And the sidewalk at the bus stops is also higher than normal sidewalks, at least in the cities with low floor buses, so that wheelchair users or strollers can be brought onto the bus without outside help.
@@kwlkid85 Oh, I didn't realise that's what was being discussed, I'm pretty sure most buses in England can do it, I'm not sure they always do. Maybe I'm no-longer noticing it.
From what I can remember, Joel, the US once did used to have a lot of trams and buses running on the roads there. But, the motor industry execs decided they wanted to close them down to sell more cars by buying the companies up and quickly allowing it all to run down into disrepair as fast as possible. Trams or buses in need of repairs or renewals were just ignored until people finally got tired of them being late, or not able to show up at all - and then those who could decided to get their own cars to get around . . . that was their death knell basically. Some had to keep going just to carry schoolkids, but as you said yourself, their ride and comfort levels was not what they were created for - it was used a few times a day to carry kids to and from schools and then parked up until the next day. And as seen on here, some latter bus/transport companies have tried to bring your buses back - but they are hampered by too many rules, regs, and laws concerning where they come from and what they could offer, to allow them to be what they could become. If a company is still being held back by the same very old Gov RR&L's, then gaining any customer increase won't ever happen. So, no, if the car manufacturers still have the Gov in their back pockets to keep their own pockets filled - and to keep cars as the best transport option for the US, then things will never be able to change very much at all for those who can't drive, don't want to drive, or would prefer a bus if they could find a regular one to use . . .
I live near Rotterdam in The Netherlands, using buses multiple times per week. The bus operator in Rotterdam (RET) started in 2019 with buying new buses. They bought 40 diesel, 103 hybrid and 55 electric buses. In 2022 they bought 42 extra electric buses. The RET is taking a step towards a completely zero-emission bus fleet in 2030. These buses have wifi, USB charging points and a ATM onboard and can bend to the door side at an halt to make the step lower. The buses drive regularly here. During rush hour about 6-12 times per hour. There are bus lines on my route. This makes my trip faster than by car.
Europe and America are two different worlds. Mentality is even more different, if you told some stories to an American, they wouldnt believe you, for an example, Princess Mary of Denmark riding her two kids to public preschool, on a bicycle in the snowy winter and she did it every day of the year while she was in her 40s.
Buses here in Edinburgh, Scotland have good wi-fi, charging ports on some seats and a brilliant app for tracking timetables and your route. They also have a voice over woman on a video monitor telling you what stop you are approaching and it's name. Every bus stop has a name here. It is mostly the street name, or a sidestreet close by.
@@the13thdukeofwybourne77 It was just a comparison buddy. 11 People agreed with me though. Its not bull like you said. The US has some of the weirdest safety laws out there.
Man, I am a stranger, but this Gentleman here is right. I do not understand this guns fetishism at all. If you have seen what guns do to a human body....... Enough said. Peace man. Elmar from Germany, don´t troll me. Arms belong to the military and law enforcements, not private persons.
@@Jumpyman_thegamerYTThe areas with the most gun problems are those with the strictest gun laws. there are outliers of course but generally speaking it's true. That shows that it's not guns the problem but the people using them. There are people with tens of guns and not just small arms and threre's never gonna be a problem with them. others there's just a handgun in the house and the teenager will steal it to kill half of his classmates with it.
There is a lot of social attitude behind this. I haven't had a car for 15 years and more - no point. London and now Edinburgh. I can get everywhere on feet, bus, tram, train and sometimes cab. It is cheaper and less hassle. That is why the cities do it. Less congestion, get people to work quicker etc etc. If you live and work out in the country, you'll need a motor.
I lived for 20 years out in the country and managed quite well without a motor. When I started working it did mean a 2 mile walk to the next village to get a bus but I didn't think it was a big deal.
It's so interesting though. The USA wants to drive cars, yet their roads are shite compared to Europe as well. There has been no major investment since the creation of the interstate, almost 70 years ago (apart from here and there).
I had to give up driving for health reasons and I don't miss it at all. We have an excellent bus service in the Welsh town where I live, and, at 70, it's free for me. And when you don't have the expense of running a car, you suddenly have so much more disposable income.
In Norway we have speed up the ticket buying process,too: In most cities/towns you can buy your ticket on an app/cell phone, in my county you can also buy your ferie ride with this same app. It seems to be used in the hole county😀, and of course we have electric busses, they also work in snow and harsh weather ( north of the Arctic circle ). And we have special busses where you can bring your skis with you.
I live in Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, we have the UK first fully electric bus fleet. I no longer have a car and rely on the bus, and I’m enjoying life really well without a car. The irony is I’ve noticed I have more freedom to travel around and much further now I have much more money with saving so much money. Our buses are comfortable, clean and to be honest really reliable. The company has an app which has your bus pass and shows live buses on the map so you can see exactly when to head to the bus stop. Plus of course, it’s easy to walk around unlike the states.
One reason buses and bus services are so much better in Europe is that there are few or no dedicated school buses. Schoolkids travel to school by regular buses, or sometimes by train.
exactly. And in rural areas this also creates morning commuter busses "for free": They can just use the dense network of school lines, which then also serve transit hubs.
Go to mexico to see great busses, i was in mexico city a while back and most of the busses were just european, but they were new when i was there so they were very nice and clean.
Hello Joel. I toured Europe by train as a teenager and was used to jumping on a bus or tram, to tour cities. I toured US by Greyhound in my twenties and apart from getting a train and subway in New York, I cannot remember using public transport. I saw buses in Vancouver, but we had got used to walking, even round such as San Francisco or Cuidad Juárez. My home city of Bradford had trolley buses, but changed to hydrocarbon engines in the 1970s, when I was a kid. I had to learn to avoid the exhaust fumes back then. There are videos about Bradford having the last trolley buses, you might look at?
You're exactly right about the connotations. It was deliberately made to be that way in the US, but there's nothing inherent about it, as other examples show - not just in Europe btw, I'd say most of the rest of the world.
I remember bendy buses being in the UK, aswell as small shuttle buses but i haven't seen them in years now. It is all double deckers, but they're cool, they have free wifi, charging ports, docks to hold your phone and comfy seats and cheap... £2 each way no matter how far you are going, or £4.50 for a ticket with unlimited travel for the whole day.
As a visitor in LA, riding the orange line bus from North Hollywood to Chatsworth was one of the most humiliating experiences in my life. I couldn't believe my eyes what I saw during that 50 mins ride. Never got on american bus since (with exception of hotel shuttles)
maybe we should brag more about public transportation. if we made "longest bus", "biggest capacity", "efficiency per person per km/mi" and "system punctuality" international competitions we'll soon hear "we choose to go by bus in this decade and do the high-speed rail things, not because it is easy, but because they are hard..."
4:51 Note: The 5 door bus, the light blue/yellow bus on the town hall square towards Herlev in Denmark, you can check in and out at all 5 doors. It runs every 5 minutes, sometimes in pairs. Trains and buses are registered as late if they do not arrive within 2 minutes of the timetable. The stops show how many minutes there are to the next bus/train, because all buses have GPS.
In Australia we sold off or closed down most of the manufacturing here, we build some semi prime movers. All cars are now imported as are a lot of our trams, trains and buses, assembling is done for local conditions but that's about it.
Please let sink in that "pot holes" are pretty much unheard of here. Usually just after an annoying winter with a lot of freezing and melting some older streets get a bit cracked which is then pretty rapidly fixed.
Years ago some friends from NY gave me the key to their apartment in Hollywood, Florida for a few days vacation there. There was really nothing to do there so I was planning to go regularly to South Beach counting on public transportation. I was pleasantly assured to see a bus stop just at the front door of the building. The retired couple that welcomed me as recommended from my NY friends were really nice and I asked them where that bus would take me. They looked at each other in astonishment, What bus stop? they asked me. And it was right in front of their door in that road that leads to South Beach. Anyway I finally got to know that it would take me to a Shopping Mall (surprise, right?) and there I could take another bus to SoBe. Every early evening I'd take that bus I was the only one on it, plus a black maid going home.
One of the important things about public transport being socially acceptable is that it cuts down drastically on alcohol-impaired driving. When it's cheap and easy to catch a bus into town for a meal out and a few drinks, and get home again later, then that's what you do, rather than someone not having a drink at all, or driving after 'just' one or two ...
Joel as a pensioner one of the perks of retiring in England is getting a free bus pass, I can use my pass anywhere in England after 9.30am and all day weekends, I live in the West Midland so can also use my pass on the Tram and the Train as long as my journey is within the West Midlands, I can choose from three bus stops within yards of my house, brilliant!
I get why countries have a protectionist attitude and I pretty much agree when it comes to protecting jobs. However, this seems to be more about protecting companies from competition rather than stopping jobs being exported abroad. If the US allowed these bus companies to set up within the US itself then I think you’d quickly see advancements and improvements in public transport options.
Sorry, I doubt it. Why are the buses so bad? If they were good, maybe more people would use them, if people used them they might become self-financing, maybe people would demand good bus services. Then we might sell less cars. We might also need to build less road. I think it is deliberate to make public transit not good. Note: By the way the use of 'we' in above statements is for effect, I'm not American, a car manufacturer or road builder. I have no dog in this race.
Well, these manufacturers would propably establish a new North America factory here and there, to properly serve this market. Then it would not be about American jobs again. But what you really need is a demand for good bus services and good busses. As long as busses are viewed as the poor mens way of transportation and their (bad) reputation being fueled by the operators tendency to not improve anything (except lowering operation costs), not make them safer (safety in regards of their ridership, like thieves, drug addicts, etc.) and not make them cleaner. Best way to start would propably be to allow for competition on the operator level first. These people need competition.
@@dnocturn84 How would competition work? I'm not sure many bus services in USA or Canada operate at a profit (from fares), so I don't think a normal 'free market' works. Are the thieves and drug addicts real / prevalent or just the stereotype most Americans have (note I believe some Americans have this worry about UK public transport too).
In 2010 my husband and I were in New York, and I was actually surprised how good the busses were, both the vehicles (they were comfortable, and the lowering of the stairs for people to get on, and even the possibility for a wheelchair to get on), and the drivers. They were considered and caring about the passengers. I was really surprised, because I hadn’t expected that. This was only on Manhattan. We went to Brooklyn, but by the metro. Just saying something positive here - but I don’t know if it is still so.
My favorite city bus is MAN Lion's City. My town got them 4 years ago with natural gas (CNG) and i love riding on them. I even drive them on bus simulator games :)))) im so glad i can hop on the bus instead of driving. Why would i when the bus stops in front of my building? Priceless. BTW the problem isnt about buy in america, cause thats great strategy, they just need to take some of the technologies from Europe and make them work on th North American buses. And as a european that worked and lived among americans and american vehicles i can confirm that the suspension is so rough on the big vehicles its ridiculous
Leeds has recently introduced great new electric buses, which are very comfortable, and quiet. And you can't beat the double decker for views from the top deck. There are a few namby pambies who refuse to use buses though, for some reason.
Should check out (first bus) they are the company who owns the transport side of the busses, they are definitely the biggest bus company in the UK, they have so many different busses that go literally anywhere you want especially here in Glasgow.
I have a car and am not afraid to use it but I still use buses and trains for jouneys into the town because of parking issues. The other day it was sunny, so I went on a trip around the Peak District - 5 buses and two trains, 5 hours and looking at the scenery without worry and getting tired. Every bus was on time, the trains were on time and clean and comfy, and completely free as I have a bus pass.
you been in Munich right? not a really small town. i live in the south-east and the company i work for is beyond the west city border (Germering). There's NO chance to drive there by car, there just be traffic jam in the morning and the evening. So i trust subway -> S-Bahn -> Bus (and it mostly even works lol)
I’m in a small town of 600000 habitants and we have tramway service with a bus service both of which are now electric. So our city is so un polluted and green as now most habitants use public transportation even if they have private vehicles as going around in public transport is more accessible and getting around is much quicker
well, in Norway we have also Hugh distances , especially in the North, like Tromsø, Alta, Kirkenes. There aren't even trains. Our solution:take a plane, but we also have busses, which are like greyhound busses, but more comfortable 😄(There is a video on YT from Steve Marsh? , who took one of these busses on his journey from Oslo to Bergen/Stavanger)
[ Brit ] I'd rather cycle than use busses in general, but, I have used German busses in the late 80's and NY buses in the late 90's. The German buses were much better than UK and the NY busses were plain mental. Riding around with a driver that seemed to never pause to let anyone sit down before gunning it and you have to sit in a blue plastic bucket, no cloth on the seats of the Queens busses in '98. I've rode in better UK prison wagons in 2020!
Yes M.A.N is one of the Brands. They build Busses, all sorts of Trucks (also for the military) and commercial vans (like the Dodge Sprinter). The name is pronounced M-A-N (not like man) and is short for Machinefactory Augsburg Nuremberg.
I don't own a car. Three years ago, I moved jobs within the company, and now I no longer have a company car. But there just was no point in buying one. I just don't have a use case right now.
funny how they talk in this video about Belgian Vanhool buses, go on the internet , the company has been declared bankrupt this week, more then 2000 people lost their jobs. good busses or not the company is broke
I live in Chapel Hill (NC) and the transit system here is FREE, BUT......none of the buses run on scheduel, the drivers hate their jobs, and there's almost no service on the weekends. I lived in Denver and Las Vegas, and Denver BY FAR has the countries best transit system.
I really had to comment on this Joel,,,, Ian here in North East England,,, Keep up your great work... I once heard a quote that American Yellow buses are almost like Prison Transfer buses without the wire window cladding,,, made like that to show to American kids to almost condition them mentally to wait till your 16/17 and go and get your own individual car,,, A sort of look at how Socialist Public Transportation is just so bad,,, Go and express your indivdual freedom work & study hard and have a car...and this awful form of getting around is gone...
There does seem to be a hierarchy with public transport and my guess is that buses are lower than other options. Fortunately here in inner Melbourne I use the trams.
When you visit Prague you´ll see a wide variety but till the rail link is connected to the airport, they made a quick solution and replaced diesel hugry articulated buses with these double articulated trolleys (we call them harmonicas) czcams.com/video/eRgDc4XrAYA/video.html for the Airport-Subway link. The route is partially electrified and batteries are used to handle the rest towards the terminal without extra electrification required. Local Škoda trolley buses so locally manufactured too but its not a given as any purchase must be via a tender and competition open for all brands.. These 20 are just for this route that runs apx every 3-5min
I grew-up on public transportation in San Jose, CA in the 80's and 90's. YEah, it was awful. On the weekends, bus will only run once every hour. They also had very limited run times. I often had to call my mom for a ride home from my retail job because the busses had stopped running. However public transportation in some cities, like San Francisco is much better.
You get a sense in North America and especially the US, that they seem to want to be different from the norm around the world, even if it's worse, and we see this in so many areas, it's kinda weird and really shows a sign of isolation, especially when most countries and especially modern countries are more likely to adopt a lot of the same good ideas from each other, and are willing to buy from each other if it makes sense, and it feels like more of a community then what the US shows which come across as very isolated with its ideas. At the end of the day, any good idea, regardless of where it comes from that improve quality, should be adopted, but clearly, the US seems to have many things that look backwards and dated by other countries modern standards and many visitors to the US tend to notice these things. I suspect the reason for this is ignorance among Americans, they are for the most part quite isolated from the rest of the world where not that many travel that much, throw in patriotism and flag waving and It's easy to see how many backwards ideas that look dated linger in the US compared to other countries, ignorance in this case isn't bliss, it's just giving Americans a poorer quality of life and in some sense, modern countries and especially Europeans that travel a lot are lucky, because they get to share and take ideas from all over the world and adopt them back home, probably something the US is missing out on.
The biggest challenge to North American cities is their own history. Larger homes have been built over a much larger physical area of a city. The majority of suburban development having happened within the period in which the automobile was growing up, it became normal to have large roads to accommodate ever increasing private car ownership. In the post-war period with the rapidly increasing consumerism movement, the US and Canada had a population whose expectation was to expect to own a car. This did not happen in Europe, at least, until much later. So the public expectation of using public transport systems was quite different. I remember the road in which I lived in London in the 1950s - when large family cars had already become the norm in suburban America - our entire street of over one hundred dwellings had three cars between them! It would be regarded by many as a retrograde step to give up private transport to share in the public system. Hence we increasingly damage the environment and habitually sit in traffic jams going nowhere - but we have our own space to be miserable in!
FYI. The yellow buses (time 4:35 - 5:55 + 6:05 - 6:15) are city buses from the capital Copenhagen Denmark and they are electric ...... like Switzerland!!!!! The nonsense about more safe buses in North America is flat out wrong!!! The correct term here is Protectionism of the US Auto-Industry!!!!!!!! Take a good look at the drivers area in North American buses, they have sharp and bare metal edges everywhere and next to no protection for the bus driver if accidents happens! Most North American buses look like they are stuck in the 50'ties with the design of the interior of the drivers section!!!! Then comparer the interior to European buses and trucks, it is a world apart!!!! The hole steering wheel section and dashboard is adjustable to different drivers mass and heights of the drivers too!!! Kind regards the Danish Viking
How do people who cannot drive - through no fault of their own - even get an education, never mind go to work, go shopping, go to the theatre, play sports etc? Do they perforce _have_ to live in selected areas of a few specific cities, in order to have anything approaching a 'normal' family and social life? I have often wondered about this, as I have some family members who are blind or severely visually impaired, and they all live what I would call normal active lives, with only minimal adjustments and assistance. Certainly commuting to work, education etc is not a great problem for them.
Please react to more videos from RMTransit if you are interested in trains, busses or public transportation in general. He made a lot of cool videos over the years.
I`m only surmising, but perhaps the state ( good or bad ) of US Public Transport lies seemlessly within the ideals upon which the United States set out to attain, which is independence.
In North America public transportation is seen as the way the poor are getting around, so why would your overlords bother investing in it......they're way to occupied making sure your corporations are making major profits.....
Why is damn near everything worse in the US?? As an Aussie I figured healthcare and education, but it seems there are videos made by Americans talking about how eeeeeverything is worse there. Crazy.
The fact some Americans want to make money off of thirsty foreigners says more more about you and what stories about the world you need to hear to make you feel better about the place you live, than it does about the Americans.
@@Alex.The.Lionnnnn you're literally on a thirst trap channel, like an obsessed fly buzzing around America's ass, you can call me kiddo when you find me on a video about Australian buses zzzzzz
The one who made the video...Why are all the buses from cities? Let him ask his fellow citizens in rural areas? In fact, how is it with your rural areas?
Hey, Joel! I tell you, you have a European soul! Really. 😉 Sometimes I have to laugh. America seems to be so bad in many things. The "American Dream" has been overtaken by reality. Some things are actually just “nostalgia”. Or not?
American safety compared to Europe: * Car safety = Worse. * Children safety = Worse. * Electric safety = Worse. * Work safety = Worse. * Gun safety = Worse. * Pedestrian safety = Worse. * Food safety = Worse. ... The list goes on.
The absence of transit is due to the 1950s car dependence being built where public transit was. Also Republicans and conservatives hate poor people and think transit is just for the homeless. So vote for Democrats to get nice and frequent transit service!
Taking the bus? Hell no! One .. The ride to work for instance. I have to walk 10 minutes to the bus station, to take the bus that will take at best 1 hour to get me to city where my office is, and after arriving I'll have to walk 10 minutes again from the bus station. By car it's 30 minutes and the parking garage is right next to the office.. Two: And I don't have to wait either to get a ride that makes me feel like James Bond wodka-martini - shaken, not stirred. 🤣
I'm assuming you are in the US? Here in the UK (London)... 1. Nearest bus stop 10 sec walk. 2. Choice of 5 busses (variety of locations Trafalgar Square, Riverboat Dock, 7min ride to nearest train station, 10min ride to nearest tube station etc 3. Cost £1.75. Regardless of distance. If you have to transfer to another bus, if its within 60 min of tapping in (we use Oyster cards but if you don't have one you can use a debit/bank card) it is free. The second bus costs you nothing extra. 4. You can drink your coffee, have a snooze, watch CZcams videos, read, put your headphones on, kick back and listen to a podcast or music whilst the bus driver takes you where you need to be. The bus communication system announces the name of each stop as well as putting it up on a screen. 5. Every walk of life uses the bus, mums with kids, office workers, cleaners, builders, solicitors, nurses, doctors etc. Yeah, I haven't even mentioned the Thames clipper which you can also use that same oyster or debit card on. Sail down the Thames when you finish work, have a G&T, BLT sandwich and watch the sunset over the London cityscape. Sorry US you can keep your cars, I like my public transport.
I use bus to commute on daily basis here in Finland. I do have a car, but bus is just more convenient to me. It's not a poor people's choice here, all sorts of people use buses. On "my" bus line, a load of doctors travel daily because the line goes to a hospital.
5:05 In Germany not only most of the buses are low floor buses, they also bend to the door side at an halt to make the step even more lower.
It's the same in Australia.
And the sidewalk at the bus stops is also higher than normal sidewalks, at least in the cities with low floor buses, so that wheelchair users or strollers can be brought onto the bus without outside help.
Bend? They use airbags to lower the door side.
It's called kneeling in English. All buses in the UK do it.
@@kwlkid85 Oh, I didn't realise that's what was being discussed, I'm pretty sure most buses in England can do it, I'm not sure they always do.
Maybe I'm no-longer noticing it.
From what I can remember, Joel, the US once did used to have a lot of trams and buses running on the roads there. But, the motor industry execs decided they wanted to close them down to sell more cars by buying the companies up and quickly allowing it all to run down into disrepair as fast as possible. Trams or buses in need of repairs or renewals were just ignored until people finally got tired of them being late, or not able to show up at all - and then those who could decided to get their own cars to get around . . . that was their death knell basically. Some had to keep going just to carry schoolkids, but as you said yourself, their ride and comfort levels was not what they were created for - it was used a few times a day to carry kids to and from schools and then parked up until the next day. And as seen on here, some latter bus/transport companies have tried to bring your buses back - but they are hampered by too many rules, regs, and laws concerning where they come from and what they could offer, to allow them to be what they could become. If a company is still being held back by the same very old Gov RR&L's, then gaining any customer increase won't ever happen. So, no, if the car manufacturers still have the Gov in their back pockets to keep their own pockets filled - and to keep cars as the best transport option for the US, then things will never be able to change very much at all for those who can't drive, don't want to drive, or would prefer a bus if they could find a regular one to use . . .
I live near Rotterdam in The Netherlands, using buses multiple times per week. The bus operator in Rotterdam (RET) started in 2019 with buying new buses. They bought 40 diesel, 103 hybrid and 55 electric buses. In 2022 they bought 42 extra electric buses. The RET is taking a step towards a completely zero-emission bus fleet in 2030.
These buses have wifi, USB charging points and a ATM onboard and can bend to the door side at an halt to make the step lower. The buses drive regularly here. During rush hour about 6-12 times per hour.
There are bus lines on my route. This makes my trip faster than by car.
Europe and America are two different worlds. Mentality is even more different, if you told some stories to an American, they wouldnt believe you, for an example, Princess Mary of Denmark riding her two kids to public preschool, on a bicycle in the snowy winter and she did it every day of the year while she was in her 40s.
In the Netherlands that will never happen because of the lack of snow. 😁
Buses here in Edinburgh, Scotland have good wi-fi, charging ports on some seats and a brilliant app for tracking timetables and your route. They also have a voice over woman on a video monitor telling you what stop you are approaching and it's name. Every bus stop has a name here. It is mostly the street name, or a sidestreet close by.
US Safety Board = No Kinder Eggs, they are not safe at all.
US Safety Board = Lets Allow Guns in peoples Homes.
Oh get off the gun BS will you, he's on about buses ffs! 🙄
@@the13thdukeofwybourne77 It was just a
comparison buddy. 11 People agreed with me though. Its not bull like you said. The US has some of the weirdest safety laws out there.
@@the13thdukeofwybourne77 You know he's right pal.
Man, I am a stranger, but this Gentleman here is right. I do not understand this guns fetishism at all. If you have seen what guns do to a human body.......
Enough said. Peace man.
Elmar from Germany, don´t troll me. Arms belong to the military and law enforcements, not private persons.
@@Jumpyman_thegamerYTThe areas with the most gun problems are those with the strictest gun laws. there are outliers of course but generally speaking it's true. That shows that it's not guns the problem but the people using them. There are people with tens of guns and not just small arms and threre's never gonna be a problem with them. others there's just a handgun in the house and the teenager will steal it to kill half of his classmates with it.
the actual joke in this is that busses are usually the last pick when you have diffferent choices like railways, tramways or subways
The city I live in has the biggest hydrogen fleet in Europe. Quiet, stable and clean - big improvement on the old diesel.
Aberdeen??
@@walterfillingham Indeed.
There is a lot of social attitude behind this.
I haven't had a car for 15 years and more - no point.
London and now Edinburgh.
I can get everywhere on feet, bus, tram, train and sometimes cab. It is cheaper and less hassle.
That is why the cities do it. Less congestion, get people to work quicker etc etc.
If you live and work out in the country, you'll need a motor.
I lived for 20 years out in the country and managed quite well without a motor. When I started working it did mean a 2 mile walk to the next village to get a bus but I didn't think it was a big deal.
@@Westcountrynordic Good for you. I'm 74 now. I'll do a couple or 5 miles on occasion, but every day - might knacker my knees.
@@chrissaltmarsh6777 I can do 5 miles very easy but now its by 👨🦽♿
Edinburgh and London have bus transportation which is fantastic for covering their Cities.
It's so interesting though. The USA wants to drive cars, yet their roads are shite compared to Europe as well. There has been no major investment since the creation of the interstate, almost 70 years ago (apart from here and there).
Face it you will be moving to Europe!!
I had to give up driving for health reasons and I don't miss it at all. We have an excellent bus service in the Welsh town where I live, and, at 70, it's free for me. And when you don't have the expense of running a car, you suddenly have so much more disposable income.
In Norway we have speed up the ticket buying process,too: In most cities/towns you can buy your ticket on an app/cell phone, in my county you can also buy your ferie ride with this same app. It seems to be used in the hole county😀, and of course we have electric busses, they also work in snow and harsh weather ( north of the Arctic circle ). And we have special busses where you can bring your skis with you.
I live in Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, we have the UK first fully electric bus fleet. I no longer have a car and rely on the bus, and I’m enjoying life really well without a car. The irony is I’ve noticed I have more freedom to travel around and much further now I have much more money with saving so much money. Our buses are comfortable, clean and to be honest really reliable. The company has an app which has your bus pass and shows live buses on the map so you can see exactly when to head to the bus stop. Plus of course, it’s easy to walk around unlike the states.
One reason buses and bus services are so much better in Europe is that there are few or no dedicated school buses. Schoolkids travel to school by regular buses, or sometimes by train.
exactly. And in rural areas this also creates morning commuter busses "for free": They can just use the dense network of school lines, which then also serve transit hubs.
Schoolbuses do exist, they just use regular buses as vehicles
Go to mexico to see great busses, i was in mexico city a while back and most of the busses were just european, but they were new when i was there so they were very nice and clean.
8:25 My school bus had that ‘rattling metal cage on the go’ energy too.
1:25 Omg he’s awesome! Great choice of video. Next has to be DownieLive and Geoff Marshall.
MoreJps, Wow, this made my day brighter! Thank you!
Hello Joel. I toured Europe by train as a teenager and was used to jumping on a bus or tram, to tour cities. I toured US by Greyhound in my twenties and apart from getting a train and subway in New York, I cannot remember using public transport. I saw buses in Vancouver, but we had got used to walking, even round such as San Francisco or Cuidad Juárez.
My home city of Bradford had trolley buses, but changed to hydrocarbon engines in the 1970s, when I was a kid. I had to learn to avoid the exhaust fumes back then. There are videos about Bradford having the last trolley buses, you might look at?
You're exactly right about the connotations. It was deliberately made to be that way in the US, but there's nothing inherent about it, as other examples show - not just in Europe btw, I'd say most of the rest of the world.
I remember bendy buses being in the UK, aswell as small shuttle buses but i haven't seen them in years now. It is all double deckers, but they're cool, they have free wifi, charging ports, docks to hold your phone and comfy seats and cheap... £2 each way no matter how far you are going, or £4.50 for a ticket with unlimited travel for the whole day.
As a visitor in LA, riding the orange line bus from North Hollywood to Chatsworth was one of the most humiliating experiences in my life. I couldn't believe my eyes what I saw during that 50 mins ride. Never got on american bus since (with exception of hotel shuttles)
maybe we should brag more about public transportation. if we made "longest bus", "biggest capacity", "efficiency per person per km/mi" and "system punctuality" international competitions we'll soon hear "we choose to go by bus in this decade and do the high-speed rail things, not because it is easy, but because they are hard..."
4:51 Note: The 5 door bus, the light blue/yellow bus on the town hall square towards Herlev in Denmark, you can check in and out at all 5 doors. It runs every 5 minutes, sometimes in pairs. Trains and buses are registered as late if they do not arrive within 2 minutes of the timetable. The stops show how many minutes there are to the next bus/train, because all buses have GPS.
4:04 From now on I will always refer to them as "double bendy boys" 😄
In Australia we sold off or closed down most of the manufacturing here, we build some semi prime movers. All cars are now imported as are a lot of our trams, trains and buses, assembling is done for local conditions but that's about it.
Please let sink in that "pot holes" are pretty much unheard of here.
Usually just after an annoying winter with a lot of freezing and melting some older streets get a bit cracked which is then pretty rapidly fixed.
Years ago some friends from NY gave me the key to their apartment in Hollywood, Florida for a few days vacation there. There was really nothing to do there so I was planning to go regularly to South Beach counting on public transportation. I was pleasantly assured to see a bus stop just at the front door of the building. The retired couple that welcomed me as recommended from my NY friends were really nice and I asked them where that bus would take me. They looked at each other in astonishment, What bus stop? they asked me. And it was right in front of their door in that road that leads to South Beach. Anyway I finally got to know that it would take me to a Shopping Mall (surprise, right?) and there I could take another bus to SoBe. Every early evening I'd take that bus I was the only one on it, plus a black maid going home.
One of the important things about public transport being socially acceptable is that it cuts down drastically on alcohol-impaired driving. When it's cheap and easy to catch a bus into town for a meal out and a few drinks, and get home again later, then that's what you do, rather than someone not having a drink at all, or driving after 'just' one or two ...
Joel as a pensioner one of the perks of retiring in England is getting a free bus pass, I can use my pass anywhere in England after 9.30am and all day weekends, I live in the West Midland so can also use my pass on the Tram and the Train as long as my journey is within the West Midlands, I can choose from three bus stops within yards of my house, brilliant!
9.30? It's any time of day in Wales. Trouble is the bus only comes about twice a week!
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I get why countries have a protectionist attitude and I pretty much agree when it comes to protecting jobs. However, this seems to be more about protecting companies from competition rather than stopping jobs being exported abroad.
If the US allowed these bus companies to set up within the US itself then I think you’d quickly see advancements and improvements in public transport options.
Sorry, I doubt it.
Why are the buses so bad?
If they were good, maybe more people would use them, if people used them they might become self-financing, maybe people would demand good bus services.
Then we might sell less cars.
We might also need to build less road.
I think it is deliberate to make public transit not good.
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By the way the use of 'we' in above statements is for effect, I'm not American, a car manufacturer or road builder.
I have no dog in this race.
Well, these manufacturers would propably establish a new North America factory here and there, to properly serve this market. Then it would not be about American jobs again. But what you really need is a demand for good bus services and good busses. As long as busses are viewed as the poor mens way of transportation and their (bad) reputation being fueled by the operators tendency to not improve anything (except lowering operation costs), not make them safer (safety in regards of their ridership, like thieves, drug addicts, etc.) and not make them cleaner. Best way to start would propably be to allow for competition on the operator level first. These people need competition.
@@dnocturn84 How would competition work?
I'm not sure many bus services in USA or Canada operate at a profit (from fares), so I don't think a normal 'free market' works.
Are the thieves and drug addicts real / prevalent or just the stereotype most Americans have (note I believe some Americans have this worry about UK public transport too).
In 2010 my husband and I were in New York, and I was actually surprised how good the busses were, both the vehicles (they were comfortable, and the lowering of the stairs for people to get on, and even the possibility for a wheelchair to get on), and the drivers. They were considered and caring about the passengers. I was really surprised, because I hadn’t expected that. This was only on Manhattan. We went to Brooklyn, but by the metro. Just saying something positive here - but I don’t know if it is still so.
My favorite city bus is MAN Lion's City. My town got them 4 years ago with natural gas (CNG) and i love riding on them. I even drive them on bus simulator games :)))) im so glad i can hop on the bus instead of driving. Why would i when the bus stops in front of my building? Priceless. BTW the problem isnt about buy in america, cause thats great strategy, they just need to take some of the technologies from Europe and make them work on th North American buses. And as a european that worked and lived among americans and american vehicles i can confirm that the suspension is so rough on the big vehicles its ridiculous
Where I live (Stockholm, Sweden) the buses fuel is biogas. We have to sort our trash and biogas is made out of thrown out food. I like that a lot.
London has over 8500 buses running on 700 routes
Leeds has recently introduced great new electric buses, which are very comfortable, and quiet.
And you can't beat the double decker for views from the top deck.
There are a few namby pambies who refuse to use buses though, for some reason.
Should check out (first bus) they are the company who owns the transport side of the busses, they are definitely the biggest bus company in the UK, they have so many different busses that go literally anywhere you want especially here in Glasgow.
Public transport in general in the US is almost non-existent.
The MAN brand (= Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (Buses/trucks)). By the way, MAN belongs to the Volkswagen Group, like Scania and Navistar.
I have a car and am not afraid to use it but I still use buses and trains for jouneys into the town because of parking issues. The other day it was sunny, so I went on a trip around the Peak District - 5 buses and two trains, 5 hours and looking at the scenery without worry and getting tired. Every bus was on time, the trains were on time and clean and comfy, and completely free as I have a bus pass.
you been in Munich right? not a really small town. i live in the south-east and the company i work for is beyond the west city border (Germering). There's NO chance to drive there by car, there just be traffic jam in the morning and the evening. So i trust subway -> S-Bahn -> Bus (and it mostly even works lol)
I’m in a small town of 600000 habitants and we have tramway service with a bus service both of which are now electric. So our city is so un polluted and green as now most habitants use public transportation even if they have private vehicles as going around in public transport is more accessible and getting around is much quicker
More than looking down upon buses, it’s just an affordable option. Especially during rainy days.
The power of the (car&road) lobbyists!
And a vicious circle for the bus services.
There is a Noel Philips video where he does a 5 day trip on a Greyhound bus. It was more like a punishment than a service!
well, in Norway we have also Hugh distances , especially in the North, like Tromsø, Alta, Kirkenes. There aren't even trains. Our solution:take a plane, but we also have busses, which are like greyhound busses, but more comfortable 😄(There is a video on YT from Steve Marsh? , who took one of these busses on his journey from Oslo to Bergen/Stavanger)
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I'd rather cycle than use busses in general, but, I have used German busses in the late 80's and NY buses in the late 90's.
The German buses were much better than UK and the NY busses were plain mental. Riding around with a driver that seemed to never pause to let anyone sit down before gunning it and you have to sit in a blue plastic bucket, no cloth on the seats of the Queens busses in '98. I've rode in better UK prison wagons in 2020!
RMTransit is good, isn't he. I've been subscribed to him for a while.
I thought you guys had most of your "Bendy Boys" in San Francisco, and other parts of CA ? 🤪😂😂🤣🤣🤪
Yes,but SF is also known for its historic (touristy) tram system.
@@MrSinclairn You get a rough ride on them too so its all the same!
Yes M.A.N is one of the Brands. They build Busses, all sorts of Trucks (also for the military) and commercial vans (like the Dodge Sprinter). The name is pronounced M-A-N (not like man) and is short for Machinefactory Augsburg Nuremberg.
Really they are german, i always thought that they where from belgium
Busses hete in europe R actually often looked as second class transportation, compared with trams.
I don't own a car. Three years ago, I moved jobs within the company, and now I no longer have a company car. But there just was no point in buying one. I just don't have a use case right now.
Many years ago a drove to work in a big blue Mercedes with chauffeur. Later I got my own car.
funny how they talk in this video about Belgian Vanhool buses, go on the internet , the company has been declared bankrupt this week, more then 2000 people lost their jobs. good busses or not the company is broke
All part of the capitalist system. Don't know what your point is.
It has been bought by vdl, funny you don't say that. Use the internet
I live in Chapel Hill (NC) and the transit system here is FREE, BUT......none of the buses run on scheduel, the drivers hate their jobs, and there's almost no service on the weekends. I lived in Denver and Las Vegas, and Denver BY FAR has the countries best transit system.
I rode busses alot in PHX and San Diego for the most part they were on time. Yes the seats were not too comfy.
This guy is a bus encyclopaedia! 😂
I really had to comment on this Joel,,,, Ian here in North East England,,, Keep up your great work... I once heard a quote that American Yellow buses are almost like Prison Transfer buses without the wire window cladding,,, made like that to show to American kids to almost condition them mentally to wait till your 16/17 and go and get your own individual car,,, A sort of look at how Socialist Public Transportation is just so bad,,, Go and express your indivdual freedom work & study hard and have a car...and this awful form of getting around is gone...
There does seem to be a hierarchy with public transport and my guess is that buses are lower than other options. Fortunately here in inner Melbourne I use the trams.
When you visit Prague you´ll see a wide variety but till the rail link is connected to the airport, they made a quick solution and replaced diesel hugry articulated buses with these double articulated trolleys (we call them harmonicas) czcams.com/video/eRgDc4XrAYA/video.html for the Airport-Subway link. The route is partially electrified and batteries are used to handle the rest towards the terminal without extra electrification required. Local Škoda trolley buses so locally manufactured too but its not a given as any purchase must be via a tender and competition open for all brands.. These 20 are just for this route that runs apx every 3-5min
I grew-up on public transportation in San Jose, CA in the 80's and 90's. YEah, it was awful. On the weekends, bus will only run once every hour. They also had very limited run times. I often had to call my mom for a ride home from my retail job because the busses had stopped running. However public transportation in some cities, like San Francisco is much better.
in the remotest part of the highlands of Scotland have a bus service
I don’t live in the city but Rural and I don’t think I’ve been in a bus since I left school in the UK.
You get a sense in North America and especially the US, that they seem to want to be different from the norm around the world, even if it's worse, and we see this in so many areas, it's kinda weird and really shows a sign of isolation, especially when most countries and especially modern countries are more likely to adopt a lot of the same good ideas from each other, and are willing to buy from each other if it makes sense, and it feels like more of a community then what the US shows which come across as very isolated with its ideas.
At the end of the day, any good idea, regardless of where it comes from that improve quality, should be adopted, but clearly, the US seems to have many things that look backwards and dated by other countries modern standards and many visitors to the US tend to notice these things.
I suspect the reason for this is ignorance among Americans, they are for the most part quite isolated from the rest of the world where not that many travel that much, throw in patriotism and flag waving and It's easy to see how many backwards ideas that look dated linger in the US compared to other countries, ignorance in this case isn't bliss, it's just giving Americans a poorer quality of life and in some sense, modern countries and especially Europeans that travel a lot are lucky, because they get to share and take ideas from all over the world and adopt them back home, probably something the US is missing out on.
Maybe I’ve seen them a lot in movies but I find the Greyhound buses quite interesting.
just come to Norway and enjoy our buses, in cities or long distance 😀
The biggest challenge to North American cities is their own history. Larger homes have been built over a much larger physical area of a city. The majority of suburban development having happened within the period in which the automobile was growing up, it became normal to have large roads to accommodate ever increasing private car ownership.
In the post-war period with the rapidly increasing consumerism movement, the US and Canada had a population whose expectation was to expect to own a car. This did not happen in Europe, at least, until much later. So the public expectation of using public transport systems was quite different.
I remember the road in which I lived in London in the 1950s - when large family cars had already become the norm in suburban America - our entire street of over one hundred dwellings had three cars between them!
It would be regarded by many as a retrograde step to give up private transport to share in the public system. Hence we increasingly damage the environment and habitually sit in traffic jams going nowhere - but we have our own space to be miserable in!
FYI. The yellow buses (time 4:35 - 5:55 + 6:05 - 6:15) are city buses from the capital Copenhagen Denmark and they are electric ...... like Switzerland!!!!!
The nonsense about more safe buses in North America is flat out wrong!!!
The correct term here is Protectionism of the US Auto-Industry!!!!!!!!
Take a good look at the drivers area in North American buses, they have sharp and bare metal edges everywhere and next to no protection for the bus driver if accidents happens!
Most North American buses look like they are stuck in the 50'ties with the design of the interior of the drivers section!!!!
Then comparer the interior to European buses and trucks, it is a world apart!!!!
The hole steering wheel section and dashboard is adjustable to different drivers mass and heights of the drivers too!!!
Kind regards the Danish Viking
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You need to link the videos you use
He's right about Vancouver historically having a good transit system. Still, once you're old enough to drive, the bus is the Loser Cruiser.
How do people who cannot drive - through no fault of their own - even get an education, never mind go to work, go shopping, go to the theatre, play sports etc?
Do they perforce _have_ to live in selected areas of a few specific cities, in order to have anything approaching a 'normal' family and social life?
I have often wondered about this, as I have some family members who are blind or severely visually impaired, and they all live what I would call normal active lives, with only minimal adjustments and assistance. Certainly commuting to work, education etc is not a great problem for them.
Please react to more videos from RMTransit if you are interested in trains, busses or public transportation in general. He made a lot of cool videos over the years.
I`m only surmising, but perhaps the state ( good or bad ) of US Public Transport lies seemlessly within the ideals upon which the United States set out to attain, which is independence.
Hi Joel 🇬🇧
In November. CAN MAKE YOUR VOICE HEAR! But usually, it starts locally. Someone, get up! To wake up whoever is in that White House!
In North America public transportation is seen as the way the poor are getting around, so why would your overlords bother investing in it......they're way to occupied making sure your corporations are making major profits.....
And it is illegal to drive a lot of American cars in Germany as is, without modifications to fit safety regulations.
Do you get the idea that public services are only provided at the minimum they can get away with?
Look at this video in context of the urban sprawl in the US.
Looking at US school buses is like looking at a European bus made in the 1950s. They are just too utilitarian for my liking.
Why is damn near everything worse in the US?? As an Aussie I figured healthcare and education, but it seems there are videos made by Americans talking about how eeeeeverything is worse there. Crazy.
The fact some Americans want to make money off of thirsty foreigners says more more about you and what stories about the world you need to hear to make you feel better about the place you live, than it does about the Americans.
@@tinymutantsquid sure thing, kiddo
@@Alex.The.Lionnnnn you're literally on a thirst trap channel, like an obsessed fly buzzing around America's ass, you can call me kiddo when you find me on a video about Australian buses zzzzzz
The one who made the video...Why are all the buses from cities? Let him ask his fellow citizens in rural areas? In fact, how is it with your rural areas?
Vanhool buses is bankrupt.. so these are the last of this brand that you will encounter on the road
VDL have bought them, so maybe not so bad?
Hey, Joel! I tell you, you have a European soul! Really. 😉 Sometimes I have to laugh. America seems to be so bad in many things. The "American Dream" has been overtaken by reality. Some things are actually just “nostalgia”. Or not?
American safety compared to Europe:
* Car safety = Worse.
* Children safety = Worse.
* Electric safety = Worse.
* Work safety = Worse.
* Gun safety = Worse.
* Pedestrian safety = Worse.
* Food safety = Worse.
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The list goes on.
He might "know what he's talking about," but is there supposed to be an R pronounced in the Amsterdam airport (Schiphol)?
It's not an "r", it's "ch"
@@la-go-xy , yes, so I don't know where he found an R
I don't think a ton of buses is many buses; in fact it's not even one whole one!
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The absence of transit is due to the 1950s car dependence being built where public transit was. Also Republicans and conservatives hate poor people and think transit is just for the homeless. So vote for Democrats to get nice and frequent transit service!
Most Buses in England only have on door.
That's incorrect
Taking the bus? Hell no! One .. The ride to work for instance. I have to walk 10 minutes to the bus station, to take the bus that will take at best 1 hour to get me to city where my office is, and after arriving I'll have to walk 10 minutes again from the bus station. By car it's 30 minutes and the parking garage is right next to the office.. Two: And I don't have to wait either to get a ride that makes me feel like James Bond wodka-martini - shaken, not stirred. 🤣
Where are you from?
I'm assuming you are in the US?
Here in the UK (London)...
1. Nearest bus stop 10 sec walk.
2. Choice of 5 busses (variety of locations Trafalgar Square, Riverboat Dock, 7min ride to nearest train station, 10min ride to nearest tube station etc
3. Cost £1.75. Regardless of distance. If you have to transfer to another bus, if its within 60 min of tapping in (we use Oyster cards but if you don't have one you can use a debit/bank card) it is free. The second bus costs you nothing extra.
4. You can drink your coffee, have a snooze, watch CZcams videos, read, put your headphones on, kick back and listen to a podcast or music whilst the bus driver takes you where you need to be. The bus communication system announces the name of each stop as well as putting it up on a screen.
5. Every walk of life uses the bus, mums with kids, office workers, cleaners, builders, solicitors, nurses, doctors etc.
Yeah, I haven't even mentioned the Thames clipper which you can also use that same oyster or debit card on. Sail down the Thames when you finish work, have a G&T, BLT sandwich and watch the sunset over the London cityscape.
Sorry US you can keep your cars, I like my public transport.
America is not a country🤨
I use bus to commute on daily basis here in Finland. I do have a car, but bus is just more convenient to me. It's not a poor people's choice here, all sorts of people use buses. On "my" bus line, a load of doctors travel daily because the line goes to a hospital.