Luckily I'm semi-retired and I live on the northside of Chicago near the lake. That's where the BEST transportation is. That's where MOST people want to live. If you go 5 miles any direction, you're out of luck with transportation. The US looks like chopped liver in transportation compared to other countries. Commuting is the main reason most people want to work remotely.
Same. I left my rural Pennsylvania town and moved to Chicago recently. I live in the northside right off the EL and surrounded by bus routes. Not to mention my neighborhood has grocery stores, parks, shops, restaurants all within walking distance. It boggles my mind how there are people who think this type of lifestyle is "communism" or some other outrageous propaganda claims when they think nothing of being a slave to the oil, auto, and auto insurance industries.
The absolute worst public transportation system is in Phoenix. The 5th largest city, by population, has a system that feels like something out of the distant past.
I hear ya! Moved to Phoenix last May. The public transportation fails at the most basic of things. The stops aren't even marked properly 2/3 of the time. I'm from Chicago originally and it's much better in comparison.
I would love better public transportation options in Phoenix, but I won't ride the light rail system anymore because I have been physically threatened twice while minding my own business. It is way too easy for homeless people (who are not paying) to ride the light rail system and harass and threaten passengers like myself.
The almost 8 trillion dollars spent by US prior to 9/11 can rebuild the entire US public transport and infrastructure 3 times. Imagine that new bridges and hi-speed railways three times over.
I live in NYC. The subway is faster to go to work than taking the car (and way cheaper regarding Bridge tolls and parking fees). Also the buses are quite widespreadly used. The local bus stopping near my place has a 6-15 minute frequency.
I live in NYC as well, and my situation is nowhere near the same as yours. To get home from my former workplace by public transportation was around one hour while being a 7 minute drive in a car.
Went with a friend from Connecticut to his home for a break one year during college back in 2007 and the last day we were there, a Saturday, we went to go to NYC as I had never been. That train ride in and train ride out was awesome. His sister lived at home and worked in the city for a while and I found out she was spending $300 a month, which would be like $445 in today's money. I don't think you could really even get a used car and insurance for that. The other great thing is, if you wanted to fall asleep, you could, because someone else was taking care of the ride in. I remember a well dressed business type sat next to me on the ride in and then on the ride back to my friend's place, this beautiful girl sat next to me. I mean, she was something else, but I was so tired from walking around NYC since 6:30 that morning that I just passed out. OH WELL!
@@TheVoiceofTheProphetElizer I met two interesting awesome persons in the subway and we became very good friends.... But the vibe is not for everyone. There are the Fox News and New York Post readers and listeners who will be afraid if anything is out of the ordinary. A dancer, a black musician, an Asian doing kick boxing. Without the subway and the buses, essentially NYC would be dead as it will never work with cars only.
When my car was considered a total loss in 2022, I never got another one. Yes, most cities in the USA are not walkable. I use public transportation. It's not at all perfect, but since I only work one town over, I'm good. I'm already in the systemic chokehold enough. My biggest gripe is that the public transportation system could be better if all of these drivers and commuters holding up traffic, abusing road rules, and creating terrible traffic patterns could come together instead of acting like they're better because the have their own cars. These cars btw 👀 half of them are visibly wrecked and barely road ready, mind you. 🤦🏾♀️
I concur the cars that I see speeding, impatient drivers, reckless etc tend to either already be a part of a past wreck their cat having selves couldn't afford to fix yet for whatever reason assuming a $500-1000k deductible usually OR they are on their way to wrecking. I own a 1st Gen Lexus suv in stellar condition and I'm driving it until it gets up and walks away. When people cut me off I just smile and look at them like, "You do know your paper aluminum car will crumple if you hit my car...right?"
I live in Scotland, and I often complain about the regularity, punctuality and cost of the public transport and the lack of circular bus routes connectingneighborhoods- eg having a 30 minute walk become an hour plus bus journey (just ride my bike in the gutter at the side of the road I guess) and how bad the M8 is as an American styleurban motorway- then they extended the M74 into Glasgow too and joined that to the M8. But for all the flaws, at least I can actually get anywhere on the mainland in less than a day! Heck I live in a rural area, near a big town and on one of the main lines between Glasgow and Edinburgh, so I can easily get to just about anywhere by bike, train, bus or plane, even ifit isn't as good as mainland Europe!
Melbourne has a brilliant and cheap system. Lived there once, and it was as good as some European cities. World's biggest tram network is in Melbourne.
@@cb7560 We have a large network and it is clearly miles better than in the USA. It would be good if it ran on time. It is better since COVID. If you'd used it your whole life like I have you'd understand our frustration with the system.
Where i live i take the bus to work and my wife too. Whe had a car but yearly expences were more than 3000 usually with everything. We sold it because we can use the bus for School, work and groceries it has helped a lot now we are saving and can use 401k and HSA without worries. We will buy a car again when the car is absolutely needed
Currently there are no options. 50+ years ago there was... and even more 80 years ago or so. When you got to that part I just wanted to cry. It's pathetic what has happened. 8:25 she says "Fort Meyers" and all I can think is... "they have transit?"
I live in an intercity suburb type of neighborhood. I’ve never taken public transportation before so I don’t know how it works leaving the city to get to work. But everything else seems to be walkable. Schools are all within 0.5-1.5 miles. All grocery stores or any type of stores are no further than 2 mile radius. I live between a 2 plaza. Both about 2-3 blocks away and it has it all. Ralph’s, RiteAid, Starbucks and all the fast food restaurants. Same with police station, malls (2 of them) hospitals, pharmacy, medical offices. Even the car dealership are all located in a center that is less than 2 miles away. Sometimes my husband just drops the car off for service and walks home. We don’t have big major highway cutting through our city. We have a lot of bus line close by everywhere too. I see High School and Middle School kids taking them home.
I live in the Atlanta suburbs but close enough that downtown is within 25-30 minute drive. The public transit has changed a bit over the past 15 years due to the mental health crisis and less patronage due to rideshare companies. it takes you 2 hours to get wherever you wanna go and the overall system is pretty expansive. However, I work remotely and sold my BMW. I’d much rather take public transportation than keep up with maintenance costs & insurance. What’s more ridiculous is $400-800 car notes + insane interest rates which are now the norm in US. Id rather smell urine and bo for 2 hours than burn cash
“I’d rather smell urine and no for 2 hours than burn cash” That’s your own choice, some people can’t stand that for very long, hence why there’s a trade-off between your mental health and the eventual need to burn money in order to not suffer through that
Why doesn't Nina combine the bus with bicycling? There's plenty of Divvy stations in Elmwood Park if she doesn't want the hassle of taking a bike on the bus. Or heck, just riding a bike from Avondale to Elmwood Park is no big deal. Also the bus that goes down Addison isn't the only option, there are routes that go further south. Yes the Chicago public transit leaves a lot to be desired, but I've lived in a lot of the US and Chicago is one of the easiest places to live in/around without a car.
@KIRKSHINTATURNIPSEED So you don't have a scarf and boots? How do you keep your face warm and keep from slipping while you go from buildings to the car?
In spite of shitty anemic public transportation in New Jersey, I NEVER EVER got the feeling of riding a bus or train as "stigmatized" by anyone. Life is hard enough. The LAST thing I or anyone cares about or should care about is some HYPOTHETICAL negative attitude of some third party who has no effect on how I travel.
It's not like poor people are directly ridiculed for riding transit in car centric hellscapes, but everyone knows it's the very last resort for commutes meant for the poor and desperate. Hence the stereotype/stigma of riding the bus. I rode the buses in Orlando as a teen and was always just a very somber vibe on the buses seeing the same people every day going to our crappy jobs.
With NJ you're already in the "better" place for public transit. NJ and the NYC metro are clearly places where you're not stigmatized for using transit.
American culture is very different. The way they build their cities for the car and not for people. I have been to america as a tourist, but that is as far as I go. I wouldn't live there. American culture is not European nor any other, its american. I see America as a class of its own. Completely different from the rest of the world, but unique. America is in a way the envy of the world and they have a lot to be proud of. They have achieved and succeeded in pioneering technology like no other nation did before them.
All ginormous investments into technology and big companies but no regards to the common people or actual meaning of life. It’s really purely superficial and people are simply after money and more money; there’s nothing proud about it, it’s a country solely characterized by excessive greed and need to to win above others, most people are not really content/happy in daily life but are at an endless pursuit of materialistic things which only makes makes them more miserable in the end, aside from things that can be bought with money they don’t even know what happiness is anymore, so there’s nothing envious about it. You’re lucky you’re not American, cus it seems you don’t understand
I'm super lucky to live within a ten minute bike ride of TWO light rail lines and multiple bus lines around the suburban area. So it's doable without a car. But I can't even bike around my suburb...I have to ride the light rail for 20 minutes into the big city just to access some bike friendly areas with flexipost bike lanes.
I took public busses and a light rail to get to work 45 minutes early, it was a 2 hour journey on days nothing broke down. I'd been threatened so much by bosses, I get anxiety when I "need to be " anywhere. I will show up an hour early and sweat in the parking lot and find somewhere to hangout and unwind. Pitiful.🎉
I used to live in Jacksonville, Florida. Once, when my car broke down I decided to take the bus to school. What was normally a 10 minute drive took 90 minutes. In addition to waiting over an hour to take two buses, I had to walk over a mile to the bus stop. After that I just took Ubers.
There are still problems to deal with when you have good transportation. You have to figure out how to get your new microwave home. You have deal with moving to a new apartment. You have to get to the doctor's office and take your pet to the vet. There will be some times when you can't easily take a bus or train somewhere. These problems all need to be addressed, and I haven't heard much of that so far.
how often are people doing those things? why own and pay for a car if i’m only using it a couple times a year, significantly cheaper to rent one or have larger things delivered.
@@cassidy_c It isn't an automatic thing that there will be delivery companies to get stuff to you, and I've carried large moving boxes on a bus, and it wasn't easy. I've also tried to carry luggage, and there were always baby carriages in the open areas where you might put large objects. I'm glad to have public transport, which was excellent. But we do need to work out how to deal with these problems. Pretending that everything will work out isn't going to make these problems go away. We need to be realistic.
@@ManicEightBall i mean this is how me and many other people i know have dealt with this, u asked for a solution. yes sometimes that solution doesn’t exist but it should
*Seems as if the buses in chicago was eliminated in the video!* The only problems I have is the travel time is longer. What takes 20 minutes by car, takes 2 hours or more. Shorter trips that's faster on a bike than a bus due to wait and walking time. *Many routes eliminated by conservative racist legislation.* The results are less services for all. *Many living on the skirts and in the suburbs was convinced that public trans was for those in the city.* Eliminating extending routes they could use. *Another was the auto industry forcing the use of cars by design.*
Indiana has statewide public transit lmao....those are probably just private Greyhound routes (that could care less when they arrive/depart). We only had one trailways bus route to my rural city in north Idaho that ran between Spokane and Boise.
indiana has only a couple train lines, way less than shown on the map. one amtrak line that goes through its capital that doesn’t even run daily, an amtrak line a bit more busy up north but mostly for chicago-detroit travel, and one commuter line into chicago
You either get walkable cities or you live in tiny apartments/heavily densified areas. Can't have both and most Americans choose the big house suburbs. Nothing wrong with that.
I have 2 cars that I don't drive, just polish and keep in my garage. I have another car that I co-share with my partner and I work from home. I am also thinking about buying another car which I also won't be driving. Maybe I am having a mid life crisis or something.
The guy that starts at 7:35 is right. We really need to stop stigmatizing riding the bus. I have recently started riding the bus regularly and it is way better than driving as I don't have the stress of traffic. We need to Gentrify Riding the Bus.
The democrats are very much for walkable communities, especially Pete Buttigieg. Republicans keep cutting the original budget they set aside for public transit in their bills, like with Biden’s most recent public spending bill.
There’s a workplace i was thinking about applying to that stated it was a 14 minute drive from my house but when I checked taking it via public transportation tell me why it said 3 hours?!!
US public transportation is archaic, but there is also an utter lack of skilled people who could even address upgrades and expansions to the national infrastructure of public transportation. California's 'high speed rail' project is a great example of how inept and utterly incapable of planning, budgeting and executing such a project. I was constantly being 'modified' to add new stops, change the route, and address all the newly created policies, laws, regulations, mandates and then the federal 'experts' stepped in with their versions based on zero knowledge or experience with such a task. That blew the budget before it even started, and even after years past the original expected completion date, it's 10's of time more costly and not even half way through, with more changes and 'modifications' in the works, while funding is becoming more difficult to find. The cost of using what little of the rail line there is, is more expensive and time consuming than driving or catching a flight. Now, imagine the absolute cluster if that were to be considered for a national high speed rail system. A coast to coast flight would be a fraction of the cost, round trip, and be hours of commute time. A one-way rail ticket costs more than the round trip flight, but at least it would have a chance to compete in the time it would take to drive such a route. Even the existing options for distance rail travel is limited, expensive, and if you're on a time schedule, forget it. I can't blame the staff, as most those I've encountered were very competent and professional. I believe the 'problems' arise with overall management and the condition of the infrastructure in general. other than those routes maintained by the freight lines, it usually leaves most lines in a 'break/fix' type of maintenance and upkeep. Every time I consider rail travel in the US, I keep thinking of how great it was in Europe and Asia - then I close out the AmTrac page and either buy a plan ticket or get a drive route planned.
America can't have nice things because the thought of organizing a project without seeding it with 10,000 parasitic middlemen is unfathomable to the government. China has their own state-owned railcar manufacturers and state-owned railway engineering and construction firms, and look at where they're at. City government in China wants to build a new metro line? Ask the national government, they'll send over their professional railway crew to do the job for you. City government in the US wants to build a new metro line? Private contractor after private contractor after private contractor...
@@user-xb5ri2rc7f The USA being a Republic can't even begin to be compared to China. Furthermore, if China wants to build a new rail line through an area, it can order the people there to leave. The USA can't really do that. It has limited powers. The people have rights, including the right to sue. Large projects can end up tied up in courts for a very long time before they ever get off the ground.
I remember when i moved from Montreal Canada, to Charlotte, NC. The public transportation shock was intense, and really except for taking the train, i was kind of scared and not incentivize to take the bus. So ... What could I do... 15-25 min car to go downtown, 45-60 min by bus , too long to walk, and guess what 45-45 min by bike. Yes bike is faster and you know what, you can take any , any direction you want xD. All these suburbs to suburbs routes. Everyone is talking about. If everyone to the bike, the city would be force to either make bike infrastructure or buses, as car people would complain... From what i see Americans are douchebags, but not douchebags enough to outlaw bikes, they make lots of priority biking roads when asked, because its cheap.
The problem is that Americans would have to elect local officials that actually cared about public transit. Since they don't bother to elect officials that want public transit, Americans will never have good transit systems.
you're not missing much. But unfortunately, your best bet is to either stay in a large metro area with reliable trains/busses or move outside of North America. Those are basically the only two options to avoid car ownership and still live comfortably. I went to Europe a few years ago and over there it's totally the opposite: a car is more of a luxury than a necessity and the average person doesn't need a car to do anything.
@@margarite60 that's honestly even better than what small towns and rural areas in the US even offer. American towns and cities are designed specifically to make it difficult to get around without a car. So for example, even if a grocery store is technically within walking/biking distance away, it's impossible to get there as roads often lack sidewalks, bike lanes, etc and the roads are built too wide to get anywhere safely without a vehicle.
@@knucklehoagies I wish I could own a car but I've never earned enough. I can't afford to live in the city but I prefer living on the suburbs. I commute to the city for work but that's it. I miss out on a lot actually. Not having a car SUCKS.
@@gpk1982 yeah thats the problem with the American suburbs... they're specifically designed in a way that makes it hard to not own a car.... I've travelled to many other countries and it seems every other country's suburbs are built around reliable public infrastructure where owning a car is seen as more of just a luxury rather than a necessity. I'm fortunate to live in a big city where you can still live in the outskirts while still being connected to countless bus and train lines and all of your grocery stores, gyms, parks, etc are all within walking distance..... if I lived anywhere else in the US, I'd probably have a car but only because I'd have to... not cause I'd want to. Car ownership is asburdly expensive nowadays (car payment, interest, yearly registration, yearly inspection/emissions testing, car insurance, AND gas on top of all of that.) I pay a measily $75 a month for an unlimited pass for bus and trains and I live right next to a metro station. Plus my neighborhood has everything I need within 10 to 15 min walk.
No, not at all. The reason why walking isn’t popular in the US is because people judge you harshly, especially men, if you don’t have one. That’s the only reason. Americans love to portray an image of having more than another person so they get into loans they can’t afford.
I would imagine more would walk if places actually had sidewalks. The fact that roads (for use by private passenger cars) are often viewed as essential to any development but sidewalks aren't is mind-boggling.
Not just bikes, city beautiful, climate town for more info. America has crap public transport cuz Capitalism + racism most of those highways did both quite nicely. Destroying black towns and forcing people to get cars. Dude from Texas almost got there.
I love that my city has no public transportation, it keeps the riff raff out. I lived in a city that introduced mass transit and the “urban sprawl” showed up, and the city went downhill fast. Never again, if my current city mentions public transportation I am out! The only way to limit crime is to price it out.
Unfortunately that is the reality the US is in and no public platform will allow you to speak honestly about it. People move to suburbs to be one more exit down the highway to get away from section 8 in walkable and bus ride distances.
The one thing I like about the US. Where I'm from 99% of buses don't have the bike racks you can use but they should really consider stealing the idea haha
I don't want to be mean, public transport is a problem in US, however... I was living in Elmwood Park area and street she is apparently showing she would have to walk is part of CTA system - line 90 to be exact, that is one of the most frequent bus line in this part of Chicago area.
US needs better infrastructure. Most of our bridges and roads barely meet code. 😩 I wish this was discussed more. Great video
complain to your state then. They are the one responsible to maintain public roads.
Luckily I'm semi-retired and I live on the northside of Chicago near the lake. That's where the BEST transportation is. That's where MOST people want to live. If you go 5 miles any direction, you're out of luck with transportation. The US looks like chopped liver in transportation compared to other countries.
Commuting is the main reason most people want to work remotely.
Same. I left my rural Pennsylvania town and moved to Chicago recently. I live in the northside right off the EL and surrounded by bus routes. Not to mention my neighborhood has grocery stores, parks, shops, restaurants all within walking distance. It boggles my mind how there are people who think this type of lifestyle is "communism" or some other outrageous propaganda claims when they think nothing of being a slave to the oil, auto, and auto insurance industries.
Do you only get the Red and Purple lines or Brown as well?
The absolute worst public transportation system is in Phoenix. The 5th largest city, by population, has a system that feels like something out of the distant past.
Tempe is probably the only city you could be car free in the Phoenix metro, thanks to the university and light rail.
I hear ya! Moved to Phoenix last May. The public transportation fails at the most basic of things. The stops aren't even marked properly 2/3 of the time. I'm from Chicago originally and it's much better in comparison.
I would love better public transportation options in Phoenix, but I won't ride the light rail system anymore because I have been physically threatened twice while minding my own business. It is way too easy for homeless people (who are not paying) to ride the light rail system and harass and threaten passengers like myself.
This is a serious problem with america. And cars are no longer affordable, so we need to change the structure of our cities and public transportation.
The almost 8 trillion dollars spent by US prior to 9/11 can rebuild the entire US public transport and infrastructure 3 times. Imagine that new bridges and hi-speed railways three times over.
I pay high rent to be on the bus line 😢
Same here Friend. Same here
I live in NYC. The subway is faster to go to work than taking the car (and way cheaper regarding Bridge tolls and parking fees). Also the buses are quite widespreadly used. The local bus stopping near my place has a 6-15 minute frequency.
I live in NYC as well, and my situation is nowhere near the same as yours. To get home from my former workplace by public transportation was around one hour while being a 7 minute drive in a car.
Went with a friend from Connecticut to his home for a break one year during college back in 2007 and the last day we were there, a Saturday, we went to go to NYC as I had never been. That train ride in and train ride out was awesome. His sister lived at home and worked in the city for a while and I found out she was spending $300 a month, which would be like $445 in today's money. I don't think you could really even get a used car and insurance for that. The other great thing is, if you wanted to fall asleep, you could, because someone else was taking care of the ride in. I remember a well dressed business type sat next to me on the ride in and then on the ride back to my friend's place, this beautiful girl sat next to me. I mean, she was something else, but I was so tired from walking around NYC since 6:30 that morning that I just passed out. OH WELL!
@@TheVoiceofTheProphetElizer I met two interesting awesome persons in the subway and we became very good friends....
But the vibe is not for everyone. There are the Fox News and New York Post readers and listeners who will be afraid if anything is out of the ordinary. A dancer, a black musician, an Asian doing kick boxing.
Without the subway and the buses, essentially NYC would be dead as it will never work with cars only.
Here from Mexico, our Public Transit is of bad quality, but definitely not as terrible as in the US
When my car was considered a total loss in 2022, I never got another one. Yes, most cities in the USA are not walkable. I use public transportation. It's not at all perfect, but since I only work one town over, I'm good. I'm already in the systemic chokehold enough. My biggest gripe is that the public transportation system could be better if all of these drivers and commuters holding up traffic, abusing road rules, and creating terrible traffic patterns could come together instead of acting like they're better because the have their own cars. These cars btw 👀 half of them are visibly wrecked and barely road ready, mind you. 🤦🏾♀️
I concur the cars that I see speeding, impatient drivers, reckless etc tend to either already be a part of a past wreck their cat having selves couldn't afford to fix yet for whatever reason assuming a $500-1000k deductible usually OR they are on their way to wrecking. I own a 1st Gen Lexus suv in stellar condition and I'm driving it until it gets up and walks away. When people cut me off I just smile and look at them like, "You do know your paper aluminum car will crumple if you hit my car...right?"
@@jacquelynn2051 Ok but is that a good thing? What if you hit a pedestrian?
I live in Scotland, and I often complain about the regularity, punctuality and cost of the public transport and the lack of circular bus routes connectingneighborhoods- eg having a 30 minute walk become an hour plus bus journey (just ride my bike in the gutter at the side of the road I guess) and how bad the M8 is as an American styleurban motorway- then they extended the M74 into Glasgow too and joined that to the M8. But for all the flaws, at least I can actually get anywhere on the mainland in less than a day! Heck I live in a rural area, near a big town and on one of the main lines between Glasgow and Edinburgh, so I can easily get to just about anywhere by bike, train, bus or plane, even ifit isn't as good as mainland Europe!
After watching this I'll think twice next time I go to complain about Melbourne's public transport.
Melbourne has a brilliant and cheap system. Lived there once, and it was as good as some European cities. World's biggest tram network is in Melbourne.
@@cb7560 We have a large network and it is clearly miles better than in the USA. It would be good if it ran on time. It is better since COVID. If you'd used it your whole life like I have you'd understand our frustration with the system.
eh still complain nothing wrong with wanting better
Make America Walkable Again!!!
Where i live i take the bus to work and my wife too. Whe had a car but yearly expences were more than 3000 usually with everything. We sold it because we can use the bus for School, work and groceries it has helped a lot now we are saving and can use 401k and HSA without worries. We will buy a car again when the car is absolutely needed
I would take public transportation if it were more accessible and it would go between states.
Currently there are no options. 50+ years ago there was... and even more 80 years ago or so.
When you got to that part I just wanted to cry. It's pathetic what has happened.
8:25 she says "Fort Meyers" and all I can think is... "they have transit?"
I live in an intercity suburb type of neighborhood. I’ve never taken public transportation before so I don’t know how it works leaving the city to get to work. But everything else seems to be walkable. Schools are all within 0.5-1.5 miles. All grocery stores or any type of stores are no further than 2 mile radius. I live between a 2 plaza. Both about 2-3 blocks away and it has it all. Ralph’s, RiteAid, Starbucks and all the fast food restaurants. Same with police station, malls (2 of them) hospitals, pharmacy, medical offices. Even the car dealership are all located in a center that is less than 2 miles away. Sometimes my husband just drops the car off for service and walks home. We don’t have big major highway cutting through our city. We have a lot of bus line close by everywhere too. I see High School and Middle School kids taking them home.
You've public transportation
The buses
I live in the Atlanta suburbs but close enough that downtown is within 25-30 minute drive. The public transit has changed a bit over the past 15 years due to the mental health crisis and less patronage due to rideshare companies. it takes you 2 hours to get wherever you wanna go and the overall system is pretty expansive.
However, I work remotely and sold my BMW. I’d much rather take public transportation than keep up with maintenance costs & insurance. What’s more ridiculous is $400-800 car notes + insane interest rates which are now the norm in US. Id rather smell urine and bo for 2 hours than burn cash
“I’d rather smell urine and no for 2 hours than burn cash”
That’s your own choice, some people can’t stand that for very long, hence why there’s a trade-off between your mental health and the eventual need to burn money in order to not suffer through that
@@louish2037People should still have more options. Not everyone can afford or drive a car.
Why doesn't Nina combine the bus with bicycling? There's plenty of Divvy stations in Elmwood Park if she doesn't want the hassle of taking a bike on the bus. Or heck, just riding a bike from Avondale to Elmwood Park is no big deal.
Also the bus that goes down Addison isn't the only option, there are routes that go further south.
Yes the Chicago public transit leaves a lot to be desired, but I've lived in a lot of the US and Chicago is one of the easiest places to live in/around without a car.
Chicago winter, Chicago snow.
@@ft9kop Warm clothing. Which everyone in Chicago already has. I bike through Chicago winter and Chicago snow just fine.
@@s0nicfreakI lived in chicago for 3 years and I would never
My face gets chapped from the wind and cold and busting your butt on ice is no fun
@KIRKSHINTATURNIPSEED So you don't have a scarf and boots? How do you keep your face warm and keep from slipping while you go from buildings to the car?
In spite of shitty anemic public transportation in New Jersey, I NEVER EVER got the feeling of riding a bus or train as "stigmatized" by anyone. Life is hard enough. The LAST thing I or anyone cares about or should care about is some HYPOTHETICAL negative attitude of some third party who has no effect on how I travel.
It's not like poor people are directly ridiculed for riding transit in car centric hellscapes, but everyone knows it's the very last resort for commutes meant for the poor and desperate. Hence the stereotype/stigma of riding the bus. I rode the buses in Orlando as a teen and was always just a very somber vibe on the buses seeing the same people every day going to our crappy jobs.
With NJ you're already in the "better" place for public transit. NJ and the NYC metro are clearly places where you're not stigmatized for using transit.
American culture is very different. The way they build their cities for the car and not for people. I have been to america as a tourist, but that is as far as I go. I wouldn't live there.
American culture is not European nor any other, its american. I see America as a class of its own. Completely different from the rest of the world, but unique.
America is in a way the envy of the world and they have a lot to be proud of. They have achieved and succeeded in pioneering technology like no other nation did before them.
All ginormous investments into technology and big companies but no regards to the common people or actual meaning of life. It’s really purely superficial and people are simply after money and more money; there’s nothing proud about it, it’s a country solely characterized by excessive greed and need to to win above others, most people are not really content/happy in daily life but are at an endless pursuit of materialistic things which only makes makes them more miserable in the end, aside from things that can be bought with money they don’t even know what happiness is anymore, so there’s nothing envious about it. You’re lucky you’re not American, cus it seems you don’t understand
I'm super lucky to live within a ten minute bike ride of TWO light rail lines and multiple bus lines around the suburban area. So it's doable without a car. But I can't even bike around my suburb...I have to ride the light rail for 20 minutes into the big city just to access some bike friendly areas with flexipost bike lanes.
I took public busses and a light rail to get to work 45 minutes early, it was a 2 hour journey on days nothing broke down. I'd been threatened so much by bosses, I get anxiety when I "need to be " anywhere. I will show up an hour early and sweat in the parking lot and find somewhere to hangout and unwind. Pitiful.🎉
The can fix it by an outer loop line
I used to live in Jacksonville, Florida. Once, when my car broke down I decided to take the bus to school. What was normally a 10 minute drive took 90 minutes. In addition to waiting over an hour to take two buses, I had to walk over a mile to the bus stop. After that I just took Ubers.
There are still problems to deal with when you have good transportation. You have to figure out how to get your new microwave home. You have deal with moving to a new apartment. You have to get to the doctor's office and take your pet to the vet. There will be some times when you can't easily take a bus or train somewhere. These problems all need to be addressed, and I haven't heard much of that so far.
All of this except large apt moves can be done with public transportation. How do you think people live in NYC or other megacities?
how often are people doing those things? why own and pay for a car if i’m only using it a couple times a year, significantly cheaper to rent one or have larger things delivered.
@@cassidy_c It isn't an automatic thing that there will be delivery companies to get stuff to you, and I've carried large moving boxes on a bus, and it wasn't easy. I've also tried to carry luggage, and there were always baby carriages in the open areas where you might put large objects.
I'm glad to have public transport, which was excellent. But we do need to work out how to deal with these problems. Pretending that everything will work out isn't going to make these problems go away. We need to be realistic.
@@ManicEightBall i mean this is how me and many other people i know have dealt with this, u asked for a solution. yes sometimes that solution doesn’t exist but it should
In my town it's either drive for 8 minutes for ride the bus then the train then the bus again for 2 hours.
*Seems as if the buses in chicago was eliminated in the video!*
The only problems I have is the travel time is longer.
What takes 20 minutes by car, takes 2 hours or more.
Shorter trips that's faster on a bike than a bus due to wait and walking time.
*Many routes eliminated by conservative racist legislation.*
The results are less services for all.
*Many living on the skirts and in the suburbs was convinced that public trans was for those in the city.*
Eliminating extending routes they could use.
*Another was the auto industry forcing the use of cars by design.*
Tunnel isn't big enough for the train? Oopsies, someone forgot the old saying, "Measure twice, bore once. Don't measure, bore again!"
Public transit isn't so bad in Toronto either, until you google how long it would take to just walk
Indiana has statewide public transit lmao....those are probably just private Greyhound routes (that could care less when they arrive/depart). We only had one trailways bus route to my rural city in north Idaho that ran between Spokane and Boise.
indiana has only a couple train lines, way less than shown on the map. one amtrak line that goes through its capital that doesn’t even run daily, an amtrak line a bit more busy up north but mostly for chicago-detroit travel, and one commuter line into chicago
Your videos are so on point. Thank you!
You either get walkable cities or you live in tiny apartments/heavily densified areas. Can't have both and most Americans choose the big house suburbs. Nothing wrong with that.
I have 2 cars that I don't drive, just polish and keep in my garage. I have another car that I co-share with my partner and I work from home. I am also thinking about buying another car which I also won't be driving. Maybe I am having a mid life crisis or something.
The guy that starts at 7:35 is right. We really need to stop stigmatizing riding the bus. I have recently started riding the bus regularly and it is way better than driving as I don't have the stress of traffic. We need to Gentrify Riding the Bus.
It's a shame that most cities dont even account for this. But both parties dont seem interested in addressing this at all.
The democrats are very much for walkable communities, especially Pete Buttigieg. Republicans keep cutting the original budget they set aside for public transit in their bills, like with Biden’s most recent public spending bill.
All these problems plague Canada’s cities too! Don’t forget!
Is there not an RTA bus that goes down the street that the CTA ends at? Should be.
haha i used to go though Cuper often
Japan has the best train system, hands down.
There’s a workplace i was thinking about applying to that stated it was a 14 minute drive from my house but when I checked taking it via public transportation tell me why it said 3 hours?!!
US public transportation is archaic, but there is also an utter lack of skilled people who could even address upgrades and expansions to the national infrastructure of public transportation.
California's 'high speed rail' project is a great example of how inept and utterly incapable of planning, budgeting and executing such a project. I was constantly being 'modified' to add new stops, change the route, and address all the newly created policies, laws, regulations, mandates and then the federal 'experts' stepped in with their versions based on zero knowledge or experience with such a task. That blew the budget before it even started, and even after years past the original expected completion date, it's 10's of time more costly and not even half way through, with more changes and 'modifications' in the works, while funding is becoming more difficult to find. The cost of using what little of the rail line there is, is more expensive and time consuming than driving or catching a flight.
Now, imagine the absolute cluster if that were to be considered for a national high speed rail system. A coast to coast flight would be a fraction of the cost, round trip, and be hours of commute time. A one-way rail ticket costs more than the round trip flight, but at least it would have a chance to compete in the time it would take to drive such a route.
Even the existing options for distance rail travel is limited, expensive, and if you're on a time schedule, forget it. I can't blame the staff, as most those I've encountered were very competent and professional. I believe the 'problems' arise with overall management and the condition of the infrastructure in general. other than those routes maintained by the freight lines, it usually leaves most lines in a 'break/fix' type of maintenance and upkeep.
Every time I consider rail travel in the US, I keep thinking of how great it was in Europe and Asia - then I close out the AmTrac page and either buy a plan ticket or get a drive route planned.
America can't have nice things because the thought of organizing a project without seeding it with 10,000 parasitic middlemen is unfathomable to the government. China has their own state-owned railcar manufacturers and state-owned railway engineering and construction firms, and look at where they're at. City government in China wants to build a new metro line? Ask the national government, they'll send over their professional railway crew to do the job for you. City government in the US wants to build a new metro line? Private contractor after private contractor after private contractor...
@@user-xb5ri2rc7f The USA being a Republic can't even begin to be compared to China. Furthermore, if China wants to build a new rail line through an area, it can order the people there to leave. The USA can't really do that. It has limited powers. The people have rights, including the right to sue. Large projects can end up tied up in courts for a very long time before they ever get off the ground.
Wow!
To EVERYONE who is sad you can't walk between places, or the bus doesn't come often enough or isn't safe. Take a BIKE!!!!!!
they never make transit development, why can't I get my moring coffee while waiting for my bus?????
Because mixed use development is illegal in a lot of places in the US so no one can build a coffee shop on the way to your nearest bus stop.
Nationalise your railway America
No.
Japan Railway should own and take control of Amtrak
In America you NEED your own car.
I remember when i moved from Montreal Canada, to Charlotte, NC. The public transportation shock was intense, and really except for taking the train, i was kind of scared and not incentivize to take the bus. So ... What could I do... 15-25 min car to go downtown, 45-60 min by bus , too long to walk, and guess what 45-45 min by bike. Yes bike is faster and you know what, you can take any , any direction you want xD. All these suburbs to suburbs routes. Everyone is talking about. If everyone to the bike, the city would be force to either make bike infrastructure or buses, as car people would complain... From what i see Americans are douchebags, but not douchebags enough to outlaw bikes, they make lots of priority biking roads when asked, because its cheap.
I think it’s possible. Today, no way. I have to drive to the park, store, hospital. It’s possible.
The problem is that Americans would have to elect local officials that actually cared about public transit. Since they don't bother to elect officials that want public transit, Americans will never have good transit systems.
I’m 40 and unfortunately I’ve never owned a car. I don’t know when I’ll be able to. 😔
you're not missing much. But unfortunately, your best bet is to either stay in a large metro area with reliable trains/busses or move outside of North America. Those are basically the only two options to avoid car ownership and still live comfortably. I went to Europe a few years ago and over there it's totally the opposite: a car is more of a luxury than a necessity and the average person doesn't need a car to do anything.
@@knucklehoagiesI’m so jealous of people who live in Europe 😭
@@margarite60 that's honestly even better than what small towns and rural areas in the US even offer. American towns and cities are designed specifically to make it difficult to get around without a car. So for example, even if a grocery store is technically within walking/biking distance away, it's impossible to get there as roads often lack sidewalks, bike lanes, etc and the roads are built too wide to get anywhere safely without a vehicle.
@@knucklehoagies I wish I could own a car but I've never earned enough. I can't afford to live in the city but I prefer living on the suburbs. I commute to the city for work but that's it. I miss out on a lot actually. Not having a car SUCKS.
@@gpk1982 yeah thats the problem with the American suburbs... they're specifically designed in a way that makes it hard to not own a car.... I've travelled to many other countries and it seems every other country's suburbs are built around reliable public infrastructure where owning a car is seen as more of just a luxury rather than a necessity. I'm fortunate to live in a big city where you can still live in the outskirts while still being connected to countless bus and train lines and all of your grocery stores, gyms, parks, etc are all within walking distance..... if I lived anywhere else in the US, I'd probably have a car but only because I'd have to... not cause I'd want to. Car ownership is asburdly expensive nowadays (car payment, interest, yearly registration, yearly inspection/emissions testing, car insurance, AND gas on top of all of that.)
I pay a measily $75 a month for an unlimited pass for bus and trains and I live right next to a metro station. Plus my neighborhood has everything I need within 10 to 15 min walk.
Why not get rid of your apartment or house to cut expenses instead? Your car can double as your house
it takes me 2 hrs in the morning and 2 hrs in the evening to get to/from work. this country is a joke!
I seriously doubt those promoting public transportation will be the ones using it.
Yes i do I love it
i promote it i use it i love it lmao
I think you seriously underestimate how much some people hate the act of driving.
@@hithere5553and you underestimate the amount of people that don't mind or even may prefer driving in their own cars
If its fine with you, im gonna repost this and tag your name in the title. (also in the description)
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Based on the clips of USA
One reason why walking isn't popular in USA , because people seem to randomly attack each other
No, not at all. The reason why walking isn’t popular in the US is because people judge you harshly, especially men, if you don’t have one. That’s the only reason. Americans love to portray an image of having more than another person so they get into loans they can’t afford.
I would imagine more would walk if places actually had sidewalks. The fact that roads (for use by private passenger cars) are often viewed as essential to any development but sidewalks aren't is mind-boggling.
@@user-xb5ri2rc7f Sidewalks bring people into an area that you don't want in that area.
Cars destroyed the world 😔
I rather ride an electric scooter on weekends.
And also she would get robbed
Not just bikes, city beautiful, climate town for more info.
America has crap public transport cuz Capitalism + racism most of those highways did both quite nicely. Destroying black towns and forcing people to get cars.
Dude from Texas almost got there.
I love that my city has no public transportation, it keeps the riff raff out. I lived in a city that introduced mass transit and the “urban sprawl” showed up, and the city went downhill fast. Never again, if my current city mentions public transportation I am out! The only way to limit crime is to price it out.
So you want people to be forced to buy vehicles just to get from job to job and places to places?
Unfortunately that is the reality the US is in and no public platform will allow you to speak honestly about it. People move to suburbs to be one more exit down the highway to get away from section 8 in walkable and bus ride distances.
@@huntindogSection 8'ers need to be better neighbors. There...I said it.
Tell me you don’t understand how socioeconomic psychological warfare works. 🙄
Yep, no one that has money commits crimes.🤣🤣🤣
Nina can take her bike on the bus and get off when the bus stops and ride her bike the rest of the way. 1000s do it everyday
The one thing I like about the US. Where I'm from 99% of buses don't have the bike racks you can use but they should really consider stealing the idea haha
I don't want to be mean, public transport is a problem in US, however...
I was living in Elmwood Park area and street she is apparently showing she would have to walk is part of CTA system - line 90 to be exact, that is one of the most frequent bus line in this part of Chicago area.