Its like half in the bag, except with Trains.
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timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:54 Favorite US Transit System
2:49 Was LRT good for Seattle?
4:10 Excited for any projects?
5:18 Latin American Cities
6:58 Why is Pittsburgh?
8:44 Syracuse and Snow
10:04 New Zealand Transit
11:06 How to improve CAHSR
12:04 Is Montreal REM good?
15:38 How bad is BrightLine?
18:43 Lexington KY
22:51 Luxembourg
24:15 Why is Philly Better than Boston?
26:00 CopenHagen Islands
27:45 MBTA Blue Line
31:31 Favorite Chicago Buildings
37:26 Why did we stop building Subways?
41:31 Baltimore is Good
46:14 Are Dual Mode Locos memes?
54:06 HART in Honolulu
59:19 SW US transit
1:07:45 Most Controversial Transit Take
1:08:59 NJT or SEPTA?
1:09:40 Best Monorail?
1:12:45 Housing Construction and Density
1:18:36 Electrification Voltages
1:19:28 Worse Metro Area
1:22:44 Jones Act
1:27:18 Minimum Pop for Metro
1:34:07 Outro
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This guy is a leftist urbanist and the only thing he knows about Mexican or Latín American cities is that favelas (a Portuguese language word) have nice views?
You don't look like your voice
11:07 … it's too late now, but early on there was a push to make the HSRA part of CalTrans and that still would've been a good idea: likely would've sped things up and all the engineering, bidding, construction expertise is there along with management of, ahem, the Caltrain system, Capitol Corridor, etc
The reason why the Buffalo metro is underground in the "residential area" is because Canisius College and the residents in that area wanted it underground for safety and aesthetic reasons
Awsome video I watch both you guys regularly
you're delusional along with everyone that follows you
You talk about biking in winter but it really sounds like something neither of you have done. Please look up the video from Not Just Bikes where he discusses winter cycling in Oulu, Finland and learn how a city can be successful with making biking in winter a workable option. I think the title of the video is something about how Canadians are such wimps for not being able to bike in winter.
Really enjoyed the conversation, but gotta say that rail along the NC Outer Banks… I don't know if that was meant as a comedy bit?
That would devolve into a money pit insanely fast with how often storm damage takes out bridges, roads, etc along the banks. The fact that there's not even continuous road connecting all the barrier islands tells you enough about that.
Now train connections that link Wilmington to Raleigh, Charlotte, and Fayetteville as well as train service from Wilmington to nearby coastal towns like Morehead City/Beaufort, Jacksonville, Myrtle Beach would be great.
nice 200 dollar couch, you filthy socialist
The unfinished Chicago car bridge in Blues Brothers is actually in Milwaukee.
On the subject of urbanism in Florida, I think you should St. Petersburg, I think it's one of the best Florida cities, it is more walkable than Miami. The city has exploded in the last decade and they're doing all the right things, they just need to add good public transit.
I can't believe I recognized Roz from the silhouette on the thumbnail 😳
Brown lyne 4 lyfe
The hungover, slob intellectual aesthetic is surprisingly quite charming. I say that with 100% sincerity.
Great chanel BTW, and I'm checking out the pod.
in my floridian town we built a bridge over one of the railroad crossings in 2020, so that is much better, but the several others in the city still have this problem and it will not be getting fixed. too many of us floridians still think we can beat the train, then people will go and use those cases as an argument against trains entirely instead of for grade separation. i've already accepted that if I want to live in a walkable neighborhood with good transit I'll have to leave florida and likely the US too. Travelling around europe shows you how different (and better) things could've been.
there are a lot of things I don't like about brightline ($100 from orlando to miami is simply too much), but it is desperately needed to keep more people off 95 (one of the most dangerous stretches of freeway in the country), and they'll be expanding it to disney springs and later tampa. It'll probably keep tourists off the roads, esp. I4. the only problem is that the orlando terminal is at the airport, meaning that once you're in orlando, you're in the middle of nowhere and there is no link to the sunrail (although it is planned for the future, and desperately needs expansion). Unfortunately it will be decades before anything here really gets good.
Monorails seem to only be viable if built on an elevated platform. But even in this case… why not just use an elevated light rail? Maybe underground is better than above, but even if you wanted to go above, I just don't see why light rail can't cut it.
17.20 Bright line florida discussion
For moronic people running active train lines (That was roadways) can't you had raising bollards along with the barriers that come down? like some private bus lanes that you can see? Try running
a train barrier when a solid concrete bollard is in the way lol
Ah, a fellow Aryan. How do you do, brother?
Best monorail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn
In service since 1901.
34:12 It works. Sorry it "bothers you" thumbs down for these comments.
Nimby(s) should just be taken to the back of the shed, where [THEY HAVE A NICE TIME]
When are you going to do a video on the MTA and Metro North? It’s a surprisingly good commuter rail system