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I have to go downtown once or twice a month. I used to take the train, because it was cheaper and if traffic on Lake Shore Drive is bad it can even be faster. The last time I rode a mentally ill homeless lady got right up in my face on the Sheridan platform and started yelling racial slurs: "you a white mother*ucker and you evil," etc, etc. Then people were smoking weed and cigarettes on the train. A homeless man was so dirty I could smell him across the car. When I got downtown the State Street Subway smelled like a urinal. The final straw was when I started hearing bad news reports, like this one guy getting stabbed on the Loop in broad daylight for his phone. So now I drive downtown and pay $25 to$40 to park my car. It's expensive but it's better than dealing with everything I mentioned. Someone told me the current CTA President is a former preacher who got the job through friends. That reminds me of when Bush appointed an Arabian horse breeder to run FEMA. When Katrina hit New Orleans that guy didn't know what to do. It seems like the CTA needs someone in charge who has some real understanding of transit. Let this guy go work some useless job in City Hall.

if only it didnt take decades to get stuff built around here. Im glad its all being build at least

Been to San Francisco a few times since the Subway opened and it is a shame that the North Beach extension was not done because that is a high activity center for ridership. In addition continuing the line to Fisherman's Wharf would be a game changer for residents and visitors to travel there.

The G line will get converted to light rail sooner than previously stated, especially since the new proposed SFV light rail line will start construction soon and will connect to the G line. The G line will then exist between a light rail and subway line. That will pose a huge demabd capacity issue that the G line will have trouble meeting. The community will demand the conversation to light rail sooner.

Seattle and Los Angeles building the most public rail transit in the USA! West Coast!

Congratulations, Seattle. Well done!!!

Call it the Chicago W problem solved

Automation is a big lift for a system that's as far behind as CTA. Building some of the pieces now like platform screen doors would have other benefits - like keeping people off the tracks and preventing track fires. However, the big thing to fix that could really help the L right now is fixing slow zones. Slow zones mean trains back up coming out of fast moving and high traffic areas like the Loop, which reduces train capacity across the system. In the month of August CTA removed ZERO slow zones.

All ComRail lines will be electrified by 2050

I would say that crime and the closure of stations have most contributed to the lack of ridership.

Boston needs world class trains

The ComRail needs electrification, Electric trains and the NorthSouth tunnel

Yes! Routes that are grade separated need to be automated! This could result in 2 car consists with 3 minute headways. So if you're on the L platform and it's -5°, your average wait time is 1.5 minutes. Creating 10 car consists shows CTA's bureaucratic mindset. "THEY will wait for our train and like it!" Automation would eliminate the bane of mass transit: having to wait for the next one to come along. (In the 1960's, my aunt explained to me that CTA busses have a herding instinct, so that when you've been waiting for 20 minutes, 3 of them arrive.) In addition to automation, they should be working to eliminate at-grade street crossings so those lines too can be automated. REALLY GOOD JOB you guys are doing!!!

I don’t get all the hate from urban planners on massive 1500 car garages when it comes to public transit. Yeah, a hybrid use like a grocery store or housing would be nice, but let’s be real…we can’t think in terms of just the cities and stops that have a station. If you’re coming from Marysville you don’t have to drive an hour to get to downtown Seattle in rush hour traffic. You can drive 30 min to Lynwood instead and just hop on LINK. LINK is not MUNI and just focuses on 1 city. It’s more like BART & focuses on connecting the region as a whole.

Yes!!! I would love that pink line extension and elevation. I live in south Forest Park and it would be great to have that.

The now pink line used to go exactly where you called out, the reason the parking lot like area exists now. The most densely populated municipalities in all IL are in the near west suburbs (Chicago is #5), and include densely populated Cicero and Berwyn. Having the old stops back could help. Beyond million less people in the city than years ago, far fewer people commute to work into the Loop than past. That may slowly come back but likely not to former levels anytime soon. Btw, the Lake Strret L (green) used to go South down the Dan Ryan (red) and other route changes. The old A and B stops might speed up commutes too

all these apartments look like prisons.

Transit Oriented Development has ruined the quality of life in the Seattle area.

If you want people in the suburbs to take mass transit it has to be easier than driving. Parking lots are a must

An excellent video. Well done.

OMF Central was at full capacity before the extension opened, but we managed to open it with the same headways. I would like to share how we did this! A little while ago, we noticed a train on the 1 Line that had the same wrap as one spotted on the 2 Line's opening day. Upon further inspection, it was the same train! This is because Sound Transit previously studied and identified spots all along the 1 Line to store trains overnight in station sidings, however, that wouldn't be enough. After the study, Sound Transit disrupted Angle Lake Station operations to connect and power the little catenary already put up on the Federal Way Link Extension, for a brief period some days would have a shuttle train running between Angle Lake and SeaTac/Airport, some days trains would end at SeaTac/Airport until a certain time, some days the station was closed all day (passengers were advised to take RapidRide A Line). The Federal Way Link Extension was still far from finished, but there was a segment directly south of Angle Lake that was. In preparation for Lynnwood Link Extension's opening, some trains from OMF East were shipped back to the 1 Line and trains were rotated from spending the night in the OMF to spending the night in a siding or spending the night on the Federal Way Link Extension. Come opening day, we not only manage to keep our headways the same, but make EVERY train 4 cars long (before Lynnwood opened, some trains were 3 cars long), AND we STILL run game day gap trains! This is such an incredible feat we have accomplished!

What about we do like a circle line subway and a circle commuter line

It will work somehow... But it's a huge lost opportunity that it doesn't go along SR99.

Households already own cars, and use them reflexively. Would you rather drive your car 5 minutes and park next to light rail, or take 20 minutes for a bus? (Disclaimer-I do NOT own a car, but have nothing against the parking garages, if they get riders within a couple miles of Sound Transit to drive to the garages, and then take light rail.)

Yay for Lynnwood! But communities on the south end and southeast side of Lake Washington have been ignored by light rail developers, yet we pay for the system, too. The system will extend all the way from Federal Way to Lynnwood and from Seattle to Bellevue and north. When will Kent, Renton, Kennydale, May Creek, Newcastle and Newport get any consideration? I could drive 20 minutes to the Tukwila station, but parking is woefully inadequate and bus service is beyond consideration.

Thoughtful and entertaining. Nice work. CTA, are you listening?

The buses aren't being replaced. We are losing our express buses! From Mukilteo, the 880, the 417, and other people from Snohomish are also losing their express buses. Now it will take us longer to make our commute and we will have to transfer. On the express buses that are being discontinued mid September, it was a straight shot. Now we have to take a bus to Lynnwood and transfer to the link to get downtown. No one is happy about this.

All stations part of st2 in this line were pitched to suburban voters with modest parking as a reason to accept perpetual taxation on their car registrations, some of the highest in the nation, on top of the local sound transit tax levies these highly suburban areas all the way to Everett. If anything, I'd argue the newcomers to these TOD sites are enjoying the taxes suburban voters started paying since st2 was approved in 2008 and had not seen anything in the way of returns until now. There is plenty of land around these sites for housing so the stacked park and rides which take no more room than a small 5 story building are not going to solve the issue of housing. To veto the modest parking, which at most provides 3000 spaces in a projected ridership of 50,000, would not just be a slap in the face to voters, but ensure they would mostly certainly vote against future expansions if sound transit wants an st4, or if sound transit comes to voters again for increased funding to finish ST3, which is way off track due to inflation. I can almost already smell it: sound transit coming back for more of that sweet nectar that is the suburban voter willing to pay decades ahead as they did with this line 😂 Let's not forget Snohomish county and North shoreline remain highly suburban areas and basics like sidewalks are missing all over the place with the bike networks being nearly totally absent unlike in the East side and Metropolitan Seattle. Bus service is also spotty on weekends running every 20-40 minutes if it runs at all and cars are pretty much a necessity and will remain so for the foreseeable future as this is true heart of suburbia, not some trendy neighborhoods like capitol hill right next to downtown. So the way transit projects like these are funded, cannot be the same way you find something for the car free crowd of the downtown core. Ultimately the type of development here will always include some modest parking. It is how sound transit sold it to the suburban voters asked to bear the massive tax load as low fare collection doesn't even begin to cover the costs of this new shiny project or even cover the maintenance burden suburban taxpayers are asked to cover regardless of fare intake, ridership, or any other shenanigans sounds transit plays with. so the next time you ride it and see the so called car addicted planet killing evil suburbs, tip your hat to them for having voted yes and paid for what you're on 😂. And with sound transit pathetically low fare recovery numbers and lack of even basics like fare gates, I see people ride free nearly every day. I always tell them: you're welcome as I pay my fare and my expensive registration, and my local transit levies so they get a free Ride 😎 I'm glad you enjoyed link. nice video and look forward to more..

once line two opens this will be by far the best segment of the entire system. 5 minute trains and 55 mph operations thanks to the grade separation is fantastic. There is a cross over South of Lynnwood. it is just not adjacent to the station. you were probably in a train that didn't cross

5:04 I don’t know how I haven’t seen this yet. This is great lol

1st video I've seen on your channel but based on my interests you popped up in my feed... perfect timing as I couldn't stomach the local news "reporters". I've lived on 3 continents and I have never been comfortable with the dependency on cars in the US, most specifically in the west. Having now lived in San Francisco, LA, a few months on a project in Portland and now Seattle This extension and these stations are a step in the right direction .. it's about 100 years too late for great impact. I look forward to taking an exploratory trip in the next couple of weekends so this was a perfect online tour. Thank you for the video!

Great channel and tour! The park and rides are definitely a choice. I don't love them for the reasons you pointed out, but at the Lynnwood opening I heard several people excited about being able to drive to the station instead of downtown. I hope it'll serve as an entry into transit for people who hadn't even considered it before. Unfortunately it will also probably make it harder to plan walkable urban centers near the stations, but hopefully they can figure out some sort of compromise.

There are two crossovers near Lynnwood Station. One just north of the platform, and one around where the 220th station would be.

Thank You!

I have heard that with the opening of the extension, they can store extra trains dirman at stations over night to allow for all trains ti be 4 cars long, which should help with crowds but its a bummer theyre at 100% capacity

1500 car garage* it’s massive which js amazing for those of us who live further north

7:04 Almost like a smack to the face, they actually developed one of the three large plots of land across from Pulaski Orange Line!! They didn't build any apartments or housing though, they built a damn Auto Zone. Legitimately the single type of business that will obtain no benefit from sitting on such a prime piece of transit-connected land. The worst part is there are Auto Zones on Archer/Harlem, Archer/Francisco, Pulaski/61st, Cicero/47th, and 49th/Kedzie. This makes it the 9th corporate car parts store in an area of about 9 square miles, 6 of which are other Auto Zones, and the third which is unnecessarily within throwing distance of an Orange Line station.

Coraopolis made the video! Nice!

7:03 - regards to the turning around of trains at Lynnwood, there is a crossover north of the station, and I think the long term plan is to have trains drop off passengers on the northbound platform, head into the turnback siding and crossover, and return to the southbound platform to pick up passengers. This would be similar to how Vancouver turns around its trains at Waterfront and King George, and by doing so it is actually more efficient by separating arriving and departing passengers (Vancouver's SkyTrains can run every 2 mins). I'm not sure why there is no crossover south of Lynnwood, that would've been useful if the one north of the station is out of use for any reason.

Man, I gotta visit Seattle again sometime. Maybe I could even move to one of those suburbs, maybe.

Pulse is an express bus, not BRT but that isn't a bad thing I think a good way to gradually improve service in an existing network would be to supplement existing busy bus routes with express busses. Successful express buss routes could be converted to BRT gradually with the regular road rebuilding needed in a city like Chicago. Finally successful BRT lines could be transitioned to rail once there is sufficient proven demand to justify the large upfront cost.

what is the document at 8:32 ?

This is great content! You can really tell y’all put in creative effort into creating an entertaining product :)

When the CTA took over the L system in 1947 it embarked on 5 - 10 year project to eliminate smaller stations and certain line extensions. Among them was a much longer version of today's Pink line, the remnant of which today are the parking lots that you noted. The Blue line went all the way to Westchester. Good job guys!

8:37 had me laughing quite a bit.

It’s simply not going to work, with four cars and a truck in everyone’s driveway we are beyond any kind of transit in the private sector…

New Castle operates Route 71 from the Transit Center that sits on the New Castle, Franklin & Clarion RR right of way as Route 71 follows the old A&A Railroad along U.S. 422 then down U.S. 18 left PA 488 at Portersville Exit to stop at Zelienople PNR then down I 79 to I 279 to I 579 to AMTRAK as Butler uses PA 356 to PA 68W to Zelienople PNR down to Pittsburgh as both New Castle and Butler thanks to mistake 7 Fields and Adams Township made years after Grove City Coach Lines folded had one of the past shareholders for Grove City Coach Lines and PHB&NC Rwy and Beaver Falls had that retired owner of New Castle Transit try to run a route from NC to Ellwood PA out on the past route for defunct Grove City Coach Lines. Leaving the man only option to push trips on Route 71 to Pittsburgh to due its current routing where both New Castle and Butler are forced by 7 Fields and Adams Township to not service PA 68 east of PA 528 eliminating U.S. 19 to West View Plaza as Butler and New Castle refuse to operate local on major growing areas since I was a boy.

Pittsburgh Harmony Short Line Trolleys mixed with Beaver Butler Allegheny County was to take over the Pittsburgh & Lisbon RR before Board destroyed everything. Butler tried fixed line to connect Harrison Twp. to Towne & Country running down through Butler to Cranberry Butler County to Northway Mall but PAT did all they could to screw everything up as they are great doing as PRT now is making things deeply worse.

What we need to do is replace busways with Regional Railroad passenger trains with AMTRAK and fix what Board destroyed.

It would be best for Rich Farr to take over SPC Systems as he would be far better to operate New Castle, Butler, Armstrong, IndiGo, PRT, Washington Rides Freedom Transit out of Washington County PA with Fayette Area Coordinated Transportation & Westmoreland as a whole. As Rich is building as all current PRT Region is doing is making things deeply worse. Kathleen is trying but she is hand tied with the Board of Directors and Unions keep our Region from growing and with far more mistakes of cutting routes from 1950's is harming us here in SW,NW,NC and SC PA as a whole.