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nothing but FACTSSS

No, you’re just too broke to buy a car to understand the usefulness of parking lots.

It won't matter as long as they're blue Chicago will be worthless

As someone who lives on Lakeshore Drive would be so great if we could have some sort of subway or light rail that would hug the lakefront. Right now I either have to walk 20 minutes to the red line or basically wait the equivalent for a 146 bus.

Bro the stadium brings a lot of jobs already

Oh boy can’t wait for 1/4 of the projects funding to go “missing” and for the insanely high rent that these places will charge for being close to a stadium. This will definitely help out chicagoans!

I'm sure parking garages will be part of this, but yeah the west side needs serious help and development.

Nothing unusual.

NJ transit is not successful they can barely run trains and keep up there own schedules over a dozen cancellations daily compare it to Long Island rail road or metro north

Yup, and there will still be parking for the United Center of course. This development is exactly what we've been needing at this site (and the Sox field as well!) for years, and I can only imagine it will lead to a new Pink Line stop (which is obviously long overdue)

Minneapolis erasure?

A minor correction: the eastern terminus of the line was not moved immediately from downtown South Bend to the airport. In between times, it terminated at Bendix Drive on the west side. Not very convenient at all, but there were cabs generally waiting to take you where you wanted to go from there. I rode the South Shore a few times in the early 1980s. Both the old Insull-era orange cars and the new cars shortly after they were put into service.

Great video and great argument. Parking pales in comparison to helping people get better housing and revitalizing areas.

Western Line from Howard to University of Chicago!

C tier was higher than I expected for baltimore. I live here and have for my whole life. The light rail and metro are fine systems and marc is good but there isn't enough of them. The buses might have fine schedules but their pathing is horrible. Wanna go 5 blocks? You likely will need to make 3 connections because there are only a few instances where the buses maintain a straight line for longer than just a couple blocks. Our rail is lacking a lot both due to nimbyism and lack of tracks. Nimbyism (and the "crime magnet/tax waste" people) prevents metros being added and the lack of existing rails prevent commuter rail service. There used to be a lot more tracks surrounding baltimore but were removed due to lack of use in the 50s and now new infrastructure takes its place meaning it can't be put back without going through houses and buildings. Adding more metro lines in baltimore would be best once we figure out how.

Urban transit just needs to do doorstep to doorstep faster than a car. So do that. The key component is the intention to succeed. Make sure that anyone with a vested interest in the failure of the project is kept far away from decision making.

ik your focused on the transit side more.. but come on.. didn’t have to do columbus dirty like that

I know New York City has the best modes of transit and walkable areas

I'm a South Bend native myself and still remember when the Big Orange cars came all the way downtown to the station at Michigan and LaSalle Sts. The terminus in South Bend was initially moved to the west side of town near Bendix in 1970. Amtrak still uses this station today. The South Shore moved its terminus to the airport later. New cars were ordered in 1980-ish and were phased in during 1982-83. The last of the Big Orange cars were retired in September of 1983. My late aunt remember that when my mother's family arrived in South Bend in 1949, South Shore trains ran to Chicago every hour. You didn't even need a timetable - if you missed a train, there would be another one.

Thanks!

We don’t need to cut passenger trains because America is so sprawled. On the contrary its sprawl is the very reason we need Long Distance Trains. 2,800 miles!

RAAA J LINE MENTIONED WHAT THE FUCK IS A LIGHT RAIL!!!!

im so tired i thought burlington vermont was going to be in this list i dont even live in the northeast

3:30 it’s NICTD

As a sac native, the public transport here is a joke. Can't wait to move somewhere with decent public infrastructure.

Michigan City, Indiana got it's name from being the northern termimus of the historic Michigan Road in th early 1800s.

I took the SSL in March when they were still in the middle of re-tracking, so it’s great to hear that got finished up! All hail the south shore

Rode that monorail countless times. Always love it.

Cool compilation! Thanks! 👍🏼🚌🚎🚉

🤔 Are light rail and trams the same thing? 🤨

I wanna go to the basilica sooooo badly

No they don't. Portland has an extensive tram system that's connected, and many are in segregated parts of the streets and not in mixed traffick. In Sacramento, they barley have lines to begin with, and they serve no one but tourists.

Bro did Minneapolis and forgot St. Paul 💀

The new line isn't that hard to put in since it's almost entirely on an old abandoned line where some of the track was never pulled. A rail-trail is being moved for much of this run.

Any new cars will have to come from Alstom or maybe GE of Philadelphia.

I think the extension to west Sac is a street car not light rail (unless they recently revised plans due to the A’s playing at Sutter Health Park)

I was raised in neighboring new buffalo michigan. My father who works at his job in Chicago. he takes this train daily from Michigan city at 11th or Carroll to Chicago millennium station.

I use MetroLink 5 days a week to go to and from work (though, in the afternoon/evening I will usually take the bus since it gives me a better walk home). Additionally, I use MetroLink to go to and from to my doctor appointments. And finally and best yet, St. Louis public transit system has allowed me to go car-free as I'm able to walk to most other places nearby. Thank you St. Louis!

That Adelaide guided busway you showed at 0:56 is quite the interesting system. The history behind it is that the greater Adelaide area experienced significant growth during and after WWII, and thus so did the number of vehicles registered. By the mid-1970s, transportation had become a problem in the northeastern suburbs. This led to a study that concluded that a light-rail would be the best option. However, there was opposition because people thought it would interfere with the well-designed layout of the city proper, and that light-rail vehicles would be too noisy. In search of a replacement for the light rail project, they examined the O-Bahn system in Essen in what was then West Germany by Daimler-Benz. The system was seen as far superior to previous proposals because it was flexible, used less land, made less noise, they viewed it as faster and as mentioned here as a reason for BRT, it cost less. In addition, its unique feature of a non-transfer service direct from suburban streets to the city center made it more attractive. With this system, the buses use a guide-wheel, which protrudes just ahead of the front wheels. It is connected directly to the steering mechanism and steers the bus by running along the raised edge of the track. Adelaide's track is 12 km/7.5 mi long and includes three interchanges at Klemzig, Paradise and Tea Tree Plaza. With its interchanges, it allows buses to enter and exit the busway and to continue on suburban routes, avoiding the need for passengers to transfer to another bus to continue their journey. Not to mention, the O-Bahn has sump buster devices to prevent cars. The O-Bahn has caused a clustering of commercial and community development near the Tea Tree Plaza Interchange, as service-providing organizations and businesses have of course sought to exploit the area's easy accessibility to public transit and the city center. Market imperatives have also been aided by the zoning of the land around the area as commercial rather than residential. The large Modbury Hospital is adjacent to the interchange, and the Torrens Valley campus of TAFE was built directly to the east of the busway after it opened

"Beautiful mess." Interesting description... 😆

Great, I hope this helps them fix all their other issues.

Yeah, last time I was in LA, I took transit to get the the LACMA. I had 2 transfers, metrolink to d-line then d-line to bus. With this extension, you could just take the train all the way to the lacma and not have to transfer.