Most of the buses in the US have a string which you push down on to signal the driver to stop. There may be just one button on there, and it depends on what type of bus you’re on. Most articulated buses have those.
I think it’s just that New Jersey sucks. I live in Orange County, CA, USA. We have a bus system that is operated by OCTA and the buses look like the ones showed in this video. I’ve only taken the bus a few times though because taking buses is for poor people over here. I feel very conscious waiting for a bus at a bus stop, I get scared that someone that knows me will see me waiting for a bus.
@@alvarotorres9057New Jersey was just sort of ahead of the times and getting their bus system up and running so a lot of their buses are pretty old at this point. You're not wrong that buses are generally viewed in most areas as the form of transportation for poor people rather than as the valak means of transportation for everyone. Most Americans would much rather take something like a subway, though here on Seattle, a lot of people do take the bus also so I've never been concerned about being seen on it (nor was I when I lived in New Jersey, actually). But where I grew up in the Midwest where busses only came every hour, you clearly had to be desperate to take one so people made assumptions--making a system usable and pleasant does a lot to relieve the stigma.
Most large cities in the USA have card taps... But NJ hasn't yet adopted this as of May 2023 for some unknown reason and payments are only by cash or showing the bus driver a screen on an app
Man, i had functional busses in HS (public transit busses, not school-run busses) and this video made them look like 15 year old half-maintained pieces of shit Which is impressive, considering some of the busses were 20 years old
@@_playa_ when a government owned passenger company couldn't afford to make their own track and had to rely on private freight lines often resulting in insane delays from the freight having higher priority
While not all buses have the signs or USB chargers, the rest of what’s described here is pretty standard, even for the oldest buses in the fleet of any European country.
@@JackDaniels-tx4qx I’d rather be on an articulated bus than an overly crowded one, although more frequent buses is always the passenger’s preferred solution.
I’m from San Francisco which has most of the things in these buses besides being bi articulated and of course classic American bus rattle. The buses we use are way higher quality than most others in the US
Weird. That bus literally has everything a normal bus had in atl back in 2010 when i would bus with my gma. No e of those functions are exciting or new.
The same as how they're awestruck by the fact nobody's walking around with guns and police are unarmed, and not every other person is a drugged up psycho looking for a quick buck.
"Back in the day before the existence of the stop button we just screamed on the driver, sometimes they didn't hear so having an extra shoe to throw helps." -- grandma
I mean, I live in England and my buses aren’t this good, mine you have to talk to a bus driver, there’s no stop information and there are a lot more stop buttons, if I go to the airport though, that bus has the notices, got to Leeds and some of the buses are where you don’t have to go anywhere near the driver. Do you mean Northern Europe? Most places are going to have private bus companies that choose what they’re going to provide.
@@tacticallemon7518Agree! Americans have huge suburbs, it's literally nightmare, I've heard that you can't go to the shop without any car cause there are NO bus stops and the nearest shop is 30-45 minutes from your district! While me myself have at least 5 shops near my house and it takes me less to 5 minutes to go and buy something😂
@@MorsningI'm American. I've lived in Korea and Japan the last 10 years. I WILL NEVER GO BACK. Cheap, fast, and clean public transportation. In America, you are a slave to your car and everything that goes along with it (paying insurance, gas, parking, repairs, tickets).
As an Australian the door opening button is something I’ve never seen before, since the doors will just be opened at each stop automatically. I’m guessing it’s to do with keeping the bus warm during cold weather, which is why it’s not an issue here.
Keeping the bus warm in the winter, air conditioned during the summer. It's also a minor safety feature. Moving mechanical objects can always be dangerous to children, pets, elderly or the unweary passenger. So it helps if it only moves if a button is pressed which would infer that people are actually aware of the door/not leaning against it, know where their kids, pets bags are etc.
And with this button the driver does not have to open the door. People accidently press the buttons but with this it only opens when someone wants to get off.
I live in the same part of sweden as malmö (skåne) and the busses here also don’t require you to push a button. The doors just get opened automatically. Though here we don’t have the busses with multiple sections like that, so there are only 3 doors to open.
@@aycc-nbh7289depends on where. Most of the east coast states rarely have buses that have most of those features. The articulated buses are usually in cities of high population or cities which has public transit as a major mode of transportation.
@@aycc-nbh7289 I’m sure. It depends on where you live. SEPTA has articulated buses. Very few have USB chargers. I don’t remember any NJT bus having USBs, or maybe there are scarce. I’ve never even seen an articulated NJT bus. Even where I live, they barely have it. DDOT does have one button in the middle of the bus (near the back door) but mostly strings. Same with SMART. DDOT’s 2200 and 2300 buses finally have USB chargers. SMART doesn’t have any except on their articulated buses. So in truth, for most public transit systems it’s hit and miss.
as a Scot, usb chargers and stop buttons are normal on our buses, and you can get an app to track your bus and the ETA at a certain stop if it's late (some buses even announce what stop is coming up or what stop you're at) edit: we also have free bus travel until you're 26 (I think)
@@Oleksa-Derevianchenko I only encountered it recently when I was on a bus that went around the local city. I'd never seen it before on my local town buses
I get that you like the busses in Sweden, but can we talk about the city? The city is so beautiful! I would love to have such a nice view every day when I go out.
Because the city is built for people to live in, rather than drive through Seriously, if this was an American city, there’d be one shopping plaza with parking lots twice the size of the actual stores, 4 gas stations, and a 6 lane road
As a german in Portugal who also lived in the UK I can confirm that those buses are standard throughout Europe. Maybe not usb chargers. But stop buttons, door opening buttons, info screens, even merry Christmas messages...this really made me wonder what buses in new Jersey are like! How do you get off or ask it to stop!? 😅
At least here in Germany te USB Chargers are now standard in most buses too, at least in newer ones or after an (after a few years mandatory) inspection
@@Pollicina_db No, if it’s a stop with no one waiting to get on and no one on the bus pressing the stop button then it will just keep on going. It’s much more efficient- why take the time to stop, slowing the bus and traffic behind, if no one needs it. For the big stops, like on the main shopping streets, it will usually stop regardless, but definitely not in quieter areas.
Also the busses in Sweden are mostly clean and well coordinated. They have intuitive apps and work great. They even have some summer campaign every year where they let you buy a ticket where you can go everywhere within the region for two months and ride as many busses you want!
You have it all year round in Finland, it's called seasonal ticket and you can select a zone and duration from 1 month to a whole year😅 and go wherever you want and how much you want in that zone all the paid period.
@@Tired_Night_Owl_in_the_Woodswe have that in Sweden too, that's not what they were talking about. The summer card is usable in the entire "county" not just a zone and it is heavily discounted. It's to allow people to travel and have fun during the summer without having to worry too much about money. So a great thing for those with a low income.
For those curious, most buses here in California have a string to pull or a button to alert the driver to stop at the next bus stop and that’s about it.
Here in the Netherlands too. I live close to the border so i get to see bus SB58 stop in front of our school ngl rlly tempting to get in and just hang around in Kleve 😂
That's because Europe isn't overflowing with angry cracked up citizens who casually destroy everything and beat up people who call them out... It's very sad that we are missing all the cultural enrichment they provide 😅
Over here in Southern California, the busses are practically the same, except instead of a manual button by the doors, the driver is in control over the doors and hydraulics to lower the bus, and instead of a stop button, there’s a wire cord connected to a sensor that lines the walls. The phone based ticket interface looks the same but the location signs in a simpler LED display that just displays the street name of the next stop as well as if a stop is requested. The scrolling LED signs on the front and sides usually have fun messages based on local current events like holidays or sports
London has had the same LED displays since the late noughties and is standard across most of the UK now, but from this year are starting to transition to full LCD screens for higher resolution for the hard of sight, and the ability to show more information such as the time to the next train or tube station.
@@MichellePersson have you been to every city and State in the US? People generalize American things without understanding it is so different from our own people. I understand Sweden has nice things, the US can too 😂
That’s amazing, whenever I stay in Chicago I love going to farmer’s markets, various Asian and Hispanic grocers, etc. and I think it would be so cool to have some videos to help inspire my next meal on my train or bus ride home. I guess the youtube app on my phone will have to suffice for now lol
Sinply put, US public transport is hot garbage. Its totally dysfunctional and outdated as heck, and as ling as people keep obsessing over their cars, there won't be any motivation to improve it. I come from Boston area, which is generally considered to be among the best in the country. That being said, it's always delayed, the subways catch fire (I wish this was a joke), they're super slow (walking is often faster, but nobody wants to do that because we've built a hostile walking environment), they're dirty, and they barely take you anywhere outside of the immediate vicinity of the city.
@@IAmNotSnowcat More the other way around. As long as the public transport of the US keeps being garbage, people are gonna continue obsessing over cars. I mean, why would anyone even consider publc transport as a viable alternative if it's...well, not viable?
Unless you live in a city, most people here don't use public transport, there isn't a need. And even then, most will probably just choose to walk or hail a taxi.
But your buses are also full of random chickens, straw, tins of beans and cargo crates. Shouting stop is probably the only form of excitement on your buses.
Most of the buses in the Seattle area have these features. Also, these large buses are very similar to the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) buses we also have around, such as Community Transit’s Swift and King County Metro’s RapidRide. Those BRT buses also have the information about next stops on the bus and each of the bus stops have information saying real time when the next bus will arrive.
They’re not only nicer, they are well synchronised, redundant, well coordinated and wherever you ride from, there is always connections to where you are actually going, even if it’s not the city. You can be going from other district to outer district and be able to do that without even coming close to the city.
@@emilytucker1765 I beg your pardon, English is only my third language. It seems apparent that something redundant is no longer needed. My apologies, I am learning everyday.
The USA’s bus system is much smaller and reaches fewer places than other country’s buses because our country is less densely populated and MASSIVE compared to basically every other country in the world. Even more important is the fact that we use basically all of that land and are fairly spread out.
As an American citizen living all over the world I can say many countries inner city commutes and domestic cityliners are far more upgraded and cleaner then ours back in the States. Same with the airports. Any European or Asian flying into New York for the first time will be shocked the least.
@@sm3675 Americans as a whole care about cars, not public transit. Part of the reason for this is sprawl, another reason is cause the government literally subsidizes the suburban auto-dependant lifestyle via highway construction, gas tax etc. Things are slowly changing but it's an uphill battle. Here in NYC there is massive transit infrastructure but it's poorly managed and maintained due to decades of neglect, corruption, grift, incompetence and public apathy.
@@sm3675 the us is strict about importing busses and most stuff has to be at least partially made in the usa. also transit gets barely any funding in the us.
And this is why us Americans will never go for public transit. Plenty of us wont throw trash around. But there is enough who will that ruins it all. You will never convince us to ride a bus as a real alternative to cars.
I've only used a NJ Transit bus once, but it definitely had stop buttons and some way to open the rear door. The RFID thing is nice, but I've seen that on DC Metro buses looooong ago.
It's like that in almost every country. In Korea, there are stop buttons, free wifi, and of course they're super clean and timely. This isn't a Sweden thing, this is a uniquely American problem.
Most Americans own their own cars...trucks...& .....Large SUV's we don't need buses to get around Like the rest of the world does....so what you said and what this video shows is meaningless to most Americans....Sorry.
Listening to an American being impressed by European buses, like they're a recently-discovered Amazonian Tribesperson seeing a lightbulb for the first time 💀 America is such a weird country; it's like a 1st world country and a 3rd world country rolled into one.
That's because 85% of Americans own 2-3 cars....BIG trucks...& BIG SUV'S....We really don't use buses or trains...this is why she said this. You Europeans don't have such luxury of owning as many vehicles like Americans do....we are not as dumb as you think.
Look the same inside as the busses in Oslo, Norway. When I visited New York a few years ago I thought the commuter trains were adorable, because they were so old and with paper tickets etc that it reminded me of how the trains in Norway were back in the early 1980s when I was little.
As an American (who loves public transit but never gets to use it because... thats how the US is), when I visited Oslo I was kind of shocked at how clean, efficient, and modern transit felt. Like, I knew it would be *dramatically* better than it is in the US, but the "normal" transit was even better than I could have imagined. It would be considered at least luxury in the US.
I just came back from a trip in Norway. Your trains are absolutely magnificent: modern, clean, punctual and super comfortable. I didn't take many public buses but the ones I took were fine too. My only complaint is how you trick tourists in airports into taking the semi-private express bus/trains _(Flybussen/Flytoget),_ which are twice or thrice the price of normal public transport but take almost the same time, by placing their stops right next to the arrival terminals while normal public transport stops are hidden behind parking lots and absolutely not indicated anywhere. I had this experience in Tromsø, Trondheim and to a lesser degree in Oslo airports. I find it ridiculous that you are funding quality public transport with taxpayer money and at the same time tricking tourists into shady expensive companies. I had a similar experience in Stockholm by the way, must be a Scandinavian thing. In my country (Spain) public transport is not nearly as good, but when you arrive at an airport all options are equally offered and most people choose the public option anyway
@@osasunaitorNever flown into Oslo so no idea about that but Stockholm Arlanda has always been so so to go to on public transport because there was none direct from Stockholm city for the longest time. There are some busses but they run mostly more local to a commuter train station or locations north of the city and most are night busses. It was only first 20 and then 11 years ago commuter trains opened and even is locals have to pay extra to get off at Arlanda if we take the commuter trains. I’ve however been to so many airports across Europe that looks like Arlanda where you have to sort your way past taxi lines etc. It’s ultimately the travelers responsibility to get around. Lots of airports have less reliable ways of getting there I have to say. But what about simple super markets or tax free, shops, or whatever that are built to trick you into buying? There’s scent, ambience, how and where products are placed and much more. This exists everywhere. Even in Spain. You probably just don’t think about it. It’s not a typically cunning “Scandinavian thing”.
What part of New York were you in???I’ve lived in New York City since 2001 and we used various tokens, a special sort of coin which you put in in the slot and of course no transfers unless you asked the driver when you got on, and then you got a paper transfer which you could use to take one more bus trip before you had to pay again. The tokens were a very old system from back in 1953, which got phased out in 2003. Metro cards which were already in use, became out only way since then. The metro cards are sort of like the Oyster or Octopus card from the Tube if my creaky 90s memories serve me correctly. These are being phased out for the... OMNY this year I think, which is on one’s smart phone, or if your phone is dumb you can get a card.
The MTA has buses like this all over nyc. We’ve been implementing them for many years now. The USB chargers, the panel, the stop button, the scanners, everything
When I was a teenager I was flying alone from Greece to Malmö and had to take the bus and train to get home to Denmark and I accidentally got off too early and technically didn't have a valid ticket for the next bus but the driver let me on and told me when to get off I am very thankful, I was so scared doing the trip on my on.
@@Chan-zn7wb The bus driver won't completely rely on this feature. People might have forgotten to press or it might experience a malfunction. In many cases, the bus stops are stationes at a smaller street within villages. With this feature, the bus driver can maintain speed and doesn't have to stop unnecessarily to hold the flow of traffic.
@@Bella-wp7wz In the west, especially busy area's like Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, there are mounted camera's at popular and busy stops which the bus driver can view. Those recordings can be used to track that person who abused it, by sending the information to the police. Throughout the entire country we have additional people assigned to keep an eye out on these kinds of things. They also make the journey with the busses and trains themselves and are allowed to fine you if you didn't followed the rules. Not checking in / paying for the ride, smoking at places where it isn't allowed and begging for example
It’s even better in the U.K. where the drivers wear Xmas jumpers and hats and buses not in service have ‘Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 202#’ on their destination displays.
In Austria they don’t even have scanners or gates at the subways. They just trust that you’ll do the right thing and buy a ticket. Most people have a yearly ticket that covers all public transport anyway.
@@Erich8101 and the nice thing with a yearly ticket is that if you’re going outside of the Vienna boarder, you get yearly ticket discount. E.g €1.70 to the airport, etc. I never even think of transport money until I get an email that my yearly card expires in a month.
Here in Canada we have a few of the things you showed: We have a scanner but we also still have the coin and ticket bin as they’re still more commonly used, We also have the red buttons they come in the rectangular style, big red push button, a big blue one for disabled people and if you’re sitting by the windows we have a pull down line as well. We don’t have the round tap and the door opens button that’s only for trains right now, we do have the touch sensor which if you have the older model buses can be busted some times. We also have the screens that tell us the destination as well as the PA and LED box again like the tickets those are more common. We don’t have the USB plug as far as I know The only thing in my city is transit being on time 😂😂😂. One bus or train will be arriving in say 10 minutes the other is like 50 minutes later, they also changed some of our bus routes instead or got rid of a few locations (don’t ask why because even we don’t know why our city is that dumb) it would’ve been better to fix the old routes instead but that seems to be a problem in NA in general.
I feel like about half of the buses I’ve seen have chargers. Some TTC ones I’ve taken have wifi too. The rest of the video and your comment are pretty accurate for the transit I’ve been on except for the screen. The screen in the video, I’ve only seen on hybrid TTC buses so far. But the LED screen showing date and next stop is on all of them (in my area).
That's a normal european bus. My "shitty eastern european coutry" has buses like these. America is so far behind when it comes to public transportation (and healthcare and gun laws...)
@@Pollicina_db so pretty much the same as Latvia. In Riga it's also the same with most equipment beeing new, and trams being a mix of new ones and really old ones, but all of them have at least screens and stop/open door buttons.
Not even the uk tells you the destination, you just have to know where to press the button before it's too late for the bus to stop. Rarely have USB ports where I live xD (we love arriva....)
You have to take into account the vast size of the US. Its hard to quickly adjust people to new things like that and roll out a bunch of new equipment. Also, what do guns and healthcare have to do with Public transportation?
Australia has had buttons throughout the bus for at least 30 years. In NSW we can also scan on using Visa or Mastercard. Some of the buses have USB or destination screens. Our buses also say merry christmas! 🎄
I live in Pittsburgh and the buses are pretty much the same. They even recently added an option to store your ticket on your phone, with a scanner at the door. I think the only thing missing is the button to open the door. Several of the drivers also decorate their buses for Christmas, it's really cool. One of them sets up a DVD player and plays Christmas movies. Though PRT/PAT has won awards, so maybe our buses are unusually good. They kinda suck at being on time and actually arriving at all, though. But they are reliable enough that many people opt to not own a car, myself included now for 10 years.
This is literally what we have in Brooklyn. From the scanner, to the usb chargers, to the buttons, to the screen.. has this woman ever been on a bus here before wtf??
lies...you need to see in Florida not only there is only about 20 buses per County but so old and so unreliable. very embarrassing when you are a traveler and come back and see how obsolete everything is. sad
To this commenter’s point - NYC is literally right next to NJ. And sure, the state of New Jersey is more than what’s next to New York, but to extrapolate “nobody in the US has seen THIS where they live” from her experience, as she implied, is sorely misguided. (It’s not common throughout the US, though. I will concede that.)
we also have the same thing in buses in czech republic, it's really the same throughout europe except some small things (for example we have a physical ticket and when you get on your bus, you mark it with date and time you got on), but other things are the same here :) edit: typos
@@justmae1205 then you've managed to be in the only country where it isn't 👍 Even the busses that brought me to elementary school head it and that was 20 years ago😂
All these features are pretty normal on Dublin buses in Ireland. Before the stop buttons, back in the 1980's they was a string that ran the length of the bus that you pulled on to get the bus to stop. Dublin even has kneeling buses which are more accessible for people in wheelchairs and mobility issues.
These buses look like a mix between Australian Queensland buses and trains. The buses here have two sections to scan your travel card (called a ‘go card’) which you use to tap on when you first enter the bus and tap off when you get off at your stop. We also have the red stop buttons on buses too, and most have USB chargers in some spots (although I have never used them). The buses don’t have buttons to open the door, as the driver does that, but the trains have the same button to open doors at the station. And honestly, the look on the inside of the buses looks more like our newer trains than buses, which haven’t had an upgrade in a while. We don’t have any screens on the inside though, but there is an app that shows live movement of the trains/buses, and that’s linked in with google maps too!
@@CubeDuke du skrev “not only in Malmö its in the entire country” och då kommenterade (pyssel mamma) att de inte såg ut så i Dalarna, på vilket du svarade att du aldrig sagt att det var så i Dalarna, du har alltså haft fel
I had to do an internship in Lund University back in 2018, but because accommodation in Lund is super hard to find, I just lived in Malmö and took the public regional Skånetrafiken buses to Lund every day. It was absolutely amazing: modern, comfortable and warm buses (it was in winter so that was a plus haha) departing from my area in Malmö (next to Värnhem) every 5' straight into my university faculty in Lund in just over 20 minutes. They even had free wifi. The only downside was the expensive price, thankfully the monthly ticket with 50% student discount made it more affordable. Also being able to use the same integrated transport card for all local buses, trams and trains in the Skåne region was a great convenience
The ADL Enviro500 3-door double-decker buses in Singapore have that button too (probably because the same door model (Ventura?) is used) but they aren't used. Door operation is controlled only by the driver isntead
@@lzh4950 same in Barcelona where I live. All new buses feature those buttons, but in the end the driver himself chooses to open the doors. Doesn't make much sense
In my country, we have buses with 1000w bass speakers that blast that funeral song, tiny dark windows so you don't know where you are, no stop buttons so you shout when you get to your destination. The exhaust have whistles installed and the bus are constantly revved and you pay only through cash otherwise the conductor is legally allowed to throw you out in the middle of the highway 😂🎉
@@thegreentimtam The terms is the difference between getting state & federal funding for enhanced bus service or bottom feeder equipment. Most politicians have no clue of the difference 😂
It’s not just comparable to NJ. Public transport in the US is horrific. I live in Austria, and would never even consider buying a car. Just don’t need one.
@@jadapinkett1656 As if you’re not dependent on the gas prices that are made up by the government, public transport at least uses electricity and is eco friendly
I went to Germany before and their public transportation system that they have there is really good and in Germany when they mean minute they always come on time or sometimes earlier which has happened a few times and also you pay for your pass and you really don’t need to show it when you’re using public transport you can just get on and also the buses in Germany also do have that screen where it shows the different stops and it announces the stops and you push a button to signal your stop I was really impressed with the public transportation system in Germany
Yes. And here in Hannover we also have green busses. And the underground trainsystem is great to go fast to many places of the city. We have a combination from bus and train. You come by bus from small locations over land to the city and get into underground to go fast ahead for example to reach your job in the city.
The large malmö busses was intended as a sort of instead of tram. They alreddy have a under ground railway, so a full scale tram network wad not needed, so they made trunk bus lines as in stead of a tram network. The thing with malmö is that its sort of a cluster city. You can go to lund in 10 minutes and to copenhagen in about 15.
idk about sweden but in belgium the buses can release pressure on the side of the door so the bus gets low and wheelchair users can get on the bus, pretty cool imo 😄
I lived in in Lund and Malmö for three+ years. Definitely the best most reliable public transportation system I've ever had the pleasure to experience. My friends back home are so sick of me talking about it. 😅
Regarding the stop buttons. In fact, there are buses without stop buttons. They used to be the most common ones in Ukraine. Yellow, with stairs and two automatic doors, the sound of them stopping hearable from the 150 metres distance. And, in some cities at least, you had to give the payment to the bus driver in advance, often by asking other passengers to pass the money.
When you are indoctrinated from childhood to believe you live in the greatest, most free, most happy country on the planet it leads to stuff like being impressed by decades old technology that the rest of the developed world has
I know these buttons from the rear door of some articulated busses, as the drivers can't see them. And some also have them on the outside of the middle and rear doors (there only giving a signal).
Quick point of correction: if you have to press a button for the doors to open, then they don’t open automatically. They would open automatically if you did NOT need to press the button
How do the stop buttons work in the US? I’ve never seen a bus in my country or in any other of the European countries that I’ve spent time in that doesn’t have the buttons located throughout!
Some buses in my country are already full @ 7a.m. probably as secondary industries e.g. factories play a significant role in our economy & they start work earlier @ 8a.m.
It's more students taking their morning commute to their resective higher institutions of education, as parking fees are notoriously abhorrent on campuses - thus they include a fully paid pass once tuition is paid. Universities usually only give them out for each paid term. Colleges usually have more students and give out yearly passes ... Students crowd the buses from 6:00AM - 10:00AM. High schools give out passes if one is traveling outside their regular district, yet they must be attending the further away school because the one that is the closest hasn't the program or competitive sports program / teams that the student has been approved to leave their district to go study / play their sport at and attend ...
Its very much the same in Czech republic and when I visited the Netherlands it was also similar but the boards that show upcoming stations are soooo confusing there compared to Czechia and Sweden
The situation in the US must be dire if you guys are impressed by buses having stop buttons... 😢
It's actually amazing that this is worth mentioning. Of course a bus will have a stop button :-)
Buses in the US have stop buttons as well.
Most of the buses in the US have a string which you push down on to signal the driver to stop. There may be just one button on there, and it depends on what type of bus you’re on.
Most articulated buses have those.
I think it’s just that New Jersey sucks. I live in Orange County, CA, USA. We have a bus system that is operated by OCTA and the buses look like the ones showed in this video. I’ve only taken the bus a few times though because taking buses is for poor people over here. I feel very conscious waiting for a bus at a bus stop, I get scared that someone that knows me will see me waiting for a bus.
@@alvarotorres9057New Jersey was just sort of ahead of the times and getting their bus system up and running so a lot of their buses are pretty old at this point. You're not wrong that buses are generally viewed in most areas as the form of transportation for poor people rather than as the valak means of transportation for everyone. Most Americans would much rather take something like a subway, though here on Seattle, a lot of people do take the bus also so I've never been concerned about being seen on it (nor was I when I lived in New Jersey, actually). But where I grew up in the Midwest where busses only came every hour, you clearly had to be desperate to take one so people made assumptions--making a system usable and pleasant does a lot to relieve the stigma.
What do busses look like in the US then? Most of the things you mentioned are standard in almost all European and Asian countries.
Americans travel greater distances in daily commute for the most part. Cars are the easiest way to get arrive because of that
And Australia. Most of the country has awful public transport but similar busses to this video. Makes me wonder if the US is okay
@@Chloeeezyyy it never is.
Most large cities in the USA have card taps... But NJ hasn't yet adopted this as of May 2023 for some unknown reason and payments are only by cash or showing the bus driver a screen on an app
@@Chloeeezyyy suburban sprawl moment
Americans when they discover functioning public transport:
Man, i had functional busses in HS (public transit busses, not school-run busses) and this video made them look like 15 year old half-maintained pieces of shit
Which is impressive, considering some of the busses were 20 years old
When was public transportation here nonfunctional?
It's a comparison, the public transit functions in many places in the US, it's just not nice nor frequent
@@jackwhitney6283 making it dysfunctional by not making anyone want to rely on it
@@_playa_ when a government owned passenger company couldn't afford to make their own track and had to rely on private freight lines often resulting in insane delays from the freight having higher priority
A "developed" country is not one where poor people can drive cars.
It is where even rich people use public transport. 🙂
Please go back to school
although I’m probably wrong
@@_playa_What does your sentence even mean?
@@Mussi93 idk
cars = W
bus = W but car better
AGREED
Well thats just a regular bus isnt it
While not all buses have the signs or USB chargers, the rest of what’s described here is pretty standard, even for the oldest buses in the fleet of any European country.
Yeah but not for America
for Europeans
Yeah, a lot of these features are already present on NYC's buses, and thank god buses being as long as some of these ones aren't one of them.
@@JackDaniels-tx4qx
I’d rather be on an articulated bus than an overly crowded one, although more frequent buses is always the passenger’s preferred solution.
If a completely normal bus is “SO nice” then I fear for whatever abomination America must have for busses
I’m from San Francisco which has most of the things in these buses besides being bi articulated and of course classic American bus rattle. The buses we use are way higher quality than most others in the US
Pretty uck
Stop buttons and a small cramped seating area smelling of puke, booze, and drugs
Depends on the state. We have all that stuff for the busses that you pay for, but free busses don't have chargers and they're smaller
@@idkrossplay you all have free buses? Why are you all complaining!
americans leaving their country for the first time and realizing everywhere else is better
Weird. That bus literally has everything a normal bus had in atl back in 2010 when i would bus with my gma. No e of those functions are exciting or new.
@@FaeVi but ATL is still a shithole.
Nobody seriously considers New Jersey as part of America. NY buses look and function exactly the same as in this video.
@@GIJew eh, everywhere else is still better than America by a longshot
The same as how they're awestruck by the fact nobody's walking around with guns and police are unarmed, and not every other person is a drugged up psycho looking for a quick buck.
"Back in the day before the existence of the stop button we just screamed on the driver, sometimes they didn't hear so having an extra shoe to throw helps." -- grandma
Eastern european?
Latín American?
In NY they don't have stop buttons in some buses. I think they had some type of wire you had to bull. They also had very nice bus drivers.
I liked the system in Morocco.
You just bang the loose metal sheet above the door.
@@Jehty21 God have mercy.
You just described any European city’s bus service 😆
It’s like Americans have been living under the rock
really? do you think albania has the same?
@@erneststyczen7071 ikr 😂
Absolutely not
Germany has the same kind of buses and the screens and stop thingys but none of the fancy modern features
I mean, I live in England and my buses aren’t this good, mine you have to talk to a bus driver, there’s no stop information and there are a lot more stop buttons, if I go to the airport though, that bus has the notices, got to Leeds and some of the buses are where you don’t have to go anywhere near the driver. Do you mean Northern Europe? Most places are going to have private bus companies that choose what they’re going to provide.
At this point I wouldn't even be surprised if she would say:"The busses here even have wheels so that they can drive"
i am no longer the
I mean those are some pretty nice buses, where I'm at the only thing we have on public buses are the stop 🛑 buttons. That bus is awesome
Yeah thats like my school bus😂
😂😂
Weak
American discovering what the developed world looks like
AMERICA IS THE THE GREATEST COU…. no!
Americans experiencing first-hand what a proper city is built like
@@tacticallemon7518Agree! Americans have huge suburbs, it's literally nightmare, I've heard that you can't go to the shop without any car cause there are NO bus stops and the nearest shop is 30-45 minutes from your district! While me myself have at least 5 shops near my house and it takes me less to 5 minutes to go and buy something😂
@@MorsningI'm American. I've lived in Korea and Japan the last 10 years. I WILL NEVER GO BACK.
Cheap, fast, and clean public transportation. In America, you are a slave to your car and everything that goes along with it (paying insurance, gas, parking, repairs, tickets).
@@thebasketballhistorian3291 aye but now your a slave to public transport what a cuck
As an Australian the door opening button is something I’ve never seen before, since the doors will just be opened at each stop automatically. I’m guessing it’s to do with keeping the bus warm during cold weather, which is why it’s not an issue here.
Keeping the bus warm in the winter, air conditioned during the summer.
It's also a minor safety feature.
Moving mechanical objects can always be dangerous to children, pets, elderly or the unweary passenger.
So it helps if it only moves if a button is pressed which would infer that people are actually aware of the door/not leaning against it, know where their kids, pets bags are etc.
And with this button the driver does not have to open the door. People accidently press the buttons but with this it only opens when someone wants to get off.
We have the door opening button on metro trains, and auto open on buses and trams by the driver
where I live the bus does not stop at a station if you didn't press the stop button beforehand, only the tram will do that
I live in the same part of sweden as malmö (skåne) and the busses here also don’t require you to push a button. The doors just get opened automatically. Though here we don’t have the busses with multiple sections like that, so there are only 3 doors to open.
Seeing Americans getting blown away by a NORMAL bus will never not be funny. This is just standard in most of the developed world
In fairness, American buses do have some of these features as well.
@@aycc-nbh7289depends on where. Most of the east coast states rarely have buses that have most of those features. The articulated buses are usually in cities of high population or cities which has public transit as a major mode of transportation.
@@EightCrosstown Are you sure? New Jersey seems to have buses with at least some of these features.
@@aycc-nbh7289 I’m sure. It depends on where you live.
SEPTA has articulated buses. Very few have USB chargers. I don’t remember any NJT bus having USBs, or maybe there are scarce. I’ve never even seen an articulated NJT bus.
Even where I live, they barely have it.
DDOT does have one button in the middle of the bus (near the back door) but mostly strings. Same with SMART. DDOT’s 2200 and 2300 buses finally have USB chargers. SMART doesn’t have any except on their articulated buses.
So in truth, for most public transit systems it’s hit and miss.
@@EightCrosstown But why are USB chargers the main focus here instead of increased capacity, automated announcements, stop buttons, etc.?
every other goddamn european country having literally the same thing:
Exactly
You don't sound European? Weird name tho lol
@@myleskgallagher is it your first time on the internet? That's just a username, and do you know lychees? Like the fruit xD
@@oriawik That or an eastern european name
@@oriawik Wonder if its the same guy 😂
as a Scot, usb chargers and stop buttons are normal on our buses, and you can get an app to track your bus and the ETA at a certain stop if it's late (some buses even announce what stop is coming up or what stop you're at)
edit: we also have free bus travel until you're 26 (I think)
In Slovakia all the buses announce the current and the following stops 🤔
@@Oleksa-Derevianchenko I only encountered it recently when I was on a bus that went around the local city. I'd never seen it before on my local town buses
Put that on list of stuff you can use to make fun of the US.
nah, it's until you're 22 unfortunately (NEC scheme came out just as I turned 22, fuck sake)
@@tolvusaudios5867 ah right, my young scot card is until 26, I assumed the free bus pass was also that long
I get that you like the busses in Sweden, but can we talk about the city? The city is so beautiful! I would love to have such a nice view every day when I go out.
Because there is no 12 lane highway cutting through it and there isn’t a sea of concrete for parking cars either
Because the city is built for people to live in, rather than drive through
Seriously, if this was an American city, there’d be one shopping plaza with parking lots twice the size of the actual stores, 4 gas stations, and a 6 lane road
Malmo is probably the most dangerous city in all of Scandinavia too and I bet it wouldn’t even make top 20 dangerous cities in the US lol
As a german in Portugal who also lived in the UK I can confirm that those buses are standard throughout Europe. Maybe not usb chargers. But stop buttons, door opening buttons, info screens, even merry Christmas messages...this really made me wonder what buses in new Jersey are like! How do you get off or ask it to stop!? 😅
At least here in Germany te USB Chargers are now standard in most buses too, at least in newer ones or after an (after a few years mandatory) inspection
Here in Russia we also have stop buttons but you don't have to use them since the bus driver always stops at every bus stop on his way
Isn’t the stop sign in case of an emergency? I mean tge driver has to stop on every station
@@Pollicina_db No, if it’s a stop with no one waiting to get on and no one on the bus pressing the stop button then it will just keep on going. It’s much more efficient- why take the time to stop, slowing the bus and traffic behind, if no one needs it. For the big stops, like on the main shopping streets, it will usually stop regardless, but definitely not in quieter areas.
Die usb Dosen haben hier auch langsam immer mehr Busse
Completely from the other side of Europe, but it's super cute someone from the us got exited about a regular bus.😅
Exactly, these are very standard busses
It’s actually pathetic. The US is a 3rd World country.
Tbf we don’t exactly have the best public transport when we need it, if we even have it at all that is.
Regular? You are so lucky...
@@horrificdetective were not, busses are still bad
NJ busses have stop buttons everywhere too. On every seat.
We just do not have a button to open back door and USB charging ports.
Exactly. I’m convinced she’s never been on a nj transit bus if she doesn’t think there’s stop buttons😭 I’ll give her everything else though
The nj transit D4500s are a damn sight nicer and far more comfortable than these European buses
Also the busses in Sweden are mostly clean and well coordinated. They have intuitive apps and work great. They even have some summer campaign every year where they let you buy a ticket where you can go everywhere within the region for two months and ride as many busses you want!
You have it all year round in Finland, it's called seasonal ticket and you can select a zone and duration from 1 month to a whole year😅 and go wherever you want and how much you want in that zone all the paid period.
@@Tired_Night_Owl_in_the_Woodswe have that in Sweden too, that's not what they were talking about. The summer card is usable in the entire "county" not just a zone and it is heavily discounted. It's to allow people to travel and have fun during the summer without having to worry too much about money. So a great thing for those with a low income.
@@DoesAngelsHaveWings oh, that sounds wonderful!
@IrinikaMaxy Nice to know that our Finnish brothers have the same things!
For those curious, most buses here in California have a string to pull or a button to alert the driver to stop at the next bus stop and that’s about it.
Ive seen ones in san fran that have the ticket thing and the stop button but that's it
Oh my goodness. And the US claim to be so technologically advanced? Doesn’t even have basic necessities covered lol
A STRING?
Im sf, they have everything in the video
Did they just never bother to update their buses. In Australia all buses have at least the stop buttons and card scanners even on the older buses.
As a german, this is completly normal here too
Here in the Netherlands too. I live close to the border so i get to see bus SB58 stop in front of our school ngl rlly tempting to get in and just hang around in Kleve 😂
In Poland too
in estonia aswell
In all europe too
That's because Europe isn't overflowing with angry cracked up citizens who casually destroy everything and beat up people who call them out...
It's very sad that we are missing all the cultural enrichment they provide 😅
Over here in Southern California, the busses are practically the same, except instead of a manual button by the doors, the driver is in control over the doors and hydraulics to lower the bus, and instead of a stop button, there’s a wire cord connected to a sensor that lines the walls. The phone based ticket interface looks the same but the location signs in a simpler LED display that just displays the street name of the next stop as well as if a stop is requested. The scrolling LED signs on the front and sides usually have fun messages based on local current events like holidays or sports
London has had the same LED displays since the late noughties and is standard across most of the UK now, but from this year are starting to transition to full LCD screens for higher resolution for the hard of sight, and the ability to show more information such as the time to the next train or tube station.
Depends where you are in the US. We are so huge and diverse, bus systems will vary not only by State, but by cities
@@MichellePersson have you been to every city and State in the US? People generalize American things without understanding it is so different from our own people. I understand Sweden has nice things, the US can too 😂
@@MichellePersson Places in the US with dense populations have VERY nice buses
In Stockholm they used to show short cooking shows on the screens. Don’t know why that disappeared.
We still have that in Malmö
That is wonderful
That’s amazing, whenever I stay in Chicago I love going to farmer’s markets, various Asian and Hispanic grocers, etc. and I think it would be so cool to have some videos to help inspire my next meal on my train or bus ride home. I guess the youtube app on my phone will have to suffice for now lol
We have that on our busses and trains in Lund
Did they? Because I do not remember that. (I’m 13 years old, it might have existed when I was 4 years old.)
Aren't all of these basic functions of public transport busses? Just how bad is public transport really in the US?!
Sinply put, US public transport is hot garbage. Its totally dysfunctional and outdated as heck, and as ling as people keep obsessing over their cars, there won't be any motivation to improve it.
I come from Boston area, which is generally considered to be among the best in the country. That being said, it's always delayed, the subways catch fire (I wish this was a joke), they're super slow (walking is often faster, but nobody wants to do that because we've built a hostile walking environment), they're dirty, and they barely take you anywhere outside of the immediate vicinity of the city.
@@IAmNotSnowcatNew York and Chicago may be better examples, but I think New York had that one issue one time with vandals delaying trains.
@@IAmNotSnowcat More the other way around. As long as the public transport of the US keeps being garbage, people are gonna continue obsessing over cars. I mean, why would anyone even consider publc transport as a viable alternative if it's...well, not viable?
Unless you live in a city, most people here don't use public transport, there isn't a need. And even then, most will probably just choose to walk or hail a taxi.
@@Pit1993x It’s circular logic. Bad public transport means more cars means worse public transport means more cars. This started with the cars though.
Mexican here, we literally only have the button... sometimes. Most times we just yell "STOP" if we wanna get off
But your buses are also full of random chickens, straw, tins of beans and cargo crates. Shouting stop is probably the only form of excitement on your buses.
@@timfagan816 if this ain't the most out of touch shit I've ever read
@@timfagan816this comment doesn’t even make sense. If ur gonna try be offensive at least do it the right way
this would not work for my introversion, i’d never get off the bus if i had to scream stop in the middle of a crowded bus.
Most of the buses in the Seattle area have these features. Also, these large buses are very similar to the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) buses we also have around, such as Community Transit’s Swift and King County Metro’s RapidRide. Those BRT buses also have the information about next stops on the bus and each of the bus stops have information saying real time when the next bus will arrive.
They’re not only nicer, they are well synchronised, redundant, well coordinated and wherever you ride from, there is always connections to where you are actually going, even if it’s not the city. You can be going from other district to outer district and be able to do that without even coming close to the city.
Redundant?
@@emilytucker1765 I beg your pardon, English is only my third language. It seems apparent that something redundant is no longer needed. My apologies, I am learning everyday.
@@sm5970 That’s no problem at all. I thought I had got the meaning wrong as well.
The USA’s bus system is much smaller and reaches fewer places than other country’s buses because our country is less densely populated and MASSIVE compared to basically every other country in the world. Even more important is the fact that we use basically all of that land and are fairly spread out.
As an American citizen living all over the world I can say many countries inner city commutes and domestic cityliners are far more upgraded and cleaner then ours back in the States.
Same with the airports. Any European or Asian flying into New York for the first time will be shocked the least.
It makes me wonder, why? There seems to be plenty of money.
@@sm3675 Americans as a whole care about cars, not public transit. Part of the reason for this is sprawl, another reason is cause the government literally subsidizes the suburban auto-dependant lifestyle via highway construction, gas tax etc. Things are slowly changing but it's an uphill battle. Here in NYC there is massive transit infrastructure but it's poorly managed and maintained due to decades of neglect, corruption, grift, incompetence and public apathy.
Im from sweden
@@sm3675 the us is strict about importing busses and most stuff has to be at least partially made in the usa. also transit gets barely any funding in the us.
And this is why us Americans will never go for public transit.
Plenty of us wont throw trash around.
But there is enough who will that ruins it all. You will never convince us to ride a bus as a real alternative to cars.
I've only used a NJ Transit bus once, but it definitely had stop buttons and some way to open the rear door. The RFID thing is nice, but I've seen that on DC Metro buses looooong ago.
You'd die in The Netherlands, our trams/buses even have CHRISTMAS HATS, at least in Amsterdam 😂
That's pretty much normal for most busses in Europe. USB chargers aren't too common, but all the other features are.
USB charger is more of a feature about that exact model but yeah, the scanners, stop buttons etc. are mostly the same
every bus is like this but america is just old fashioned
Welcome to Sweden and i am from Sweden 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
It's like that in almost every country. In Korea, there are stop buttons, free wifi, and of course they're super clean and timely. This isn't a Sweden thing, this is a uniquely American problem.
Most Americans own their own cars...trucks...& .....Large SUV's we don't need buses to get around Like the rest of the world does....so what you said and what this video shows is meaningless to most Americans....Sorry.
Listening to an American being impressed by European buses, like they're a recently-discovered Amazonian Tribesperson seeing a lightbulb for the first time 💀
America is such a weird country; it's like a 1st world country and a 3rd world country rolled into one.
That's because 85% of Americans own 2-3 cars....BIG trucks...& BIG SUV'S....We really don't use buses or trains...this is why she said this. You Europeans don't have such luxury of owning as many vehicles like Americans do....we are not as dumb as you think.
Look the same inside as the busses in Oslo, Norway. When I visited New York a few years ago I thought the commuter trains were adorable, because they were so old and with paper tickets etc that it reminded me of how the trains in Norway were back in the early 1980s when I was little.
As an American (who loves public transit but never gets to use it because... thats how the US is), when I visited Oslo I was kind of shocked at how clean, efficient, and modern transit felt.
Like, I knew it would be *dramatically* better than it is in the US, but the "normal" transit was even better than I could have imagined. It would be considered at least luxury in the US.
I just came back from a trip in Norway. Your trains are absolutely magnificent: modern, clean, punctual and super comfortable. I didn't take many public buses but the ones I took were fine too.
My only complaint is how you trick tourists in airports into taking the semi-private express bus/trains _(Flybussen/Flytoget),_ which are twice or thrice the price of normal public transport but take almost the same time, by placing their stops right next to the arrival terminals while normal public transport stops are hidden behind parking lots and absolutely not indicated anywhere. I had this experience in Tromsø, Trondheim and to a lesser degree in Oslo airports.
I find it ridiculous that you are funding quality public transport with taxpayer money and at the same time tricking tourists into shady expensive companies.
I had a similar experience in Stockholm by the way, must be a Scandinavian thing.
In my country (Spain) public transport is not nearly as good, but when you arrive at an airport all options are equally offered and most people choose the public option anyway
@@osasunaitorNever flown into Oslo so no idea about that but Stockholm Arlanda has always been so so to go to on public transport because there was none direct from Stockholm city for the longest time. There are some busses but they run mostly more local to a commuter train station or locations north of the city and most are night busses. It was only first 20 and then 11 years ago commuter trains opened and even is locals have to pay extra to get off at Arlanda if we take the commuter trains.
I’ve however been to so many airports across Europe that looks like Arlanda where you have to sort your way past taxi lines etc. It’s ultimately the travelers responsibility to get around.
Lots of airports have less reliable ways of getting there I have to say.
But what about simple super markets or tax free, shops, or whatever that are built to trick you into buying? There’s scent, ambience, how and where products are placed and much more. This exists everywhere. Even in Spain. You probably just don’t think about it.
It’s not a typically cunning “Scandinavian thing”.
The stop buttons are exactly the same as busses in the UK, down to them being the same actual button, lol
What part of New York were you in???I’ve lived in New York City since 2001 and we used various tokens, a special sort of coin which you put in in the slot and of course no transfers unless you asked the driver when you got on, and then you got a paper transfer which you could use to take one more bus trip before you had to pay again. The tokens were a very old system from back in 1953, which got phased out in 2003. Metro cards which were already in use, became out only way since then. The metro cards are sort of like the Oyster or Octopus card from the Tube if my creaky 90s memories serve me correctly. These are being phased out for the... OMNY this year I think, which is on one’s smart phone, or if your phone is dumb you can get a card.
Its like this in my country too. I live in Finland with my parents
The MTA has buses like this all over nyc. We’ve been implementing them for many years now. The USB chargers, the panel, the stop button, the scanners, everything
Few people know that the busses come flat pack, and the first passengers have to assemble them each morning. They also have to share one little tool.
Why does it look identical to Singapore 😂 from the digital display, to bus stop button, to the green paint job~ Love it!
The bus has the same feature and design as in Australia. Nice to see these buses and immediately reminds you of different parts of the world!
When I was a teenager I was flying alone from Greece to Malmö and had to take the bus and train to get home to Denmark and I accidentally got off too early and technically didn't have a valid ticket for the next bus but the driver let me on and told me when to get off I am very thankful, I was so scared doing the trip on my on.
In the Netherlands we have an additional pressable button at each bus stop to notify the bus driver that someone is waiting at a specific stop.
Wouldn't the driver know by looking, or is it for the situations when you tell someone you're meeting them at the bus stop?
Wait that’s actually super smart if no one abuses it
@@Chan-zn7wb The bus driver won't completely rely on this feature. People might have forgotten to press or it might experience a malfunction. In many cases, the bus stops are stationes at a smaller street within villages. With this feature, the bus driver can maintain speed and doesn't have to stop unnecessarily to hold the flow of traffic.
@@Bella-wp7wz In the west, especially busy area's like Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, there are mounted camera's at popular and busy stops which the bus driver can view. Those recordings can be used to track that person who abused it, by sending the information to the police. Throughout the entire country we have additional people assigned to keep an eye out on these kinds of things. They also make the journey with the busses and trains themselves and are allowed to fine you if you didn't followed the rules. Not checking in / paying for the ride, smoking at places where it isn't allowed and begging for example
I've never actually seen those where I live. Maybe they're so new that Groningen and Drenthe don't have them yet?
It’s even better in the U.K. where the drivers wear Xmas jumpers and hats and buses not in service have ‘Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 202#’ on their destination displays.
Have you done any content of commuter trains in Sweden as compared to your local community in USA?
Sounds very similar to busses here in the Netherlands. We to have scanners, stop buttons, screens and usb charger slots.
In Austria they don’t even have scanners or gates at the subways. They just trust that you’ll do the right thing and buy a ticket. Most people have a yearly ticket that covers all public transport anyway.
Damn how much is the yearly ticket?
365 €. So 1€ per day. Its cheaper for Schoolchildren and the Elderly.
@@Erich8101 and the nice thing with a yearly ticket is that if you’re going outside of the Vienna boarder, you get yearly ticket discount. E.g €1.70 to the airport, etc. I never even think of transport money until I get an email that my yearly card expires in a month.
I live in Saint Petersburg, Russia and it was a surprise to see that buses in Malmö are exactly like the ones that can be seen on the streets here
Here in Canada we have a few of the things you showed:
We have a scanner but we also still have the coin and ticket bin as they’re still more commonly used,
We also have the red buttons they come in the rectangular style, big red push button, a big blue one for disabled people and if you’re sitting by the windows we have a pull down line as well.
We don’t have the round tap and the door opens button that’s only for trains right now, we do have the touch sensor which if you have the older model buses can be busted some times.
We also have the screens that tell us the destination as well as the PA and LED box again like the tickets those are more common.
We don’t have the USB plug as far as I know
The only thing in my city is transit being on time 😂😂😂. One bus or train will be arriving in say 10 minutes the other is like 50 minutes later, they also changed some of our bus routes instead or got rid of a few locations (don’t ask why because even we don’t know why our city is that dumb) it would’ve been better to fix the old routes instead but that seems to be a problem in NA in general.
I feel like about half of the buses I’ve seen have chargers. Some TTC ones I’ve taken have wifi too. The rest of the video and your comment are pretty accurate for the transit I’ve been on except for the screen. The screen in the video, I’ve only seen on hybrid TTC buses so far. But the LED screen showing date and next stop is on all of them (in my area).
We've got those red buttons in the UK too and the usb chargers. Love those screens when I go abroad.
That's a normal european bus. My "shitty eastern european coutry" has buses like these.
America is so far behind when it comes to public transportation (and healthcare and gun laws...)
lmao gun laws is the one thing we are ahead in
Yeah same here in the Balkans, although the buses are modern the trams in Zagreb are a mix of the older and new ones
@@Pollicina_db so pretty much the same as Latvia. In Riga it's also the same with most equipment beeing new, and trams being a mix of new ones and really old ones, but all of them have at least screens and stop/open door buttons.
Not even the uk tells you the destination, you just have to know where to press the button before it's too late for the bus to stop. Rarely have USB ports where I live xD (we love arriva....)
You have to take into account the vast size of the US. Its hard to quickly adjust people to new things like that and roll out a bunch of new equipment. Also, what do guns and healthcare have to do with Public transportation?
Australia has had buttons throughout the bus for at least 30 years. In NSW we can also scan on using Visa or Mastercard. Some of the buses have USB or destination screens. Our buses also say merry christmas! 🎄
Also for a while a bunch had moustaches on the front.
Who asked mate
...our buses have USB?? Like TransDev? CDC? WHERE?!? 🤯
@@Camicazi: they do it every November for "Movember" (prostate cancer awareness month) 😁
@@hitotsudaketsukinoko The B-line has USB chargers
I live in Pittsburgh and the buses are pretty much the same. They even recently added an option to store your ticket on your phone, with a scanner at the door. I think the only thing missing is the button to open the door. Several of the drivers also decorate their buses for Christmas, it's really cool. One of them sets up a DVD player and plays Christmas movies.
Though PRT/PAT has won awards, so maybe our buses are unusually good. They kinda suck at being on time and actually arriving at all, though. But they are reliable enough that many people opt to not own a car, myself included now for 10 years.
We had buses like that a few years ago but they also had a load of fair Dodgers on them.
This is literally what we have in Brooklyn. From the scanner, to the usb chargers, to the buttons, to the screen.. has this woman ever been on a bus here before wtf??
Exact same in Singapore lol
She literally said New Jersey. Last time I checked, Brooklyn wasn't in NJ.
lies...you need to see in Florida not only there is only about 20 buses per County but so old and so unreliable. very embarrassing when you are a traveler and come back and see how obsolete everything is. sad
To this commenter’s point - NYC is literally right next to NJ. And sure, the state of New Jersey is more than what’s next to New York, but to extrapolate “nobody in the US has seen THIS where they live” from her experience, as she implied, is sorely misguided. (It’s not common throughout the US, though. I will concede that.)
the fact that a stop button was seen as impressive says something about the U.S transport system, might need some improving on
we also have the same thing in buses in czech republic, it's really the same throughout europe except some small things (for example we have a physical ticket and when you get on your bus, you mark it with date and time you got on), but other things are the same here :)
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I was going to say, same in Australia! But then I saw the digital screen and the USB changers... Now I'm super jelly! 😂💖🇦🇺
Don’t compare USA to anything…
In our busses we also have all of these things and accessibilities
And I am from the Middle East 😅
And that's about all you people have in the Middle East...
This is like every european bus😂
As a Romanian, this isn't true in the slightest :')
@@justmae1205 depends where in Romania you are
@@malinicula797 I'm in the capital city
@@justmae1205 then you've managed to be in the only country where it isn't 👍
Even the busses that brought me to elementary school head it and that was 20 years ago😂
Not in ireland ye we have bus stop buttons but thats it really
Buses in my hometown in Canada have all of these too!
All these features are pretty normal on Dublin buses in Ireland. Before the stop buttons, back in the 1980's they was a string that ran the length of the bus that you pulled on to get the bus to stop. Dublin even has kneeling buses which are more accessible for people in wheelchairs and mobility issues.
These buses look like a mix between Australian Queensland buses and trains. The buses here have two sections to scan your travel card (called a ‘go card’) which you use to tap on when you first enter the bus and tap off when you get off at your stop. We also have the red stop buttons on buses too, and most have USB chargers in some spots (although I have never used them). The buses don’t have buttons to open the door, as the driver does that, but the trains have the same button to open doors at the station. And honestly, the look on the inside of the buses looks more like our newer trains than buses, which haven’t had an upgrade in a while. We don’t have any screens on the inside though, but there is an app that shows live movement of the trains/buses, and that’s linked in with google maps too!
Was gonna say this is basically a hybrid of train/bus in Auckland 🤷♂️
It’s not only in malmö, it’s in the entire country
It's the entire continent :'D
@@kovacsadam9801 nah bro hell naw, not in the south
No it’s not! I live in Dalarna and our busses aren’t that nice.
@@CubeDuke du skrev hela landet, sist jag kollade var Dalarna en del av vårt avlånga land
@@CubeDuke du skrev “not only in Malmö its in the entire country” och då kommenterade (pyssel mamma) att de inte såg ut så i Dalarna, på vilket du svarade att du aldrig sagt att det var så i Dalarna, du har alltså haft fel
man sometimes i really wish i lived in a big city
Malmö is also a cabinet from Ikea, isn’t it?
Agreed, the public transportation in Malmö and Skåne is great!
I live in skåne
@@ludvigh3059 So?
I had to do an internship in Lund University back in 2018, but because accommodation in Lund is super hard to find, I just lived in Malmö and took the public regional Skånetrafiken buses to Lund every day. It was absolutely amazing: modern, comfortable and warm buses (it was in winter so that was a plus haha) departing from my area in Malmö (next to Värnhem) every 5' straight into my university faculty in Lund in just over 20 minutes. They even had free wifi.
The only downside was the expensive price, thankfully the monthly ticket with 50% student discount made it more affordable.
Also being able to use the same integrated transport card for all local buses, trams and trains in the Skåne region was a great convenience
Skrattar på Gôstadska! XD
Just so you know, you don’t have to press the ”open” button on the doors because they will open up automatically after like 5 seconds. 😃😉🙃
It’s better to press the button because it’s quicker than waiting.
@@randlofsbro it’s 5 seconds 💀
@@Anonymouslikemydad 5 seconds wasted
The ADL Enviro500 3-door double-decker buses in Singapore have that button too (probably because the same door model (Ventura?) is used) but they aren't used. Door operation is controlled only by the driver isntead
@@lzh4950 same in Barcelona where I live. All new buses feature those buttons, but in the end the driver himself chooses to open the doors. Doesn't make much sense
in Athens Suburban Train you also press the button to open the doors and all buses have stop buttons in the sides except the old ones
Where I am in the UK some buses even have proper tables, like you get on a train.
In my country, we have buses with 1000w bass speakers that blast that funeral song, tiny dark windows so you don't know where you are, no stop buttons so you shout when you get to your destination. The exhaust have whistles installed and the bus are constantly revved and you pay only through cash otherwise the conductor is legally allowed to throw you out in the middle of the highway 😂🎉
I left that country 30 years ago. After all those years, it's still the same. No improvement, not even a single one. Pathetic.
Which country are you from??
The long bendy buses are basically trackless trams. Change my mind
Pretty much by definition the entire and only difference between a bus and a tram is the tracks.
Change my mind.
Bus yes, "trackless trams" is sometimes used by some (dumb) cities to refer to long bendy buses like that one.
@@thegreentimtam The terms is the difference between getting state & federal funding for enhanced bus service or bottom feeder equipment.
Most politicians have no clue of the difference 😂
Enjoy your bus tour 😊
Oh it's similar to some of the newest buses in London and trains (usually the Jazz ones or Freccia ones) in Italy!
It’s not just comparable to NJ. Public transport in the US is horrific. I live in Austria, and would never even consider buying a car. Just don’t need one.
Though are NJ buses really that bad? The only issue I’ve had was a $0.55 ticket one way and a $3 ticket the other way.
In Austria, you don’t buy car, car buys you
Imagine being reliant on the government...
@@jadapinkett1656 As if you’re not dependent on the gas prices that are made up by the government, public transport at least uses electricity and is eco friendly
@@jadapinkett1656 Who gave you your drivers license? Who has the power to take it away?
This is pretty standard for Europe in general
The buses in Germany are similar to those in Sweden. We don't have to press for the doors to open for you. The bus driver opens them. 😅
Someone else pointed out that the passenger-opened doors might be a insulation thing
Germany doesn’t usually get as cold as Sweden can
Sweden is colder and also kids can sometimes get of on accident
Not to mention in some busses in sweden, there's also free wifi
I went to Germany before and their public transportation system that they have there is really good and in Germany when they mean minute they always come on time or sometimes earlier which has happened a few times and also you pay for your pass and you really don’t need to show it when you’re using public transport you can just get on and also the buses in Germany also do have that screen where it shows the different stops and it announces the stops and you push a button to signal your stop I was really impressed with the public transportation system in Germany
Yes. And here in Hannover we also have green busses. And the underground trainsystem is great to go fast to many places of the city. We have a combination from bus and train. You come by bus from small locations over land to the city and get into underground to go fast ahead for example to reach your job in the city.
Sounds like a well run operation. What country was this in?
@@norcaldeemichaels This was in Germany
@@norcaldeemichaels Town is Hannover, in the north of Germany.
Where are You from?
hhahaaha chill. This is literally normal in Europe. +German busses are NEVER on time
sounds and looks like a mixture of a uk bus and tram I LOVE IT
The large malmö busses was intended as a sort of instead of tram. They alreddy have a under ground railway, so a full scale tram network wad not needed, so they made trunk bus lines as in stead of a tram network.
The thing with malmö is that its sort of a cluster city. You can go to lund in 10 minutes and to copenhagen in about 15.
(scratches head in standard European bus)
Now I feel lucky for living in Sweden
You shouldent
@@bjoe__6710 why
@@LoveStruckEntertainment crime
@@bjoe__6710 what crime
idk about sweden but in belgium the buses can release pressure on the side of the door so the bus gets low and wheelchair users can get on the bus, pretty cool imo 😄
Sweden have this as well, calls it kneeling buses
@@Yugge Singapore's Scania K230 buses could do such kneeling automatically too; ~5s after the bus stops @ a bus stop
We have that too. We also have special buttons you can press if you need more time to get off the bus
I lived in in Lund and Malmö for three+ years. Definitely the best most reliable public transportation system I've ever had the pleasure to experience. My friends back home are so sick of me talking about it. 😅
Same here. I did an internship at Lund University but lived in Malmö and commuted everyday. 10/10 public transport experience
Regarding the stop buttons.
In fact, there are buses without stop buttons. They used to be the most common ones in Ukraine. Yellow, with stairs and two automatic doors, the sound of them stopping hearable from the 150 metres distance. And, in some cities at least, you had to give the payment to the bus driver in advance, often by asking other passengers to pass the money.
In poland we have same busses, usb charger, tv with bus stops etc.
It's so in the WHOLE Sweden
When you are indoctrinated from childhood to believe you live in the greatest, most free, most happy country on the planet it leads to stuff like being impressed by decades old technology that the rest of the developed world has
This is super normal in America, stupid influencers trying to make content with every little thing lol
It’s really super not normal. Only certain large cities have em. Most places can get f***ed
the buses in london are pretty similar to this but ofc all kinds of crazy stuff happen on the bus
That looks exactly like the ones we have in Melbourne (minus the chargers, what a great idea!)
Yeah came to the comments to say this…buses in Sydney and Canberra are pretty similar too (also no usb chargers 😢)
@@gnowra Not even Stockholm we have those.. I think. I usually take the subway so long time ago I was on a bus
There are USB chaegers in the new Perth buses in WA. Might be coming yiur way soon.
In Denmark it is more or less like this just without the button to open the door and also by far most people who use the bug uses a card
I know these buttons from the rear door of some articulated busses, as the drivers can't see them. And some also have them on the outside of the middle and rear doors (there only giving a signal).
It's the same thing in Canada
Quick point of correction: if you have to press a button for the doors to open, then they don’t open automatically. They would open automatically if you did NOT need to press the button
Boo hoo
How do the stop buttons work in the US? I’ve never seen a bus in my country or in any other of the European countries that I’ve spent time in that doesn’t have the buttons located throughout!
I live in Malmö and i absolutely love it its amazing
If that is what you call busy, the city where I live would be called crazy - in the mornings! ...
Some buses in my country are already full @ 7a.m. probably as secondary industries e.g. factories play a significant role in our economy & they start work earlier @ 8a.m.
It's more students taking their morning commute to their resective higher institutions of education, as parking fees are notoriously abhorrent on campuses - thus they include a fully paid pass once tuition is paid. Universities usually only give them out for each paid term. Colleges usually have more students and give out yearly passes ... Students crowd the buses from 6:00AM - 10:00AM. High schools give out passes if one is traveling outside their regular district, yet they must be attending the further away school because the one that is the closest hasn't the program or competitive sports program / teams that the student has been approved to leave their district to go study / play their sport at and attend ...
If you dont have a stop button there is a rope in the ceiling you can drag a little bit that also triggers the same as the stop button
Its very much the same in Czech republic and when I visited the Netherlands it was also similar but the boards that show upcoming stations are soooo confusing there compared to Czechia and Sweden