Paris tram grows | DeSantis don't like trains | Tram in Uruguay | Urban news 11
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Welcome to UrbanNews #11. In this episode -
00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Paris tram extension
02:10 - No money for trains in Florida, USA
03:19 - Bullet train for Texas, USA
04:03 - New low-floor trams for Woltersdorf, Germany
04:45 - Bike network development in Montreal, Canada
05:19 - Tram-train project in Montevideo, Uruguay
06:36 - No complaints in the French countryside!
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Bro Ron D is wasting billions on expanding the road again instead of Brightline so infuriating.
As a Florida resident .. DS is out of his mind 😮
Most Republicans are out of their minds when it comes to public transportation. It’s very frustrating.
For different reasons I actually agree with him.
There is no doubt that governments should invest in public transport and DS is an idiot for refusing to do it, but the idea that private companies are the solution will end in disaster.
Public transport cannot be directly profitable and the only reason for so many of them trying to build rail is the ability to use it to develop real estate but this fountain will dry out in a few years and than they will ditch the rail line and close it leaving you with nothing, unless the government acquire it and run it, something that won't happen without the necessary political change that is required now to allow real public investment in public transport.
Now, if those projects were actually privately funded than, in theory, the public lose nothing from allowing them but that's not the case. Brightline Florida received a lot of government funds through grants, easy government sponsored loan (that the government will need to pay if they default before they pay it) which is also tax exempted and government funds were used to build the stations (local governments contributed a lot of money and the airport station was fully built by the government) and and the maintenance of most road crossings.
And what does it get in return? nothing. When the pandemic hit ridership plummeted and in most of the US is far from fully recuperating but as all the systems continued to provide service to all, with reduced frequency, under hard conditions. I said all but that's not true, Brightline didn't. They just closed up shop for more than 18 months and fired all workers.
The idea that private companies will save you and allow you to bypass the need to reform your political system is not viable but if a private company want's to do it for it's own profit it should do it on it's own, without any type of public funding. If the government is involved and the public pays a large portion of the cost it must have control over it, in obligations to provide continues service to all, even when it's hard or not profitable, a minimum service standards (hours, frequency, cost) and a mechanism to recuperate the investment made if the private company decides to ditch the service.
Maybe try BOT (build operate transfer) when the government issues a tender to build the system to it's specifications, private company builds it with it's own financing (but more help from the government), operates it for a specific time period, and than transfers it back to the government.
As long as they do it a s a"fully private operation" with noe obligations and commitments they need to fully finance this on their own without any type of public funding.
@@AL5520 You write a lot of the right things, which once again confirm that I should make a separate video about public transportation financing models.
In this particular case, I think they should have looked for mutually beneficial options for cooperation between the state and business, rather than just canceling everything.
Agreed we need more trains to Tampa
When is he in his mind? I mean, it has occasionally happened, but it doesn’t seem very frequent.
Brightline funded its original line by issuing bonds. Could it do the same for this extension?
I hope so, but they need the right of way on I4
From Uruguay, thank you for this great coverage. A small context: the first project of a tram line between Montevideo to Atlantida (which is located 45 km to the East) dates from 1966 and was presented by the Uruguayan Railfan Asociation. Since that date, main parts of the corridor at Avenida Italia were preserved to establish a mass transport system. Another context: we had commuter passenger train service to 25 de Agosto and Empalme Olmos up to 2019 but the services were suspended because of a big refurbishment project of the main line railway between Montevideo and Paso de los Toros (264 km, formerly 273). Sadly, the current goverment didnt do anything in the meantime to restore services after the track rebuilding project ends this year, so the next goverment (which will took over in 2025) will be in charge to restore those services.
Thank you for the clarification!
In general, I try to expand the geography of my news, and I found this particular one quite by accident - I watched a video on CZcams about the history of Uruguay and was curious to see what was happening with transportation - and came across the latest news about the tram.
In general, in Latin America, I am probably best acquainted with the context of Chile and Argentina, while I am a little less familiar with other countries. I hope to improve this in the future.
@@cityforall I forgot to say that there has been a suggestion that the current tram project could be extended to Atlantida (another 10 km to the East) in the future.
I would have a different take on this project - not only should it be built as shown, but it should be extended to meet the railway tracks at the "new" Central station in Montevideo. From this point onwards trams would share trackage with trains at least as far as Peñarol; a future phase could see all suburban services taken over by tram-trains, north to 25 de Agosto and east to Sudriers. This would render suburban services more attractive by giving riders a one-seat trip to central Montevideo, bypassing the awkward (and scandalous) interchange at the "new" Central station.
@@NickBurman it is easier and cheaper to reopen Central Station.
I swear DeSantis is TRYING to make Florida worse!
...except for his propagandists at BlazeTV.
Yeah! You have really found your niche! Keep these Urban News coming!
Thanks! Glad to hear that!
I never liked Ron DeSatan👿
As a montrealer I'd love to see other north american cities adopt as much bike infrastructure here, paired with the bixi Network (who just completed a winter season pilot program), biking has become an integral part of how i get around the city, usually becoming the solution for the last mile problem if the weather permits it.
Trolleys > Bike Trails 😊
The new transition is much better ! Less aggressive and it goes better with the general tone of the video.
the new sound is good and professional
Do you mean transition sound?
i sorry but is that helsinki on in the intro? just testing my knowledge
Yes, exactly :)
Hey, I don't know if it would fit into this series, but there's currently a museum expo in Barcelona about the suburban sprawl.
It's called "Suburbia", and it is at the CCCB (English translation: Contemporary Culture Center of Barcelona).
What I said, I don't know if this counts as urban news, but I'll leave it here just in case :)
The clip at 7:43 used as an example of a busy, congested city.
Me: haha look at those suckers…oh no.
I live like 40m from there :(
Sorry :(
@@cityforall oh it’s okay, Toronto is slowly getting better! Very slowly.
Great video although in I liked the previous transition between stories better 🙂
I didn’t, this one sounds much more pleasant!
@@StLouis-yu9iz Have to agree, this one is way more "newsy" and is way nicer if I'm watching during a migraine attack which is surprisingly often
👍!
Great video, as always! Informative, well structured, interesting and with a touch of humor. 👍
You should be prepared to use the sentence "Paris, again" at least 3 more times in the coming weeks and months as there are 3 other major openings planned.
The T3b extension was the first and smallest of the 4.
The next one should be either :
RER E West first section, 8km with 3 major stations.
Or M11 Eastern extension by a little more than 6km with 6 stations if I recall correctly.
In May or early June.
Then the last and largest one, M14 Northern and Southern extensions by about 15 or 16km and 7 or 8 stations.
In late June.
M11 and M14 extensions constitute the first parts of the Grand Paris Express project to be delivered.
The first section of entirely new line will arrive in late 2025 with M15 South.
There should also be a 5-station gondola line extending from M8's Southeastern terminus opening in 2025.
Not sure when the fancy new Tzen 4 (or 5?) trambus BRT opens though.
It's transit-a-palooza in Paris! 😂
Whoa, whoa, have some restraint :) It may be hard for some people to read such news :)
By the way, what is a gondola line?
I try to make the episodes better, and I hope it works.
I'm glad you like it.
@@cityforall Yeah sorry, that's like flashing cash in public. 🤣
A gondola (poor name in English) is a Télécabine in French, it's a cable transport with a multitude of cabins in a continuous circuit.
It's usually built in ski resorts to climb mountains.
But it can also serve as public transportation for specific use cases. Here, the future "Câble C1" will be serving a rather isolated neighborhood hidden behind a rail yard, a high-speed line and high voltage lines.
It connects the isolated neighborhoods together and to the Eastern end of M8.
Right now, the bus takes a long journey with many detours to or from the neighborhood and the metro on one side and an RER town on the other.
Île-de-France Mobilités site has an entire page of projects and you can see details about the project.
By the way, I can give you footage if needed as I live in Paris.
@@KyrilPG Oh, that's interesting. I thought Paris would build its own Schwebebahn.
Will this cable line cope with the passenger traffic? Or do not many people live there?
@@cityforall I tried to answer you with links and it has disappeared. It's probably in your comments to review?
High quality content but few subs ? Outrageous!
Aren't the subtitles automatically generated by CZcams enough? Or what exactly outrages you?
@@cityforall I think they mean subscribers and tehy're right to say that it's unjustified how few you have!
@@wteff8586 Oh, I agree then! Where's my silver button?! :))
The video is great!🚈🚋🚍🚎🎉🎉
Thank you!
Actually, Montreal has already a Bikeshare system named BIXI, it's fantastic btw. For the investment, it's nice. Montreal already built a lot of separated bike lanes and expands its network every year. I think you wanted to say that Montreal bought like a thousand more bicycles.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Another example of the city that reopened its tram system is Polish city of Olsztyn
Am I right that in Poland it's the only one to do so?
So, DeSantis has decided not to dedicate a right-of-way in the I-4 for Brightline to build its railway? And what Brightline needs he's going to take for additional toll lanes? Do I have that right?
Talk about stupid!
#IMPEACHRONDESANTIS #ROSEWOODMASSACRE #FLORIDA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great video, but why are they running such small trams in Woltersdorf, a small city? Wouldn't it be more efficient to operate buses or trolleybuses instead?
I haven't studied this in detail, but I think nostalgia and preservation of history play a big role here.
NO .. we need to continue with all TRAMS .. the right solution .
Trolleys > Buses. For many reasons, RMTransit just released a video discussing this
Could be government or federal subsidies
It’s one of two legacy systems in the southeastern suburbs of Berlin; They mostly act in connecting the suburbs to the s-Bahn system and I suppose it’s more economic to just use the preexisting infrastructure as the maintenance of buses is more expensive
Great episode, I hope moving forward you can add non western news into the mix
I hope you found my sources useful, non western news should account for more than two thirds of the news weekly, instead of the 0% of this episode
The rest of the world has a lot to know about, and your format is great
I try to find a balance between diversity and interest for the audience. But in general, you are right.
In my opinion this channel is doing well in this regard. Also there's Uruguay news in this video, so far from 0%.
@@junglist_ikon Uruguay is from Latin America, which is part of the West
@@junglist_ikon Thanks! Actually just a few days ago I've posted a map on my news geography with Nigeria, Mongolia, Iraq, Mexico, Argentina and Phillippines on it.
@@alezar2035 I wonder what is Japan or Australia then?
Trams do not add beauty to a city they take it away, for a few seconds of convenience. Crazy. Soon there will be nothing left of cities other than public transport. You will go to a city just to see trams.
What a nightmare, trams are taking over the world!
What do you think should be done? No more trams and more beautiful colorful cars?
Better than nothing left except for cars! Look at photos of downtown Houston, downtown Denver, downtown Dallas, and downtown Detroit in the early 1970s.