Why public transit works in NYC

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Is it enough to just have public transit? Just because it’s there will not guarantee that people will use it. The city has to be built for it. Let’s explore this idea in today’s video. Let’s figure out why the New York Subway and other public transit works so well in New York City.
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@Jesse-P88 11 месяцев назад

I just moved to NYC from Texas. The public transit here and the walking culture is life changing! I absolutely love not needing a car and exploring the various neighborhoods and boroughs

@carbrained 11 месяцев назад

*Welcome to the civilized world

@MTAFan585 11 месяцев назад

Welcome to the Big Apple 🍎

@erjanica25 11 месяцев назад

I live in TX (originally from Long Beach, CA) I've been dreaming of a move to NYC. I have young kids that I'm not ready to uproot, but after they graduate, I really want to make the move!

@iwinyoulose9427 11 месяцев назад

I’m from Denver and my wife and I are moving to NYC in January. I can’t wait to never need to drive again!

@erjanica25 11 месяцев назад

@Jasonlang666 we're actually in a pretty advantageous situation right now. Their elementary school is right across the street and Jr high and high school are both walking distance, and I mostly work from home. Finding a job and a place that'll fit our family of 4 at a price we can afford near good schools feels daunting.

@OscarDiaz-nn9ch 11 месяцев назад

I was born in Havana Cuba and is not remotely closed to NYC in terms of modernism and transportation. But since the majority of the population can’t afford cars and transportation is so bad everyone just walks or ride bikes. I left my country to live in Atlanta 11 years ago and when I visit NYC I found myself back in Havana. I agree 100% that a city makes it walkable when there’s urban life all around. The noise, the people, the shops. That 10 min walk is worth having. When I stayed in NYC I walked from Central Park all the way to the ferry terminal that takes visitors to the Statue of Liberty. And the next day I walked from the Brooklyn bridge back to that same back to the hotel by Central Park. The time passed so fast but is probably the only city in this country one can do that.

@ramencurry6672 11 месяцев назад

I like mojitos

@JuanNunez2023 11 месяцев назад

Earlier this year, there was a viral Twitter debate about whether people consider a 23 minute walk an acceptable walking distance. For everyone, the answer to this question will depend greatly on where you live. If you live in a Walkable city like New York or San Francisco, that's an easy walk. Your daily commute on public transit is likely to be much longer than that and involve lots of stairs. If you live a car centric life like most of the country, you probably couldn't imagine having to walk more than 10 minutes to get anywhere. Which is a problem, because it's a far less healthy lifestyle, cars are expensive and aren't affordable for a lot of people, and the options of places you can travel to within the same amount of time are far more limited in suburban-like sprawl than they are in a proper city.

@TrainsFerriesFeet 11 месяцев назад

Replacing transit with car expense is going to make up the entire difference in cost of living when I move to NYC. People just see the rent cost in NYC, which is undeniably high, but they don't factor in the difference in everyday travel expenses.

@GalladofBales 11 месяцев назад

@@TrainsFerriesFeetplus, you don’t get those additional random expenses when your car breaks down. The unpredictability of your financial situation when owning a car sucks

@TrainsFerriesFeet 11 месяцев назад

@@GalladofBales Good point, and I'll be downsizing from a 2200 sf house to, let's say, a 600 sf 1br apartment. I lose my tax benefits of homeownership, but I won't have to pay a yard person and surely my electric and gas costs will be much lower. There are also lots of repair expenses involved with owning a home. I researched and researched the differences in the NYC area and the downpayment I would put on a condo or co-op would pay my rent for a number of years.

@Will-cb4wb 11 месяцев назад

"not all 11 minute walks are created equal" my exact thought when i visited Dallas

@adannycamacho5619 11 месяцев назад

I live in Elmhurst. I’d consider it a “middle” neighborhood. I love exploring other neighborhoods around nyc without having to use a car.

@officialgreendalehumanbeing 11 месяцев назад

i noticed this on many major boulevards in LA, empty walls, massive blockwide parking garages, stores that don’t have a street facing entrance and as a result, barely any people.

@graveyg 11 месяцев назад

You might want to check out Pittsburgh. There’s a neighborhood called Mt. Lebanon that is very walkable, and has great light rail that serves downtown, stadiums and other amenities. This might be the kind of middle neighborhood you’re talking about

@ASQ1Fan 11 месяцев назад

I resided in Dormont for a couple of months in 2020. It's nearly the same. But those hills are no joke.

@inhex1603 11 месяцев назад

You deserve more recognition

@JimAllen-Persona 11 месяцев назад

Yes, she does.

@AvikplayJ 11 месяцев назад

So true

@PhillipAnselRitz 11 месяцев назад

A ten minute walk in NYC gets you to more places and people than a 20-30 minute car drive in the suburbs.

@michaelhardiman7482 10 месяцев назад

I absolutely loved your discussion of need for joining up public transit (let's not forget cycling!) with urban density and walkable streets to make that symbiotic relationship work. Great job! I lived in NYC for 25 years and only left to move to London, where they do an even better job and providing for these 2 ingredients. Keep up the great work! You might look into 'Transportation Alternatives'- maybe there is a way to weave this into your discussion of how NYC has evolved over the last few decades...

@osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624 11 месяцев назад

To me, Public transit works in NYC because they are sometimes fast and slow due to their commuting. Most of the times, the MTA in New York City are always running their services for buses and trains 24/7. : )

@ficus3929 11 месяцев назад

Here in LA we have metro stations that literally have gas stations across the street. Which definitely does not help walkability

@erjanica25 11 месяцев назад

I don't know. I'm from Long Beach and live in a Texas suburb now. Honestly, I will never complain about LA area public transport again. Public transport is so bad here in Texas!! To be fair, I always lived in areas where there was easy access to light rail. (Downtown Long Beach, Hollywood, and Redondo Beach.) I lived without a car for years.

@uzin0s256 11 месяцев назад

@@erjanica25 IKR. I dont see anything wrong with public transit in LA county. its better than stupid boring texas. If i were you i would move back at all costs. Even if its more expensive.

@sratke 11 месяцев назад

That part of Houston is pretty weird. It was originally a rail and industrial hub. The old station was where the baseball stadium is now. The convention center plus the freeway really disrupts the grid, so it's hard to serve by transit in any form. It's changed a lot, though, and will keep changing because at least Houston doesn't have zoning to delay development like most cities do.

@UrbanCaffeine 11 месяцев назад

Gotcha. I figured as much. I'm rooting for that area to develop. The train is Just. Right. There.

@TrainsFerriesFeet 11 месяцев назад

Great video; it is no challenge for me to walk miles in NYC, but in my mid-sized southern city, sidewalks are inconsistent and there are deserts between interesting blocks. BTW, I'm moving to NYC when I retire, partially because of that.

@erjanica25 11 месяцев назад

I want to retire in NYC too!

@EAZIIMAN 11 месяцев назад

I frequent houston on account of my wife and downtown and east downtown are very deserted. Funny thing is downtown isn't even the most walkable neighborhood😂. Montrose is and the people that live there actually take advantage of walkable streets. The sidewalks could use some work but with how many people actually walk there you actually get the big city feel there more than you do in downtown which proves your point because of how much closer everything is

@queens.dee.223 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for another excellent and optimistic video 😊 I found myself on a bus I've never taken before, and didn't realize I was on the version of that bus that terminated earlier in the route. Thankfully it was pleasant ten minute walk to the subway stop I was headed toward!

@AmbroseChamberpot 11 месяцев назад

The No Turn On Red rule makes walking better unlike next door in NJ.

11 месяцев назад

Thanks For This Wonderful Video Urban Caffeine... It Was Awesome When You Mentioned About Supporting Your Channel And Other RU-vidrs, (Just Like Myself), Who Also Enjoys New Yorking Attractions As Well!!!

@adamz6759 7 месяцев назад

I live in Montréal, Canada, in the Rosemont-Petite-Patrie neighborhood and it’s definitely walkable. I’m within walking distance of the metro and bike infrastructure here is pretty good!

@veritasinvicta2996 11 месяцев назад

I'll take the dry heat of Texas over the suffocating humidity of NYC any day. I live in Brooklyn and the stuffy heat even today was awful and it didn't even reach 90 degrees.

@oappoo3691 11 месяцев назад

Hi Thea love your videos! To my knowledge in the Greater Boston area, Somerville/Davis Sq area recently became a middle with a new addition to the Union Sq station(Green Line) and Assembly & Wellington & Malden Center(Orange Line). Brookline always have been like that since the T built around that historic community. Roughly 2-3 Green Line stops run through them.

@karmadave 11 месяцев назад

This video really nails it!

@USMCHolo 10 месяцев назад

Anecdote: I'm privileged enough to have relatively easy access to multiple grocery stores. I also live nestled up in a corner between two intersecting interstate highways, including a massive interchange. My nearest grocery store is a 17 minute walk/6 minute bike ride, but it involves going over this huge interchange along an arterial road with a steep overpass. Very little greenery, loud traffic, physically demanding, and nothing at all interesting to see beyond asphalt and concrete. I would much rather go a bit farther in the opposite direction on a 12 minute bike ride or 7 minute drive just to avoid having to deal with such an unpleasant experience. Even though there are parts of the longer ride that are steeper than the overpass, the ride is safer and quieter and I at least get to ride through neighborhoods and pass a few businesses along the way, and it's just overall more pleasant. I had never considered the differences in how interesting and engaging the two different trips were and how that contributed to my overall experience before watching this video, but it's totally a huge part, probably the biggest part, of it all. Cars ruin cities.

@MiaCollinsNeighborhood 11 месяцев назад

Hi Thea. How are you doing today? You are an awesome RU-vidr and you know your way around, and that's good.

@seankelly9447 11 месяцев назад

Hi. 1 thing i noticed in nyc and just thought id mention it....90% of coffee shops dont provide straws!!

@nachoarthurfong5954 11 месяцев назад

NYC is one and only. 30 min or less no rush walk in the City is usually an enjoyment in most cases…

@frednich9603 11 месяцев назад

I love using public transportation in NY, boston, Rome, Paris, and many other cities, but even though I live in Texas, I would never use it there.

@erjanica25 11 месяцев назад

I've used public transport here. My husband used park and ride to get to downtown Dallas for work for a couple years too. Still, living here without a car is pretty unfathomable lol!

@vavovidnica 28 дней назад

Totally agree with you!

@lupislune 11 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@UrbanCaffeine 11 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@cartographer1977 11 месяцев назад

Nailed it again! Jeff Speck would be proud of you! 😊

@UrbanCaffeine 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! Please say hi for me.

@cartographer1977 11 месяцев назад

@@UrbanCaffeine Will do! :)

@tay-lore 11 месяцев назад

On top of feeling lonely and depressing, a lack of pedestrians in an area inherently makes it more dangerous to be a pedestrian there

@mood4eva98 11 месяцев назад

I just moved from NYC To Dallas last year and it was a dramatic wake up call

@georgekarnezis4311 11 месяцев назад

When you are walking alone down a trail in the woods it’s an enjoyable experience but walking alone down street where you feel exposed and watched by people driving by it it unnerving.

@1979RoadFan 11 месяцев назад

Houston used to have great public transit decades ago.

@MTAFan585 11 месяцев назад

This is a good example of living in New Jersey or Long Island. Let’s say you live in Roslyn Heights or like Toms River, you would have to drive like 15-20 minutes to a bus station and take a bus from New York. If you’re living in Mineola or like Melville for example, that would be a 20 minute drive to Huntington station. There’s no bus along that travels along the route to Huntington. I know about New York City has like many bus routes and subway stations like 5 blocks from each other meanwhile living out of state or the region it’s kinda difficult. Maybe you should make a video on that about how far you have to travel to a train station from your exact location either living in a different city like Long Island or out of state in New Jersey. Kinda thinking about that since my uncle has that experience traveling on the LIRR to Penn Station

@JimAllen-Persona 11 месяцев назад

There is a bus route (S1) that goes up and down 110. You can commute by mass transit in Suffolk County in some cases, but it’s a PITA because the buses use the same roads as the cars. When I was going to college in the dark ages of the 1980s and I didn’t have a car I had to take a bus to the train station, then take a train, then take another bus from the train station to the entry to the college and then hopefully catch the bus loop. When class was over, I had to take that same campus bus to another bus to the train to a bus that got me to work, and then I bummed a ride home at the end of my shift at 12:30 AM. Fun, huh?

@coolboss999 11 месяцев назад

Finally someone said it! We need to realize that depending on where you live, the walk time may be the same but the experience is not.

@jesusramones1 11 месяцев назад

I moved from Oklahoma to Portland and I love being able to not have to drive. I wish the city would do something about the housing problem doe

@pjrt_tv 11 месяцев назад

That 11 walk reminds me when I walked from a hotel to a Mexican place in Florida after my wedding. We saw google maps, and it said it was like a 20-minute walk. That's nothing, let's do it. It was awful. It took us about 40 minutes (or at least it felt like it). We were walking next to a stroad the whole time. We got stuck at a light for what felt like 10 minutes because it wouldn't switch until a car came by and triggered it for us! I considered just jaywalking, but it was a 4 lane stroad, and I wasn't comfortable doing that. On the way back, we called an Uber.

@straighft 11 месяцев назад

I agree when I went to TX using the lightrail is cool but u end up at some parking lot lol

@fredashay 11 месяцев назад

Just a friendly note...in New York, we pronounce it "house-ton." 🙂

@martincruz8319 11 месяцев назад

Thea is not talking about "house-ton", as in Houston Street in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. She really was talking about Houston, the city that is almost, but not quite, as large, population-wise, as Brooklyn.

@fredashay 11 месяцев назад

@@martincruz8319 Okay, but why an egg?

@iTzDritte 11 месяцев назад

10:52 I found the missing middle housing. It’s all hiding in Philadelphia.

@AvikplayJ 11 месяцев назад

Hi I want u to reply urban caffeine plsssss 😊 oh and did u make the LIC vid yet??

@Eli-pj8xm 11 месяцев назад

She did. Released it 3 months ago or so.

@AvikplayJ 11 месяцев назад

@@Eli-pj8xm oh ty

@JimAllen-Persona 11 месяцев назад

Agreed about walking (or doing anything in NYC), it’s kind of an adventure.. which is one of the reasons why I drive through the city rather than going around it. I don’t necessarily know if they had to spread out as much as accommodate cars… underground parking only requires a storefront. Personally, I like the idea of those parking garages at the entrances to the city… from where you can take public transportation. It would be even nicer if they could build free parking lots on the other side of the bridge.. but they tend to be unpatrolled and subject to break ins.

@johnfargher100 11 месяцев назад

We always take an ☔, not for the chance of rain, but to keep out of the 🌞 during the summer. I know we look stupid to drivers passing by while we wait for the 🚌 but we don't care...

@cicchiamichael 11 месяцев назад

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🙂

@WilliamGemstone 11 месяцев назад

I hope the melting bomb pop was stock footage. It's a sin to waste a tasty treat.

@RedRussianPedro 10 месяцев назад

a 10 minute walk is not ideal? whaaaaaa?

@Da__goat 11 месяцев назад

Does it tho? The mta has been broke for decades, mismanagement of funds, trains constantly breaking down, crime, garbage and filth. Cost overruns, time delays, tons of bureaucracy to do anything, separate mta tax because the system can’t even come close to breaking even, transit deserts despite the cost, bloated salaries and budgets, business leaving nyc in records. Idk about that

@JimAllen-Persona 11 месяцев назад

People work around it. I know I did when I used to commute. That’s the one thing about NYC which I think makes public transit work: New Yorkers have places to be and are pretty resilient. Ever experience a track change at Penn Station during rush hour? Don’t get in the way of people that knew what track their train was leaving on and went down early. They bitch about it but they get through it because they have no choice. Don’t get in the way though. Want to piss people off… stand on the left side of an escalator or not know to work a Metro card machine (thank God they’re going away). “Move the line or move aside”. The MTA is a bottomless pit where money goes to die. The only thing I have to offer in their defense is that it’s a massive system. It’s not as if the subways were laid out in advance by some master planner: they were private companies that got bought by the city rather than go out of business and leave people stranded. It runs 24x7x365…lots of systems stop at midnight and put rollup gates on the station. A lot of maintenance can get done in that window.

@armchairwarrior963 11 месяцев назад

Not with the current crime and people not paying fairs etc...

@armchairwarrior963 11 месяцев назад

@Jasonlang666 Don't be dense. They reclassified crime. So you can steal up to like 900 bucks from stores and its not a crime etc...

@dwaynerichardson5380 11 месяцев назад

@@armchairwarrior963Another so-called Alpha Male clutching his pearls walking near a subway entrance...😏

@mikvas8088 11 месяцев назад

You forgot to mention Economics. Ppl move to the suburbs due to high prices in the city. Greed is at fault...not cars .. Great videos👍🇨🇦

@spirit_plays 11 месяцев назад

Cars also has to do with this cuz suburbs exists cuz of cars

@mikvas8088 11 месяцев назад

@@spirit_plays it's the other way around...I didn't drive until I decided to buy a house. Couldn't afford a house in the city, so I bought a house in the suburbs and 2 cars for less that the house downtown. Greetings from Toronto 👍

@spirit_plays 11 месяцев назад

@@mikvas8088 but still cars are really the problem tho the only reason y cities are so expensive now in day is because it literally illegal to build cities like they did before the 40 to 50s and everyone find them enojoyable to live in that y they are so expensive

@spirit_plays 11 месяцев назад

@@mikvas8088 cuz unlike in the suburbs u don’t need a car to live in a city like that and everything is lively there

@fredashay 11 месяцев назад

I like the way Somerville, NJ is arranged. The shops are right up along the sidewalk of the main street, and the ginormous parking lot is behind the buildings with a wide and open passageway between the parking and the street. The train station is just a block from the main street. So the Communists, er, I mean the walkers and cyclists are happy. And the Freedom Lovers, er, I mean the car people, are happy, too.