,,,,,,,,,,Visible 8 miles out of the tube,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,amazing new elevated structures goin up over the marshlands........wonder how many human bones will be found........
one of my problems with NJB is he seems to throw a fit sometimes when people actually have valid criticisms on his videos. it's giving spoiled boy who had opulent upbringing, honestly. not everyone can afford to move to europe. 😶
This is really interesting because the last time I was in Philly I specifically kept thinking: man, this town needs more tree coverage. (I was in South Philly when I had this thought; it does seem a lot better in some other parts of town.) I dunno… I’m a Chicago guy and I think we might be pretty close to the gold standard for tree canopy among big American cities, both because of the amount of the city with a full tree canopy and also because unlike nearly all of Philly and all the East Coast Corridor cities, we don’t have curbtight sidewalks on residential blocks, so you don’t have to dig up a chunk of sidewalk to plant a new trees; in fact people just do it guerilla-style sometimes. I’m actually a big fan of curbtight sidewalks, really narrow streets and Philly-style urbanism writ large. But I wouldn’t have picked tree coverage as the thing to praise about the way that urbanism manifests in the world.
Awesome footage - my hometown neck of the woods! This video reminded me how much I take for granted how beautiful it can be. As a New Yorker now, I would do almost anything to be able to take a train back to the Poconos to visit family and friends rather than do the forsaken drive. As for steam engines, you truly haven't lived until you've experienced an "Appalachian facial" 😜
The electric talk giving me ideas for an openTTD grf On split , the actual singletracking isnt such a big hinderence because one can make precise stuff but the line goes 85-70 but has some chunks of 30-15 wich really hits deep in the capacity , especially because freight trains have ass breaking so ofc they go slower by default And on US mail rail it sounds stupid but some smaller sorting centres for each city like they did with red star and then just have a few ACS64s haul some luggage vans and ass over the NEC
They don’t hate the apartments or new buildings. They hate the type of people who will move in: namely minorities, college educated, and young adults who aren’t miserable old hags like the HOA lady.
Alan! You didn’t even mention the best part about Philly’s street trees, the legend around them! Copied from a reddit comment: Not sure if these are fact or apocryphal, but I've heard that when William Penn laid out the city streets (basically what is now Center City), the east-west streets were named after trees because most of the population was illiterate but everyone could identify the unique tree varieties planted along each street (the inverse of today!). Furthermore, the streets were ordered from north to south in terms of hardness (e.g. Pine is a softer wood than Walnut) which was commonly known and helped people orient themselves.
You know you could also do this for Siemens because the SC44s and ALC42s have been having a lot of issues lately and the Venture Cars are already starting to fall apart 2 atleast the Midwest ones are
We use cars for transport of People and Rail for transport of of freight, why does no one talk about how the USA has the greatest freight rail infrastructure on earth
the wires don’t continue all the way down 4th street, and that stop (market) is the fourth-to-last stop. the bus could make it down to folsom with the wires still being attached, but i think the technology to bring the wires down automatically is set at that stop. someone can correct me if i’m wrong
6:48 ok, now I’m irritated that Boston got rid of their trolley buses because one of the main reasons was “outdated technology.” Clearly it’s still in use. Especially on the silver line, for example. On the SL2 we could easily use this type of tech. Not sure how far it could go off wire, but maybe on SL3 if they really wanted to stretch how far the buses could go on battery.
SF is even testing some xcelsior trolleybuses that have been upgraded with long-range batteries! they’re taking the trolleybuses out to areas that have no catenary anywhere nearby (places like visitacion valley and twin peaks) and routes that are normally served by hybrid electric buses (like 7 haight-noriega). i hope we can expand our trolleybus network further!
6:48 ok, now I’m irritated that Boston got rid of their trolley buses because one of the main reasons was “outdated technology.” Clearly it’s still in use. Especially on the silver line, for example. On the SL2 we could easily use this type of tech. Not sure how far it could go off wire, but maybe on SL3 if they really wanted to stretch how far the buses could go on battery.
In my country the freight trains have to be bypassed everywhere by passenger trains which have made it difficult to compete with the now 34 meter trucks. So you definitely need to keep both in mind. But in the US maybe there won’t be as many passenger trains and commuter trains so it might be fine for now
Busses and trains are not exclusive to the big cities here and in most of Europe, practically every street had a bus stop and literally every city has a train station. Selectively comparing the two like this is an interesting way to go about this.
New York City is an über-anomaly that skews how disgustingly car dependent Long Island and Upstate are. Also the whole state but especially the NYC Subway is devolving into a police state. Having been in the Netherlands for a week, even at its “worst” it still completely dumps on the US.
