shoplifting is no longer seen as a crime, so especially younger people have no fear of punishment and just take what they want - the shops cannot afford to restock and instead many of them have left the city, leaving many vacant properties. A sad spiral of decline.
But although its not far away Oakland is a different location - there are some part of London which are reasonably OK at night whilst there are other parts of London which I prefer to avoid - even during the day.
🌬brrrRrr🌬 I'm trying to imagine whereabouts along the Thames valley you'd avoid even daytime .. it's been ages since I've ever travelled precautionarily if you will 👀 🤞👀
@@trainrover parts of inner south London, such as Peckham, Brixton. Maybe these areas are better than they used to be when I was younger but the memory and sense of unease remains.
as only an adolescent there, I'd always been wary of or on guard for troublemakers, and it still niggles me even hereabouts should I happen to notice carelessly carefree strangers out in public .. in my 3 years there, the Met out of Amersham headed back into town had been the only time that a fight just couldn't be avoided that had presented itself to us (clash of them soccer scarves) 🌬brrrrRrr🌬
A lot of it was built up in the 1800 the only reason why the muni LRV are still around is because the routes that are still active, go though really hilly areas that not even trolley buses can go through Bart was built to replace the inner urban Key systems that was rip out in the late 50s San Francisco had many streetcar lines ripped out only two of them still existed today Bart was started in 1967 and open in the mid 70s
Another great video. It's a shame the city is a shadow of its former self now.
What happened
Demoncrats happened
shoplifting is no longer seen as a crime, so especially younger people have no fear of punishment and just take what they want - the shops cannot afford to restock and instead many of them have left the city, leaving many vacant properties. A sad spiral of decline.
@@CitytransportInfoplus Wage Theft is more of a problem than retail theft.
4:10 Original GTO before GE refurbish the motors.
a friend living in Oakland said back then shootings were nightly though
But although its not far away Oakland is a different location - there are some part of London which are reasonably OK at night whilst there are other parts of London which I prefer to avoid - even during the day.
🌬brrrRrr🌬 I'm trying to imagine whereabouts along the Thames valley you'd avoid even daytime .. it's been ages since I've ever travelled precautionarily if you will 👀 🤞👀
@@trainrover parts of inner south London, such as Peckham, Brixton. Maybe these areas are better than they used to be when I was younger but the memory and sense of unease remains.
as only an adolescent there, I'd always been wary of or on guard for troublemakers, and it still niggles me even hereabouts should I happen to notice carelessly carefree strangers out in public .. in my 3 years there, the Met out of Amersham headed back into town had been the only time that a fight just couldn't be avoided that had presented itself to us (clash of them soccer scarves) 🌬brrrrRrr🌬
hee hee -- I remember barfy BART with its interior carpeting stinking like a flooded basement about 3 years beforehand, oof
I wonder what year these were invented in san francisco
A lot of it was built up in the 1800 the only reason why the muni LRV are still around is because the routes that are still active, go though really hilly areas that not even trolley buses can go through Bart was built to replace the inner urban Key systems that was rip out in the late 50s San Francisco had many streetcar lines ripped out only two of them still existed today Bart was started in 1967 and open in the mid 70s
@@Made.For.a.While24 ok