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All problems caused on Metro are from people who don't pay there fare. I feel like a fool for paying my fare when a good 30-50% don't pay.

12:00 rather misleading to imply the current caltrain line will ever be high speed. "blended corridor" is the key here

in the event of a power cut, you can't blame the train for the delay, it's someone else's fault and in the early days when operations were still mixed, the EMUs often had to run much slower than they could have because of the old trains almost nobody here (Switzerland) knows what a diesel train is, 99.99% are electric here, diesel is still used for freight transport and individual company tracks and there are more and more battery-powered locomotives or hybrids

Where are the bathrooms?

We spent 5 days in london taking the tube pretty much all times of the day and week. And no question, the train was most packed on a sunday evening.

The one thing that will make this transport popular is if Caltrain keeps the prices low. Prices are killing BART and the bloody bridge tolls are horrible. I look forward to riding this train myself in the coming days to see for myself the improvements to the line. It looks great so far.

If LA were the same size as Paris it would go from Westwood blvd to La Brea. Going over 22 miles by public transportation is a lot to ask in any city, even Paris.

You should have taken the commuter train to el monte station rather than two busses

One of the most interesting videos about LA, thanks And hello from central Russia btw)

You can go to SF from SJ by bus, but it's two different systems. You have to take the VTA #22/#522 to Palo Alto, then get onto the bus service for the peninsula.

The diesel train *cars* are/were Kinki Sharyo made in Japan, I think newer than 1950s. But the new electric trains are really nice. Much quieter, faster, and more frequent.

9:12 Is one of those a Texas flag? Maybe I’m tripping.

You mentioned waiting for a BART train, but not waiting for CalTrain.

Extremely long time arrival.

Are you Indonesian?

How did you do the return journey?

That girl on the train peeling stickers. Someone to take home to meet Mum. Yes/no?

Not scary, they tourist guides.

Tapping while entering a bus seems very time consuming. Imagine a lot of people have to get in. The bus has to wait for all these people and then it will be never on time. I'm glad it's not like that, where I come from.

Revolutionized, give me a break! Being to Japan n China ?

The minor time reduction is nice, but hardly ‘revolutionary’. The clean new trains are nice, also. Wish that the ‘wise people’ of San Mateo County had allowed BART to come south several decades ago, eliminating the need for this regional patch.

Sir Newsom should buy high quality trains from China not this old technology ones.

There’s fights and stabbings in LA and a dude sitting on a seat minding his own business is scary to you, wtf.

I am not nearly so confident. If you ride caltrain on a regular basis you'll understand what a dumpster fire it is. All you need is one train to have an issue for the entire line, both directions to be halted and it happens A LOT!! they don't have enough tracks for the trains to bypass problems. 2nd, unless you ride frequently and buy monthly passes you'll be horrified to realize depending on your commute that it's actually cheaper to drive. 3rd, frequency and connection is a problem. It's one thing to follow the caltrain schedule but if you're far from a station you will have to use one of the other billion transit systems like vta which outside of rush hour will run once every 20-30 minutes. That feeling when you see your light rail pull away. And caltrain can't possibly sync up with so many different agencies. In my 10 years working in Sunnyvale having to work long hours it became pointless to use caltrain.

59 minutes may be “under an hour” on paper or might make an attractive headline, but let’s be honest, it’s really an hour. Just like $1.99 is not less than 2 bucks, it is two bucks, it’s just a marketing mind game. And most of the time the ride from SJ to SF takes more than an hour as they don’t arrive in SF on time. I’m happy the ride is an hour long but wish it was closer to 50 minutes. That, to me, would have been “under an hour“.

No I don't think it will have a significant impact other increased efficiency The whole point of converting caltrain to electric has to do with high speed rail California high speed rail hardware has not been constructed so we don't know if these new line are compatible It's going to be years before the high speed rail is ready so we don't know

Why can’t they convert this into a Bart line?

It looks like the regional double decker trains in Germany. Those trains are probably built by Siemens. Hopefully other cities get those also. And may be ICE high speed trains to travel fast between the cities … come on California you can do that! Morocco, Indonesia and Mexico have got them already!

Slightly biased video - everyone knows Wilshire/Western is much cleaner and safer than Wilshire/Vermont.

When you’ve seen it all! A Chinese talking like an Englishman.

Prefer the diesel

Needs to be faster! Build Elevated lines over all Freeways. Super quite Japans type. If Japan can build cities around train station. The LA NIMBY will have to deal with it. OR build in a half tunnel so sound reflects up.

Hopefully electrification will be extended much further.

These diesel trains would also work on Chicago's METRA RAILROADs being virtually the same and uf METRA needed additional trains these trainsets could be the answer.

When I moved to Palo Alto in 1984 there was talk of electrifying CalTrain. Forty years later and it's reality with all of the benefits we saw back then. But I shouldn't complain - at least it happened in my lifetime.

7:12 is because of those weird people, that citizens ara afraid to use the metro.

the future happens in california

never rode the bart or calitrain but ive always wanted to, rather than drive

Love your opening car park scene. Very American 😂

I'm going to miss the old old trains that looked like aluminium trash cans. The upstairs single seat was the best public transportation seat.

And as I suspected, Caltrain totally changed the schedule so that the rapid 1 hour time trains are 3 in the extremely early morning to San Jose/SF and 3 in the early afternoon back to SF/SJ. So there are now LESS "bullet trains" than before, there is now longer wait times between trains, a minimum of 30 minutes, not 20 like before. Caltrain basically thinks we are fucking idiots and cant see that the electrification has actually decreased frequency and increased travel duration to Caltrains benefit at the expense of convenience for customers. Something I KNEW they would do. They'd talk a big fucking game about travel time being cut, more trains, etc, but they made it so inconvenient that its easier to take BART to Milpitas and jump on a VTA bus to downtown. As for getting back to SF, BART stops running direct trains and Caltrain stops at every stop to SF. You're better off spending the night in San Jose and getting a 5AM bullet train back to SF the next morning.

7:11 how did they not get arrested for that?

7:26 they gotta be experts on that no sane person knows how to use it well enough

look at the trains around the world...USB, WiFi that works, and chair that reclines.

Acabo de regresar de un viaje a Los Ángeles, fue mi primer visita y me trasladé en transporte público y se me hizo muy bien, comparado con el colapsado de mi ciudad. Como en todas las grandes ciudades hay indigentes y gente rara pero es normal. Me moví desde el aeropuerto, venice Beach, walk of fame, universal studios y hasta un concierto en San Pedro. Todo en transporte público. Me enamoré de la ciudad.

love the commentary

Where is your accent from? ❤❤❤

Look at the ridership already! I'm so excited to finally see us all getting back into rail transit and seeing the huge benefits it has, and as you guys can see in the comments of these videos, the rest of the world is rooting us on!

Um, the train was free that day

$9 seems cheap considering the price of a New Jersey transit train from Hamilton to NYC to nearly double that; and the trains are old. Even the new double decker trains are showing their age with most of the windows being completely fogged over with no clear view outside.