"Amsterdam wasn't built in a day."- -David Hamilton
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There’s no such thing as a town, suburb or area too small for fixed route. They make tiny buses and replacing transit with cars is literally working backingwards even if it has a phone tree.
Interestingly, Taipei Metro has waist-high barriers separating the paid areas from public areas at most stations. Although I thought this might be because fares are lower, it is clearly from cultural differences between North America and other continents as you explained in your Urbanist Lessons from the Netherlands video.
I’m glad when I used NJT the busses just had a card reader to tap your credit card, I’ve got no idea how much it charged me, but I didn’t have to deal with this mess
just rewatched this to confirm i still know the lyrics by heart, and i do! this is really great and even 2 years later, still accurate! (goddammit NJT fix your damn fares) also, slightly related, but a couple months ago i was doing an transfer in north jersey. i bought my first ticket on the app, and then gave the driver 75¢ and asked for a transfer and he said "no, you can't do that, you need to pay all in cash". is that true? it seems unlikely, but this is NJT, notably not the most competent agency, so who knows. also the amount of drivers who have just refused my 75¢ and given me a free transfer is uh...interesting to say the least
Houston's transit agency recently shelved a proposed BRT line that voters approved on two separate occasions while dumping money into microtransit. I hate it here.
As a urban planner fan and student, I have read many books and watch many videos about the topic of "urban planning", and I love to come across videos that expand on the details of how a nation crafts it's city planning. I would like to highlight some insight on this video too. After hearing your statements, I have notice a core idea in the dutch "crafting" of bike systems. I would call it "low-tech compact dynamics". The Dutch will mold the raw land to create "compact sized areas" that makes streets and neighborhoods have a "small village" feeling to them. No need to set up stop signs or traffic lights, because the guidelines of the "micro sized" streets and mother nature's raw land, dictate what you can do and not do on the street. Everyone has to negotiate when using this type of street. Traffic lights have there place in "corridors & downtown environments", places where big numbers of people will cross paths with each other and with too many people interacting in a big area, the almighty traffic light has to manage the negotiates. Thanks for your insight and video work. keep it going.
You seem like the type of person who would talk about how easy it would be to copy the key to a locked classroom with a laser cutter inside and use your copy instead of waiting for the teacher, just because you can.
As a New Jersey resident, I hate the fare system. New York and Pennsylvania is one price unless you take the express. **sighs** Amazing video nevertheless.
I never knew the Newark Light Rail had a cheaper underground only. I think I have only using the light rail to go to Bloomfield and back, so it never applied to me anyway. How convenient they don’t mark which sites are underground on the map either.
What if I don't want a car? The sci-fi writer Arthur C Clarke once said he would refuse to travel in any transport mode that didn't allow him to read while travelling. I agree
If there's people complaining about the wait time on the bus, I wonder how much their blood pressure rises during traffic or god forbid a red light at an intersection.
For a more comprehensive look at those failed advisory lanes, I'd like to recommend this video by Build the Lanes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GIMy8PMdnhA.htmlsi=QeVStqS0sbJyKnuZ It shows that context really matters. They work best on local streets with minimal through traffic.
The downeaster terminates in Boston North Station and the rest of trains that terminate in Boston stop at South Station. They are about a mile walk from each other.
The barriers @ 4:52 are the exact ones in the UK! The gates don't generally go that high though. There's now a bit added to the front to allow for contactless payments, however some services (Stansted Express (London Liverpool Street to London Stansted Airport) especially) rather controversially not accepting them or the London Oystercard, as valid payment (technically a break of contract), meaning people get fined on the other side. For the Stansted Express at least, this has been an issue since at least 2019, with at least 16,000 fines issued every year, most very likely for this exact thing!
i live in portsea island {portsmouth uk} everything is walkable or on your bike good bus and train service .. and beautiful beach's .. i couldn't imagine living in usa suburbia .. it looks really cold and lifeless , i hope your laws get changed soon for the better , usa is a lovely country
0:44 Alex Is Probrbly geting canceld for saying FUUHHHH Chalange TIME Here Is Idea Miles Spend 24 hours on septa You SPEND 24 Hours On NJT How Long will you last?
Motonormativity people can't help it, just gotta drone on and on about how "gud da cars is" when most normal people have every reason to know that they actually kind of suck at least the way we've implemented them as the only means to get to any fucking place
How about families of 5 or 6 barging through the gates at PATCO on one or two fares? How about fare evaders following closely paying passengers through the gates? Without the paying passengers permission. Been there saw that.
This video is really nice. Also, the only way to evade the WMATA gates that are shown is to get up onto the side of one of the gates and crawl over, like what was demonstrated. If WMATA added solid frames around the side and tops of these gates, it would suppress even this method of evading, and therefore would be truly impassable. They would be the second type of fare gate/turnstile like this, after the revolving ones used in the NYC Subway.
The "unbeatable" turnstile at 11:26 - I've actually gotten through those before. I literally climbed up the bars to the ceiling of the station and just climbed down the other side. This was actually at a more secured septa station in philly along their regional rail line.
The sheer lack of affordable houses makes this a pipedream for many though. After having lived abroad for 15 years as a Dutchie I can no longer return because I simply can't afford the rent. And the systems won't even register me for the few remaining affordable homes because I don't have an income there. They changed the rules of the game. Housing, healthcare, education, social welfare systems, they've all taken a turn for the worst. So much so that at this point videos of how amazing Holland is supposed to be are starting to look like pure propaganda to me. If I'd believe in conspiracy theories (which I don't) I'd say the government is behind all these. The Netherlands is a nice country but only go there with a big bag of money. Otherwise you'll be in for a surprise.
As a Baltimore resident, just know that the subway sucks because of Larry Hogan. Fuck Larry Hogan. Okay there's other people too but he delayed the red line by like a decade because he's an asshole
