Why is Prague Public Transit so great?
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- **CORRECTION**
In the video, I said that the 90 minute ticket costs 42 CZK, but they actually cost 40 CZK.
I'm sorry for being an idiot.
Prague's public transit system is great, so much so that 49% of trips made are by transit. Buses, trains, trams, metros, boats, a trolleybus and a funicular move millions of people per day. In this video we'll explore the reason of Why is Prague public transit so great.
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0:00 Intro
0:36 Scale
2:09 Cost
3:54 Frequency
4:56 Reliability
5:43 Integration (except for the trains😢)
6:21 Simplicity (at least in Prague itself lol)
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***CORRECTION***
In the video, I said that the 90 minute ticket costs 42 CZK, but they actually cost 40 CZK.
I'm sorry for being an idiot.
That's literally a rounding error. You're fine man
Actually, 42 CZK is also correct - you pay that much for an SMS ticket.
That's almost the same, 2czk are nothing
I lived in Prague for a couple of years back in the early 2010's. For me, Prague's public transport is the gold standard that I compare everything else too. Cheap, efficient, and reliable. Honestly, the way it should be done everywhere. I fell in love with this city very quickly, and being able to get from A to B quickly and efficiently was definitely a major factor in that.
Love your content, keep up the good work!
I didnt expect the "prdel světa" part :D i laugh so hard when i heard it, as i am a Czech guy :D
Same :D
Me too, that was so good :D
True 😆
1:44 lol in Poland we call them „zadupie” (same meaning literally)
Great video. Wish the transport would be as good in my city
Thanks! Hope that transit in your city improves!
Dzięki, nauczyłem się nowe słówko. Mam nadzieję, że go ale nie będę nigdy potrzebował.
6:07 The 305 line is my line!! I go from Tuchlovice to Prague really often. I would love for it to run every hour - it would make planning trips a lot easier but I still cant believe that a small village like Tuchlovice still gets really frequent and direct transit to Prague.
It's nice that the bus runs at all, but yes, it'd be great if it ran every hour
As I am a daily user of Prague's public transit system, i love that someone brings the well deserved attention to Prague's trams. By the way, I had subscribed to your channel. Also, i was surprised if you knowing the phrase "Prdel světa"😂.
Aha, vy jste Čech že? No jo přízvuk prozradí většinu lidí... Ale angličtina dobrá
přesně tak 😂
ale děkuju, snažím se na tom přízvuku pracovat ale pořád to není ono
In german we call it "Ass of the world" too. Prague and Berlin are probably some of the best transit cities in Europe. Cheap frequent and extensive. Prague has the "benefit" of having been in the Eastern bloc and thus still has a culture of public transport instead of car focused but in its character it's very european, compared to some sprawling Soviet city of wide avenues and commie blocks that make up 95% of the city. The perfect mix.
Though things could be different in Prague. There was plan, dating back to early 1970s, to rebuilt most of the city into that ideal of communist city based upon those Soviet cities. Only the inner historical centre was about to be saved from this fate. They even started with the plan in Žižkov, but fortunately, the plan was so slow, that Velvet Revolution came before it could spread outside of Žižkov.
@@petrnovak7235 The Prague Assanation in 1880s-1910s (formally to 1940s) was principially the same, but without communists. The authentic center of Prague was demolished and since then, we have gotten used to considering even the new buildings as the "old Prague".
@@breznik1197 Oh yes, that's good reminder here either. Josefov got it especially hard in that assanation. Not much was left of the original Jewish Quarter that was in current day Josefov.
@@petrnovak7235 However, the Art Nouveau and Renaissance Revival architecture was a bit another level than the socialist panel blocks. Even though some panel estates have some kind of functionalist beauty, but not those in the old Žižkov.
1:44 lmao, caught me off guard, didnt expect that in such a serious (or at least serious-sounding) video
thanks lol
yeah that's my style of videos: semi-serious videos about transport and urbanism
I try to be as accurate with the information as possible, I research quite a lot for every video, but I also throw in terrible sketches and memes to make it a little bit more light-hearted and fun xd
Yeah, that’s a good summary. The Prague transportation is fantastic.
Glad you liked the video!
Thanks for the interesting video :)
The tram system in Prague reminds me of the trams in my city. There are also many Tatras and most of the lines are separate. But the difference is that our system is not so stable. And we also have only one metro line, although the population and density are large. I hope someday, in my city, they will also deal with the issue of the stability of transport.
Greetings from Yekaterinburg.
Pro tip: Petřín funicular is included if you have full day ticket at least. Otherwise it costs 60CZK. So if you want to go up and down you can buy full day ticket and the price is the same but you can use whole system that day.
A still we are infested with cars. How does it work in other cities, when they don't have this great public transport? For example, Vienna is not infested this much and the city is twice as big..
They banned cars in the city centre I think
You either walk, use taxi, Uber, Lyft, family, friends, hitchhike that's it. I don't own a car I live in a suburban town in the USA, buses are available but its "rural" transport. They're mini buses, you pay a monthly service so if you just want a one service they aren't good their operation time is severely limited. And they have no dedicated bus in my city area. Well, we do have private plane company in my area. We have trains but those are only for freight but I guess could try hitch a ride with them.
Very rural areas are just F. Not much you can do there.
In the USA many cities have have 0 good public transit. I'm talking cities with over a million people literally not even having a train system. The only exceptions are NYC, Chicago, DC, SF, and a few others.
Places like Phoenix, El Paso, Cincinati etc literally do not have a single train, tram, etc and the busses run every 30 minutes to an hour. All of these cities have huge populations.
Basically people in those cities exclusively get around via car. Weather it's their car or someone else's. That's it. Walkability is impossible because of horrible land use and car centric design. There's 0 bike infrastructure, and 0 reliable public transit
Vienna has different type of car infestation
Drazí Češi, tady máte krásný příklad toho, že nejsme až takovou dírou, jak si někdo myslí. Vím dobře, jak jako národ nadáváme na hromadnou dopravu (i já občas vyjádřím svojí nespokojenost) a jak žádáme její zkvalitnění a jsme v právu, nicméně nezapomínejte, že to, co bereme pro sebe jako samozřejmost, je v jiných zemích vzdálený sen. Buďme rádi za to, že jsme Češi, taková рrdеl ѕvětа zase úplně nejsme...
Přesně. My Češi jsme mistři světa v nadávání na různé věci, ale musíme uznat, že i přes všechny nedostatky, je pražské MHD opravdu skvělé
@@TheTramly Děkuji za poklonu, nicméně povedené video.
Nejsme na tom tak hrozně, určitě ne, ale nebýt habsburské nadvlády, odmítnutí Marshallova plánu a likvidace národní morálního kreditu a zároveň části země vyhnáním místních Němců, tak by se to tady dalo.
@@TheTramly Nutno dodat, že kromě PIDu, DÚK, IDPK, IDOLu a IDS JMK to je všude velmi "meh", třeba Karlovarský kraj absolutně exceluje v nesmyslných linkových vedeních a neskutečně špatné frekvenci / kvalitě spojů.
Češi co řikaj jak je tady všechno na hovno evidentně nikdy nenavštívili země kde je to ještě daleko víc na hovno, což je velká část všech ostatních zemí. Někdo nadává že je tu border....běžte se volové podívat do Portugalska jakej bordel je tam, to samý s MHD, za posledních 10 let jsem v Evropě nacestoval celkem dost a lepší MHD než u nás nemaj nikde. Jako dalo by se polemizovat o vlacích, u nás by to bylo super nebejt těch zpoždění, ale co se týče spolehlivosti vlaků, tak nás rozdrtí i Polsko.
This video really feels different with all hand drawn pictures. But thing that got me into tears is mention of prdel světa :D
Skvělá práce!
A public transit system this good is history in the USA...
Awesome, I like your content in general, and this video in particular. Just a minor observation: I don't think there's a need to fuss over a 42 CZK instead of 40 CZK error. Instead, I reckon it would be more beneficial to convert all the amounts into USD in the video, as I presume this channel aims for a general audience, who would need to do the math themselves anyway to understand how much 42 CZK, or any other amount in CZK, really is.
Good point!
Very interesting channel. I am so glad to be here before it because really big.
it's nice to see blurry Prague in 1080p 😀 BTW, connection to Prague on weekends can be pretty bad, like for example line S1 which has the last normal train at 20:58 (too soon) and then at 23:30 (too late), while in working days, ther are 2 more trains between that, I totaly hate this, I would be in Prague much often if there wasn't this problem. And buses are totaly useless, it goes only once in 2 hours and because of people buy tickets from driver, it has really terrible delays.
I can confirm that this 5:35 looks like typical Czechia in 2023 with all those rains 😀
As a native Praguer, I cannot disagree. The cars are always clean, on time, and the tickets are affordable.
Apparently, there are a few on demand tram stops and those request stops don't stop trams from being very reliable. Most of your bus stops are request stops but they still manage to show up no later than they are supposed to do so, right?
@@Myrtone thank you for your reply, these days a new rule has been launched that all bus stops are mandatory request stops which makes many people angry which I understand, but at the end I believe it's a right step towards lower expenditures; and yes, the transport is mostly on time which is awesome; a certain drawback of Prague is maybe a quite sparse tram net (old tracks have been cancelled decades ago and not restored until today, which is pity because besides the subway ["metro"] it's the very backbone of Prague)
@@dernochjungenoergler Yes but how do buses manage to be very reliable if they stop on demand?
As for the sparse tramways, I wonder if could be made less of a problem by improving cycling infrastructure and displacing short local transit trips.
Stopping on demand at stops so busy they are almost never skipped is not so good as requesting them might feel pointless.
It is possible to stop on demand at some stops but not others and even switch between request and compulsory stopping depending on demand.
You had my subscription for like 5 minutes until you said Zbraslav is prdel světa. You can literally be on Smíchov in like 11-13 minutes if traffic on Strakonická is good. Or in Vršovice or Hlavní Nádraží in like 20 minutes by train. Zbraslav GOATED!!!
~prd*l světa ~
Dobře, teď jsi mě dostal 😆
Jinak bych na seznam přidala Chýnici, tam bus jezdí jednou za 4 hodiny
A to jsem si myslela, že vesnický busy s frekvencí jednou za 3 hodiny jsou naprd
4:58 I'm not sure what you mean by that, some lines of buses are oftentimes delayed and sometimes a stop is cancelled (for privacy reasons I can't say which line)
Ok I'll say it goes through somewhere between Michle and Vyšehrad
Maybe the system needs "Oyster" (a universal automatic electronic farecard).
Quite many similarities with Sweden. A monthly ticket in stockholm costs about 95euros and can be used on every mode of local transport. A 75min ticket costs about 3.5euros. Let me know if this is way too expensive!!!
Thanks for watching! I think that's about right, because Swedish wages are probably higher than Czech wages, so Stockholm citizens can afford more expensive tickets
I pay 120/130eu for my 6 month public transport pass. Bus/tram/metro and trains inside the Prague area
@@Dexxter_slav that’s a bit on the high end.
@@TrainsBuses that's 3.000czk.. darn cheap. Or was that sarcasm :(
How much is yearly ticket in Stockholm? Here in Prague 3650 Czech Crowns whichh makes 10 Crowns a day, which is extremely cheap.
You forgot the boats. :D P1-7
Hlavní nádraží i Hauptbahnhof se do angličtiny správně překládá jako central station.
1:46 ah the famous "жопа мира" how unexpected and refreshing to see same thing but in a different language
I mean, is it?
jen tangencialni trasy jsou docela na nic nebo nejsou vubec bohuzel
The transit in Prague is really great, but depending where you live and want to travel, it can be not so great. For some routes, it can be 15-20 minutes by car, and 45 minutes by public transit. Also, homeless people use it as a place to spend time when it is cold, so a lot of times it smells really bad inside. But if you want to save money or just cant afford a car, or you cant park at your job, public transit is really cheap, reliable and easy way to get around. For me, car is faster, comfortable, but more expensive. My friend for example, has a car in a garage, and it takes her 10 minutes to get it out and lives on a street with constant traffic jams, so for her it is faster to take a tram. As I said, depends where you live and work. The best thing is, you have a option, not like in car dependent cities
Care people never count time needed to prepare their car for ride, time for looking for parking and locking and leaving car etc....sometimes they go around block for 20 minutes before they find some empty parking, but yes, it's "faster" by car 😀
Ešte přívozy
Do you live in czech because your czech words are too good
I do 😂
Žije v českém, nebo žije v češtině? :-)
anyone can spend 0.3% of their salary in public transport if they are brave enough
You are czechian right? Xd
ano, vskutku😂
Zbraslav neni prdel sveta :(
kámoš od tamtud dojížděl do školy a hodněkrát jsem tam byl a rozhodně to JE PRDEL SVĚTA 😀
Saying that delays due to construction work (that was announced months or even years in advance and yet no schedule change was made) is outside of the train operator's control seems a bit wrong to me.
Na Padesátníku 💩
why do you cover/blur faces? Its a public place, and you are allowed to take videos of anything in public places. Nice video, but such blurring spoils it, sorry.
I'm just doing it to be safe, I really am not in the mood to sort out privacy complaints lol
but yeah in the beginning I probably shouldn't have blurred the whole clip, you're probably right
tram from India.
Brno has better public transit than Prague
To je pravda, brněnské metro není tak nacpané a brněnské lanovky nemají tak dlouhé odstávky. A brněnská Lazarská leží přímo u nádraží.
Nice video, but dump the drawings, theyre annoying.
Keep the drawings, they are funny
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