Seeing how congress holds control over D.C. that means they allowed for public transportation to be implemented in the capitol. Yet half the politicians think of mass improvement to the US transportation infrastructure as ridiculous and unrealistic.
Comparing US cities that were built at least 300 years ago against European cities that were built 700 years ago is like comparing a Nokia and IPhone and praising IPhone for how versatile it is lol
why is there barely any actual stock footage of D.C. in this video. that's Flinders Street Station in Melbourne at 1:24, which is on the other side of the planet from D.C. pretty sure that's the Chicago L at 1:05 too
As a northern VA resident, it was super obvious that like 95% of the footage is outside on the DC area. There should be a disclaimer because it can be very misleading to most unfamiliar with the area.
DC metro is so much cleaner then other subway systems I’ve used (ie NY subway and the Boston T system.) DC residents do like complaining about how often the system is delayed but compared to the rest of the country it’s amazing.
@@jasonhaven7170 US politicians do not use the metro lmao. Their staff does though so maybe that has something to do with it (but given the chronic funding challenges of the DC metro system I doubt it).
DC is well designed... in the parts you mentioned. But for 80% of its land use, it's the same as usual. Strip malls, stroads, and 12-lane highways as far as the eye can see. Most of the city outside of a couple of bubbles are horribly designed. Good thing, though, is that is has a lot of potential. The rail network is very extensive and constantly expanding. If we did what we did in Rosslyn at every station on the network, we will have a far superior city. Luckily, no shortage of development is happening, with the biggest one at Tysons Corner. But there is still much to do, and large parts of the rail network will be severely underused until then. I reckon with proper land use around the network, the Washington Metro can grow to 1.5 - 2 million riders per day. I am speaking as a DC native.
93,000,000 riders is low when compared with Canadian city's ridership - Toronto subway was 235,000,000 last year, Montreal subway 245,000,000 and Vancouver Skytrain 116,000,000. But wait, there's more! Toronto has another 60 million passengers just on its streetcars, plus another 35,000,000 on its commuter rail, another distinct system. Toronto absolutely crushes any city except New York when it comes to public transit and that's without even considering it's massive bus and Bus Rapid Transit sytems. Furthermore, it is almost doubling its subway/lrt network in the coming decade, as is Montreal. US is far behind on public transit.
@@noco7243LA???😂😂 maybe in like 10-20 years but right now, hell no. Add Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco to that mix and maybe Seattle soon instead of LA
DC's metro is actually terrible there's some areas where the lines go for 5 to 6 miles in between stops skipping over thousands and thousands of residents forcing them to drive miles in either direction to a Park and Ride to get on to the limited rail. It's laughable that there's a recent trend speaking of DC like it has a good metro, it absolutely does not. New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, and San Francisco have more valuable and developmented metros then DC, DC metro is useless to the majority of its residences. Which explains why the majority mode of travel is still cars like: 90+%
@@truthfacts5438 The main things that's not cool is how DC wants the rest of the country to subsidies its rail way system with tax payer money. A couple changes could make DC's rail profitable without taxes.
Washington DC is terribly designed, how can this person even make such a video! DC is as American as American cities come: stereotypical wide roads, heavily reliant on cars, the metro is a damn near useless for 90% of the population. It's a joke to even consider That it is better designed than Moscow, Moscow has a much better developed heavy rail system and has way more green space and more valuable land uses than DC ever has or will...
