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The House of Transit
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The House of Transit is run by a group of students who are passionate about urban transportation and hope to see transit improve in cities across North America. Our videos will update you on the state of transit in various regions in the US and Canada as well as offer our suggestions for how these systems could become even better.
Exploring the Lynnwood Link Extension | Stations Tour
Join us as we check out the four new stations on Sound Transit's brand new Lynnwood Link Extension! There's plenty to explore along the new line, from station art and bus loops to entire new neighborhoods.
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How to Fix the Chicago 'L'
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Chicago's transit system isn't living up to expectations lately. What's gone wrong, and what can be done to address these challenges? Find out in our latest installment of the Chicago Improvements Series! Into music from this G: ua-cam.com/video/6cFxOy11ZjM/v-deo.html Wanna talk with us about transit? Join our discord below discord.com/invite/eVrWjctkba Follow our... Twitter account x.com/house...
A Brisk Skytrain Departure
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A Canada Line Skytrain quickly accelerates out of Broadway-City Hall Station
How to Make a Good Bus Route
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Happy Halloween!!! 🎃⚰💀🚍 Is Pulse good? When should we build BRT? Are ghosts real? Some of these questions will be answered in our video about Pulse & BRT. Into music from this G: ua-cam.com/video/6cFxOy11ZjM/v-deo.html Image credit goes to a bunch of transit agencies and everything else is stolen Wanna talk with us about transit? Join our discord below discord.gg/eVrWjctkba Follow our Twitter.....
A Short CTA Video
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Brown Line train crossing the North branch of the Chicago river. Wanna talk with us about transit? Join our discord bellow discord.gg/eVrWjctkba Follow our Twitter HouseOfTransit
A short Caltrain Video
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A Caltrain pulls out of Mountain View on a sunny afternoon.
Central Subway: An Honest Reflection
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In this video, we discuss some of the core issues plaguing the eight month old Central Subway in San Francisco from a rider's personal experiences on the opening day and what solutions and measures could be done to fix them. All video footage recorded in-house Sources: (1): archive.org/details/fourcorridorplan95sanf/page/n9/mode/2up (2): www.sfexaminer.com/archives/willie-and-rose-how-an-allian...
WMATA De-Interlining Trilogy: Part 2, The New Blue Line
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Welcome to the long awaited part 2 of the De-Interlining trilogy. Today I will discuss my idea for a brand new blue line to transform the region. Blog Mentioned: www.alexblock.net/blog/2021/10/23/wmata-infill-stations-blue-yellow-line-ideas/ Wanna talk with us about transit? Join our discord bellow discord.gg/eVrWjctkba Follow our Twitter (or X account, I don’t care) HouseOfTransit
Improving Pittsburgh Regional Transit | PRT Expansion Concept
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Many thanks to my Yinzer pals for their advice with this concept and to APTA (not affiliated with this channel) for putting together a great 2023 rail conference hosted, of course, in Pittsburgh. Full concept map is visible here: www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/edit?mid=1kUbE_21vLqckCs1xBtPB_x1XXXV3w1Y&usp=sharing Wanna talk with us about transit? Join our discord bellow discord.gg/eVrWjctkba Follow ...
Potomac Yard Station Tour (+ Cab POV)
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Join The House of Transit as I tour the brand new Potomac Yard station on the DC Metro system. Wanna talk with us about transit? Join our discord bellow discord.gg/eVrWjctkba Follow our Twitter HouseOfTransit
LA Metro G Line | Transit Exploration
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A quick explanation of Los Angeles Metro's unusual bus rapid transit line. How did the G Line come about, and what does its future hold? Wanna talk with us about transit? Join our discord bellow discord.gg/eVrWjctkba Follow our Twitter HouseOfTransit
Broadway Subway | December 2022 Construction Update
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Broadway Subway | December 2022 Construction Update
Improving the RTD | Denver Fantasy Transit Map
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Improving the RTD | Denver Fantasy Transit Map
Broadway Subway | June 2022 Construction Update
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Broadway Subway | June 2022 Construction Update
Improving the MBTA | Boston Fantasy Transit Map
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Improving the MBTA | Boston Fantasy Transit Map
WMATA Deinterlining Trilogy: Part 1, Operations
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WMATA Deinterlining Trilogy: Part 1, Operations
Baltimore's Tumultuous Transit Story | THoTCast Episode 1
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Baltimore's Tumultuous Transit Story | THoTCast Episode 1
Northgate Link Extension | Stations Tour
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Northgate Link Extension | Stations Tour
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.
@@mrxman581 the case for rail has been building for years, we’ll see if that translates to accelerating its conversion
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
@@SignalMan9292 I like ya thinking
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!!!
@@HighHolyOne I like your aunt’s description haha
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.
@@misteriknow2069 true that, but we’ve also got express buses from Marysville. Even better if we can encourage folks to take advantage of those
@@thehouseoftransit2719 that’s not a bad start. I forgot about the express busses out there. Also, if we increase the Sounder Train frequency & hours we’ll have something special up there.
@thehouseoftransit2719 True, but you're asking a potentially 100% car driver to go completely to 100% public transit. Not happening. That's way to drastic of a change. Having a place to park your car and then use public transit for the restbof your trip is a great way to get 100% car drivers to start using the train. As the metro network continues to get more comprehensive, the less people will drive their cars. Once you can take a bus to a station in 15 minutes, people will begin to leave their cars at home. I'm speaking from personal experience using the LA Metro. Many stations have parking, but not as large as 1500 spaces. I now don't drive to many areas of LA County that is served by the LA Metro. I drive to the closest Metro station (15 minutes away), pay $2 to park all day, and spend the rest of the day or evening using the Metro. It's been great.
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.
@@markbrinton6815 you look like a prison
Transit Oriented Development has ruined the quality of life in the Seattle area.
You are insane. If transit is to terrible, why are the light rail trains and buses all packed? Why does everyone who uses it regularly love it? Car-oriented development destroyed the entire region about 70 years ago.
If you want people in the suburbs to take mass transit it has to be easier than driving. Parking lots are a must
It doesn't really matter. Most of us will never take it anyway. Would much rather drive.
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!
Y'all are heroes. I've super noticed the increased service recently, it's so awesome!!!
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.)
@@patlynch6517 True, it’s faster than waiting for the bus, but maybe as fellow non-car users we should be more concerned that the *transit* agency is spending tens of millions on building parking garages when that money could instead go to more frequent bus service that would get you and I (and everyone, for that matter) there more efficiently
@@thehouseoftransit2719 Sound Transit building parking garages doesn't really stop the local transit agencies from expanding and improving the frequencies of their own services though. ST Express is also bottlenecked by how many drivers the local agencies can allocate to it since Sound Transit doesn't run the service directly.
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.
@@JJ-kl5yj You’ll be getting a much-improved Stride bus rapid transit line on 405 in a few years! But Renton is deserving of better connections-perhaps a Sounder branch with frequent service into downtown Seattle?
You should really be careful thinking like this, it's what I call "bus icky syndrome". You pay for your sub-area's ST3 improvements. Your comment completely disregards the fact that you have NUMEROUS express bus choices that currently exist, as well as the future STride BRT S2 Line. *Do not tell yourself that the only transit we have is Link.*
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.
@@LisaFladager this is unfortunate, but I wonder whether the travel time will really be longer. CT is replacing the peak-only express route and winding local route to Mukilteo, for example, with a more-frequent and straighter all-day route that will run to Lynnwood. I can see it being frustrating if you used the express bus as a commuter, but the new routes will be a lot more flexible and widely available to people making all sorts of trips.
@@thehouseoftransit2719 thanks for replying. Yes it will be longer. The routes I'm talking about are the express commuter routes: the 417 and the 880. They went direct from the ferry to downtown. As I said in my comment, adding the new bus line, the 117, will be great for folks traveling in the middle of the day, much much better than the 113 (which was the milk run and took forever). But commuters will suffer. Why not do both? The 417 and 880 during commuter time and the 117 during the middle of the day and on the weekends?
@@LisaFladager I agree with you. The problem with light rail is that if it stops too much, then it becomes anti-competitive with buses on the express lane. The infill station in 130th doesn't help a system that already takes about as long as it does to drive on moderate traffic and shoreline north is...questionable at best when shoreline south already serves shoreline's far better positioned hub... I've done some test rides to the office and the bus beats light rail all the time except when the I5 express is closed which clogs the HOV lane. I suspect sound transit and community transit will soon realize they blew it and that the light rail is far too slow to be of any use to Snohomish county users that are coming from Mukilteo and Everett and re-instate the buses. IMO they should make Ashway their last stop and skip LTC and MLT on all express routes as those express stops are basically pointless now. Based on the anger I've seen on their FB pages from people that are trashing the fact their commute increased in time and requires an unnecessary transfer to light rail, I bet they will walk back their bad choices before long. I suppose they could keep the MLT stop as it is literally in the middle of the freeway and MTL users can choose slow lightrail or fast bus depending on traffic conditions.
@@cmdrls212 I hope so.
On September 14th the N Line will be getting new trips. That's commuter rail service from Mukilteo to Downtown.
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..
@@walawala-fo7ds if the parking gets riders to drive 5 minutes to a light rail station and park there-GREAT! Much better than a bus and transfer, and way better than driving to downtown Seattle and paying $40 to $70 for parking!
One board member express interest in knocking down parking garages and building TOD when ridership becomes "sustainable" in the far future. I find this extremely funny, and the average car dependant suburbanite can go screw themselves haha! Also, luckily Sound Transit was never meant to make money from fares like BART is. We are making the good choice of subsidizing transit just like we do highways and cars (we should stop that though)
@@realquadmoo One member can't do anything. The board will never vote for it to approve it. The garages were part of the voter approved plan and sound transit will continue to build them as they are legally obligated to do so. urbanites just need to suck it up 🤣 Defunding highways would require changes to state and federal laws. Good luck getting elected on that platform. another thing urbanites will need to just suck up lol.
@@realquadmoo the most ridiculous phrase in the country is car-dependent. Cars make you independent. That's why Washington government hates them.
I'll be sure to vote NO on any further expansions.
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
@@cmdrls212 in many ways it is unfortunate that the rest of the network has not been built to these standards. True about the crossover, but it’s too far south to enable the high frequency service ST aims to run
@@thehouseoftransit2719 Well I'm not a train engineer so I can't speak to that, but I can tell you that I've seen trains north of the Lynwood platform where they can also stage and they routinely are pushing right at the edge of where the elevated segment ends. Sound transit has so far not backed out of the plan to provide 5 minute frequency so I'm guessing people already did the math and it works out. The cross over is actually near the 220th construction staging area. I guess we'll find out by next year. I will check next time I'm there but I think there is another cross over just north of the station which allows a train to switch tracks after the platform. That explains why I kept seeing trains go past the station then return during testing of the line :)
@@thehouseoftransit2719 The federal way extension is at a similar standard. I think sound transit realizes they need to go for speed in the suburbs or end up with a disaster like the MLK segment or the expo line in LA
@@neonspark707 Sound Transit’s official planning guidelines pretty much ban constructing any new grade crossings moving forward. Federal Way will be a very fast line, but only until you hit MLK, which means it will probably be most popular among travelers and airport employees
@@cmdrls212 You are correct, there is a crossover north of the station, but that one’s also more time-consuming to turn trains on. I can’t seem to find the article that goes into more detail about the problems ST identified, but for now I’ll remain optimistic they can deliver the initially planned service
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!
I don't know about 100 years. It is already getting huge developments in lynwood, shoreline and MLT on top of probably what will be the highest ridership extension compared to the east link and federal way link extensions. To see those large housing towers this far into the suburbs would be the kind of thing that would take 100 years was it not for this line. And once it connects to Evertt and tacoma, it is going to be bonkers. I think they need a second line to go up and down 99 because unlike SF and LA, Seattle only has one freeway going east/west and one freeway going north south, with a partial seattle bypass we call 405 that acts more like a short spine for bellevelue than the bypass designation it has (see freeway naming code if you're unsure about why it is 405 and not i7)
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.
@@AmbientMorality they’re an unnecessary and expensive choice but at the very least contain all the parking in a small space, and I have no doubt they’ll be packed in no time
Something interesting is that at a Sound Transit board meeting I once sat in at, one of the members mentioned in the far future when ridership is sustainable, a desire to knock down the garages and build TOD where they were.
@@realquadmoo seems wasteful and unlikely to happen but would be nice
@@thehouseoftransit2719 It just shows that some board members are aware of the issue
There are two crossovers near Lynnwood Station. One just north of the platform, and one around where the 220th station would be.
@@brianbui9618 those’ll become necessary, but they don’t work nearly as efficiently as one just south of the station would
@@thehouseoftransit2719 I think with two cross overs they can more than handle 5 minute frequency during the peaks. Anyother time they can use the south crossover more than comfortable as there will not be a train coming the other way. They can't fix the I90 bridge soon enough...
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
I have lived in major cities all over the world but even compared to New York City, the trains tend to run 8-10 cars! And that's every 5 or 10 minutes! You can tell it's been an adjustment moving to the west coast!
@@IntriguedLionessthat's heavy rail. this is light rail. Link outperforms most light rail thanks to its higher speeds and grade separation where it has to, but it is not a high capacity metro system. I'm not sure Seattle could afford one anyway and with federal assistance being unpredictable and waning as politics get more hardcore, it is unlikely voters would approve such system to begin with.
@@cmdrls212 We could afford one. Link is far more expensive than a heavy rail system would've been. But since you aren't aware of our history (not sure why you make these claims then), we rejected metro systems in 1911, 1958, and 1970.
@@realquadmoo Per mile heavy rail is more expensive, about 2-3x higher. Track standards are higher and alignment requires trade-offs for higher capacity with longer stations and since you need to deliver power via ground means, at grade stations are a no go, raising costs significantly. Since you are quoting history, how about you recall the vote to defund sound transit tabs tax which would have crippled the project a couple of years ago. 30 dollar tabs remember? The court saved the project on a technicality, but for you to claim we can afford more when sound transit is already pushing projects back due to out of control inflation and costs, the price of heavy rail could easily have ended in financial strain leading to another vote for more funding...a vote they probably would loose, considering voters already defunded a huge part of link once. so yeah not buying what you are selling here. heavy rail is way beyond the reach of Seattle. and unlike with forward thrust, the federal government is not coming in and covering 90%. So the situation isn't the same at all, not to mention the costs are so much higher, heavy rail probably would put sound transit in the same issue Vancouver finds itself now: asking the government for a bailout as it faces catastrophic system funding collapse in a few years and is about to undertake on drastic cuts. I guess Vancouver also thought they could afford it 😉
@@realquadmoo Heavy rail systems usually involve more complex construction, including tunnels, elevated tracks, and larger stations. They also support higher-capacity, heavier trains, which requires more robust infrastructure. Heavy rail costs in average 200M per mile but can go to 1B per mile if you need heavy rail tunnels. Light rail is 50-150M per mile. There is no scenario where heavy rail is cheaper and all literature contradicts your claim.
1500 car garage* it’s massive which js amazing for those of us who live further north
or East or West. Local buses don't run frequent enough or cover enough to not drive unless you're near one of the few lines. and most lines still go to Aurora transit center which means wasting a ton of time on this vestige of the old transit backbone. you then have to switch to another bus only to reach the shoreline station... it's so stupid they are basically begging people to drive 😂
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.
@@Therecreep this is insane
Coraopolis made the video! Nice!
@@houckola84 never been but I like your town’s name!
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.
@@naturallyherb this is true, though checking and cleaning all the cars while the driver walks to the other end of the train in 8 minutes has proven challenging. Much easier in Vancouver with driverless fully-walk-through trains
@@thehouseoftransit2719 Dude, I'm pretty surprised link light rail is human driven tbh.
@@thehouseoftransit2719 Oh, and if the 2 line terminates at Northgate, I'll be livid!
@@MikeDunphy in this day and age it is pretty surprising it isn’t automated. I also hope the 2 Line will run all the way north!
I think they either will operate the turn back in one of 2 ways. A second operator hops in to the train when it arrives and takes control after the first operator drives past the crossover and turns off control, or they will do what the Elizabeth line does and the driver can initiate an automated turn back.
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 ?
Here ya go www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/6/RP_CDMSMITH_RCM_Task2AExecutiveSummary_20170628_FINAL.pdf
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@@nathangraves227 Happy to hear it!
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!
The Chicago, Aurora, & Elgin railroad
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.