤡🤡🤡
@@9.5.9.5 What do you want a car for in London? You can walk across the entire city at its widest point, in a few hours.
When I went to New York on holiday in 1996, we caught a double decker bus from midtown to the World Trade Center. Whilst on the bus I was reading the old signage inside and realised it was a bus from Sheffield, England where I live. I’d probably already been on that bus years before it ever got to America.
I had a similar experience years ago in Glasgow (UK) with a river ferry. To my utter surprise, I saw signs with instructions in Dutch from the GVB (GemeenteVervoerBedrijf = gemeentevervoer bedrijf) Amsterdam. The old ferry for transport across the IJ had apparently been sold to the Scots.🙂🙃
@@grewdpastorI was in 1998 in Bulgaria riding in a bus. And there in the bus was the text: wilt U zitten, ik kan staan. Witch means: do you want to sit, i can stand up. It used to be a bus from RET, a Dutch bus from Rotterdam public transport services.
That bus that you said looked like the typical US city bus, that looked like what our busses looked like back in the 80's early 90s at best! 😅
Haha I figured 😂😂 that’s about right.. America just doing its own thing over here… decades behind 😅
@@IWrockerWhen GM discontinued the fishbowl New Look buses in the 1970s many operators hated the new RTS buses that replaced them, to the point that they introduced the Classic bus in 1983. Again, in 1999, New Flyer introduced the futuristically styled Invero, which was also hated by operators.
USA is a 3rd world country in denial
@@dougbrowning82What was the real reason for this backlash? What exactly didnt they like?
@@FonetikerFrom what I gather, the styling didn't sit well with them.
Biggest problem with usa policys and regulation, is that usa does not seem to see what other countries do better and implement it. They just want to do their own thing😂 other countries understand that other countries might do stuff better and learn from eachother. Usa is in a bouble and don’t want to learn from oher countries. We in Norway take ideas from countries around the world. Even "bad"countries do some stuff better than other. We can all learn from eachother
we have corrupt people in gov.
Riga (Latvia) is far from perfect example (well, everybody knew that any big project would include some secret payments) but public transportation for me always felt "good stuff" here. Busses, troleys or trams (latest re-placement since need to rebuild old rails) all are comfy and even people who drives cars daily will often take them.
@@elmurcis1europe has been building public transport for decades. Usa has allways buildt for cars.. hard to change that now.
Yup i'm dutch and we have pretty much the best roads in the world (from my own experience) and its because we steel every good idee we see in any other country. You might have better ones in Norway but i only did around 200 miles there so i can't make a real assesment.
@@arturobianco848 roads in Norway are pretty safe but most roads are slow 70kmt or 80kmt is the most normal. I think many countries has better roads then Norway but we have hard terrain to build in. Montains and fjords everywhere. Ferrys etc. but yes very few people die in traffic accidents, even tho its ice roads. In 2021 86 people died in traffic accidents. But they are working to get it down to 0.- probably not possible but thats their goal and they are working on it all the time.
Vison Zero
In 2002, the Storting adopted Vison Zero. This is a vision of no one killed or seriously injured in road traffic.
Ever since 1970, long-term and targeted traffic safety work has been conducted in Norway, and this has yielded results. The number of deaths per year has decreased from 560 in 1970 to about 100 in recent years.
Don’t think its like that in the states.
I live in the UK. Not a major city, just a small town. I travel everywhere, every day by bus. To and rom work, between work sites when I have to work at more than one location, I go by bus for shopping and leisure trips an, if I need a care, I hire one - maybe two or three times a year. I didn't believe it for the longest time (I used to be a real petrol-legs) but it is surprisingly easy and convenient to use public transport as your main mode of travel.
Fun fact. about ten years ago I went to visit some people at an event in Arse-End-Of-Nowhere, Indiana. I found a bus that would take me most of the way and a second local bus that would take me to the nearest town to the event. Then I got a cab to the actual event. When I turned up and told the folks how I got there, they couldn't have been more surprised if I told them I had teleported or dug a tunnel the whole distance. One local man told me that there weren't any bus services in the area and he found it incomprehensible that there were buses. Going home, he gave me a lift in his truck to the bus stop (three or four miles from his house) just so he could see me get on the bus he never knew existed.
FYI, the local bus was a small minibus that doubled as a school bus at those specific times of day and was very comfortable. The Indianapolis bus was like a brick on wheels with what appeared to be NO suspension and zero seat padding. It was barely one step up from being transported as freight - the single worst bus I have ever travelled on and I have been on 100 year old, historic buses in a transport museum!
This is epic haha thanks for sharing. Seems accurate at how everyone was mind blown that you were able to take buses the whole way 😂🎉
i live 12 miles from was 2nd largest city Birmingham. i was shocked i could not get in to Coventry before 8am and in wales 12 miles trip i could be in Wrexham before 8am. so i got job in Cov and i had to quite that job as you expect 8am in to city should be no issue. and from my home Kenilworth to hospital that can take hour but ten min drive, or hospital in the city it multi buses and over hour for 20 min drive max and it costs 2x times plus what it cost me in car inc parking charge. id never use a bus again, unless you want to be miles from were you want to be or spend a hell of a lot longer getting to places
I'm a busdriver in Ireland. I can make a video of the interior and exterior for you if you want to learn more.
Hard job. Poorly paid, irregular and split working hours, the toughest health test and annoying passengers. I have respect for that. Not everyone can handle nerves for long.
That would be cool! Comment here if you do and send it on my instagram or discord. Or my email on my “about” page 🎉
@@PropperNaughtyGeezer calm down mate
The socialist movements as far away in the past as 1870s had big influence on politics in which industrialization was big, even Bismarck reacted with concessions like government healthcare with which they wanted to take wind from their sails. After 1917 fascism was created to defeat the Soviet Union, then during and after WW2 had to make international concessions to the European socialist movements (Germany, UK, Austria, France, almost Italy, Nordic countries) and in comparison to the communist countries which legalized abortion, parental leave and guaranteed healthcare by 1918-1922
The socialist movements as far away in the past as 1870s had big influence on politics in which industrialization was big, even Bismarck reacted with concessions like government healthcare with which they wanted to take wind from their sails. After 1917 fascism was created to defeat the Soviet Union, then during and after WW2 had to make international concessions to the European socialist movements (Germany, UK, Austria, France, almost Italy, Nordic countries) and in comparison to the communist countries which legalized abortion, parental leave and guaranteed healthcare by 1918-1922
FYI, I only got my driver's license at age 39, because before that I could just walk or take public transport everywhere. It was only when I moved to the countryside that I needed a car. At 37 I got my motorbike license, but only because I wanted a motorbike.
I got my license at 26, after I lived in UK for few years. Could get away without driving for another few years, but good that I had my license by the time I started commuting for 30+miles, so that insurance was cheap. Also, I built some experience by then
I was also 39 when I got my driver's license. 2 years later I got a bus driving licence. Now I drive 18 meter articulated buses as a city bus.
I was around 30 when I took my I still don't own a car
I'm 40 and still don't have a license
Swede here, I'm 57 and never had a drivers license. I do use trains, buses, my bike and my feet 😊
No it is M.A.N. you're saying it right.
Correct it is : M.. A.. N.. . 😉 greetings from germany ✌️
Yes just ask an german the guy from the video he is watching is not german so.
@@normanguttel1080The "a" pronounced as a long AAA Sound, like in hEArt.
orginal company name is "Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG"
Yes unless you're outside of Germany i don't know anybody (except germans and not even all of them) who calls it M.A.N. the rest of the world just pronounces it as man.
In Poland we have trolleybuses, electric buses, CNG buses with engines from Cummins company- in Krakow they recently opened an engine factory, and traditional diesel buses.
Interesting detail, the Belgian (Flemish) bus builder Van Hool is bankrupt, largely thanks to the Flemish (state-related) public transport company "de Lijn", which preferred to order buses in China rather than award the order to Van Hool, despite the fact that In the Netherlands, enormous problems and defects were reported with the same Chinese buses.
Van Hool is/was known worldwide for its quality.
My 2 cents from Belgium.
They will probably take electric buses. In the long term, they will bite their fingers when some bus burns in deposits or others.
This might explain the recent issues with PT in Groningen. Van Hool is a very common sight in the Groningen/Drenthe QBUZZ Area, and I’ve never experienced any issues in the past few years. They switched out a couple of busses a few months ago and suddenly there’s constant delays because they can’t even get the doors of the bus to close after a stop…
@@loysvideo Electric vehicles are much less likely to catch fire than diesels.
Its not only De Lijn themselves that is mostly to blame, someone above them also have decided for those BYD buses since it was the lowest on the market idk what really happend but since I live in belgium aswell it wasnt only them that chose those horrible cheap boxes on wheels
@@LuanUjupi De Lijn is een semi overheidsbedrijf, net als de post, de invloed van politiek heeft zeker een rol gespeeld.
De Lijn is a semi-governmental company, just like the post office, and political influence has certainly played a role.
It is M.A.N. It's an accronym for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG
and sounds like Emma N
Not acronym, a abbreviation... 😉
Like in G.A.Y.
It's also called U.S.A. and not "Yousa"
@@altblechasyl_cs2093 It`s an acronym!
4:10 You are right ! It's M-A-N, which stands for "Maschinenfabrik Augsburg - Nürnberg" (Machine Factory Augsburg - Nuremberg). Nowadays, it belongs to the Volkswagen Group.
"You're either living in the future or we are living in the past."
You're definitly living in the past.
For us, these busses are totaly normal.
Our buses are newish. America's buses are 30 years old. Do the math.
@@JoshSweetvalepeople in usa usually do meth instead of math.
I love them and I have a folder about them
come take a ride! (at folder 2) :))
🚅🚈🚞🚝🚂🚃🚄
trains, trams, aren't they all beautifull
@@Keksemann666😂😂😂
I was living in The Netherlands for 5 years and working at Schiphol (Amsterdam) airport. There are I believe 12 routes connecting the airport with all adjacent areas by electric buses. Also, the regular buses with combustion engine are connecting the airport with most of the larger cities in 20km radius. And if there's no bus for you to go where you need to, you can simply hop on a train right underneath the airport itself and will take you almost everywhere. Netherlands has an amazing public transport infrastructure indeed.
Big city's yes, villages no. I have a friend in a village where bus drives till 5 once a hour, and in the weekend not at all, in the weekend he has to bike 1.5 hour to the nearest city, also everything closed on sunday😂
@@Daniel-qz8bp How often do busses go from remote rural villages in the US? .. Oh, never? I'll take the 'once an hour til 5' over 'never'. And shops are only closed on sundays in the very religious areas. In many towns, even smaller ones, shops are opened on sunday.
@@TheMrVengeance we were crossing borders for Sunday shopping when I was in Germany (Gronau)
@@Daniel-qz8bp That sucks. I’m from the Dutch countryside too, basically as far away from the Randstad as it gets (Oost-Groningen). Our busses go regularly, until past midnight. Even my friend that lives on a farm only needs to walk five minutes to a bus stop that’s serviced every 30 minutes throughout the day.
They should really start upholding the same standards country wide, because if even my region (the poorest region in the country) can do it then there’s no reason for why other regions can’t.
@@TheMrVengeance Not in zeeland and small towns in north brabant, therr everything closed. And the u.s.a. is a 3rd world country, where you pay close to no tax, so you cant compare it to The Netherlands.
I'm a french bus driver and i can add that more people use the busses in europe because more and more cities taxes the park drive in town insanely, autorities want you to park your car outside the cities and take the busses. Another add is that if the busses become better for the passenger that's not the case for the driver, please constructors just put the doors buttons on the steering wheel we push it more than a hundred time a day and can't to it in a straight position in many busses.
Yes, Sydney is like that they definitely prefer people to use public transport and made it possible to catch a bus, tram, train or ferry approx every five minutes anywhere around the city and inner suburbs! Leave your car for the weekends, or just drive through!
Here in Mexico City buses have their own exclusive lanes, often driving in the opposite direction of the car traffic and travel time is less than half the travel time. Also public transportation uses contactless payment e.g. with your phone.
Uk here we can do contactless payments on buses and have bus lanes
Cool, same in Belgium
It's the same in Sydney, bus express lanes! Tap on Tap off, easy transfer to another bus, train or ferry or tram with the same card or phone - not sure about the rest of Australia! 👍
It is indeed M.A.N which is an abbreviation for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg. (Machine factory Augsburg Nuremberg). Augsburg and Nuremberg are two cities in the German state of Bavaria. The company is a conglomerate that builds busses, trucks and diesel engines. It's part of Traton which is in its turn part of Volkswagen. Other parts of Traton are Scania and Navistar.
MAN is successfull in space industry as well.
@@FritzKraut And used to be a very popular manufacturer of trams
Whenever I take a bus in the US, coming from Europe, I always feel like I'm stepping into a time capsule
Really, you could show some cool features in European busses, like the stop buttons for strollers and baby carriages and the bus (the running board) going down electrically to the level of the sidewalk, not only for them but also for old and disabled people.
In Prague,Czechia the normal 12m(39feet) city buses have 4 doors and the longer articulated 18m(59feet) ones have even 5 doors. The shorter 8,5m(27feet) ones have 2 doors.
In The Netherlands busses have a circulation plan to help board / exit passengers as quickly as possible: you can only get in at the front door and only exit at all the other doors. So people entering and exiting the bus will not have to struggle past each other. All my local busses are fully electric, which i like a lot as there's 4 per hour coming through the narrow street where I live. When the train is out it gets replaced by old fashioned diesel busses and it's then that i notice how loud conventional busses are.
"You can only get in at the front door" ... Yyyeah, try saying that at like ANY bus stop in the morning on a route to a college/university. Good luck. 😂😂
@@TheMrVengeance there's only one bus line that has an exception in the city where i work, and it only has 1 stop which is the end destination. That bus is a direct line to the university complex from the bus station and it is indeed enter at all doors. They even got footsteps painted on the platform to show where the doors will be when the bus stops at the platform so everyone can queue up. But if there were more stops on the way, those would go by loading in the front / exiting through the other doors.
our buses have USB ports and wifi here on the west coast of scotland. a lot of them are electric.
They got nice drivers, too! :-)
Same here in Sweden, usb & wifi makes the ride fly by. And electric busses are so much quieter than the old diesel ones.
You sound like Kamila Harris 😅
@@svenskenh644 I have no idea who that is. Vice president? I'm confused.
@@geofrancis2001 google Kamila Harris + electric busses + usb chargers and you will get a laugh
Watching video from Sweden, going to Stockholm from Värmdö, it is kind of lose kommun, 30 min trip. Sitting in quite old Scania, fastened seatbelt, 3 doors, 3 axles, low floors, smooth riding on air suspension.. But you know, what they do during the stops? Right side (doors side) lowers down every time, putting entrance on same level with platform. And USB chargers everywhere. And this vehicle is from 2016.
For short-ish metro city trips, durable seats and cushioning are usually comfy enough. Though my real gripe these days, is the seats on a bus going to the airport are MORE comfy than the economy seats on the plane!
I'm from the UK and it's not a matter of having a car or taking a bus, it's about having the option to choose. I have a car and most of the time it sits outside my house.
I live on the edge of a small city so if I want to go into town I get the bus - it stops 3 minutes walk from my house, runs every 15 minutes all day, I don't have to find or pay for parking, or bother driving if I want to go to the next city I'll get buses and trains, if I want to stay longer or have a drink etc I can. If I'm going somewhere without convenient buses, late at night, or if I've got a load of stuff I'll take the car.
5:31 this futuristic bus has been in use in Belfast, Ireland from 2018😂
Up north in Derry all our buses are 100% electric, we also have a ton of double deck buses, and they are as fun as you are imagine 😂
You hit the nail on the head for "who cares what my car hit as long as Im safe." I was in a crash a couple years ago in my prius. We were T boned but it was by a slightly smaller Ford compact car. If it was a full sized truck like people frequently drive here in Indiana, me and my wife could have ended up in the hospital instead of being able to walk away with no harm done. It scares me to think about it
There is a difference between a bus and a coach. Functionally buses are multi stop and coaches are point-to-point. But structurally a coach is designed to be more comfortable for long haul rides and may even have a toilet onboard.
Thats just an english distinction, in my country its called a Bus for both of them (well technicly we do have the same sort of distinctions but nobody really usses it).
@@arturobianco848 That raises a question I never considered, is it just an English distinction?
@@daveofyorkshire301 In my language, Finnish, we do distinct those bus types but we don't have a single word for each of them. We just call them longhaul buses or local/city buses and from that you know which type we are talking about.
In German we just use a compound word, ‘Reisebus’ (literally: travel bus), for coaches. One definition is that don’t have any spaces designed for people to stand, something that city busses generally have.
@@j3mixa I think another distinction is you legally can't stand (I mean not have a seat) on a coach ride, but you can on a multi stop bus.
Me and my family took the bus to Pittsburgh City-Center a few times while staying in a hotel about 10miles north. I found it hilarious to read the adds in there for cheap stuff or addiction help programs. The ride was a bit slow but quite affordable. I mean we figured out quickly that we weren‘t the usual customers, but it didn‘t stop us from riding it again.
Guess what? I am German. I have a car. It's registered, taxed, insured and has fuel in it. It's ready to go. But I regularly opt to use public transport and leave the car at home. For all kinds of reasons: convenience, climate protection, money (I have a "Deutschlandticket" so I have pre-paid for all local and regional transit nationwide, so any additional trip I take is essentially free).
I live in Stockholm. Here we got ethanol buses in 1991, hybrid and battery buses were tried out in the 90s. Then we got CNG buses that pushed ethanol buses outwards from the city center. Now the same transition is going again. This time battery electric buses are pushing cng buses outwards and they are combined with HVO100 buses. HVO100 is 100% biodiesel from renewable sources. Vegetable based. I used to drive buses for over 25 years here. VOLVO, SCANIA and Neoplan buses mostly. Both 12m 2 axels, 14,5m 3 axels and 18-20m articulated 3 axel buses with 2-4 doors on them. I drove airport coaches for 6 years and they were the only 2 door buses. All city or suburban buses had 3 doors at least. And plush seats.
6:30 In Holland we've got them too....We also have/had busses that kneeled for you, so it is easier to enter, without a high step....So the bus was leaning towards the busstop, lowering its suspension...
In Switzerland electric stepping boards that lower to the sidewalk level
where I live in the UK the buses have free WiFi and phone chargers and a single ticket for any distance costs the same as a bottle of coke
When I was a kid, busses were freedom for us. Used to go all over London on busses and the tube, during the school holidays.
I'd imagine American kids are very reliant on family/friends for lifts everywhere?
Yea American kids usually walk/ride bicycles in their neighborhood but if they wanna go somewhere (to the mall, restaurants, school, etc.) they have to have their parents drive them or carpool with someone else
I had many an interesting ride through Peckham Brixton Camberwell and New cross that give extra validation to your childhood Bus travels ❤
The tube was also another experience 😮 in itself 😊 at that age
In many European countries kids of school/university age get discounts and or free travel on public transport, even trains, it not only promotes freedom of movement and independence for kids, but also greatly reduces/removes the need for parents to take kids to and from school, and reduces the number of cars near schools.
@@TregMediaHD I remember them being free on Sundays iirc.
We'd go all over. Happy memories.
I once worked at MAN Plant, Salzgitter. The TGX and partly also a bus were built on the line. The bus only consisted of a roadworthy, shortened chassis. Dashboard, steering wheel, engine, wheels... everything on it. The seat was a makeshift folding chair, the kind you would use for barbecuing or camping, and was only used to maneuver the vehicle for transport. It was ready to drive in priciple, just without any bodywork and only one garden chair as a driver's seat.
Such a chassis can be seen in the film "The Mexican" with Bred Pitt in the scene at the intersection in the desert where he drives through the intersection on a red light and was almost rammed by such a chassis that was driving through the desert at 90 kmh. As I said, without windshields, without roof, without anything, on a folding chair.
It was delivered all over the world, where local companies extended the frame accordingly and put a body on the chassis and you had a bus.
Today they pack it in individual parts into transport crates and ship them that way. Jokingly called “bus in the box” at the MAN factory.
PropperNaughtyGeezer sure
It is funny to see those „skeletons“ being delivered under its own power: The driver wears motorcycle gear complete with a crash helmet. The same thing is true with light lorries/vans like the Mercedes-Benz three tonners that become campmobiles/RVs or other custom made vehicles.
Best M.A.N. slogan they ever had was "MAN kann!" / "MAN can!" where they actually said MAN like "man".
General Murican attitude: Buses are for poor people. Yet, you see rust bucket cars on the streets,held together with duct tape.
Capitalist braiwashing propaganda of antisemite Ford works to this day.
And the new trend is for even those to have illegal "temporary" registration plates, no insurance, no inspection. and there is basically zero enforcement on this because the authorities know that driving is typically necessary even for the poor so they don't bother anyone unless they break other traffic laws. Cars get rolled over and have no functioning lights and still drive around. It is madness here.
Almost all buses in Warsaw have three doors. Only a few small, less frequented lines have two doors.
"Having your own car has some benefits as well [...]"
It's important to remember that it's not either, or. I ride the bus, mostly in connection with train commutes. I use my bicycle when it's within my city. I also own a car, mostly used for longer trips or if I need to haul something/someone.
I think it's often outlined as if you can only ever use one mode of transport. I cycle to work on most days but if the weather is sh** I'll take the car for those 4km. Personal transportation can easily be a mix of different traffic modes. Granted, they have to be available and viable...
but here is a question that I think most people would ask themselves...if I am already paying 30-40 grand for a car...why am I only using it for some trips...why cycle in hot or cold or rain when I can just take the air conditioned box with my music and navigation...where I have the freedom to just go wherever I want after work instead of just going home?
I am paying for the car anyway, regardless of how much I use it, so why not get my money's worth out of it?
@@SummitCoyote The "mostly" in my comment is doing a lot of work here. If the weather is.. questionable, there is a high likelihood that I will take the car.
It is cheaper to leave your car in the driveway if you don't have to use it. Driving your car costs money. More miles on the odometer will lower the value of the car. Every mile driven uses gas. In Denmark where I live, cost of insurance goes up with more miles driven per year. There are caveats, of course, but my point was only that transportation doesn't need to be an either/or. Just because you own a bicycle, it doesn't mean that you have to ride it for every trip. Just because you live close by a train station, it doesn't mean that you have to take the train every time. Same goes for a car.
If you prefer driving, by all means, continue to do so. I'm not going to tell you how to get around. I think it depends heavily on where you live as well. For me, any trip shorter than, say 2 miles, is literally easier and faster by bike, so I use my bike.
Also, I suspect only few people in Denmark would ask themselves the question you outline. In fact, most would probably begrudge using their car as much as they do, myself included.
@@SummitCoyote We in the netherlands have more cars per km2 than any other euro country but also have 1.3bicycles per person most of us use the bicycle because its quicker to get where we want to go its that simple. If the distance is too large or the weather sucks (trust me that happens) we might opt for a car if we don't have a car we 'rent' a car like a taxi or bus. Its not always easier to take a car i live in one of the 4 big cities here and if i need to go to work in amsterdam why would i take the car over a train+bicycle. Now the cost of a car is a issue thats why slowly many younger people don't see a car as a status symbol anymore and indeed go 'well i don't need a private car really' and save lots of money.
@@scb2scb2 if you blocked car access to areas and made people ride bikes, a lot of Americans would keel over and have heart attacks or get heatstroke lol.
also, what do you do when you get to work or wherever all sweaty? do you just have showers everywhere? keep clothes at the office?
Not many roads are closed really its more that less space is assigned for them and more to bicycles and busses. Many places of work you can take a shower but if you watch any dutch bicycle videos you know its not needed the speed is low enough avg speed is 10mph we are not trying to win the tour the france. These days also ebikes help against the dutch winds. Here is a video i made a few days ago esp. in the mode inner city you get a good idea that cars, people and busses are just fine : ruclips.net/video/l8tfToFiLuQ/видео.html
Many busses in the US look like they were made in the 1980s, school busses do even resemble something from the 1950s.
The harsh ride may be due to the use of normal truck chassis? It was like that in Europe in the past, but modern busses are designed from the ground up and do not share parts with trucks other than engines, the large manufacturers like Volvo, Scania, Mercedes and DAF design everything else especially for the use in busses, the bodies are mostly built by independent companies like Van Hool, VDL, Setra, Dennis and Neoplan to name a few, although the truck companies have also ready to use bus models of their own.
Electric busses are becoming the normal here in the Netherlands, in order to keep the streets clear of overhead wires these are battery electric and are charged via a pick up on the roof which can be lifted against a live rail at the bus station where the service starts/ends.
In Finland you dont need bus schedule. They come every 5 minuts. And btw, blue eyes, red beard... your ancestors are most likely from Nordic, Norway perhaps. So you have Viking blood. Take dna test.
as a swiss , no bus company can beat our car postal service . Even in the most random village you will have at least one bus every 2 hours (during the day) that is ultra confortable , with wifi and even sometimes an outlet . They are kinda costly if you dont have an AG (it cost like 360 a month for all transportation in the country to be free) but it happened more than one time that i fell asleep in them and got either lost or the driver drove me back home
I just love the plate in the back from Austria; from Graz "G-IWROCKER" NICE!!!
15:10 Those buses shown are in my country, Singapore. Our fleet of buses consist of European buses (Mercedes, Volvo, Scania, MAN etc.)
I would say the biggest problem in the US is the roads that are very big, this means a pedestrian has a hard time walking from one place to another as crossing a street is already a journey. But people that use a bus usually are pedestrians, meaning they will only use a bus to get to a place that is close to a bus stop. People transporting goods as groceries will rarely be seen in the US as most shops are not within walking distance from peoples homes, this is why everyone in the US needs a car.
Most of the busses in the UK have free WiFi as well
As a Dutch person, what I find peculiar is the infrastructure and regulations. It seems strange that when regulators decide to invest more in road widening, they often neglect to consider the ongoing maintenance costs. This oversight can lead to poorly maintained roads over time, as I personally experienced during my vacation there.
Hi there! Here from Luxembourg, a tiny country with traffic jams in the morning and in the late afternoon (rush times). I come back to your last words and I agree with you that with a personal car , you can go where you want, when you want, how you want. The cost of owing a personal car is not relevant here, but is important.
However, whenever I want/need to go in the city, I prefer tp use the bus or street car (tram) which is way cheaper because its free, because of no parking fee (and no risk of getting a ticket!) and more comfortable without getting nervous in the traffic jam (busses have dedicated lanes) and no worry to find a parking place.
These Van Hool buses from Belgium you called "futuristic" are actually in service in my middle-european hometown. A city with just a little bit more than 200.000 inhabitants, And they are trolleybuses, so fully electric. The kind of design of the bus you called "typical" for America now was last seen here in the 1990s. And you have to consider that the "life" of a bus spans from around 15 to 20 years. My city changes its entire fleet every 12 to 15 years.
The thing is most people who take the bus (or other public transport, or a bike, or who walk etc) also have a car. We have two cars, one for me and one for my husband. At my husband's previous job there was a direct bus from near our house straight to his office building, so he took the bus at least half the time. He changed jobs and while he could still take public transport, it's shorter and quicker to take the car because we live in a smaller town and there is no direct bus to his new job. He would have to transfer to a train and then another bus. But even if the car is quicker now, he would still be able to take the bus if he couldn't drive for whatever reason. It would just take a bit longer due to transfer time.
If we visit a city center we park our car on a park and ride car park and take the bus. Usually you either can take the bus for free with your parking ticket or you can park for free and only pay for the bus. This is much cheaper and easier than trying to find a parking spot in the center that also costs an arm and a leg.
Exactly my thought. If you go grocery shopping to a big Supermarket on the outskirt of the city, you will clearly use your car. But when you are planning to visit the city center (which in most bigger European cities might be a "pedestrian zone", you'd have to find a parking garage / parking lot. If you planned to stay in the center..... let's say for 3 or 4 hours, a parking garage would cost approximately double the price of taking a bus or tram, if not more! In the US you won't have any problems with parking your car close to your destination, so, why should Americans want to take a bus, where they suspect to stumble upon the poorest, the homeless or the freaks who cannot afford a car? It may be true what Uncle Sam's citizens think: That public transportation is not safe because only used by hobos and junkies. There is simply no good reason to take a bus.
In Europe it makes sense to own a car AND use public transportation depending on where you want to go and what you want to do. A friend of mine had a job at a university hospital. They had a parking for employees, but since many of them used it even if they were off duty (for shopping or whatever), they placed a payment barrier at the entry. And gosh, it was expensive! So from that day on she used to take her car to a park and ride and took the bus from there, it was way cheaper than going by car!
@@Herzschreiber What you Europeans do not understand is that in the USA ALL transit systems require local approval & taxes. With spread-out development, the entire transit line has fewer possible passengers within walking distance that a single stop in Europe. Therefore, it is extremely costly for the few passengers, so low-tax politicians regularly target these transit options as wasting money & local people vote against transit to save a little money. Typical comment - "why should I pay for something only some poor drug addict is going to use?" No local money - no transit at all or very little.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Okay, good point. My reply was only adressing the idea that Germans either have a car or use public transportation system, because that isn't true.
An other thing I guess has to be taken into account is, that gas is way cheaper in the US, so using a car is less expensive. If people could save money and their taxes wouldn't rise, they would likely be glad to have some transit systems instead of avoiding them?
@@Herzschreiber Those options were destroyed in the period between 1946 & 1960. In 1945 the USA had excellent transit systems as well as excellent intracity rail & even some high-speed rail. That was all gotten rid of in favor of cars & airplanes. To get anything half as good as what Europe has would cost well over a Trillion $ nation wide, or about $5-to$10 Billion per city. without taxes, it cannot be done. Our corporate America would also fight it tooth & nail because they are locked into making profits from the current system.
The problem is really structural and material rather than a case of mindset and thinking. You need to buy more buses, invest more into rail, trams, trolleybuses so that people can use the service and it's convenient.
The user experience on buses in my city is superb. They are super low to the ground so folks with mobility issues can board easily. They even have retractable wheelchair ramp so if the bus driver sees you at the stop in a wheelchair, they get off, open the ramp for you, stove it back and get back into the drivers cabin. There is also a specific spot for wheelchairs and people are usually very polite about this, so they clear the space for you automatically. Within this space there is also a special button you need to press when you want to get off to notify the driver that they need to come help with the ramp at the next stop.
The buses on the line that connects the main railway station with the airport have extra space with shelves for luggage.
Some buses have usb ports in which you can charge your electronics.
In the summer they add these special lines that go to nearby hiking and biking trails with buses that accommodate specifically for travel with your bike.
Every vehicle also has at least one ticket validation box where you can pay with your credit or debit card. It even works with the nfc in your phone or watch. It is super easy, you just get on, tap your card and you’re good to go. Plus one trip costs like 1.30 € so it’s very accessible to everyone really. Plus there are so many options for buying a ticket. You can use a machine that takes coins and gets you a physical ticket, you can buy a ticket on your phone with an app, you can buy a ticket by sending an SMS, you can get a buss pass or you can load up your buss card with money and buy your ticket for each trip on the bus with it.
The "London" double decker busses can be found in other cities, too. At least in Edinburgh.
Yes, double decker buses are common in towns and cities right across the UK.
And Ireland
I rarely take public transit nowadays, but I used to. The most important thing to me was it being actually convenient and somewhat regular and fast. An alternative or complement to driving.
In the US for example, taking public transit is slower than using a car in most cases. They don't run regularly enough, are inefficient, slow (like busses getting stuck in traffic), don't go to places people want to be at, etc. The issues make car traffic worse as well. If some of the people who drove their car could be at least tempted to take public transit sometimes, it would mean fewer cars on the road and less parking and road-space needed.
There is another thing here. Is it correct that USA doesn't really have widespread chip and pin and contactless debit card tech?
I say this because paying for the bus with contactless is common here and it makes travel really simple. No change required.
We have tap and contactless for various retail, shopping, tolls, etc. as for buses and transit, I have No idea honestly
@@IWrockerWe have special, contact less, Peggo cards in Winnipeg. But the system has been plagued with problems since it as introduced over 10 years ago. But they're talking about replacing it with a more flexible system that will accept debit, credit cards, and even smart phones.
@@IWrocker ok cool. Yes you can use that on transport in UK anyway (and almost certainly all europe) - there are also various smart travel cards you can buy so it's all cashless. (you can still use change it's fine)
On buses here, you generally can’t even swipe. You *have* to either use cash or buy a pass.
I just love this sort of thing. Reactions. RUclips videos. Keep it up. I am also mad obsessed. I collect toys and diecast models. Trucks. Buses. Cars. Planes. Forklifts. Bicycles. Motorbikes. Anything with wheels. Even a shopping trolley model. Yes.
One thing I've noticed is that a lot of US transit looks very old-school and almost industrial. You have those massive, boxy vehicles, many of them chrome and without much of a soul. Think for example about the NY or Chicago metro or the buses in San Francisco. And speaking of trains: Amtrak, which just looks like a giant metro, rather than a long-range travel option. This trend had even reached the aviation industry. Remember when American Airlines planes used to be all chrome-colored and industrial-looking?
Im from Nottingham, UK and ALL city buses here and around only have 1 door at the front. There was a bendy bus in the 2000s but that was eventually taken out of service when a delivery of a bunch of double-decker buses arrived and replaced some much older buses and to allow for more frequent services on some routes.
Although, since covid, the frequency of routes are much less frequent than before covid. This is mainly due tothe fact that it could be too frequent and there was a small decline in the number of drivers available iirc. Alot of most routes share a part of its length with another route. On one particular section of road, in the middle of the day, buses will pass at almost 1 per minute on average pretty much.
Some routes are, at peak times (usually between say 9am-6pm for one operator) every 10 minutes and others are every 20 minutes. A couple are every 30 minutes but thats on the two or so routes that go quite far out of the city (appprox a 1 hour route/2 hour round trip at max)
As someone that makes enough to buy a brand new car every month I still take the tram to work every day here in Sweden. Sure I own 2 cars, but it takes 6-8 mins on the tram while it takes 45-60 mins with the car and then I still need to park. Sure some of that is by design but considering a tram comes every 5 mins, it's comfortable and I spend my time on it chilling with a coffee and reading something it's so much nicer than spending time in the car just to get to work. The same goes for busses, it's just easier to use here, sure I still use my car quite often but I almost always have the option not to and it's always a nice enough experience on the bus/tram that I really don't need a car. Still I live in a large city, it's less crystal clear in rural areas, sure they have busses etc as well, but you do need a car to be "comfortable" doing anything other than going to and from work for the most part.
I actually used to be on a trajectory that had the chance of getting you on a "discobus" in the evening hours, it had these 90's disco songs playing + a discoball in the middle hanging from the ceiling.
its M.A.N. : Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, a german bus manifacturer. The lion on the Logo is actually the Braunschweig lion when they merged with Heinrich-Buessing-Werke
5:03 (where) are those 14m and 15m busses Street legal? As far as I know, a single unit can only be 12m long in the Netherlands, and I would assume that does also count in the rest of the EU. Harmonica busses could be longer since the different parts count as different units, but the picture shows a single part bus.
The mentality in the US is very strange when it comes to public transport. Also the buses looks so oldfashioned.
And disgusting too
It’s just how it is here. With the importance and development of the automobile industry here and the generally young age of our country we have individual cars for each families as our main mode of transportation.
@@brucemcgoose7609It was designed to keep "people of colour" without cars out the suburbs. its nothing to do with the age of the country.
“Policies and regulations” is that Freedom!! lol
One of the most perplexing things I saw on my trip to the US was what qualifies as a bus stop. Literally just a sign. There wasn't even a pedestrian walkway, it was just a sign saying bus stop on the green next to the road.
even in europe there are busstops like that in really remote area's however i have heard that these bustops are dewindeling
@@Hen_von_Amis The only thing remotely close that've seen here in Germany were bus stops with a little wooden shack as shelter netxt to the main village road, but even those were luxurious compared to that thing I saw in the US.
Not that I'm categorically denying that the same thing can be in other palces, europe or wherever, or that every bus stop in the US looks like that, but the juxtaposition of that bus stop in the middle of a US city compared to what I see daily in my own was baffling.
@@Aotearas As I said the number such busstops are dwindling and the quality has risen in my area t just that they do exist in small number
I don't know about Germany but do I know stops that are 1 small Platform and a Bus bollard that what I mean
@@Hen_von_Amis That was certainly common in rural areas in the UK, but these days more and more of them are at least getting a raised pavement to help people with wheelchairs or pushchairs get on/off.
It's the same in many cities in Europe. Just outside my door in the suburbs of Dublin, we have 1 proper bus stop, and the rest are just posts on the sidewalk or on grass. One thing to consider is the footprint, and the distance between stops. In Dublin the stops are way too close from each other to allow a proper stop with seating. However, having grown in the outskirts of Bordeaux, the distance between stops was greater, and cities had proper (wide to regular size) sidewalks so you could have covered stops with one or more benches, which btw were given for free by J.C Decaux (the advert company the french equivalent to clear channel) who was paying for them through the ads they displayed on the side.
I remember riding the bus that bends in the middle. Was cool to stand in the middle and see the inside center spin. I wanna see it again.
i live in germany, i have no driverlicense, cause.... for what? ich can go everywhere i want, and its cheaper
7:34 - The electric bus shown in the video is not battery powered, it's powered by those overhead cables. They're like trains without tracks. Here in Portugal we call them "tróleis" (the Portuguese spelling of the English word). The used to operate in three cities, Porto, Braga and Coimbra, but now Coimbra is the only one that has them. Apart from a short interregnum, they've been operating there since 1947. 🙂
The dual flex busses drove in Hamburg but were pulled out in September of 2018. The only Van Hool AGG 300 around now tour through the Netherlands.
The white and green double decker at 17:10 is a GO Bus in Ontario, Canada. Unlike the London and Hong Kong double deckers, which are the regular within the city bus services, the GO Bus is more of a city-to-city service.
The Bus at 4:56 is some kind of unique in the ZVB (Zugerland Verkersbetriebe aka. Public Transport of Canton Zug in Switzerland) To have a bus with 3 axis. It connects Zug Train station and Goldau Train station by driving all along lake Zug. Usually we have 3 axis articulated bus, the two axis uses with or without a 2 axis passenger trailer. Bigger Cities (like ZVV from Zurich) often have also the 4 axis articulated bus with 2 joints.
You're becoming my fav RUclips channel :D your content is really enjoyable, and as i'm from Europe (Czech), its flattering to watch you drink our beer or react to our buses or whatever 😃😃
In Australia I believe we've had articulated (aka bendy, accordion) buses since the late 80's.
They're not common and only used on more busier routes and during peak hour bus usage.
In Perth, Western Australia, late last year we trialled Trackless Trams similar looking to what you see in the video at 05:34.
Basically they were buses, on wheels, again as seen in your video. They follow a specific set path due to sensors embedded in the road, therefore they cannot just be driven anywhere.
Love your videos by the way. Always fun to watch. Especially all the Aussies ones. :D
You should look at the Munich "Bus-Trains" (Bus-Zuege) - a bus with trailer looking like it's towing a second bus
In Czechia, the ratio between car travel and buses is 4:1. City buses are optimized for volume with more room for standing to keep up with high demand. Inter-city and international buses are optimized for comfort, you can get hot coffee/chocolate and free wi-fi with onboard entertainment library (movies, music). You can recline your seat and take a nap.
What you and every other European posting here fails to understand is that for 95% of the USA public transit will NEVER work like it does across the pond. For the typical transit stop in Europe, there are about 1,000 possible passengers because of the densely built communities, while in the USA the typical transit stop has only 30 potential passengers because of the spread-out development. Therefore, only those unable to afford a vehicle use transit, making publicly funded transit an easy target for low-tax politicians. Given the costs to operate any transit system, is it any wonder that many USA communities repeatedly vote to discontinue or severely limit publicly funded transit?
City buses can have comfort features too. I'm in the UK, in a small-medium sized city, even our city buses have WiFi & usb charging ports. They're double deckers, so have a lot of capacity too.
@@vijay-c That is why transit almost never works in the USA. Too much capacity & too much expense for too few passengers. The only transit system that might work is if most US cities had tiny buses that held only 12-20 people, but ran every 10 minutes. However such a system would be SO EXPENSIVE that most Americans would vote to discontinue ALL transit completely.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Those buses run every 10 minutes here, on routes where there's demand. I should note that there's 2 universities in my city, meaning that approx 30% of households have no access to a car. Personally, I'm epileptic, I legally can't drive - but I get a free bus pass. There's good social reasons for a solid transit network. The real issue in the US is the crazy zoning laws that leads to miles of suburbs. It's not dense enough for good transit stops.
@@vijay-c Those zoning laws were created by the Americans coming home after WW2. They were the children of immigrants who saw a piece of land, a separate house, & a car as proof that they had a better life than what the immigrants left behind in Europe. The suburbs of the 1950s & 60s were their vision of the American Dream & they wanted it to stay that way. Their children - the Boomers - what the same things so they added to the zoning laws to keep ALL dense development away from their communities. 75% of Americans LIKE what they have created and they REJECT the type of communities you have in Europe. If you do not like what we have, fine, but please stop posting about what you have, because the USA does NOT want IT!!
MAN stands for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg = Machine factory Augsburg - Nuremburg. It was a merger of two machine factories in Augsburg and Nuremberg back in 1898, which founded in 1915 a joint venture with Swiss Automobilwerke Adolph Saurer, the Lastwagenwerke (Truck factory) M.A.N.-Saurer, first producing in Lindau at Lake Constance, then moving to Nuremberg.
Bus lanes or even bus roads exist elsewhere but ALL of that requires timed and controlled traffic lights which USA doesn't seem to have. Cars, buses and pedestrians get their own phase of the lights and it's all safe.
I have no cam so I am responding as a Lithuanian in USA just visting and pausing the video as well: 1 . hard seats. 2. NO SUSPENSION WHATSOEVER, you can feel every bump no matter where you sit. 3. the routes? 4 the timing? 5. catch a bus?
i'm from the netherlands and my dad was a bus driver for a while so i'm quite proud, but he stopped bcuz mental problems and he has had 6 collapsed lungs by now, so he just stays home the whole time, but i'm still very proud of him, he's the best dad every (srry if i didn't spell something correctly, speaking english is easier than writing)
6:54 As a bus driver in the UK, I can tell you, that is the interior of a Mercedes E-Citaro electric low-loader (low floor) bus. If you look at the top windows, you can see a lock. The buses that we have don't have the keys... Well done, Mercedes 😅
Edit: In my town, nearly all of our buses are electric, and soon they all will be. You can't hear them, and their very comfortable.
11:53 Nothing wrong with liking big trucks, just like there is nothing wrong with liking a big loud American muscle car (though there is the environmental aspect to consider, but we can ignore that for this argument), it is however really strange to not take into consideration the vehicle causes to those it hits. By those standards a Tank would be considered the safest vehicle that exists.
The Corvette Stingray 1969 is one of my dream cars and part of me is sad that I may never own one because I live in Europe.
When I was in school, there was also a very small bus that drove to a few of the small villages (the only one that drove to my village). It was like half the length of a normal Bus, I think 18 sitting places. One of the two busses the line had didn't have any standing places, there was an area in the front, but nothing to hold onto.
But it was really just that one Bus line. I've never seen it anywhere else.
In Poland we are proud of Solaris buses - that are manufactured in Poland and sold all over the world
My local bus in the southwest of England is a double decker with full high back, faux leather seats with usb charging ports and armrests with good heating in the winter and this is for a local 30min to 1 hour journeys.
Btw M.A.N is an abrivation in Germany but in the uk i have always heard MAN as in a guy/bloke its always been this way.
So if i verbally said it,its MAN but if i write it down then its M.A.N.
Weird i know but thats the way it is been done here for many years.
Same as Volvo we don't say the full name
Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO)
We just say Volvo.
at home if a bus line saturates over time, the town hall transforms it into a tram line
"Maybe (you use bus) even every day"
Yeah, twice a day. And twice a day I use tram, and twice a day I use metro. It's 16km ride, 40mins by public transport for only 0.43$ ticket (156$ annual ticket for unlimited use of public transport and 2x15minutes shared bicycles every day). By car it's in rush hour about 30 minutes and significantly more expensive.
I mean I still don't get how nobody wants to invest in good public transport in your country, because people would love it. Not a single city in USA is close to average cities in Europe, like for example Prague or Bucharest.
Which are significantly poorer and smaller cities compare to New York for example, and yet Prague's public transport transfer almost the same number of people every year as MTA. City that is about 6-7 times bigger in population, and working with 22 times bigger budget (NYC budget for 2022 was about 100b US dollars, and Prague's budget was about 100b CZK which equals to 4.5b US dollars).
Once I went on a local bus on a road that was famous for is rally-driving and clifftops. The bus was 9 metres long and it went pretty much ONLY on that road.
Its funny that trolley bus are coming back. In the fifties when I went school in London I used to catch a trolley bus; they we scrapped sometime in the sixties. The reason given was that one bus could not overtake another, plus to turn a corner at an intersection the connect jib had to be disconnected and the conductor followed behind with the pole and reconnected once around the corner. Good old days.
Modern trolley buses have batteries and can operate for short distances off wire. No more problem.
17:12 Those are GO busses in Ontario (Canada). They are used for intercity travel and they are indeed quite nice. However I did not realized they were purchased from the UK. I mean they are double deckers so maybe I should’ve realized lol
obviously it depends how populous the area is as to how accessible buses are but in glasgow for example, u are basically able to go where u want when u want. because the public transit system is actually funded and well-implemented, there is constant service and u can hop on and off.
as a side note, i've fallen asleep many times on buses in the uk. never thought about how that might be odd.
new ones look a lot better here. The reason ours look outdated is simply because they lasted longer, believe it or not. So we were slower to replace them.
15:55 the pause screen you made is a piece of art.
I like yours Skoda Favorit model (light green in right corner of screen). Greatings from Czechia where Favorit was made between 1987-1994.
4:08 it is M (Munich) A (Augsburg) N (Nuremberg). the intials of the 3 citys where the Factories where at the beginning
Here in Czechia, SOR bus is really common. And it is really nice, here where a lot of people drink alcohol, you can't drive can you? So we rely on public transport because drunk driving will kill us all... It is just a given here, you are going to visit a friend in a different town, you are going to party, you ain't driving there. Simple as that.
Edit: Sure I have sober friends that could drive me there, but they aren't always available and it is more of a mess compared to public transport that is ready once an hour at least.
Since last year my town in England acquired 20 hydrogen busses, which have joined the diesel and hybrid busses on the road.
Our buses here in Basel, Switzerland are all Mercedes Benz, longer with two bendy, 4 doors, a door for children carriage and for disabled, and electric
Passengers falling asleep is not rare at all, but more common on sunday mornings. I've had a few that extended their 1 hour trip to 3 or 5 hours....
I live in a village in West Yorkshire in England, the nearest city (Wakefield) is about 30 minutes drive away, so before I got a car (and sometimes even after due to convenience and cheapness) buses and trains are part of every day life. For high school we had normal city buses but owned by a private company and were used for our school buses, and sometimes they had coaches. College (age 16-18) was the same at first, I got on usually a coach but sometimes a bus from my village to my college in Pontefract. I realised it was cheaper taking the normal public bus for my second year before I got my car so every day I'd take the 28 to Pontefract (legendary bus route in my area) that came every 30 minutes or so and I walked from the bus station to my college. In small towns like mine, buses are an integral part of life and getting around, and everyone takes the bus, it doesn't matter how much money you have, sometimes it's just more convenient, especially if you're going out drinking in Pontefract and you obviously don't want to drive there, just take a bus.
Also extra note, London's buses are the red ones but we have double deckers all throughout the UK, even small towns like mine, the 28 bus was usually a double decker.
What you Europeans do not understand is that in the USA ALL transit systems require local approval & taxes. With spread-out development, the entire transit line has fewer possible passengers within walking distance that a single stop in Europe. Therefore, it is extremely costly for the few passengers, so low-tax politicians regularly target these transit options as wasting money & local people vote against transit to save a little money. Typical comment - "why should I pay for something only some poor drug addict is going to use?" No local money - no transit at all or very little.
@@gregorybiestek3431 We understand that perfectly well. But why raise American politics when giving our anecdotes on our travel experiences on buses outside the US? Your politics, zoning & transit policies are yours to fix. Even the person you're replying to is, like me, from the UK. Our public transit outside London is generally terrible compared to a lot of the rest of Europe because of various political reasons too. Better than the US, perhaps, but certainly not good enough; that's not a story for this particular comment section though.
@@vijay-c Your anecdotes mean nothing to 90% of Americans, because we do NOT want to fix our zoning & transit policies. At least 75% of Americans like having a car & a suburban house with spread-out development. Yes, there are a handful of people who want what you have in Europe, but they are small minority, at the most maybe 10% with perhaps another 15% who would try living in such a community. How you live your lives without personal vehicles means absolutely zilch to the vast majority of the USA.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Good for them. Why so aggressive? I'm not suggesting America or Americans do anything different. We're just telling you how everyone else does it. You keep doing you, 'Murica
@@vijay-c Because a huge majority of the USA want what Europe has and we think how you do it shows how poor your countries must be not to be able to afford a good life. If you disagree, fine, but quit posting telling us how you do things because we DO NOT care!