Now we face similar corruption with our mayor delaying Line 2 of the metro, probably making it last another 5 years till completion... History repeats itself
3:50 No. The coup as organized and subsidized by the USA. it was part of the called Plan Condor, a CIA plan designed to destabilize and overthrow left inclined LATAM presidents (who were actually doing good thing for their people, such as the metro you mentioned)
i have one reason, and one reason only, and that enough to me, to hate fujimori. What his political decision about the public transportation make to the country.
i REALLY enjoyed the simplicity of Madrid’s metro system! if you see this, maybe you could do a video on that. plus it would give you a reason to go to Madrid:)
My aunt works in Linea 2 as an engineer. The reason it’s taking so long is because several independently-acting parties, such as the city mayor, individual district mayors, and even the San Marcos University higher ups, refuse to issue permits to build the last few stations. They’re worried that allowing to build the station will cause traffic and reflect badly on their governments.
Line 2 was projected to be finished in 2020, I wanted to use it to go to my university, I finished my studies 2 years ago and the new due date is 2028 😢
As a DMV resident, I appreciate this video. The metro and the silver line are not perfect, but they really do help connect the region and give a better alternative to single occupancy vehicles. I’m hoping that the system can continue to develop and improve. But yeah that absolutely was not Bethesda lmao nice try 😜
Love the video, it's informative and interesting whilst also not being dry. Would be interesting if you did a video on an Australian city such as Melbourne (since there is a lot of infrastructure projects happening there).
My parents moved to Leesburg which is the edge of the dulles corridor in 99 and ever since the expansion idea started, every election cycle our ballots contained a vote yes or no to give most of our money to help expand the train towards us. some years it passed and others it didn't leading to all construction practically stopping. its still not here but every year it inches closer.
As a peruvian I didn't know this part of history of my country. I don't care though, I'm out from this country, I'm a american resident for now. I've been out for 4 years now and I don't miss a single bit lol. I never though i could do that.
As a lifelong resident of a DC suburbs in virginia, I love the Silver Line, and I'm not sure it has actually fixed any of WMATA's problems. We also can't overlook HOT lanes on 495 and 66 having an effect on traffic, plus the growth of technology and availability and popularity of teleworking. You could do tons of stories on WMATA. It has some unusual statistics, such as very long total track milage but relatively low annual ridership (at least compared to NYC Subway/MTA). You could look into Paul Wiedefeld's controversial tenure as General Manager. The never-fully-working automatic driving systems (disabled since a collision on the Red Line decades ago), the difference between concrete ties (silver line) and wooden ties (everywhere else), etc., etc.
Im from peru, and i can say the train is a succes, at least for the lots of people that need to travel from villa maria del triunfo to san juan de lurigancho. Its cheap and really fast, we need more trains
Big fan of the combo of well-researched storytelling and the occasional "lmao" jokes in the screen transitions lol. It's encouraging to hear about a public transit project getting completed successfully in the past few decades
They didn't really fix it. They just put lipstick on a pig. Ok, maybe a greyhound, not a pig. It's a great local line for Northern Virginia but still such a very typical American short-sighted mess for the greater region. Why is there not an express service between the airport and downtown (i.e. DC and Maryland)? I wish people would stop stroking themselves into a lather about how DC now has a "train connection to its international airport". Yeah, it has a train connection like McDonald's serves great iconic American burgers. It takes about an hour and 15 minutes from downtown or Union Station to get to the airport! And that's before you even factor in getting to the Silver line itself. Almost all other truly world class cities have fast or high speed trains that get you from city center to the airport in about half an hour or less. I live right next to a red line Metro station but it takes me 1 hour and 35 minutes to get to Dulles by metro. A car takes 35 to 40 minutes (non rush hour). Just because you build it, they will not necessarily come. If you don't build smart, they will continue to take Ubers (yes it's much more expensive, but in a town where most of the people taking flights out of Dulles have high incomes, time is money. Losing an hour is like losing $100 bucks or much more - and an Uber ride is well worth it for most to get that hour of life back). Does America ever build transit for a useful here and now? Or does it just follow old plans for the sake of just getting something mediocre built (because "it's better than nothing"?) and then pat itself on the back?
One small tidbit that probably should have been mentioned is how because Alan Garcia had been the one to start the project, at least in the eyes of the general public, the following governments were reluctant to continue his legacy and give him any credit for it. The first term of Garcia had become a very traumatic experience for most people that had lived through it and because of that the train became a monument to his failures. This particular political circumstance also played a part on the ongoing delays of the project. I even hear a lot of older people refer to it as "Alan's train" to this day. It was actually Garcia himself, during his second term, that finally decided to get that project done, it had actually been one of his campaign promises. Now, there are obviously a lot more nuances to this, but what was obvious was that no other politician was willing to touch that project before Alan Garcia came back to office.
Great point - that's something that Christy explained when I spoke with her. I honestly wasn't sure how to go about verifying it haha, but you're right in that it definitely played a (potentially major) role in having such a long pause. I also didn't realise the naming of "Alan's train" - that's something that would've added a nice bit of nuance to the video. Thanks for sharing!
@@TheFlyingMooseCA Tbf maybe I oversold it, but at least my dad and I always refer to it as "Alan's train." ("El tren de Alan" in Spanish) Also forgot to say, great video and thanks for the reply.
“Palantir … but there _was_ a dark side”: whiplash. Anyway. It certainly seems to be _policy_ in the US not to connect airports to transit. I live in San Jose, CA, and our (admittedly world-class crappy) light rail makes an absolute point of not connecting. I mean, it literally goes by close enough that if they had put a travelator in between instead of an uncrossable road and a parking structure…. And this seems pretty typical. I can't figure it out. Why build airports and then plan not to have them used? It can't be that they think people _want_ to leave their cars in long term parking. Like so much else in American planning, it seems that they just like people to suffer. I guess I'd be darkly interested to know how SJ-and the entire area between here and San Francisco-became so pathetic, even if we are finally getting connected to BART. Hey, about the funding-in-two-parts problem. Why is it not possible to issue some kind of bond? Even the chance that the metro will be built and the property values will increase has some present value. I am no financial wizard, but presumably you can promise the landowners that they'll get _either_ a metro _or_ some financial recompense attached to the land title, while deliberately putting yourself in the position that the “you get a metro” option is incentivised? But perhaps I just don't understand these things.
Who cares. The city is going to fail when the trucking industry fails. You cant grow much food in high elevations. When trucking companies go out of business, the shortage of food will force the residents out.
originally, Metro of Lima was seen as “tren ligero” in official studies, because first alignment was built on embankment; but later, in the 1995 it was clear that it was a heavy rail.
I visited Line 2 in 2012 a few months after it was opened and posted a video. At that time only the red cars (from Italy) were operating. Ridership was low (as if there was Covid). People downtown hardly knew it existed as the route does not go there or serve tourists. The trains were like new, but I only found out later they were 1990s antiques. Also I had difficulty obtaining a fare card, they demanded my passport in order to register the card! Nobody in Lima ever bothered or threatened me and I would gladly return. The big draw is this huge restaurant district that clings to both sides of a canyon in the rich part of town facing the ocean.
That's still a horrendously high cost per mile. If metros could be built for less dollars-per-mile, it would mean more metros. I think that would be a good thing.
Maybe a good suggestion could be to visit Santiago in a next trip to South America. Our Capitol have one of the best public transportation of all the continent and maybe. The best subway service of all.
Hello, great video. You should visit de Santiago, Chile metro system. is IMPRESSIVE. Best metro in the Americas form many years in a row. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-16g2XuAKDKs.html
I've been using the Lima metro for 2 months and despite the crowded hours, it was never a bad experience! People tend to keep it clean which is something pretty uncommon
Damn, I had this video recommended in my home page these two months. I hope someday Bogotá does the same thing (I'm desperate, we need a fuckin Metro), ciudad del demonio.
