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Willamette is pronounced will Am it. Anyway, the public transportation is horrible here.

I disagree. Transit is terrible in Calgary.

Coincidentally I have just finished visiting every park in my city (Round Rock, Texas). Ours is definitely on the well funded side of a parks department. It's been an interesting project, Pretty much every outdoor activity has it's own thing (skatepark, a park for disabled children, even a RC plane space). There's also some pretty nice Hike and Bike trails and some interesting playgrounds. Shame we have pretty much no cycling infrastructure and only the bare minimum of a public transportation. Originally planned to do the project entirely by public transit, gave up halfway through when I got tired of no weekend service and hourly buses.

Maneto park in Spokane Washington is also really great

Balboa park here in san diego actually does have an outdoor church organ.

my favorite type of park is the toxic bogs that form because the people who made them didnt know how water works

sadly in many more suburbanized cities, places that should have urban parks get suburban parks. look up mansfield park in Tucson for a good example. while the neighborhood may not seem that dense at first, that area of town has a lot of missing middle housing, bike routes, and a planned rapid transit line. furthermore, in the same city, Himmel Park serves a lower density, more wealthy area and is one of the best used parks in tucson, largely because it is well connected to its urban environment and is at the intersection of the two busiest bike routes in tucson

There are some reasons why Suburban transit in Alberta is so “good”. First of all, they’re geographically distant from any American city so they looked to Europe for inspiration on how to build a transit system (and bike system). Secondly, they eliminated driver’s ed in schools in the 80s and raised the price of independent driving schools to a rate that’s about 3-4 times the rate of American ones. You can still get your license at 16 but it’s pretty cost-prohibitive for the average middle class jr high/high school student. Also most jr high/high schools don’t run their own buses. Most colleges also don’t run their own buses and are also served by transit. “College towns” aren’t a thing in most of Canada as most of the major Universities are in cities. Some colleges also give you a free bus pass with tuition. Third, there are almost no true freeways that run into the core of Calgary or Edmonton. This forces traffic onto regular roads and creates congestion which discourages commuters that don’t have to drive from driving to work. There are also express buses (BRT-Lite) that run on-peak where there is no LRT access. Fourth, Special Events such as concerts or sports games can often have increased and direct bus and light rail service. Park N Rides at LRT stations are also usually full. Finally, the suburbs in Alberta and most of Canada aren’t exactly “the most sprawling suburban places ever”. On the surface they may look like American suburbs but they’re actually slightly more mixed-use and accessible. There are corner stores in every neighborhood, grocery stores relatively close, sidewalks and paths that run between suburbs. The houses are also relatively close to each other and the Apartments are close to the single-family homes. All of this makes it easier for those who take transit to walk to their stops. These cities aren’t perfect and are still mostly car-dependent like American cities. This transit model can still subsidize suburbia. But these solutions can increase profit for transit and possibly allow cities to implement some more urbanist solutions in the future.

I glooked myself 😦😔

a trip through portland on a bike in arizona/some other gross desert state? COOOOOL

47:50 lol I spent my entire evening after listening to last episode about intercity buses trying to run the numbers on buying a used bus and starting a Logan to Ogden bus service. I have no idea how much insurance for that would be, but otherwise, it seemed to pencil out pretty well if ridership were high enough. I probably missed quite a few variables though. A friend of mine started a competing St. George shuttle service using tesla model x's a few years ago, and I drove for him for 5 or 6 months until he shut it down because he didn't want to spend on the marketing he would need to keep his cars full enough to be profitable. Sure would be nice if our transit agencies just filled those needs.

Well Theres Your Problem had a listener write in for safety third who actually worked at UniTrans with the london busses and apparently it was awful and they had a bunch of safety issues it was hilarious, I forget what episode it was.

GRUNCTION MENTIONED

UTA has learned lessons after the failure of the 35M. The busses that were used on that particular route have also been retired.

Answer for 15:31 ”Moskow had biggest trolley system”. Not anymore, they diched trolley for electric buses, so update you charts.

Answer for 08:55 ”Why soviet countries loved trolleybuses?”, because they don`t had good diesel engines.

if ou time it to the very probably rottenly timed amtracj trains amtrack can help pay for the new intercity bus lines like they do in calaforia dose.

in my city of Tucson the FlixBus(and other private bus/shuttle operators) which is literally always packed, has a tendency of stopping subpar areas the place it stops in Tempe is nice, it connects to a bunch of other busses and to a really nice light rail stop, however in Tucson, instead of that it stops at a parking garage at the U of A. the same thing happens with greyhound. A few years ago they just moved the greyhound station from downtown to somewhere just barely outside it (although the station is kinda nice) where there is only two bus lines, and it's a short walk to the downtown transit center, but is way longer than it really should be, especially considering that there are empty parking lots where it could have been built near the downtown bus station I feel like they don't realize that the people taking these busses are not driving there

I'm confused by when they said Ogden declined. The city has the highest population it ever had right now, and it's booming

another thing is that the Tod shoould be well connected to the neighborhood that already exists around it, and should bolster it and act like a catalyst for transformation, as well as inviting non drivers from those neighborhoods in. also, i generally like neighborhoods that feel organic, a lot of "new town" developments feel so heavily planned but just end up sucking, feeling artificial, and drawing attention to the failures that are pretty much always present. also, people respond to their built enviornment. what car parking exists should not be very visible or in valuable areas, and bike and transit infrastructure should be very visible and central to the built enviornment, also, it should be noted that busses can still carry a lot of people, and densification should not only be applied to areas with higher order transit.

the new line looks like theres an area that could have some serious TOD, around the riverfront of the salt river, although hopefully they dont gentrify the area around it too much

one funny thing about AZ. there has been talk about getting regional trains between cities which i thi k would be an exceptional idea, especaiily given that tempe has its own old train station in the heart of ASU with already existing light rail nearby. however, after some crime or whatever happened to the main train station in actual phoinex, they just closed the fucking station indefinitely, so now the 5th largest city in the US with a downtown sports arena has no amtrak, while smaller cities like tucson(where i live) do. i remember basically every city in the state wanting it to happen although i havent really heard everything since, sp maybe they just got more prepccupied by building a the bypass interstate through vulnerable desert populations

pittsburgs urban form and architecture is actually fucking incredible

In my experience open gangways are super nice especially in older very busy metros, because often times you'll walk into a carrage that is full while others remain waaay less full (which can also be a safety issue). it allows for a much more even distribution of passengers and a less claustrophobic ride

you may mention this later but it also sucks that it looks like their central bus station is completely disconnected from the light rail, partially because the bus station is kinda just ouside of the downtown core. maybe one day they'll change that if they get over themselves

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"if you're a member of the cojcolds" lmao !!

this is awesome thank you

About the Tucson streetcar. one of the dissapointing things about it is that despite being very successful, there really hasnt been any additions or improvements to it. this is partially understandable, because many of the areas outside its current area arent cery consudive to trams, because although many of neighborhoods would probably have decent ridership, the roads are very wide and not pedestrian or bike freindly. Also, the streetcar is now free, as is all transit in tucson at the moment, which has led to a massive increase in ridership, and at certain times of day i have seen the streetcar physically fucking full of people, like subways in tokyo a few decades ago. At the same time, while things are often proposed, i get the feeling the city just thinks that they already built it as large as it is going to be which is sad. The one place i feel that would be a really great place for the streetcar to go is Pima Community College West, a massive college campus that despite being very close to downtown and other walkable neighborhoods, feels like its in the middle of nowhere, and is surrounded by desert (which is cool, its a nature preserve i beleive) and car oriented suburban style developmenr (not cool). this is in part due to that fact that the school was supposed to be a prison, and that it was built during an extremely car centric time (although its some top tier brutalism). the only road there is large, and famously dangerous, with no sidewalks and bike lanes that while kind of wide are unprotected and have murdered people. there is easily enough space to fit seperated tram tracks and nice sidewalks and bike lanes,.which would only have to be on one side, and i think the passenger load and the size of the road justifies seperated lanes. This has been my ted talk

it should be mentioned that while tucson may not be a traditional urbanist city, we are one of the most bikeable cities in the US, due to having the first (and mayyybe the largest idk) bike boulevard system in the US, as well as well over a hundred miles of mixed use paths, which are well integrated into the biking network and function as bike highways around canals. Also, the mayor does want to densify the city, although all they have managed to do is very selective upzoning and allowing ADUs across the city. Also, we have a decent amount of "missing middle" housing although baisically no higher density, and not anything comparable to more well recognized cities. theres a plan to build a BRT that despite only being a brt, is promising, going from the airport all the way up through the most dense and transit riding part tucson, to a mall with a bus hub. as far as routes go it is pretty good However, we are poor so it depends entirely on securing federal funding

wow its so wierd seeing my city be discussed in any meaningful way, just found yall and love your channel

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Addis Ababa also has another unique landmark, the Tiglachin Monument, which honors the Ethiopian and Cuban soldiers that liberated Ogaden from Somalia's invasion during the Cold War. Somalia invaded Ethiopia's Ogaden in July 1977, and thanks to Cuba sending between 12K to 18K Cuban soldiers and airmen, they pushed out the Somalis by March 1978. The monument is unique because it was built by NORTH KOREANS at the Mansudae Art Studio! The Mansudae Art Studio has built a lot of stuff for overseas under Mansudae Overseas Projects, especially in Africa, like Namibia's State House, Zimbabwe's National Heroes Acre, Namibia's Independence Memorial Museum, Botswana's Three Dikgosi Monument, as well as Africa's biggest monument, the African Renaissance Monument in Dakar, Senegal which is 52 m (171 ft) tall!

If there's any system that can show the Addis Ababa Light Rail can be a success story, it's the Hudson-Bergen Light-Rail in NJ. The Addis Ababa Light Rail is 19.6 miles/31.6 km while the HBLR is currently (as of June 2024) 17 miles/27.4 km so not only are they a similar length, but they have similar ridership as Addis Ababa has a daily ridership of 56,000 while the HBLR got a weekday ridership of 51K in 2017 (in Q1 2024, the HBLR had 2,964 weekday riders per mile). When the HBLR first opened back in 2000, stations like Marin Blvd and Jersey Ave were surrounded by nothing! Today, surrounded by thriving developments! The HBLR goes where people wanna go, whether it's a science museum, university, shopping at the mall, etc! Jersey City has been experiencing a housing boom, and the HBLR has very much played a role in that, with the PATH and the city's bike network and Citi Bike stations complementing it! Not to mention, the city implementing Vision Zero! Jersey City was also the first in New Jersey to implement Vision Zero with an executive order signed by Steven Fulop in 2018, and in 2022, the city realized zero car crash-related fatalities on city-owned streets, the first city of its size in the country to accomplish this! While yes, it is expensive to live in downtown JC, it's also important to note that JC has been building affordable housing units downtown and across the city too, including the new Bayfront TOD complex which will have its own HBLR station. It has become expensive downtown because there’s so much demand for people wanting to move to JC, and it doesn't help that NYC under Eric Adams hasn't been doing their part to solve the housing crisis, and many New Yorkers are now moving to Hudson County.

On the subject of national rail oporators taking over reagonal systems, would it make sense for the united states to have one national fair card for all forms of transit rather than every city having its own fare system. So you could take a bus from one city, tap to a train, then tap to a light rain in another city.

Oh hi Caleb

Echo mentioned 😴

the bus lane should run from the holy cross hospital via an imporved connection with both tracks staions to the bricyard mal . which would also become the new terminal of the s lineonce its extended down via the covention center along highlamd to the mall.

West Valley pack 😔✊

Oh, this will be fun to watch. Being a local who's only bus within miles is 35

the 35m was ""temporarily"" suspended for covid, but ended up being cancelled in 2022, the bus lanes stopped being used in 2017ish because of construction near one of the stops

www.masstransitmag.com/management/news/55056943/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-halts-nyc-congestion-pricing-in-dramatic-about-face which means probanly no n 1 new 125th street subway line.

the norman conqere england in 1066 you said the wrong year.

it depends if your talking of the county of conwall or the duchie of corwall that contians both the countys of corwall and devon

The suffix -sex in Wessex, Sussex, etc. comes from the word seax (a kind of knife), which is the same root as the ethnic group name Saxon. Wessex more or less means "West Saxons". I've always found it odd that there's Wessex (west), Essex (east), Sussex (south), and Middlesex (middle), but no north version ("Norsex"?).

TriMet should build a downtown subway yesterday

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