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I deleted my prior comment in the name of optimism but srsly, did you do any preparation for making this video and did you think scrolling through city-level data of multiple countries across 100 random cross sections would produce something for your audience?

Just like freeways, railbeds need to be rebuilt every 20-40 years.

1:16:00 as a native of Kista: Yeah, that's all fair points. The planners and politicians said it was going to be a suburban nexus, but it can't get away from the lack of connections. Sure, it sits between the motorways going northwest and north, and has a subway station, and a decent sized bus terminal, but that's it. No good connection to the northeast (Danderyd etc) at all. Neither by car, by transit, nor by bike. And the transit connections anywhere but towards the inner city isn't good. There's two transit projects that will help make it better tho: * the ringline LRT "Tvärbanan" extension (which was hit by a major delay just yesterday when the Turkish general contractors got kicked out for not delivering) which will connect semi-crosswise to the southwest and to the commuter rail just to the east. * The extension of the subway line that already goes to Kista, two more stations (i.e. to 4 stations beyond Kista) which will connect to the norhteast commuter train line at another major transit hub (including regional intercity rail). Will it be enough? I think not really. It'll make the nexus effect better, but not enough. And real estate companies & developers seem to think so too. Office buildings being converted to residential, and new developments being almost all residential, that tells me there's no belief it'll become a big suburban nexus. Might also be that Arenastaden in Solna (2 stops in on the commuter rail & 2-3 stops in on the subway) has been out-competing it as an office location. Plus has a bigger and newer mall. Plus it has Stockholm's biggest football stadium (which just hosted the start of the Taylor Swift world tour btw, connecting to previous comment in the video). Actual fix to make Kista a working suburban nexus: Extend the LRT even further east so it takes over the shortest branch of the Roslagsbanan, with transfers to the end of the Red subway line and the other Roslagsbanan branches. Have it go there via a bridge over the bay you mentioned (it's a bay of the Baltic sea, not a lake btw) and give that bridge real pedestrian and bike infrastructure as well. Make that trip convenient and fast. Might even need another LRT line going suburb-suburb via Kista to turn it into enough of a hub, actually. /way too long comment. :)

Hello from Brooklyn NY

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This is the most solarpunk channel in my youtube collection.

Netherlands uses all the land it has

Why should people who don't use the public transportation system pay for something they don't use? If they need money to mend the train system, let its users or the city's business owners pay for it.

If Kathy Hochul didn't want congestion pricing, why did she install the cameras? She's lying. She's trying to get re-elected. I don't agree with congestion pricing. It's another tax on the middle class. Rich people will rejoice. Less traffic for them. Furthermore, NYC has been covering for the MTA for decades. Never does the MTA have to open their books. Never is the MTA transparent with the money they receive. Subway fares, train fares, and tolls increase exponentially. Never does public transit improve. Stop being gullible! Congested pricing will benefit the oligarchs who rule over us. If NYC wants to reduce traffic and congestion, make more bike lanes... what's that I hear? "uumm, we can't do that." Guys, this is another lie. NYC doesn't want to reduce traffic and congestion. They want money! Kathy Hochul spent $850 million of taxpayer money to build a football stadium to benefit her husband. Politicians will steal as much money from New Yorkers and out of state commuters as possible in any way they can. The government constantly lies. Did profits from the lottery go to New York schools? No! Stop buying into this neo-liberal BS. They all lie. Our government leaders are greedy mother f*krs. For another opinion, search on CZcams for: London Cab Drivers Club president reacts to NYC's congestion pricing plan postponement

My cousins live in Gedera Israel, it's in the southern periphery of the Tel Aviv area, but I see it as more of a suburb of Ashdod or Rehovot. It is also surprisingly not that far from Jerusalem, it would probably be a similar commute to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem from Gedera.

Perfect opening to showcase the work of Alfred Twu!

1:04:00 moving the BWI station to the suggested new line, and a bit to the south, and put in a exit towards the west and it becomes easier to connect with local buses. Plus, add in a LRT extension (reverse spur) from the airport and connect it up. Thus ending the LRT at a station on the NEC with plenty of stopping trains, and adding nice transit from the NEC station to the airport.

The problem with the USA is that NEPA is used for everything BUT protecting the environment

2:00:12 What's this poem? EDIT: found it, it's Essex is crap

I appreciate the content but I feel like with how much you do on twitch and stuff, there must be a way to deal with the background noise? either get a different mic or apply a software filter to the input maybe?

How can I get access to your discord Alon?

In Victoria, Australia On the V/Line network we do this at Ballarat, Train run as 6 (3+3) until Ballarat where they spilt, Front continues to Ararat and the back continues to Maryborough (Or the other way round)

Sorry I wasn't there to detail Tanaka Kakuei's pork barrel mania (n/b Joetsu's first 1/3 to Takasaki was always profitable thanks to commuter traffic and helped to get the Nagano-Hokuriku services, so its not all bad). Also you missed that the Chuo line has intercity services to Kofu and Matsumoto in Central Japan which average 1tp apiece. There are also morning/evening Fuji Foothills services. Also the main reason they recently cut Chuo line branching is because they've lengthened the Chuo line trains to 12 car trains. Another website that's useful as well as Jorudan is Ekitan (駅探). And JR websites are pretty good for individual stations.

I laughed when I saw the title

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I know you've talked a little but I want to go deeper into the problem on where one can draw the line between heavy and light rail. The most clear distinction is to classify every FRA railway as "heavy rail", no exceptions (and even that is a bit iffy but these can be counted on one hand) but drawing the boundaries between light and heavy rail with FTA railways (which rapid transit falls) will always be muddy, sometimes contradictory (e.g. combating established systems or comparing two definitions with each other), unless one accepts that all FTA railways are light rail: - Grade separation (what you brought up): This would put Ottawa's O-Train under "heavy rail" and the Chicago L (particularly the Yellow Line with its multiple level crossings) under "light rail" if you consider grade separation a strict category, not to mention that Gualajara's SITEUR has an underground-surface line but also a grade separated line with the same technology. - Train dimensions: Light rail vehicles are narrower and shorter than heavy rail vehicles but it also puts the A Division of the NY Subway under "light rail" if train length weren't a concern (and even then, some light rail systems like Seattle LINK do use fairly long trains). - Platform heights i.e. systems with low platforms are "light rail" and those with high platforms are "heavy rail" (which makes all of LA Metro heavy rail) and also allows for mixed systems (i.e. streetcar-subway modes like San Francisco's Muni Metro). - Articulated vs. multiple units: Makes sense (which puts both most LA Metro's rail lines and SITEUR under "light rail") except Montreal's REM is often called "light rail" despite using twin units, the same which are for Paris's newest metro lines, nor explains the use European mainline rolling stock (e.g. Siemens Desiro) as "light rail vehicles" (I know, they don't fulfill FRA regulations but it's mostly for demonstration reasons). - Electrification: I sometimes feel like the only thing which distinguishes a subway from LRT is whether it's powered by third rail or not which explains the REM but becomes a problem with the CTA Yellow Line (which used to use pantographs) and SITEUR's Line 3 (which uses trains from Barcelona, a system which uses overhead wires which is also true for this line) and there are some which use both (say hello to MBTA Blue Line!).

They actually are building an inland North-South railway there BTW. It's not Miri Regev's idea.

very informative video

Very good summary. Every politicians should view this video

As someone who lives in the valley and goes to mid Wilshire, Hollywood and the westside, it’s important to connect the B line to the Sepulveda subway in my opinion. NoHo to the van nuys metrolink makes sense to me in terms traveling in the valley and elsewhere in the system.

I'm glad you touched on the issue of these MASSIVE cars. Even if you electrify them, it's just not good for cities, infrastructure and the environment. I know there are many studies out there that have demonstrated that the bigger and heavier the cars, the greater the increase in pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries from cars. Some of these pickups trucks have massive blindspots on the front where they can't see anyone < 5'8 which is nuts. I never understood why so many people in the green movement obsess over EVs and yet don't criticize car bloat.

It would be really nice if you could add timestamps on your videos.

I know you mentioned Seattle but could you maybe give input on what Seattle should be building? Because Seattle’s RTA was contrived by the state with the express purpose of connecting Everett, Seattle, Tacoma, Redmond, that is what it prioritizes. The issue is these kind of extensions likely aren’t good value for their money but are what are being pushed before anything else. Then there’s the whole separate issue of it being light rail and the like…

I live in the Boston area. The first round Cape Cod wind turbines was led by Wealthy Cape Cod residents that thought the windmills would spoil the views from their beach houses. The most prominent opponent was Senator Edward Kennedy. A famous liberal Senator of the Democratic Party. He didn't want to see them from the Kennedy Compound on Martha;s Vineyard, or when he went sailing. He won the battle. The first Cape Cod wind turbine company went bankrupt. But he ultimately lost the war. Vineyard Wind started construction 2021, should start producing electricity in late 2023, finish 2024.

This is one of those blindspots in the American environmental movement that's so infuriating, because it would be borderline intractable even if there was the full (still marginal) force of the movement behind the problem. Instead, "BP invented the carbon footprint", "it's personal choice", etc., all these excuses that don't do anything to exculpate individual choices around, e.g., vehicle purchasing decisions, apathy or outright hostility to land use change and redevelopment, etc. Few things make people more upset than realizing their own choices and priorities don't align very well with their expressed ethics.

Something many Americans do not understand. Trains don’t work on tracks they don’t own

Thank you for the video! I'm curious whether you believe it's worthwhile for an intercity train to stop for bus transfers/park and ride to a midsized city that's not directly on the line. For example, Vacaville, pop 100k, on the Oakland-Sacramento Capitol Corridor line (though of course before stop optimization for that line it's much more important to get dedicated tracks, electrification, and a new bridge to Vallejo so trains aren't delayed 45 minutes by cargo ships)

An open air penn station is an intriguing concept but given real estate realities, any realistic plan likely has to accommodate the potential for overbuild. How would it change the plans to allow space for columns, and where would they go? Between the tracks? In the center of the platform? Both?

I don't know why everyone acts like a post-corona bump isn't happening, it's slow sure, but by 2030, I expect most cities transit numbers to exceed 2019. Thank you for being an optimist!

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Thank you for this video. It is nice to know why these type of cities don't usually work out.

1:08:16 every city must have slum housing. but what's interesting about developed countries is that they can hide these poor people. in lost angeles all the poor are housed in one district. in Seoul poor people live in basements. in Hong Kong the poor live in confinement homes. in Tokyo the poor live in small houses under the railroad tracks. because everyone goes by train no one knows if under the railroad tracks there is someone else's house 1:19:56 this data does not represent developing countries. because it does not include the number of motorcycles. because in developing countries there are more motorbikes than cars 1:20:30 WTF .🤨.where do you get this data. my friend. Even the Indonesian government likes to change regional spatial planning. once every 5 years.😂 1:20:30 and this car 70% all in java island 1:23:33 is not🤨. All This language not in same language family 1:38:35 because government has never recorded it . let alone record the number of houses owned by semi-nomadic tribes 1:44:30 living in the city without having a job is have crueler live than in the countryside. 1:45:40🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 1:52:05 economic decentralization, not government. because during the government of the United States capitalist dictatorship (Suharto). development always centered on Java. after the 1997 reform the regional local government was given powers as a decentralization effort. This new capital was also the dream of Indonesia's first president to build a new capital city that was more representative of Indonesia, away from the former Dutch East Indies 1:52:22 love to see Nederland under water 1:52:30 what!!! hate . 🤨. Get same help men.. 1:58:08 easier said than done. during the Suharto era American-style developments were favored such as inner-city toll roads. after 2000 to overcome congestion and economic crisis. efforts to do is with the construction of BRT. The biggest difficulty in transportation development in Indonesia is land acquisition. land often has overlapping ownership. and people do not hesitate to sue the government in courts to get higher compensation money to make development delay. it can even be canceled like the Jakarta monorail 1:58:36 You know that the Indonesian government wants to save Jakarta by reclamation, and the construction of the North Jakarta embankment. but was rejected by Jakarta fishermen in court and even the governor of Jakarta went to jail. and because his project was thwarted by the community. Yes money is used to build a new capital city 2:06:15 because Jakarta have the biggest BRT in the world . And And lots of motorcycles

What you think about Soviet microdistrict vs USA Suburbs 🙏

36:47 is this accounting for immigrant population along the Beltway, a lot of which is just outside DC proper but served by wmata?

Yes we need Transit Equity in BC Canada

This maps insinuation that the Illinois central failed to develop modest city’s along its rout is damning.

When will the next live stream be?

Excited for a California based video!

I've always found it interesting how spiky Vancouver is-it's very clearly artificial, and the result is that you have the devil's bargain where you can have your density but NIMBYs don't need to worry about their backyards and blocking everything else, with predictable results. On the other hand, all of this spikiness has lead to pretty decent transit mode split where people actually can use it. There might be the ironic twist at the end of all this where the much-rumored upzoning bill might be explicitly tied to adding extra density near "frequent transit" defined in such a way as to cover basically the entire city, which would be a very fun way of moving forward.

Yay new computer!

A question a bit outside of specific transit, but on urbanism... how do you think this proposed map interplays with housing growth (and housing policy, not just business as usual New York NIMBYism). If there was a large upzoning of parts of the city, I could see south + central brooklyn, + western queens becoming much denser to pair with (and boost ridership of) this proposed transit map. One could imagine trying to turn Crown Heights, Flatbush, Flushing, and Jackson Heights into UWS density. Doing the Jersey side proposal could, if done correctly, lead to massive building along the L/7/6's. It would be even more than JC has done already, since the commute would be *so* much improved. I'm curious how you would want to change city zoning (with the understanding it's not your area of expertise, and certainly not mine) to take maximum advantage of your proposed lines.

No more potato quality? Finally!

Please do a video on san francisco and bart, our systems are in diar straights right now and all the extension projects that have done to them have been further expansion into suburbs or financial disasters for a long time

interesting that your blog mentioned that you grew up in singapore! a great admirer of your work - particularly in your detailed analysis of passenger rail in america - i also live in singapore