I’m thankful for UA-cam (while still being aware of its flaws) for allowing 3+ hours of whatever subset of neurodivergence this is classified as to even exist let alone flourish as a channel.
I've found that splitting videos up leads to diminishing returns on each one - I originally released the Philly Diner Video (2 hours long) in three 40-minute parts but by the end barely anyone was watching the releases. And now the combined version has FAR more views than any of the split ones!
I seem to remember Geoff Marshall talking about this exact phenomenon in one of his sit downs. Long form content is vastly underappreciated. I personally love it because it captures many audiences that imo are all equally important.
I so love that Seattle 3 driver. Obviously she is knowledgeable about her work and it sounds like she's been doing it for a while, but it also seems like she's genuinely a bit of a trolley nerd and that's just great to see. You're not usually going to get that passion and insight on normal buses, that's for sure.
This actually changes my outlook on King County Metro a lot. I've never ridden the trolley busses due to usually transiting from lightrail/ from Bellevue but I always see how poorly drivers are treated in Seattle due to impolite passengers. Happy to see that there are cheerful drivers that are just total nerds about transit!
If she's still driving the 3, she gets to make trips up Summit to replace the route of the 47 (and before that, 14) that was suspended during lockdown. I'm super happy that the Summit trolleybus has returned after threats of permanent deletion.
I really like how you and Jackson always analyze and talk about housing styles, types, and eras during your transit adventures. Even though the main event is the transit, the urban and built environment is so dependant on the transit, both historically and currently, so I always appreciate you thoughtfully engaging with that. You never say "wow what a sad declining city," you always recognize the former peak, continued strengths (by identifying "good bones," like with the trolley wire infrastructure in Dayton), as well as future potential! I'm still relatively new to your channel; I've only been here for about a year but you are without a doubt my favourite content creator. This has been one of my favourites and I feel so fortunate to know you and your channel, as the content you produce is truly unique, entertaining, and well worth all our time. Thank you for the extra long trolley bus video. I am excited for more transit; more foaming; and more menu shots :3 Final thought: I wish Toronto still had its trolley bus network!!! If it ever comes back, I'll be waiting for a Canadian trolley bus video!
The CityNerd impression when you were going by the Cheesecake Factory at 44:24 was priceless! Seeing the Full House house is really cool, but it really makes you ask the big questions...Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV? You miss your old familiar friends. Waiting just around the bend! SF's famed Painted Ladies were repainted that way beginning in the 1960s, though the houses were first built between 1849 and 1915. 48,000 of them were built during that time! They were painted as a battleship gray during WWI and WWII until 1963 when artist Butch Kardum set an example. Yup, Dayton has had electric transit since 1888 when they electrified their streetcar service. That means they've had an electric transit service LONGER than ANY other city in the US! Quite the achievement for a city like Dayton! Trolleybuses are a great solution for bus electrification for several reasons. As mentioned in the theme song of this video, for hilly routes like in Seattle and San Francisco, trolleybuses are better than motorbuses as electric motors provide much higher static torque at start-up, an advantage for climbing steep hills. No battery means lower weight and lower cost, plus less resource waste! I'm amenable to BEV busses as if they're part of a greater trolleybus system, they can be deployed to areas where running wires isn't feasible and can connect back to the grid once they return to the wires. Trolleybuses are especially great where electricity is abundant, cheap, and renewable, such as hydroelectric. The Seattle, WA and Vancouver, Canada systems draw hydroelectric power from the Columbia River and other Pacific river systems! And compared to trams, they're cheaper, there's easier training as the potential operator pool for all buses is larger than trams, they're quieter, and not to mention easier traffic avoidance! The most interesting trolleybus system of all-time in my opinion has to be Kabul's former trolleybus system! It began operations in February 1979, nearly a year after the Saur Revolution led to the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, and ceased operations in 1992, so it basically only existed during the communist period. It was built by the Czechoslovak company Elektrizace železnic Praha (or Electrification of railways Prague) and initially ran with 25 Škoda 9TrH23 trolleybuses (eventually expanding to 86 vehicles by 1988, of which 80 were in operation) between Pamir Cinema in downtown Kabul to Silo Road (Kote Sangi) in western Kabul, via Kabul Zoo, Karte Char and Kabul University. The Afghans further expanded it, split the line into three routes, and the system ended up with a length of 12.5 km. It was extremely popular due to its low fares and carried about 21 million passengers per year! However, its overhead line and electric contact network was reportedly in bad condition by the late 1980s with poor maintenance. Following the outbreak of civil war, the last trolleybus came to a halt in late 1992. The copper overhead wires were subsequently looted and sold to scrap dealers. At one point in time, the Space Needle was the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River! It was built to withstand up to 200 mph (320 km per hour) winds and earthquakes up to a magnitude of 9! It took 400 days to build it, 74,000 bolts to hold it together, and 5,600 tons of concrete poured into the Needle’s foundation! It was designed by John Graham & Company. The idea for a tower with a restaurant at the top came from Edward E. Carlson, chairman of the exposition, after he visited the Fernsehturm Stuttgart. After local John Graham designed the Northgate Mall in 1950, he got involved. Graham altered the restaurant to be a revolving one, based off another he was designing in Honolulu around the same time. Graham patented a gearing system that allowed you to turn the entire restaurant of 250 people with a one-horsepower motor for the original turntable. The new turntable uses 12 motors. Graham wanted a flying saucer design for the fair's Space Age theme. Architect Victor Steinbrueck was a consultant to John Graham's firm, and Victor came up with the wasp-waisted tower shape based on an abstract wooden sculpture in his home of a dancer by David Lemon called "The Feminine One", a sculpture inspired by Syvilla Fort. Syvilla Fort was a pioneer in dancing from Seattle, and she knew Lemon and Steinbrueck while at the Cornish School of Allied Arts in the 1930s. There is a bronze replica of this sculpture right outside the Space Needle.
Absolutely incredible. The editing makes it so engaging and addictive, but now its past 1am and I've gotta sign off for the night. Made it all the way through Seattle; San Francisco segment tomorrow! Oh and Miles and Jackson and crew... if you ever do make it up to Vancouver BC, I can and will ramble about local trolleybus facts for an hour+. I think there's enough of us out here for some sort of meetup... Your adventures always seem like so much fun. Oh and the tunes... rock on! Jackson: KILLER keyboard groove on 'Candle' - shades of jack stratton? (P.S. sorry canadian dollars are kind of worthless these days, eh)
Thanks so much for the donation, and Canadian Dollars are ALWAYS worth it for the meme! ;) You're right on the money for Candle by the way, we were going for Vulfpeck!
@@RZFX619 OMG, I lost it at that point. So much so, that I made a point of going back and playing it for my wife who, umm… is NOT a fan of his delivery, lol. 😂
As a Midwesterner the video going straight from San Francisco to Dayton managed to virtually give me that sinking feeling of coming home on vacation lol
"Guys, I found a great three-hour Christmas movie to watch!" "This better be good" *(puts on the trolleybus video)* "There's only five cities in the whole US" Boston be like "Yeah, uhhhh, about that....". Jackson playing his keyboard on a nighttime bus is such a vibe, the music is on point as always, and I appreciate Jackson's history segments! It's awesome to be a history buff, whether it's diners, trolleybuses, countries, etc! The fact that this was years in the making shows how hard you've worked to put out such a huge vid like this! Yet another reason to support the channel, for everything you do for us! Your editing game is incredible. Besides Canadian, US, and Mexican cities having used trolleybuses in North America, Havana, Cuba briefly used trolleybuses as a test operation. In 1949, they got dual-mode buses secondhand from Newark, NJ, and it was relatively easy to do because it didn't involve anything new as just like Cincinnati's historic trolleys, the Havana streetcars used a double overhead wire and twin trolley poles on each streetcar! The trolleybus test failed, and Havana's trams ended in 1952 (trams ended in Cuba in general in 1954). Also, Trinidad & Tobago briefly used trolleybuses at one point too in the capital of Port of Spain between 1941 and 1956. Everyone knows about the Mexico City trolleybuses, but the other Mexican city to use trolleybuses is Guadalajara which first opened in 1976 and was operated by Sistema de Transporte Colectivo de la Zona Metropolitana (Sistecozome), an agency of the Jalisco government. On 29 January 2016, operation was transferred from Sistecozome to another state agency, Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano (or SITEUR), which also operates the Guadalajara light rail system. From 1976 to 1993, they used ex-Chicago Marmon-Herrington trolleybuses! It had a ridership of 3.7 million in 2017, as at the time the system reopened in 2016, it had only one line. Guadalajara also has the Guadalajara Mi Macro BRT system which launched in 2009 (doesn't use trolleybuses), with a second line opening in 2022. In 2024, the system had 69 stations total, 27 on Calzada line and 42 on the newer Periférico line. Mi Macro Periférico is 41.5 km, while Mi Macro Calzada is 16.6 km. Yup, it's true about the Frankford Avenue Bridge or the Pennypack Creek Bridge in Philly. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Frankford Avenue Bridge was the first stone arch bridge built in the US and is the oldest surviving roadway bridge in the US as well! It was built in 1697 at the request of William Penn to connect his mansion with the then new city of Philadelphia and was an important link on the King's Highway that linked Philly with cities like Trenton, NYC, and Boston. So famous politicians like John Adams and George Washington used the bridge, like Washington when he crossed it on his way to his inauguration in NYC in 1789. Philly was a city of different transportation firsts. The first steam-ferry service in the world was actually in Philly and went to Burlington, NJ. It was created by John Fitch! Basically, he wanted to make his own version of a Watt engine (there were no Watt engines in North America as the British refused to export them) and he got Henry Voigt to help him build a working model and place it on the boat. The first successful trial run of his steamboat Perseverance was made in August 1787, in the presence of delegates from the Constitutional Convention. A bank of oars on either side of the boat propelled it. During the next few years, Fitch and Voigt worked to develop better designs, and in June 1790, launched a 60-foot (18 m) boat powered by a steam engine driving several stern-mounted oars. These oars paddled like the motion of a swimming duck's feet. With this boat, he carried up to 30 paying passengers on numerous round-trip voyages between Philadelphia and Burlington during the summer of 1790. The first hot air balloon flown in the Americas was launched from the former Walnut Street Jail in Philly on January 9, 1793, witnessed by George Washington, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison! It was piloted by the French aeronaut Jean-Pierre Blanchard, who was also the first to cross the English Channel in a hot air balloon with American co-pilot John Jeffries in 1785! It landed in Deptford, NJ. And just outside Philly, the Crum Creek was once home to the Leiper Railroad, the continent's first chartered railway, first operational non-temporary railway, first well-documented railroad, and first constructed railroad also meant to be permanent! It was a 'family business-built' horse drawn railroad of 0.75 miles that was constructed in 1810 after quarry owner, Thomas Leiper, failed to obtain a charter with legal rights-of-way to instead build his desired canal along Crum Creek. It went from Crum Creek to Ridley Creek where quarry stone where it would then be loaded on boats to Chester for market.
As a Daytonian who used to rely fully on the RTA, it makes me really happy to hear how much you enjoy the system. It's surprisingly good for how small our city is. Also, just as a side note: the reason the 1 has two variations in Beavercreek/Fairborn is due to a long standing battle between Beavercreek and RTA that ultimately resulted in a compromise to run very limited schedules into the city of Beavercreek (by the Walmart and the mall.)
I'm not surprised that Beavercreek would hate having the RTA in it. I grew up in a very similar place that balked at getting it there too. Wouldn't want anyone poor or not white in their precious suburb...
@@radjago Same deal for Springboro lol. Wish more Ohioans would travel outside their state (though I get it travel is expensive) and see places with better transit systems and how much better they make cities as places to live.
I'm around half way through the video and I think someone already commented it but this channel is definately one of my favorite corners of UA-cam and the internet overall. The mix of transit, comedy and music just come together really nicely. Great video as always, gotta love three hours of transit. Amazing effort!! Happy new year!!!
Redacted, Redacted, please let me be extracted, for by your presence I'm distracted, and my enjoyment is subtracted. I always love to see what kinds of shenanigans you're up to, thank you sooo much for putting in the effort to share them with us!
RIP MBTA 71/72/73/77a. (Yes I know the bus lines still exist, but COME ON WE LOST OUR TROLLEYBUSES). Also Fun Fact: the video that got me into your channel was the MBTA Trolleybus last ride video.
1:08:50 In Toronto streetcar stops were traditionally also marked by painting two red bands on a hydro pole. When actual stop markers started to be introduced they continued the motif of two red bands, which is why the modern stop markers in Toronto and many nearby systems have coloured bands at the top and bottom.
SF also uses curb paint so it doesn’t have to put up so many street signs. Each color has a meaning, such as how long you can park there if it’s short term.
We are so unworthy of this incredible trolleybus content! The people you meet, the music, the history segments, this is yet another Miles in Transit work of art. Korean pears aren't Korean, they're native to southern China and northern Indochina and were introduced to Korea. In Korea, it's used when marinating meat like bulgogi due to the presence of enzymes to tenderize the proteins in the meat. Bul means fire, gogi means meat, and it originated from what's now the Pyongan region of the DPRK, and was brought over to Seoul by Pyongan refugees after WWII. Pyongyang also has trolleybuses! It currently has 12 lines and a total length of 56.6 km, which extends to the suburbs! As of December 2024, the latest line opened in 2022 on Day of the Sun (April 15th, the day Kim Il-sung was born in 1912, the same day the Titanic sank) when a new line from Songyo to Songhwa was opened, while the line from West Pyongyang to Thermal Power was rerouted, both to serve the new Songhwa and Kyongru-dong residential districts! After US raids during the war in the 1950s, the city was effectively destroyed and needed to be rebuilt. Pyongyang was redesigned to become the ideal socialist city. The first plans for a trolleybus network were proposed in 1957, though construction only began in 1960, after Kim Il-sung ordered it. The network begun operation on April 30th 1962, with an opening ceremony at Pyongyang Railway station to commemorate the opening of the line from the Three Revolutions Exhibition at Ryonmot-dong to the railway station. In addition to its trolleybus network, Pyongyang also has a tram network and a metro system. The Pyongyang Metro has two lines, the Chollima Line and the Hyŏksin Line, with the lines opening 1973 and 1978 respectively. This means the Pyongyang Metro opened one year before the Seoul Subway Line 1 did in 1974. Before the war, the city had trams, but said tram system was destroyed, so it built a new system from scratch. The trams finally opened in 1991 as a solution for overcrowded trolleybuses, with three lines, and the Kumsusan shuttle that connects Samhung station with the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun. A ban on bikes was lifted in 1992, and now many people also bike alongside taking transit, and the government has built bike lanes and even introduced Ryomyong bikeshare. DPRK urban-planning includes limited urban sprawl, as new developments in DPRK cities tend to take the place of older areas of the city, rather than building new developments further out. In Pyongyang, this is the case with the developments of Mirae (Future) Scientists Street in 2015, Changjon Street in 2012, Songhwa Street in 2022, Hwasong Street in 2024, and Ryomyong (Dawn) Street in 2023. Micro-districts are made up of residences alongside their supporting amenities like public spaces, offices, shops, and schools. A key aspect is both the equality of the residential buildings and the encouragement of people to spend more time in the community, hence the focus on parks and playgrounds People shouldn't be making excuses for keeping cities car-dominant. It should be the goal to go from car required to car optional. Everyone should have access to all life has to offer regardless of whether you own a multi ton hunk of metal. Getting to school, medical appointments, and visiting family/friends shouldn't hinge on needing a car. If critics against urbanism actually cared about affordability/the working class, then they would know by not relying on a car, you're saving so much money not having to care about tolls, gas, maintenance, etc because you're taking a train or bus instead. If a city like Pyongyang can have a bikeshare program, a trolleybus system with over 35 miles in length, a tram system with 33 miles in length, AND two subway lines, then other cities have zero excuses not to take these steps for the greater good. Pyongyang isn't the only DPRK place with trolleybuses, as Sinuiju, Nampo, Manpo (opened in 2019), Kanggye, Chongjin, Wonsan, Sariwon, Sangwon (connecting Myongdang-rodongjagu to the Sangwon Limestone Mine, via the Sangwon Cement Complex. The line was built and operated by the Sangwon Cement Complex), Kimchaek, Huichon, and Unhung County (operation of a commuter trolleybus connecting miners' town to Unhung Mine) have trolleybuses as well! Here are some other interesting trolleybus systems around the world: Historically, South Africa had a number of trolleybus systems, with the Johannesburg system being the last to shut down in 1986. Durban had trolleybuses from 1935 to 1968, and theirs was the first such system worldwide to experience an accident involving an overturned trolleybus. Thirty-seven people were injured in that accident, which occurred on March 5th, 1941. Durban's trolleybuses were also unique in being fitted with fishing rod racks at the back. In Marrakesh, they built a BRT (that's partly trolleybus) system in 2017. The electricity powering the vehicles comes from solar power, as Morocco has become a solar power giant! Morocco has taken many green technological initiatives, like in 2014 when it opened the Tarfaya Wind Farm with 131 turbines. In 2016, it opened the Ouarzazate solar station, the world's largest concentrated solar power plant, saving 760K tonnes of carbon emissions every year! With wind farms and solar farms across the country, this has contributed several billion dollars to the economy and added thousands of permanent jobs! And it's all adding up, as the country is consistently ranked high in the Climate Change Performance Index, with Morocco ranked NINTH in the 2024 edition. Besides trolleybuses in Marrakesh, in Casablanca, they got a four-line tramway network, first opening in 2012, with two tram lines opening in 2024, and a busway with two lines also opening in 2024. In 2011, another tramway network opened, in agglomeration of Rabat and Salé cities, with two lines. And Morocco was the first African country to get high-speed rail in 2018. Valparaíso, Chile's system opened in 1952, a year after Mexico City's trolleybus system did. The system in Chile was known for almost half of its vehicles being built in 1946-52 by the Pullman-Standard Company, and they were the oldest trolleybuses in regular service anywhere in the world. Those vehicles were collectively declared a national monument by the Chilean government in 2003. They helped the city gain its designation by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. They still made up more than half of the active (in service) fleet in 2015, but by 2019 they accounted for only nine of the 23 active vehicles, and in 2022, it was reported that all Pullman-Standard trolleybuses were stored out of service. Valparaíso is also known for its many funiculars, though they call them elevators. The only elevator that can truly be called as such, is the Ascensor Polanco, because it is vertical. As many as 28 different funicular railways have served Valparaíso at one time or another. Valparaíso has fifteen lifts declared Historical Monuments by the National Monuments Council.
Ooh, thank you for the pears context...duly noted! Also good to know the Valparaiso Pullmans are gone, that makes me want to go there SLIGHTLY less... (although it still looks like an amazing city!)
2:16:30 Congrats on enjoying your first Dayton-style pizza. It's similar to other Midwestern tavern style pizzas like St. Louis (but without the provel cheese), with a smaller square "party cut" with bite sized slices, a thin salty crisp cracker style crust covered in corn meal, a unsweetened sauce, and loaded with toppings edge to edge. Locals will fight over whether Cassano's, Ron's, Marion's, or Joe's is best, but i think you made a fine choice.
I never knew Dayton had a local thin crust pizza style, that was popular to serve there. Reminds me how thin crust pizza is actually pretty popular in Chicago, unlike what a lot of tourists think. It isn't all about deep dish pizza in Chicago....
Wow, a 3 hour video exploring four of my favorite cities in the US and Dayton, Ohio for some reason? This truly is the greatest Christmas gift from Mr. Transit himself. My favorite moment of the year has to be the entire Buenos Aires transit experience with the most ridiculous haphazard rolling stock and station architecture of Subte, the vibrant and chaotic bus network, the surprisingly modern and widespread commuter/regional rail network, and of course sharing the whole experience with your parents (in particular your dad really enjoying the buses and the doorless train) Honorable mention to the Lordsburg-Benson time loop (with the incredibly on the nose visual storytelling tool of the train eating itself that only a visionary on the same level as the great Christopher Nolan could’ve ever possibly conceived of). Also hoping that “honest-to-god salt flats” becomes a recurring cutaway even if it has no real use case whatsoever. Thanks for all the amazing content this year and looking forward to what’s in store for 2025!
I'm a little late to this, but this video is awesome! I love you and jackson's (and your guests') enthusiasm for any and all types of transit, it's really great to see. and you guys are extremely talented musicians. thanks so much for another absolute feat of a video!
I grew up in the Dayton area (Beavercreek/Fairborn) and moved to another city before I picked up Urbanism-adjacent hobbies. It is absolutely surreal seeing you take transit through such familiar territory from my childhood. I've complained to my friends about how it was impossible to get anywhere without a car over there, but as you've proven, it's definitely possible, and I let stubbornness get in the way. I wish I could have taken advantage of Dayton's RTA in the past. Urbanism doesn't have to be confined to the New Yorks and Bostons and Disney Worlds of America. Thank you for showcasing places from my precious past 😁
Thanks so much for the donation! The RTA definitely has problems - frequencies could be a lot better - but in terms of raw infrastructure it has so much potential and beats out so many other US cities of its size.
Kathy’s explanation was amazing!!! Don’t have anything like that near where I live in Australia, hearing her expertise added so much to your fantastic video. Happy holidays and thank you!! Wonderful video 😊👍
It took a week but I finally finished! Excellent job and love the format with the songs for intermission, history facts and than the transit system. I'm pretty sure I rode that Silver line back in 2006 to get to Logan airport from a conference. I had no idea Dayton had such great trolleybus infrastructure - I was expecting a Breeders reference not Guided by Voices though. It took a ton of work to make this entire video and deserves every minute.
Its either Breeders or any early funk song (I can't believe that whole genre came from Dayton! Like I grew up there and didn't learn that until I was an adult living in Chicago LOL)
It took me 3 days to watch, but I got through it. I loved Jackson's History lessons. One of the best documentaries yet. The trolleybus U-turn in San Francisco was breathtaking.
So I grew up just south of Dayton (past the end of the RTA), so weirdly, I never realized just how unique the Trolleybusses were until years later. Daytonians are an odd lot who have little pride in their massively rust belt depleted city that in its heyday was a kind of major tech hub (Look up NCR, plus of course the Wright Brothers with aviation). Its a sad town, and Cincinnati was really the place that drew me into becoming an urbanist (If you've been there you know why it does that to people) just an hour down I-75, but I really do appreciate this video because it allows me to look at the cool aspects of Dayton in a light that my own self loathing experience of growing up there wouldn't be able to see so easily. Thank you. I do wish the system ran better frequencies though... Oh and I'm really glad you got to have some pizza, Dayton's got its own variant of what in Chicago (where I live now) we call "Tavern Style Pizza" (thin crust cut into squares, though the dayton version is really small squares), I think its some of the best pizza in Ohio, at least its better than what you can find in Cincy or Columbus, my favorite spot as a kid was Marions, same style pizza as what you got, and they spiced it really nicely. I wish people would just tout it as Dayton style pizza because its regionally distinct, and as a kid I thought Dayton had no regional food (again I was drawn to Cincinnati Chili which you can get there in abundance). This also added to my feelings of Dayton having no "there" there. Its also weirdly Dayton like for you guys to only have 1 trolleybus that actually was a trolleybus lol. Oh and I used to eat at that abandoned diner when it was the "Diner on Sycamore" was a really cool spot, probably the first proper diner I ever ate at, I saw rocky Horror right after eating there years ago when I was in high school at the New Neon Cinema. I really do want to see you guys do a vid on Cincy as well... ride the streetcar / busses (recently expanded by a ballot measure) and check out the woefully underrated architecture / urban bones of that city. oh and BTW - Meijer is a great chain, used to hang out there late at night as a bored high schooler because they are 24 / 7. They are actually based out of Michigan in Grand Rapids btw. Finally the dead mall store was "Elder-Beerman", it was a local department store that died in the early 00s, I remember getting clothing there as a kid with my parents (though not that location but one at the Dayton Mall, which is also served by a transit hub).
The store was Elder-Beerman on Philadelphia Dr. It was a Dayton-based department store chain that sold to BonTon stores in 2003. BonTon went bankrupt in 2018 and was sold to CSC Generation in 2021, and BrandX in 2023, who currently have a placeholder web site up indicating a planned return for e-commerce and eventually retail stores.
Loved the extra Dayton context, thank you! I didn't realize that pizza was unique - pretty cool for Dayton to have its own regional food despite being pretty close to Cincinnati by today's travel standards!
I just noticed that Wikipedia now has an article about it, with most sources being post 2010 (I left the Dayton area in 2002). I'm glad people are acknowledging this is a thing (though my parents told me Cassanos was better when they were younger): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton-style_pizza
Redacted, Redacted, please let me be extracted, for by your presence I'm distracted, and my enjoyment is subtracted! Been watching for a while (since the Geoff Marshall collab) but never really commented/engaged before (apart from a single outraged comment at you having to give your email address to order food during the Boston Diner Video Premiere) but figured this was as good as an excuse as any! Thank you for the best christmas present of all (my only christmas plans this year lmao) - sad I didn't manage to watch it all last night, but it came out just a little late here in the UK, and I had to call it a night early since I've come down with something. But absolutely worth the wait! As for best miles in transit moment of the last year, I think the clear winner there was the concert video! So hype to hear all these great songs in a cool concert setting :) Hope the next year here at miles in transit is as good as the last, you're one of my favourite creators on youtube right now!
2:31:28 "we didn't want to seem weird by looking like we just rode the bus for fun, we made it look like we rode it all the way to Meijer just for one apple" 😂😂😂 Appreciate the channel and all of the music recommendations! I think my favorite moment of this year's spread was the Delaware circumnavigation, though Rockaway and the AZ/NM time loop weren't far behind! If I had a nickel for every song I've known about escaping to New Mexico, I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice Best wishes in the new year!
Glad I had a three hour trolleybus musical with a bonus video about buses in LA to watch on my long flight home yesterday, I bet none of the other passengers on the flight were entertained the same way!
Thanks for creating this! The enthusiasm, the editing, the music, the huge number of foamers joining in... And let's not forget the scenery, history and attention to details of the surroundings! Really unique and wonderful, well done!
My transit knowledge is self-centered and armchair at most, so I had no idea that Seattle’s trackless trolley network was unique (given the only other major metro market I’ve experienced has been Vancouver BC). Due to the aforementioned self-centeredness, it was so thrilling to see scenes from my day-to-day life in this video. I was pleased to see one of the first shots of Seattle was of my favorite bakery in Queen Anne, then the (now defunct) Broadway Rite Aid, and the Cap Hill Dick’s that has fed me after many a night out-I was further surprised when you both later caught a bus outside my apartment. I wish I’d been a fan in 2022 so I might’ve recognized you outside, but for the last year the only videos I consistently watch are from this channel-I’ve learned so much, including a new appreciation for the city I’ve lived in my whole life.
San Francisco is the only place I have been where they refer to the transit routes by both number and name. You don’t ride the 30, you ride the 30 Stockton. You don’t ride the J, you ride the J Church. I read where MUNI, when naming new routes that may go on several streets, just chooses one that seems to reflect the character of the route. Thus the 44 O’Shaughnessy. At least that was how it worked almost 40 years ago! Thanks for the awesome content. This video is bringing back some memories, like some rides on a jam packed 30 Stockton way back when.
Chicago does it too, it's actually super useful because most routes here are on a single street, thus most of the time I don't even need to know bus numbers for routes I'm unfamiliar with I can just think "okay I want the North Ave bus"
Miles, this is just lovely in every way. Truly! In a world of corporately derivative and formulaic video content, in a world that likes to take itself too seriously and focuses only on the gaudiest stories, you and Jackson made the epic choice to make ride every last trolleybus line in the entire U.S., and make a 3-hour video about your journeys! This week has been rough for me, but watching this funny, informative to the max, and just plain enjoyable video over several days has been a highlight. A million thanks to you and Jackson for the time and effort you put into this!! One of my favorite moments in this video--one that literally did make me laugh out loud--was your NIMBY impersonation in Seattle, when you were riding past a cute corner shop in a residential neighborhood. Honestly there were so many classic moments in this video, and I will always be grateful I got to experience the whole darn thing! Keep on keepin' on, Miles and co.!
Thank you so much for the kind words - and for the donation you made in a separate comment! So sorry it's been a rough week, but I'm happy this video can be a source of joy!
@@MilesinTransit You betcha! You are most welcome for both!! You deserve all the kudos for this; I certainly got at *least* 10 bucks of entertainment and knowledge value out of it! Thanks--you are too kind. Yay for transit being a source of joy! (as it ideally always should be!)
They are out of Michigan and are trying to muscle-out local grocery store chains throughout the Midwest, like Home Depot did with local hardware stores 30 years ago..
Well done putting the first bathroom review right at 2:22:22 ...at least I think that was the first one. For such a long video I may have forgot I saw one haha. Second, I loved the CityNerd impression. One of these days y'all need to collab. Third, after 2 hours of major costal metros, I never expected to see Miles and Jackson in a Meijer for the final hour haha. Meijer is a big chain in the Midwest, with locations in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. I do 90% of my brick and mortar shopping there. I'm surprised you didn't use the angry commenter graphic for not knowing how to pronounce Meijer because that's the real reason I'm in the comments right now lol. Rhymes with wire was a good way to put it considering how much of this video is just admiring wires heh. As someone whose only parent worked at Meijer from the year before I was born until I was in my 20s, and someone who worked there in college myself, I'm a bit of a supermarket foamer. I also am from Grand Rapids, where Meijer started as just a grocer (well technically they started in a town that become an exurb as GR has grown). For the longest time, Meijer claimed to have invented the concept of the superstore (grocery + department store combination) in 1962, and there is an arch from the original superstore location as a monument at the location along the stroadiest stroad in GR, 28th Street where it meets Kalamazoo Ave. However, if you do research you'll discover that Fred Meyer, a Pacific Northwest chain actually was first to do a superstore. It is an extreme coincidence that Meijer's former CEO, son of founder Hendrik, was named Fred Meijer. I'm glad you guys think Meijer > Target -- I never thought about the Yankee Candles classing up the place (that was my mom's department for many decades). Their store brand stuff is good and even has a few separate upscale store brands as well. I'd say it's on par with Whole Foods 365 brand. In Grand Rapids, we only recently got a Whole Foods since Meijer dominates the area... their stores easily outnumber all other superstores like Walmart and Target combined in the metro. There's at least 15 locations in our county. Despite being a big Meijer guy, I actually think that Target > Meijer > Walmart, but that is more of a rating based on the clientele than the quality of the store. Meijer's groceries are essentially just as cheap as Walmart, so despite having some solid amenities and high end items, it tends to attract everyman folk, including some people would classify as "People of Walmart". But I'm one of those people when I show up half awake dressed in pajamas haha. I never have really thought about it, but Meijer stores are really proactive in promoting transit, as many bus lines use the stores as a terminus. (They also get really involved in suburban and exurban real estate development. They'll put a store near nothing and essentially lease all the remaining land as strip malls and chain restaurants after the store has been around for a while. Sucks that it promotes urban sprawl, but at least it is a form of transit-oriented development?) Trains Are Awesome has an interesting video about a GR Rapid bus line that goes 60 miles north to Ferris State University using a regular city bus, and it is used more as a way to commute to the halfway point at a Meijer in the middle of the countryside, than it is to commute to the college. It's probably a lot of park and riders, unless there's a shuttle into Cedar Springs I don't know about.
Wow, this is a lot of Meijer content! ;) That's cool a lot of buses end at Meijers - it can be hard to find layover space in a constrained city so it's great they provide some!
I grew up in the Puget Sound suburbs, but I live in Scotland now; I'm much more of a British transit nerd than an American one, but your videos have shown me a million fascinating corners of my own country that I'd never have seen otherwise. Thanks for everything you do, and enjoy your new year! oh, and: Redacted, Redacted, please let me be abstracted, for by your presence I'm distracted, and my enjoyment is subtracted
Boston's trolleybuses not being replaced reminds me of several places in China where trolleybus systems in cities like Guangzhou are being slowly shut down after the fleet of trolleybuses turn 14 or 15 years old. It's very sad to see
Thanks for coming to San Francisco. Your video gave me a new appreciation for our buses. By the way, a local nickname for the 22 Fillmore is the “22 Fellini” because of the exciting things you see on board when you ride that bus.
1:26:32 Thank you for riding my home route the 14 Mission! Just a few days ago I caught a rare 40ft trolley bus on the 14 (its on my channel if u want to see it lol) , as the 14 Mission always uses the articulated trolley buses instead due to high ridership everyday.
Seattle's trolley network is an awesome quirk of our city... very cool to see it so appreciated. And I loved Kathy's behind-the-scenes commentary and longing for the tough old days when trolleys were prone to misadventure and every route was uphill both ways!
The location of the closed diner downtown Dayton is actually very close to where the Greyhound station used to be, and about three blocks from where the Amtrak station used to be. I still don't understand why the moved the Greyhound station to where it is now in Trotwood. Although to be fair, that area of Trotwood looked a whole lot better 20 years ago. Sure it was a strode hell, but at least it was a strode hell with mostly open businesses.
The 2 and 12 are still using hybrid buses even though RapidRide G is operational. They are supposed to restore the wire, but I don't believe they have a set timeline for that. The G was supposed to be a trolleybus, but apparently New Flyer wouldn't build 12 trolleybuses with left-side doors. Now we await 2026 for the hopeful conversion of the 48 to trolleybus.
I've lived in San Francisco and Seattle and enjoyed seeing both familiar systems as well as seeing how other cities run theirs. I unknowingly caught a dual-mode Silver Line a couple months before they went away. I'm always sad when another system removes trolleybus infrastructure because I'm worried that bus suppliers will stop making them if there are too few remaining systems.
I live in Capitol Hill (not too far from the light rail station). Happy to say that our beloved #47 that was lost due to the pandemic (it was always a short commuter loop that ran 7a-7p only) was sort of resurrected last September. There was a major re-configuration of some routes. The #3 now goes from Madrona to 3rd Ave., then heads up Pike and "Summit Slope" area where the #47 used to run. It's still only 7-7 (on the extension part) and only every 30 minutes, but as a rider with a disability, I am so thankful for the return! Also, the #10 and #11 have done a little switch-up (not sure if the 10 is not a trolley bus anymore)... the #11 takes the route through Capitol Hill that 10 took. Anyway, I love the trolley buses... love to hear the "click click" of the wires and the "whoooosh" as the bus zooms by my apartment. I also love all the massive maze of wires in the million photos I take of the Space Needle (lived here 8 years and still snap a pic whenever I go by... which is like weekly). Will watch the other cities soon... thanks Miles & Co.!
The 10 returned to the historic route of the streetcar that it replaced. The trolley wire on E Pine and 15th Ave were unused since 2016. Now they need to build a new trolley wire segment on Pine and restore the wire on Madison so that the 12 can return to trolleybuses on its revised route.
Finally finished the whole thing, happy New Year! Dayton is probably the best overall, in terms of if I have to move there, the cashless system can go to h"ll for all I care. Also while I have to take public transit because of my disability, I also really hate crowds and people, so Seattle, San Francisco and Philadelphia are out of the question. Dayton from my little knowledge is basically Brockton area transit. So having the trolley bus, and a vast system which seems to service actual neighborhoods, with space between houses and apartments, sounds wonderful! Wonder what their paratensit is like?
Happy New Year to you as well! Honestly in terms of actual service provided, BAT might win against Dayton RTA, but of course trolleybuses give major points to RTA!
That bridge over the 49 is a convention hall. Almost all of the Convention Center show floor area is on the fourth floor and that’s one of the halls, and the loading dock is on top of the building to its east and stretches across a skybridge to another loading dock in the main building. The big glass enclosed skybridge over Pike is another convention hall.
29:06 "We've got a diesel bus getting towed here. It wouldn't have happened if it was a trolley bus" I've known trolley buses to break down. It's actually the only bus I've ever been on that failed while I was onboard, requiring a tow. Around 2005, I was going from Downtown Vancouver to UBC on a Sunday. I took a 16 Arbutus, a New Flyer E902. It was packed, as in around 80 passengers (I counted 39 passengers in the half of the bus visible to me) in a 40 foot high-floor. Other than in Vancouver buses in the aughts, the only similar crush load I've experienced is on the Mexico City Metro pulling out of Pantitlan at rush hour. The seating arrangement in these buses had a single row of front facing seats along the left side except over the rear wheel well where a few seats were transverse. To make room, I squeezed by shins between the backrest of the forward seats and the transverse seat. With long headways on a Sunday, we didn't want to pass people up. The bus did proud climing up the base of Granville street. However, at Granville and 7th, just before the crush load would let out at Broadway, we exceeded what the poor trolley could manage. The rear left tire, the one I was standing directly on top of, exploded. A call to the tow truck, and a wave of customers walking up to Broadway resulted. This would have never happened to a diesel bus ... because the driver would have never even attempted to get the last 15 people on board. Trolleys, true workhorses.
Thanks for sharing the adventure; I am HYPED for the album. Can't overstate how funny & entertaining this entire video was. It's even more awesome to see how much the channel has grown since you started filming this. Cheers to a great 2025
Just finished up the third and final hour of this excellent video! You're a Pentangle fan! "Light Flight" was from their Basket of Light LP back in 1970, I think. The song was also used as a theme song to a short-lived BBC series at the time. Bert Jansch had an affinity for wild time signatures from his love and incorporating jazz into Pentangle's sound. Nerding out over music is the best.
Oh my God, "Light Flight" is so good. I also have a really soft spot for their take on "Cruel Sister" - the bass work on it is legendary, and the way it just goes on and on and on with the same tune makes it a fantastic song to listen to before bed.
Fantastic video, I had a great time watching! If you were curious, that sign on the dead mall in Dayton was for Elder-Beerman, a defunct department store. (My parents are from Southwest Ohio, so I have a lot of random knowledge of the Cincinnati-Dayton area lol)
already watched this on patreon, but this is just amazing, will definitely be rewatching many times (especially dayton's crazy wired deviations, LOVE that that is a thing that still exists!)
This was a movie ass movie. Miles!! This is a really amazing video!! I actually learned some new facts about the history of trolleybuses. This video was laid out in a way that you could understand the factoids, watch the foaming happen, enjoy the wonderfully crafted music, rinse and repeat; and yet not get bored of it. I really enjoyed the little jingles you made for the separate lines as well. I think that brings a ton of value to this whole entire project. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the dedication Miles. Keep on foaming.
It took me 3 days to finish this video, but it was a fun ride! Loved the foaming and soundtrack. Fun fact; The Netherlands has only one city with trolleybusses, Arnhem.
17:05 TRM is short for To Terminal or Terminated, it just means the bus is either out of Service or doesn't continue past terminal, essentially the Bus is laying Over and you aren't supposed to get on it
Pretty close: “To Terminal” means the bus is deadheading to a route terminal. The busses onboard systems will automatically set the head sign to it when the coach reaches the last stop of its trip, and then re-set it back when it reaches the first stop of next trip in its block. Upshot, this means the driver doesn’t have to fiddle with the head signs at all, generally, but it does mean the coach will read as “To Terminal” when laying over. Coaches will also display things like “Atlantic Base” or “Bellevue Base” when deadheading to their depot. At least back in the 2010s, you could actually ride these coaches (technically) if you flagged them down - if the driver stopped for you. I used that quirk myself a few times when I missed the last 301 south from where I worked in Shoreline, by flagging down a deadheading 358 returning to Central Base (which was usually done via I-5 at N 175th) and getting dropped off at N 45th St.’s freeway stop.
Growing-up in the NY/NJ/CT Tri-State Area, I never knew that trackless trolleys were a thing until I went on a class trip to Eastern Europe. There, I even saw trolleybus wires on a major highway.
Seattle was named in honor of Chief Seattle, who was leader of the Duwamish and Suquamish peoples. The Capitol Hill neighborhood is named such because of James A. Moore. And no, it has no connection to the one in DC. James A. Moore was a real estate developer who platted much of the area, and he wanted the Washington state government to move the capital from Olympia to Seattle, so he named it Capitol Hill in 1901 after the neighborhood of his wife's hometown Denver. Before this, it was called Broadway Hill. The light-rail station you briefly mentioned has some cool art above the platform called Jet Kiss by Mike Ross and was installed in 2015 before the station opened in 2016. The piece consists of two actual decommissioned US Navy A-4 Skyhawk fighter jets, which were disassembled and painted magenta and yellow. The two fighter jets were acquired from a scrapyard in Arizona, and were sent to Ross's studio in Oakland, California for disassembly and reconfiguration. The jets were painted magenta and yellow as a move to offset the city's stereotypical overcast skies. The choice of jets is a reference to the city's aviation history. Originally the concept was a dogfight, but this received backlash in the late 2000s when they were selecting artists and was changed to a non-aggressive and bird-like arrangement, in reference to the official City Bird, the Great blue heron. The A-4 Skyhawk was developed in the 1950s and were the principal light aircraft used during the Vietnam War. Dayton's National Museum of the US Air Force is the LARGEST and OLDEST military aviation museum in the world, their collection is amazing! Besides the Memphis Belle (one of the first United States Army Air Forces B-17 heavy bombers to complete 25 combat missions), they also have the Apollo 15 Command Module Endeavour which carried David Scott, James Irwin, and Alfred Worden to the Moon in 1971 on NASA's fourth crewed lunar landing mission, and several Presidential aircraft, including those used by FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower. Dayton was home to the Dayton Project, a branch of the larger Manhattan Project, to develop polonium triggers used in early atomic bombs, and its Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was where the Dayton Agreement was signed in 1995 to end the Bosnian War. The church by Coit Tower is the Saints Peter and Paul Church, a Catholic church that has served as the home church and cultural center for San Francisco's Italian-American community, and has become a home for Chinese-American Catholics as well, offering services in Italian, English, and Cantonese. The first church built on its site was in 1884 but was destroyed by the Great Quake of 1906. Construction on the current building was completed in 1924. The church was featured in the Clint Eastwood movies Dirty Harry and The Dead Pool. Also featured in What's Up, Doc? in which Judy Maxwell and Dr. Howard Bannister borrowed a Volkswagen Beetle during a car chase. After their civil ceremony in 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio returned for photographs on the steps of this church. DiMaggio was married to Dorothy Arnold in the church in 1939 but later divorced. Still married as far as the Church was concerned (they didn't obtain an annullment), he could not be married in the Catholic Church. The Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill is really cool! The Art Deco Coit Tower was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify San Francisco. It was designed by architects Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Temple Howard. It was the site of some of the first public works murals executed under the Public Works Administration, later known as the WPA. The interior features fresco murals in the American Social Realism style, painted by 22 different onsite artists and their numerous assistants. Three artists preferred oil on canvas and worked offsite. One artist preferred egg tempera rather than fresco. Arthur Brown Jr. designed many things in San Francisco besides the Coit Tower, including San Francisco City Hall, Pacific Gas and Electric Company General Office Building and Annex, the War Memorial Opera House (with G. Albert Lansburgh, who worked on El Capitan in Hollywood, Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Orpheum Theater in LA and New Orleans, and Al Hirschfeld Theatre/Martin Beck Theatre in NYC), and the Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco Art Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital, and the 50 United Nations Plaza Federal Office Building. Outside San Francisco, he worked on Pasadena City Hall, San Diego's Santa Fe Depot, the Interstate Commerce Commission Building (the ICC was abolished in 1996), its near-twin the Department of Labor Building (the Environmental Protection Agency occupies both buildings), and the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, and a bunch of things at Stanford University like Hoover Tower, Toyon Hall, Memorial Hall, Burnham Pavilion, and the Cecil H. Green Library Telegraph Hill was known as Loma Alta (or "High Hill") during the Spanish and Mexican eras of the city's history. Before the shoreline of San Francisco had been pushed eastward by landfill, the bottom of Loma Alta would have formed the shoreline of San Francisco Bay between North Point and Yerba Buena Cove. It became known as Telegraph Hill because of semaphore, a windmill-like structure erected in September 1849, for the purpose of signaling to the rest of the city the nature of the ships entering the Golden Gate. Atop the newly built house, the marine telegraph consisted of a pole with two raisable arms that could form various configurations, each corresponding to a specific meaning: steamer, sailing boat, etc. The information was used by observers operating for financiers, merchants, wholesalers and speculators. Knowing the nature of the cargo carried by the ship they could predict the upcoming (generally lower) local prices for those goods and commodities carried. Those who did not have advance information on the cargo might pay a too-high price from a merchant unloading his stock of a commodity, a price that was about to drop. In October 1850, the ship Oregon signaled to the hill as it was entering the Golden Gate the news of California's then acquired statehood.
i've been waiting for this since you guys initially rode the seattle trolleybuses in summer 2022... i was living over by SPU right by where the 3, 4 & 13 run back then! I was a pretty new follower then so I didn't make it out to the meet up, but it was still cool to follow on twitter. now i live on capitol hill right where the former 47/newly extended 3 run and i love getting to take a trolleybus to work everyday. my girlfriend lived on beacon hill for years and had a 36 stop right out front of her apartment, too - suffice to say we are a very pro-trolleybus household! great job getting this all out and thanks for giving me something to do for 3 hours during christmas week!
When I was living in university district in Seattle I heard a loud crash/boom and turned around to see a trolley’s wires come off and spark up. That’s when I realized trolley buses existed
I just found your channel this week, (although I believe I watched a video a long time ago), and have binged a ton of them. I've never had a thought about public transport but nonetheless I am intrigued, entertain , and addicted. Top tier channel
hello i am back to comment again as i have now finished the video. im not one to get parasocial but i love you guys. happy to have found this channel and this community of like minded nerds even if im scared to talk in discord! hope you had a lovely holiday season and thank you for everything
Dang, a whole year. I think this was the first year where I watched every upload as consistently as I could. It did not disappoint! I really enjoyed the great race to rock away beach and the diner videos from earlier in the year. Really entertaining! It’s refreshing to see a channel not out to get views or fame and fortune, but just having fun and sharing it with the world. Thanks for another amazing year, Miles, and I look forward to more from you in 2025!
A few little corrections on the Seattle history segment (which gets things 90% right, so kudos!): The Metro referendum was in 1972, which gave the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (mostly known for their water quality authority) only a few months to fully take over Seattle Transit System and a suburban bus company. They saw major success and growth while deploying a lot of innovations, like express freeway buses with flyer stops (something the Seattle area now has tons of), which led to a culture of bus-riding that held on for a long time. It didn't become part of the county government (and renamed King County Metro) until 1992.
I’m thankful for UA-cam (while still being aware of its flaws) for allowing 3+ hours of whatever subset of neurodivergence this is classified as to even exist let alone flourish as a channel.
this channel is by far my favorite corner of the internet. makes me feel myself
This channel is an unadulterated dose of transit joy and companionship
I'm surprised that Miles didn't just split it up into six half hour sections which is how most people handle this sort of content.
I've found that splitting videos up leads to diminishing returns on each one - I originally released the Philly Diner Video (2 hours long) in three 40-minute parts but by the end barely anyone was watching the releases. And now the combined version has FAR more views than any of the split ones!
I seem to remember Geoff Marshall talking about this exact phenomenon in one of his sit downs. Long form content is vastly underappreciated. I personally love it because it captures many audiences that imo are all equally important.
There aint no channel like this one. Such a gem. Thanks for the three hours of the most underrated form of transit
Thank you so so much - both for the donation and for the really kind words!
I so love that Seattle 3 driver. Obviously she is knowledgeable about her work and it sounds like she's been doing it for a while, but it also seems like she's genuinely a bit of a trolley nerd and that's just great to see. You're not usually going to get that passion and insight on normal buses, that's for sure.
This actually changes my outlook on King County Metro a lot.
I've never ridden the trolley busses due to usually transiting from lightrail/ from Bellevue but I always see how poorly drivers are treated in Seattle due to impolite passengers.
Happy to see that there are cheerful drivers that are just total nerds about transit!
Seattle 3 was my commute route for many years. Lots of good drivers and vibes.
If she's still driving the 3, she gets to make trips up Summit to replace the route of the 47 (and before that, 14) that was suspended during lockdown. I'm super happy that the Summit trolleybus has returned after threats of permanent deletion.
I really like how you and Jackson always analyze and talk about housing styles, types, and eras during your transit adventures. Even though the main event is the transit, the urban and built environment is so dependant on the transit, both historically and currently, so I always appreciate you thoughtfully engaging with that. You never say "wow what a sad declining city," you always recognize the former peak, continued strengths (by identifying "good bones," like with the trolley wire infrastructure in Dayton), as well as future potential!
I'm still relatively new to your channel; I've only been here for about a year but you are without a doubt my favourite content creator. This has been one of my favourites and I feel so fortunate to know you and your channel, as the content you produce is truly unique, entertaining, and well worth all our time. Thank you for the extra long trolley bus video. I am excited for more transit; more foaming; and more menu shots :3
Final thought: I wish Toronto still had its trolley bus network!!! If it ever comes back, I'll be waiting for a Canadian trolley bus video!
Thanks so much for the kind words! And Vancouver does still have a system so there could still be Canadian trolleybus content in the future...
Kathy's narration was fantastic! What a fortunate encounter
The CityNerd impression when you were going by the Cheesecake Factory at 44:24 was priceless! Seeing the Full House house is really cool, but it really makes you ask the big questions...Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV? You miss your old familiar friends. Waiting just around the bend! SF's famed Painted Ladies were repainted that way beginning in the 1960s, though the houses were first built between 1849 and 1915. 48,000 of them were built during that time! They were painted as a battleship gray during WWI and WWII until 1963 when artist Butch Kardum set an example. Yup, Dayton has had electric transit since 1888 when they electrified their streetcar service. That means they've had an electric transit service LONGER than ANY other city in the US! Quite the achievement for a city like Dayton! Trolleybuses are a great solution for bus electrification for several reasons. As mentioned in the theme song of this video, for hilly routes like in Seattle and San Francisco, trolleybuses are better than motorbuses as electric motors provide much higher static torque at start-up, an advantage for climbing steep hills. No battery means lower weight and lower cost, plus less resource waste! I'm amenable to BEV busses as if they're part of a greater trolleybus system, they can be deployed to areas where running wires isn't feasible and can connect back to the grid once they return to the wires. Trolleybuses are especially great where electricity is abundant, cheap, and renewable, such as hydroelectric. The Seattle, WA and Vancouver, Canada systems draw hydroelectric power from the Columbia River and other Pacific river systems! And compared to trams, they're cheaper, there's easier training as the potential operator pool for all buses is larger than trams, they're quieter, and not to mention easier traffic avoidance!
The most interesting trolleybus system of all-time in my opinion has to be Kabul's former trolleybus system! It began operations in February 1979, nearly a year after the Saur Revolution led to the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, and ceased operations in 1992, so it basically only existed during the communist period. It was built by the Czechoslovak company Elektrizace železnic Praha (or Electrification of railways Prague) and initially ran with 25 Škoda 9TrH23 trolleybuses (eventually expanding to 86 vehicles by 1988, of which 80 were in operation) between Pamir Cinema in downtown Kabul to Silo Road (Kote Sangi) in western Kabul, via Kabul Zoo, Karte Char and Kabul University. The Afghans further expanded it, split the line into three routes, and the system ended up with a length of 12.5 km. It was extremely popular due to its low fares and carried about 21 million passengers per year! However, its overhead line and electric contact network was reportedly in bad condition by the late 1980s with poor maintenance. Following the outbreak of civil war, the last trolleybus came to a halt in late 1992. The copper overhead wires were subsequently looted and sold to scrap dealers.
At one point in time, the Space Needle was the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River! It was built to withstand up to 200 mph (320 km per hour) winds and earthquakes up to a magnitude of 9! It took 400 days to build it, 74,000 bolts to hold it together, and 5,600 tons of concrete poured into the Needle’s foundation! It was designed by John Graham & Company. The idea for a tower with a restaurant at the top came from Edward E. Carlson, chairman of the exposition, after he visited the Fernsehturm Stuttgart. After local John Graham designed the Northgate Mall in 1950, he got involved. Graham altered the restaurant to be a revolving one, based off another he was designing in Honolulu around the same time. Graham patented a gearing system that allowed you to turn the entire restaurant of 250 people with a one-horsepower motor for the original turntable. The new turntable uses 12 motors. Graham wanted a flying saucer design for the fair's Space Age theme. Architect Victor Steinbrueck was a consultant to John Graham's firm, and Victor came up with the wasp-waisted tower shape based on an abstract wooden sculpture in his home of a dancer by David Lemon called "The Feminine One", a sculpture inspired by Syvilla Fort. Syvilla Fort was a pioneer in dancing from Seattle, and she knew Lemon and Steinbrueck while at the Cornish School of Allied Arts in the 1930s. There is a bronze replica of this sculpture right outside the Space Needle.
@@AverytheCubanAmerican he sounded more like "number 15: burger king foot lettuce"
Absolutely incredible. The editing makes it so engaging and addictive, but now its past 1am and I've gotta sign off for the night.
Made it all the way through Seattle; San Francisco segment tomorrow!
Oh and Miles and Jackson and crew... if you ever do make it up to Vancouver BC, I can and will ramble about local trolleybus facts for an hour+. I think there's enough of us out here for some sort of meetup...
Your adventures always seem like so much fun. Oh and the tunes... rock on!
Jackson: KILLER keyboard groove on 'Candle' - shades of jack stratton?
(P.S. sorry canadian dollars are kind of worthless these days, eh)
Thanks so much for the donation, and Canadian Dollars are ALWAYS worth it for the meme! ;)
You're right on the money for Candle by the way, we were going for Vulfpeck!
We were absolutely going for Vulfpeck energy on Candle - thanks so much for the kind donation and even kinder comment!! :)
The CityNerd impression @44:24 was CRAZY
@@RZFX619 OMG, I lost it at that point. So much so, that I made a point of going back and playing it for my wife who, umm… is NOT a fan of his delivery, lol. 😂
Foaming? I'm frothing at the mouth rn, this is my Christmas present this year!
As a Midwesterner the video going straight from San Francisco to Dayton managed to virtually give me that sinking feeling of coming home on vacation lol
I know that feeling as someone who moved from Dayton to Cincinnati to Chicago LOL.
OH MY GOD THIS VIDEO HAS A WHOLE SOUNDTRACK HOLY FUCK YOU WENT SO HARD ON THIS ONE
honestly i want these songs to be released on their own
"There will soon be an easier way to listen to the music in this video, along with the rest of Miles in Transit history" ;)
"Guys, I found a great three-hour Christmas movie to watch!"
"This better be good"
*(puts on the trolleybus video)*
"There's only five cities in the whole US" Boston be like "Yeah, uhhhh, about that....". Jackson playing his keyboard on a nighttime bus is such a vibe, the music is on point as always, and I appreciate Jackson's history segments! It's awesome to be a history buff, whether it's diners, trolleybuses, countries, etc! The fact that this was years in the making shows how hard you've worked to put out such a huge vid like this! Yet another reason to support the channel, for everything you do for us! Your editing game is incredible. Besides Canadian, US, and Mexican cities having used trolleybuses in North America, Havana, Cuba briefly used trolleybuses as a test operation. In 1949, they got dual-mode buses secondhand from Newark, NJ, and it was relatively easy to do because it didn't involve anything new as just like Cincinnati's historic trolleys, the Havana streetcars used a double overhead wire and twin trolley poles on each streetcar! The trolleybus test failed, and Havana's trams ended in 1952 (trams ended in Cuba in general in 1954). Also, Trinidad & Tobago briefly used trolleybuses at one point too in the capital of Port of Spain between 1941 and 1956. Everyone knows about the Mexico City trolleybuses, but the other Mexican city to use trolleybuses is Guadalajara which first opened in 1976 and was operated by Sistema de Transporte Colectivo de la Zona Metropolitana (Sistecozome), an agency of the Jalisco government. On 29 January 2016, operation was transferred from Sistecozome to another state agency, Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano (or SITEUR), which also operates the Guadalajara light rail system. From 1976 to 1993, they used ex-Chicago Marmon-Herrington trolleybuses! It had a ridership of 3.7 million in 2017, as at the time the system reopened in 2016, it had only one line. Guadalajara also has the Guadalajara Mi Macro BRT system which launched in 2009 (doesn't use trolleybuses), with a second line opening in 2022. In 2024, the system had 69 stations total, 27 on Calzada line and 42 on the newer Periférico line. Mi Macro Periférico is 41.5 km, while Mi Macro Calzada is 16.6 km.
Yup, it's true about the Frankford Avenue Bridge or the Pennypack Creek Bridge in Philly. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Frankford Avenue Bridge was the first stone arch bridge built in the US and is the oldest surviving roadway bridge in the US as well! It was built in 1697 at the request of William Penn to connect his mansion with the then new city of Philadelphia and was an important link on the King's Highway that linked Philly with cities like Trenton, NYC, and Boston. So famous politicians like John Adams and George Washington used the bridge, like Washington when he crossed it on his way to his inauguration in NYC in 1789. Philly was a city of different transportation firsts. The first steam-ferry service in the world was actually in Philly and went to Burlington, NJ. It was created by John Fitch! Basically, he wanted to make his own version of a Watt engine (there were no Watt engines in North America as the British refused to export them) and he got Henry Voigt to help him build a working model and place it on the boat. The first successful trial run of his steamboat Perseverance was made in August 1787, in the presence of delegates from the Constitutional Convention. A bank of oars on either side of the boat propelled it. During the next few years, Fitch and Voigt worked to develop better designs, and in June 1790, launched a 60-foot (18 m) boat powered by a steam engine driving several stern-mounted oars. These oars paddled like the motion of a swimming duck's feet. With this boat, he carried up to 30 paying passengers on numerous round-trip voyages between Philadelphia and Burlington during the summer of 1790.
The first hot air balloon flown in the Americas was launched from the former Walnut Street Jail in Philly on January 9, 1793, witnessed by George Washington, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison! It was piloted by the French aeronaut Jean-Pierre Blanchard, who was also the first to cross the English Channel in a hot air balloon with American co-pilot John Jeffries in 1785! It landed in Deptford, NJ. And just outside Philly, the Crum Creek was once home to the Leiper Railroad, the continent's first chartered railway, first operational non-temporary railway, first well-documented railroad, and first constructed railroad also meant to be permanent! It was a 'family business-built' horse drawn railroad of 0.75 miles that was constructed in 1810 after quarry owner, Thomas Leiper, failed to obtain a charter with legal rights-of-way to instead build his desired canal along Crum Creek. It went from Crum Creek to Ridley Creek where quarry stone where it would then be loaded on boats to Chester for market.
I managed to make it to an hour in before my parents yelled at me for "being too loud" as if they weren't
As a Daytonian who used to rely fully on the RTA, it makes me really happy to hear how much you enjoy the system. It's surprisingly good for how small our city is.
Also, just as a side note: the reason the 1 has two variations in Beavercreek/Fairborn is due to a long standing battle between Beavercreek and RTA that ultimately resulted in a compromise to run very limited schedules into the city of Beavercreek (by the Walmart and the mall.)
also, I'm probably the only other person who ever got on a bus at that spot where the 7 ends and meets the 11 (lol) what an elite club
Ohio State produced a documentary about the fight for bus stops in Beavercreek called "Free to Ride." I've been trying to find a copy of it for years.
I'm not surprised that Beavercreek would hate having the RTA in it. I grew up in a very similar place that balked at getting it there too. Wouldn't want anyone poor or not white in their precious suburb...
@neilworms2 sucks for them to miss out on the work force and customer base.
@@radjago Same deal for Springboro lol. Wish more Ohioans would travel outside their state (though I get it travel is expensive) and see places with better transit systems and how much better they make cities as places to live.
1:23:24 the reaction to your cameo from Karl the Fog was incredible
I'm around half way through the video and I think someone already commented it but this channel is definately one of my favorite corners of UA-cam and the internet overall. The mix of transit, comedy and music just come together really nicely. Great video as always, gotta love three hours of transit. Amazing effort!! Happy new year!!!
Thank you so much!!
Redacted, Redacted, please let me be extracted, for by your presence I'm distracted, and my enjoyment is subtracted.
I always love to see what kinds of shenanigans you're up to, thank you sooo much for putting in the effort to share them with us!
I thank you for typing this out so I didn't have to.
Thank you both for watching all the way through!!
RIP MBTA 71/72/73/77a. (Yes I know the bus lines still exist, but COME ON WE LOST OUR TROLLEYBUSES).
Also Fun Fact: the video that got me into your channel was the MBTA Trolleybus last ride video.
That's awesome! That's one of my favorites, I miss the Boston trolleybuses so much.
1:08:50 In Toronto streetcar stops were traditionally also marked by painting two red bands on a hydro pole. When actual stop markers started to be introduced they continued the motif of two red bands, which is why the modern stop markers in Toronto and many nearby systems have coloured bands at the top and bottom.
SF also uses curb paint so it doesn’t have to put up so many street signs. Each color has a meaning, such as how long you can park there if it’s short term.
Merry Christmas Miles and Jackson!
Aww, thanks so much!! Really appreciate the donation!
We are so unworthy of this incredible trolleybus content! The people you meet, the music, the history segments, this is yet another Miles in Transit work of art. Korean pears aren't Korean, they're native to southern China and northern Indochina and were introduced to Korea. In Korea, it's used when marinating meat like bulgogi due to the presence of enzymes to tenderize the proteins in the meat. Bul means fire, gogi means meat, and it originated from what's now the Pyongan region of the DPRK, and was brought over to Seoul by Pyongan refugees after WWII. Pyongyang also has trolleybuses! It currently has 12 lines and a total length of 56.6 km, which extends to the suburbs! As of December 2024, the latest line opened in 2022 on Day of the Sun (April 15th, the day Kim Il-sung was born in 1912, the same day the Titanic sank) when a new line from Songyo to Songhwa was opened, while the line from West Pyongyang to Thermal Power was rerouted, both to serve the new Songhwa and Kyongru-dong residential districts!
After US raids during the war in the 1950s, the city was effectively destroyed and needed to be rebuilt. Pyongyang was redesigned to become the ideal socialist city. The first plans for a trolleybus network were proposed in 1957, though construction only began in 1960, after Kim Il-sung ordered it. The network begun operation on April 30th 1962, with an opening ceremony at Pyongyang Railway station to commemorate the opening of the line from the Three Revolutions Exhibition at Ryonmot-dong to the railway station. In addition to its trolleybus network, Pyongyang also has a tram network and a metro system. The Pyongyang Metro has two lines, the Chollima Line and the Hyŏksin Line, with the lines opening 1973 and 1978 respectively. This means the Pyongyang Metro opened one year before the Seoul Subway Line 1 did in 1974. Before the war, the city had trams, but said tram system was destroyed, so it built a new system from scratch. The trams finally opened in 1991 as a solution for overcrowded trolleybuses, with three lines, and the Kumsusan shuttle that connects Samhung station with the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun. A ban on bikes was lifted in 1992, and now many people also bike alongside taking transit, and the government has built bike lanes and even introduced Ryomyong bikeshare. DPRK urban-planning includes limited urban sprawl, as new developments in DPRK cities tend to take the place of older areas of the city, rather than building new developments further out. In Pyongyang, this is the case with the developments of Mirae (Future) Scientists Street in 2015, Changjon Street in 2012, Songhwa Street in 2022, Hwasong Street in 2024, and Ryomyong (Dawn) Street in 2023. Micro-districts are made up of residences alongside their supporting amenities like public spaces, offices, shops, and schools. A key aspect is both the equality of the residential buildings and the encouragement of people to spend more time in the community, hence the focus on parks and playgrounds People shouldn't be making excuses for keeping cities car-dominant. It should be the goal to go from car required to car optional. Everyone should have access to all life has to offer regardless of whether you own a multi ton hunk of metal. Getting to school, medical appointments, and visiting family/friends shouldn't hinge on needing a car. If critics against urbanism actually cared about affordability/the working class, then they would know by not relying on a car, you're saving so much money not having to care about tolls, gas, maintenance, etc because you're taking a train or bus instead. If a city like Pyongyang can have a bikeshare program, a trolleybus system with over 35 miles in length, a tram system with 33 miles in length, AND two subway lines, then other cities have zero excuses not to take these steps for the greater good.
Pyongyang isn't the only DPRK place with trolleybuses, as Sinuiju, Nampo, Manpo (opened in 2019), Kanggye, Chongjin, Wonsan, Sariwon, Sangwon (connecting Myongdang-rodongjagu to the Sangwon Limestone Mine, via the Sangwon Cement Complex. The line was built and operated by the Sangwon Cement Complex), Kimchaek, Huichon, and Unhung County (operation of a commuter trolleybus connecting miners' town to Unhung Mine) have trolleybuses as well! Here are some other interesting trolleybus systems around the world: Historically, South Africa had a number of trolleybus systems, with the Johannesburg system being the last to shut down in 1986. Durban had trolleybuses from 1935 to 1968, and theirs was the first such system worldwide to experience an accident involving an overturned trolleybus. Thirty-seven people were injured in that accident, which occurred on March 5th, 1941. Durban's trolleybuses were also unique in being fitted with fishing rod racks at the back. In Marrakesh, they built a BRT (that's partly trolleybus) system in 2017. The electricity powering the vehicles comes from solar power, as Morocco has become a solar power giant! Morocco has taken many green technological initiatives, like in 2014 when it opened the Tarfaya Wind Farm with 131 turbines. In 2016, it opened the Ouarzazate solar station, the world's largest concentrated solar power plant, saving 760K tonnes of carbon emissions every year! With wind farms and solar farms across the country, this has contributed several billion dollars to the economy and added thousands of permanent jobs! And it's all adding up, as the country is consistently ranked high in the Climate Change Performance Index, with Morocco ranked NINTH in the 2024 edition. Besides trolleybuses in Marrakesh, in Casablanca, they got a four-line tramway network, first opening in 2012, with two tram lines opening in 2024, and a busway with two lines also opening in 2024. In 2011, another tramway network opened, in agglomeration of Rabat and Salé cities, with two lines. And Morocco was the first African country to get high-speed rail in 2018. Valparaíso, Chile's system opened in 1952, a year after Mexico City's trolleybus system did. The system in Chile was known for almost half of its vehicles being built in 1946-52 by the Pullman-Standard Company, and they were the oldest trolleybuses in regular service anywhere in the world. Those vehicles were collectively declared a national monument by the Chilean government in 2003. They helped the city gain its designation by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. They still made up more than half of the active (in service) fleet in 2015, but by 2019 they accounted for only nine of the 23 active vehicles, and in 2022, it was reported that all Pullman-Standard trolleybuses were stored out of service. Valparaíso is also known for its many funiculars, though they call them elevators. The only elevator that can truly be called as such, is the Ascensor Polanco, because it is vertical. As many as 28 different funicular railways have served Valparaíso at one time or another. Valparaíso has fifteen lifts declared Historical Monuments by the National Monuments Council.
Thanks, Kim Jong Un
Ooh, thank you for the pears context...duly noted! Also good to know the Valparaiso Pullmans are gone, that makes me want to go there SLIGHTLY less... (although it still looks like an amazing city!)
2:16:30
Congrats on enjoying your first Dayton-style pizza. It's similar to other Midwestern tavern style pizzas like St. Louis (but without the provel cheese), with a smaller square "party cut" with bite sized slices, a thin salty crisp cracker style crust covered in corn meal, a unsweetened sauce, and loaded with toppings edge to edge. Locals will fight over whether Cassano's, Ron's, Marion's, or Joe's is best, but i think you made a fine choice.
I never knew Dayton had a local thin crust pizza style, that was popular to serve there. Reminds me how thin crust pizza is actually pretty popular in Chicago, unlike what a lot of tourists think. It isn't all about deep dish pizza in Chicago....
Wow, a 3 hour video exploring four of my favorite cities in the US and Dayton, Ohio for some reason? This truly is the greatest Christmas gift from Mr. Transit himself.
My favorite moment of the year has to be the entire Buenos Aires transit experience with the most ridiculous haphazard rolling stock and station architecture of Subte, the vibrant and chaotic bus network, the surprisingly modern and widespread commuter/regional rail network, and of course sharing the whole experience with your parents (in particular your dad really enjoying the buses and the doorless train)
Honorable mention to the Lordsburg-Benson time loop (with the incredibly on the nose visual storytelling tool of the train eating itself that only a visionary on the same level as the great Christopher Nolan could’ve ever possibly conceived of). Also hoping that “honest-to-god salt flats” becomes a recurring cutaway even if it has no real use case whatsoever.
Thanks for all the amazing content this year and looking forward to what’s in store for 2025!
Thanks so much!! I still need to get one or two more videos out from Argentina too, so be on the lookout for those!
@@MilesinTransit I live for those vids (I'm an Argentina-a-phile) lol.
For a part 2, you should come to Vancouver, Canada and ride our amazing trolley bus network!
I also was a bit sad Vancouver was left out of this masterpiece! Amazing as it is
I'm a little late to this, but this video is awesome! I love you and jackson's (and your guests') enthusiasm for any and all types of transit, it's really great to see. and you guys are extremely talented musicians. thanks so much for another absolute feat of a video!
Thank you so much for watching it!!
Proud of our operators, overhead power distribution, and Trolley Impacts teams at King County Metro!
Amen!
I grew up in the Dayton area (Beavercreek/Fairborn) and moved to another city before I picked up Urbanism-adjacent hobbies. It is absolutely surreal seeing you take transit through such familiar territory from my childhood. I've complained to my friends about how it was impossible to get anywhere without a car over there, but as you've proven, it's definitely possible, and I let stubbornness get in the way. I wish I could have taken advantage of Dayton's RTA in the past. Urbanism doesn't have to be confined to the New Yorks and Bostons and Disney Worlds of America. Thank you for showcasing places from my precious past 😁
Thanks so much for the donation! The RTA definitely has problems - frequencies could be a lot better - but in terms of raw infrastructure it has so much potential and beats out so many other US cities of its size.
Kathy’s explanation was amazing!!! Don’t have anything like that near where I live in Australia, hearing her expertise added so much to your fantastic video. Happy holidays and thank you!! Wonderful video 😊👍
Yeah, she was just incredible. Thank you so much!
Thanks!🚎
It took a week but I finally finished! Excellent job and love the format with the songs for intermission, history facts and than the transit system. I'm pretty sure I rode that Silver line back in 2006 to get to Logan airport from a conference. I had no idea Dayton had such great trolleybus infrastructure - I was expecting a Breeders reference not Guided by Voices though.
It took a ton of work to make this entire video and deserves every minute.
Thank you so much!
Its either Breeders or any early funk song (I can't believe that whole genre came from Dayton! Like I grew up there and didn't learn that until I was an adult living in Chicago LOL)
It took me 3 days to watch, but I got through it. I loved Jackson's History lessons. One of the best documentaries yet. The trolleybus U-turn in San Francisco was breathtaking.
Thanks so much, congratulations on making it through!!
57:55 we need more miles in transit pop punk this is beautiful
Haha, thanks so much!!
Reminds me of “Our Song” by Radiator Hospital, in a good way
So I grew up just south of Dayton (past the end of the RTA), so weirdly, I never realized just how unique the Trolleybusses were until years later. Daytonians are an odd lot who have little pride in their massively rust belt depleted city that in its heyday was a kind of major tech hub (Look up NCR, plus of course the Wright Brothers with aviation). Its a sad town, and Cincinnati was really the place that drew me into becoming an urbanist (If you've been there you know why it does that to people) just an hour down I-75, but I really do appreciate this video because it allows me to look at the cool aspects of Dayton in a light that my own self loathing experience of growing up there wouldn't be able to see so easily. Thank you. I do wish the system ran better frequencies though...
Oh and I'm really glad you got to have some pizza, Dayton's got its own variant of what in Chicago (where I live now) we call "Tavern Style Pizza" (thin crust cut into squares, though the dayton version is really small squares), I think its some of the best pizza in Ohio, at least its better than what you can find in Cincy or Columbus, my favorite spot as a kid was Marions, same style pizza as what you got, and they spiced it really nicely. I wish people would just tout it as Dayton style pizza because its regionally distinct, and as a kid I thought Dayton had no regional food (again I was drawn to Cincinnati Chili which you can get there in abundance). This also added to my feelings of Dayton having no "there" there.
Its also weirdly Dayton like for you guys to only have 1 trolleybus that actually was a trolleybus lol.
Oh and I used to eat at that abandoned diner when it was the "Diner on Sycamore" was a really cool spot, probably the first proper diner I ever ate at, I saw rocky Horror right after eating there years ago when I was in high school at the New Neon Cinema.
I really do want to see you guys do a vid on Cincy as well... ride the streetcar / busses (recently expanded by a ballot measure) and check out the woefully underrated architecture / urban bones of that city.
oh and BTW - Meijer is a great chain, used to hang out there late at night as a bored high schooler because they are 24 / 7. They are actually based out of Michigan in Grand Rapids btw. Finally the dead mall store was "Elder-Beerman", it was a local department store that died in the early 00s, I remember getting clothing there as a kid with my parents (though not that location but one at the Dayton Mall, which is also served by a transit hub).
The store was Elder-Beerman on Philadelphia Dr. It was a Dayton-based department store chain that sold to BonTon stores in 2003. BonTon went bankrupt in 2018 and was sold to CSC Generation in 2021, and BrandX in 2023, who currently have a placeholder web site up indicating a planned return for e-commerce and eventually retail stores.
@@radjago Oh crud, I meant to put Elder Beerman, this is what I get for writing this right before going to bed (I've corrected lol)
Loved the extra Dayton context, thank you! I didn't realize that pizza was unique - pretty cool for Dayton to have its own regional food despite being pretty close to Cincinnati by today's travel standards!
I just noticed that Wikipedia now has an article about it, with most sources being post 2010 (I left the Dayton area in 2002). I'm glad people are acknowledging this is a thing (though my parents told me Cassanos was better when they were younger): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton-style_pizza
Redacted, Redacted, please let me be extracted, for by your presence I'm distracted, and my enjoyment is subtracted!
Been watching for a while (since the Geoff Marshall collab) but never really commented/engaged before (apart from a single outraged comment at you having to give your email address to order food during the Boston Diner Video Premiere) but figured this was as good as an excuse as any!
Thank you for the best christmas present of all (my only christmas plans this year lmao) - sad I didn't manage to watch it all last night, but it came out just a little late here in the UK, and I had to call it a night early since I've come down with something. But absolutely worth the wait!
As for best miles in transit moment of the last year, I think the clear winner there was the concert video! So hype to hear all these great songs in a cool concert setting :) Hope the next year here at miles in transit is as good as the last, you're one of my favourite creators on youtube right now!
Thank you so much, and you made it to the end too!! The concert was one of my favorite moments too, that was just so surreal and fun!
i don’t think there are many channels where i’m as excited when i see a new video out like this one
Thank you so much!
@ omg i love you
2:31:28 "we didn't want to seem weird by looking like we just rode the bus for fun, we made it look like we rode it all the way to Meijer just for one apple" 😂😂😂
Appreciate the channel and all of the music recommendations!
I think my favorite moment of this year's spread was the Delaware circumnavigation, though Rockaway and the AZ/NM time loop weren't far behind!
If I had a nickel for every song I've known about escaping to New Mexico, I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice
Best wishes in the new year!
Thanks so much! People seemed to like Delaware circumnavigation, another commenter listed that as one of their favorites too!
@ being from South Jersey, I have a few ideas regarding the Delaware River and its crossing modes!
44:23 The CityNerd impression is so on point! Love it!
Glad I had a three hour trolleybus musical with a bonus video about buses in LA to watch on my long flight home yesterday, I bet none of the other passengers on the flight were entertained the same way!
I actually watched this on my flight home to Washington, DC on the new year!
This was exceptional, and is an absolute gem. I love that you dream of big ideas for videos and do many of them. I am so grateful for this channel.
Thank you so much!!
44:23 citynerd surprise ha. This video is so amazing i cant believe im already 45 minutes in
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for creating this! The enthusiasm, the editing, the music, the huge number of foamers joining in... And let's not forget the scenery, history and attention to details of the surroundings! Really unique and wonderful, well done!
Thanks so much!
Jackson absolutely shredding on the keys appreciation comment
His solos in "Thinking of You" give me goosebumps!
My transit knowledge is self-centered and armchair at most, so I had no idea that Seattle’s trackless trolley network was unique (given the only other major metro market I’ve experienced has been Vancouver BC). Due to the aforementioned self-centeredness, it was so thrilling to see scenes from my day-to-day life in this video. I was pleased to see one of the first shots of Seattle was of my favorite bakery in Queen Anne, then the (now defunct) Broadway Rite Aid, and the Cap Hill Dick’s that has fed me after many a night out-I was further surprised when you both later caught a bus outside my apartment. I wish I’d been a fan in 2022 so I might’ve recognized you outside, but for the last year the only videos I consistently watch are from this channel-I’ve learned so much, including a new appreciation for the city I’ve lived in my whole life.
Wow, really kind words at the end there, thank you so much! I'm so glad you saw your neighborhoods in here, it was so much fun exploring Seattle!
San Francisco is the only place I have been where they refer to the transit routes by both number and name. You don’t ride the 30, you ride the 30 Stockton. You don’t ride the J, you ride the J Church. I read where MUNI, when naming new routes that may go on several streets, just chooses one that seems to reflect the character of the route. Thus the 44 O’Shaughnessy. At least that was how it worked almost 40 years ago!
Thanks for the awesome content. This video is bringing back some memories, like some rides on a jam packed 30 Stockton way back when.
I still need to get used to that naming convention when I'm in SF!
Chicago does it too, it's actually super useful because most routes here are on a single street, thus most of the time I don't even need to know bus numbers for routes I'm unfamiliar with I can just think "okay I want the North Ave bus"
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Toronto does that too. I like it -- saying "13 Avenue Road" has way more character than just "13." Or "131 Nugget."
@@meepthegreat Really helps that we have a strict street grid with streets that run very long distances.
Miles, this is just lovely in every way. Truly! In a world of corporately derivative and formulaic video content, in a world that likes to take itself too seriously and focuses only on the gaudiest stories, you and Jackson made the epic choice to make ride every last trolleybus line in the entire U.S., and make a 3-hour video about your journeys! This week has been rough for me, but watching this funny, informative to the max, and just plain enjoyable video over several days has been a highlight. A million thanks to you and Jackson for the time and effort you put into this!! One of my favorite moments in this video--one that literally did make me laugh out loud--was your NIMBY impersonation in Seattle, when you were riding past a cute corner shop in a residential neighborhood. Honestly there were so many classic moments in this video, and I will always be grateful I got to experience the whole darn thing! Keep on keepin' on, Miles and co.!
Thank you so much for the kind words - and for the donation you made in a separate comment! So sorry it's been a rough week, but I'm happy this video can be a source of joy!
@@MilesinTransit You betcha! You are most welcome for both!! You deserve all the kudos for this; I certainly got at *least* 10 bucks of entertainment and knowledge value out of it! Thanks--you are too kind. Yay for transit being a source of joy! (as it ideally always should be!)
1:22:55 thanks for putting in the effort to add subtitles here, they really helped me understand what jackson was saying
It's finally here (I need to purchase an EP made up of the music from this video immediately)
"It will soon be easier to listen to the music from this video and from Miles in Transit history" ;)
@@MilesinTransit Better include the 33 jingle :3
@@MilesinTransitlol the way I got a record player and cd player for Christmas (along with a Midnights record ;) Jackson, lol.)
For future Midwest trips, the store is pronounced "Mye-ur." Also, please consider paying a visit to their mascot, Sandy the Penny Pony.
They are out of Michigan and are trying to muscle-out local grocery store chains throughout the Midwest, like Home Depot did with local hardware stores 30 years ago..
Well done putting the first bathroom review right at 2:22:22 ...at least I think that was the first one. For such a long video I may have forgot I saw one haha.
Second, I loved the CityNerd impression. One of these days y'all need to collab.
Third, after 2 hours of major costal metros, I never expected to see Miles and Jackson in a Meijer for the final hour haha. Meijer is a big chain in the Midwest, with locations in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. I do 90% of my brick and mortar shopping there. I'm surprised you didn't use the angry commenter graphic for not knowing how to pronounce Meijer because that's the real reason I'm in the comments right now lol. Rhymes with wire was a good way to put it considering how much of this video is just admiring wires heh.
As someone whose only parent worked at Meijer from the year before I was born until I was in my 20s, and someone who worked there in college myself, I'm a bit of a supermarket foamer. I also am from Grand Rapids, where Meijer started as just a grocer (well technically they started in a town that become an exurb as GR has grown). For the longest time, Meijer claimed to have invented the concept of the superstore (grocery + department store combination) in 1962, and there is an arch from the original superstore location as a monument at the location along the stroadiest stroad in GR, 28th Street where it meets Kalamazoo Ave. However, if you do research you'll discover that Fred Meyer, a Pacific Northwest chain actually was first to do a superstore. It is an extreme coincidence that Meijer's former CEO, son of founder Hendrik, was named Fred Meijer. I'm glad you guys think Meijer > Target -- I never thought about the Yankee Candles classing up the place (that was my mom's department for many decades). Their store brand stuff is good and even has a few separate upscale store brands as well. I'd say it's on par with Whole Foods 365 brand. In Grand Rapids, we only recently got a Whole Foods since Meijer dominates the area... their stores easily outnumber all other superstores like Walmart and Target combined in the metro. There's at least 15 locations in our county. Despite being a big Meijer guy, I actually think that Target > Meijer > Walmart, but that is more of a rating based on the clientele than the quality of the store. Meijer's groceries are essentially just as cheap as Walmart, so despite having some solid amenities and high end items, it tends to attract everyman folk, including some people would classify as "People of Walmart". But I'm one of those people when I show up half awake dressed in pajamas haha.
I never have really thought about it, but Meijer stores are really proactive in promoting transit, as many bus lines use the stores as a terminus. (They also get really involved in suburban and exurban real estate development. They'll put a store near nothing and essentially lease all the remaining land as strip malls and chain restaurants after the store has been around for a while. Sucks that it promotes urban sprawl, but at least it is a form of transit-oriented development?) Trains Are Awesome has an interesting video about a GR Rapid bus line that goes 60 miles north to Ferris State University using a regular city bus, and it is used more as a way to commute to the halfway point at a Meijer in the middle of the countryside, than it is to commute to the college. It's probably a lot of park and riders, unless there's a shuttle into Cedar Springs I don't know about.
Wow, this is a lot of Meijer content! ;) That's cool a lot of buses end at Meijers - it can be hard to find layover space in a constrained city so it's great they provide some!
Make sure to leave scrambled eggs and french toast out next Christmas, so Miles releases another video
Don’t forget a big pack of SNYDERS
I grew up in the Puget Sound suburbs, but I live in Scotland now; I'm much more of a British transit nerd than an American one, but your videos have shown me a million fascinating corners of my own country that I'd never have seen otherwise. Thanks for everything you do, and enjoy your new year!
oh, and: Redacted, Redacted, please let me be abstracted, for by your presence I'm distracted, and my enjoyment is subtracted
And thank YOU for making it through the whole thing!!
the driver on the seattle 3 was so kind!! this is one of several reasons why i love these transit videos
The Seattle operator-Kathy- was great. So friendly and willing to share lots of inside knowledge.
Boston's trolleybuses not being replaced reminds me of several places in China where trolleybus systems in cities like Guangzhou are being slowly shut down after the fleet of trolleybuses turn 14 or 15 years old. It's very sad to see
My favourite part of your channel is seeing different parts of the USA. I think I get a genuine glimpse of the USA right now.
What a real effort you have put to make this video possible. That must have been two years worth of doing. Merry Christmas, Miles!
Thank you so much! This was a long time coming!
Thanks for coming to San Francisco. Your video gave me a new appreciation for our buses. By the way, a local nickname for the 22 Fillmore is the “22 Fellini” because of the exciting things you see on board when you ride that bus.
1:26:32 Thank you for riding my home route the 14 Mission! Just a few days ago I caught a rare 40ft trolley bus on the 14 (its on my channel if u want to see it lol) , as the 14 Mission always uses the articulated trolley buses instead due to high ridership everyday.
This is my favourite moment this year!!! Best video of the year 100% worth the wait!!!
Thank you so much!!!
Seattle's trolley network is an awesome quirk of our city... very cool to see it so appreciated. And I loved Kathy's behind-the-scenes commentary and longing for the tough old days when trolleys were prone to misadventure and every route was uphill both ways!
Miles, please never stop making these videos. It’s so funny seeing someone being a little funnier in transit videos!
Thanks so much, I don't have any intention of stopping anytime soon!!
The location of the closed diner downtown Dayton is actually very close to where the Greyhound station used to be, and about three blocks from where the Amtrak station used to be. I still don't understand why the moved the Greyhound station to where it is now in Trotwood. Although to be fair, that area of Trotwood looked a whole lot better 20 years ago. Sure it was a strode hell, but at least it was a strode hell with mostly open businesses.
My favorite frog and her favourite hat are thinking of you🔥🔥
I'm also in agreement with you guys that Kathy was awesome! You can tell she loves her job and driving the trackless trollys!
In Seattle: The construction on the 10 line was for the Madison Street BRT, which opened not long ago.
The 2 and 12 are still using hybrid buses even though RapidRide G is operational. They are supposed to restore the wire, but I don't believe they have a set timeline for that. The G was supposed to be a trolleybus, but apparently New Flyer wouldn't build 12 trolleybuses with left-side doors. Now we await 2026 for the hopeful conversion of the 48 to trolleybus.
I've lived in San Francisco and Seattle and enjoyed seeing both familiar systems as well as seeing how other cities run theirs. I unknowingly caught a dual-mode Silver Line a couple months before they went away. I'm always sad when another system removes trolleybus infrastructure because I'm worried that bus suppliers will stop making them if there are too few remaining systems.
I live in Capitol Hill (not too far from the light rail station). Happy to say that our beloved #47 that was lost due to the pandemic (it was always a short commuter loop that ran 7a-7p only) was sort of resurrected last September. There was a major re-configuration of some routes. The #3 now goes from Madrona to 3rd Ave., then heads up Pike and "Summit Slope" area where the #47 used to run. It's still only 7-7 (on the extension part) and only every 30 minutes, but as a rider with a disability, I am so thankful for the return! Also, the #10 and #11 have done a little switch-up (not sure if the 10 is not a trolley bus anymore)... the #11 takes the route through Capitol Hill that 10 took. Anyway, I love the trolley buses... love to hear the "click click" of the wires and the "whoooosh" as the bus zooms by my apartment. I also love all the massive maze of wires in the million photos I take of the Space Needle (lived here 8 years and still snap a pic whenever I go by... which is like weekly). Will watch the other cities soon... thanks Miles & Co.!
The 10 returned to the historic route of the streetcar that it replaced. The trolley wire on E Pine and 15th Ave were unused since 2016. Now they need to build a new trolley wire segment on Pine and restore the wire on Madison so that the 12 can return to trolleybuses on its revised route.
Finally finished the whole thing, happy New Year!
Dayton is probably the best overall, in terms of if I have to move there, the cashless system can go to h"ll for all I care. Also while I have to take public transit because of my disability, I also really hate crowds and people, so Seattle, San Francisco and Philadelphia are out of the question. Dayton from my little knowledge is basically Brockton area transit. So having the trolley bus, and a vast system which seems to service actual neighborhoods, with space between houses and apartments, sounds wonderful! Wonder what their paratensit is like?
Happy New Year to you as well! Honestly in terms of actual service provided, BAT might win against Dayton RTA, but of course trolleybuses give major points to RTA!
This is way better 3h long entertainment than any multi-million Dollar Movie you get on Hulu or Netflix!
Thank you!!
Best Christmas Ever
That bridge over the 49 is a convention hall. Almost all of the Convention Center show floor area is on the fourth floor and that’s one of the halls, and the loading dock is on top of the building to its east and stretches across a skybridge to another loading dock in the main building. The big glass enclosed skybridge over Pike is another convention hall.
29:06 "We've got a diesel bus getting towed here. It wouldn't have happened if it was a trolley bus"
I've known trolley buses to break down. It's actually the only bus I've ever been on that failed while I was onboard, requiring a tow.
Around 2005, I was going from Downtown Vancouver to UBC on a Sunday. I took a 16 Arbutus, a New Flyer E902. It was packed, as in around 80 passengers (I counted 39 passengers in the half of the bus visible to me) in a 40 foot high-floor. Other than in Vancouver buses in the aughts, the only similar crush load I've experienced is on the Mexico City Metro pulling out of Pantitlan at rush hour.
The seating arrangement in these buses had a single row of front facing seats along the left side except over the rear wheel well where a few seats were transverse. To make room, I squeezed by shins between the backrest of the forward seats and the transverse seat. With long headways on a Sunday, we didn't want to pass people up.
The bus did proud climing up the base of Granville street. However, at Granville and 7th, just before the crush load would let out at Broadway, we exceeded what the poor trolley could manage. The rear left tire, the one I was standing directly on top of, exploded. A call to the tow truck, and a wave of customers walking up to Broadway resulted.
This would have never happened to a diesel bus ... because the driver would have never even attempted to get the last 15 people on board.
Trolleys, true workhorses.
What a story! This was so much fun to read!
Thanks for sharing the adventure; I am HYPED for the album. Can't overstate how funny & entertaining this entire video was. It's even more awesome to see how much the channel has grown since you started filming this. Cheers to a great 2025
Thanks so much!
MILES AND JACKSON DID IT TO EM AGAIN!
GLASSES ON THE BEAT.
Just finished up the third and final hour of this excellent video! You're a Pentangle fan! "Light Flight" was from their Basket of Light LP back in 1970, I think. The song was also used as a theme song to a short-lived BBC series at the time. Bert Jansch had an affinity for wild time signatures from his love and incorporating jazz into Pentangle's sound. Nerding out over music is the best.
Oh my God, "Light Flight" is so good. I also have a really soft spot for their take on "Cruel Sister" - the bass work on it is legendary, and the way it just goes on and on and on with the same tune makes it a fantastic song to listen to before bed.
You should do Vancouver next!
Fantastic video, I had a great time watching! If you were curious, that sign on the dead mall in Dayton was for Elder-Beerman, a defunct department store. (My parents are from Southwest Ohio, so I have a lot of random knowledge of the Cincinnati-Dayton area lol)
already watched this on patreon, but this is just amazing, will definitely be rewatching many times (especially dayton's crazy wired deviations, LOVE that that is a thing that still exists!)
Thank you so much!!
oh shit he posted a 3hr trolleybus video on xmas day. i'm overwhelmed
A three hour trolleybus special? What Christmas gift!
Nice! The 44 is the trolley route I use the most as a Seattlite.😊
Kathy is a legend!
She is!!
Epic!!!! Thank you for the adventures!!! My favorite moments are just seeing the joy tha fun/good transit brings.
Thank YOU for watching them!!
This was a movie ass movie.
Miles!! This is a really amazing video!! I actually learned some new facts about the history of trolleybuses. This video was laid out in a way that you could understand the factoids, watch the foaming happen, enjoy the wonderfully crafted music, rinse and repeat; and yet not get bored of it. I really enjoyed the little jingles you made for the separate lines as well. I think that brings a ton of value to this whole entire project. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the dedication Miles. Keep on foaming.
These are such kind words, thank you so so much!
It took me 3 days to finish this video, but it was a fun ride! Loved the foaming and soundtrack.
Fun fact; The Netherlands has only one city with trolleybusses, Arnhem.
Thanks so much for watching!
17:05 TRM is short for To Terminal or Terminated, it just means the bus is either out of Service or doesn't continue past terminal, essentially the Bus is laying Over and you aren't supposed to get on it
Pretty close: “To Terminal” means the bus is deadheading to a route terminal. The busses onboard systems will automatically set the head sign to it when the coach reaches the last stop of its trip, and then re-set it back when it reaches the first stop of next trip in its block. Upshot, this means the driver doesn’t have to fiddle with the head signs at all, generally, but it does mean the coach will read as “To Terminal” when laying over.
Coaches will also display things like “Atlantic Base” or “Bellevue Base” when deadheading to their depot. At least back in the 2010s, you could actually ride these coaches (technically) if you flagged them down - if the driver stopped for you. I used that quirk myself a few times when I missed the last 301 south from where I worked in Shoreline, by flagging down a deadheading 358 returning to Central Base (which was usually done via I-5 at N 175th) and getting dropped off at N 45th St.’s freeway stop.
Mr. In Transit and friend, you are too much fun. Thank you.
Thanks!
This is pure insanity miles and other guy. I can't wait to watch this over the course of my next 18 meals (6 days)
Jackson is other guy! Thanks so much!
Growing-up in the NY/NJ/CT Tri-State Area, I never knew that trackless trolleys were a thing until I went on a class trip to Eastern Europe. There, I even saw trolleybus wires on a major highway.
Seattle was named in honor of Chief Seattle, who was leader of the Duwamish and Suquamish peoples. The Capitol Hill neighborhood is named such because of James A. Moore. And no, it has no connection to the one in DC. James A. Moore was a real estate developer who platted much of the area, and he wanted the Washington state government to move the capital from Olympia to Seattle, so he named it Capitol Hill in 1901 after the neighborhood of his wife's hometown Denver. Before this, it was called Broadway Hill. The light-rail station you briefly mentioned has some cool art above the platform called Jet Kiss by Mike Ross and was installed in 2015 before the station opened in 2016. The piece consists of two actual decommissioned US Navy A-4 Skyhawk fighter jets, which were disassembled and painted magenta and yellow. The two fighter jets were acquired from a scrapyard in Arizona, and were sent to Ross's studio in Oakland, California for disassembly and reconfiguration. The jets were painted magenta and yellow as a move to offset the city's stereotypical overcast skies. The choice of jets is a reference to the city's aviation history. Originally the concept was a dogfight, but this received backlash in the late 2000s when they were selecting artists and was changed to a non-aggressive and bird-like arrangement, in reference to the official City Bird, the Great blue heron. The A-4 Skyhawk was developed in the 1950s and were the principal light aircraft used during the Vietnam War. Dayton's National Museum of the US Air Force is the LARGEST and OLDEST military aviation museum in the world, their collection is amazing! Besides the Memphis Belle (one of the first United States Army Air Forces B-17 heavy bombers to complete 25 combat missions), they also have the Apollo 15 Command Module Endeavour which carried David Scott, James Irwin, and Alfred Worden to the Moon in 1971 on NASA's fourth crewed lunar landing mission, and several Presidential aircraft, including those used by FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower. Dayton was home to the Dayton Project, a branch of the larger Manhattan Project, to develop polonium triggers used in early atomic bombs, and its Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was where the Dayton Agreement was signed in 1995 to end the Bosnian War.
The church by Coit Tower is the Saints Peter and Paul Church, a Catholic church that has served as the home church and cultural center for San Francisco's Italian-American community, and has become a home for Chinese-American Catholics as well, offering services in Italian, English, and Cantonese. The first church built on its site was in 1884 but was destroyed by the Great Quake of 1906. Construction on the current building was completed in 1924. The church was featured in the Clint Eastwood movies Dirty Harry and The Dead Pool. Also featured in What's Up, Doc? in which Judy Maxwell and Dr. Howard Bannister borrowed a Volkswagen Beetle during a car chase. After their civil ceremony in 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio returned for photographs on the steps of this church. DiMaggio was married to Dorothy Arnold in the church in 1939 but later divorced. Still married as far as the Church was concerned (they didn't obtain an annullment), he could not be married in the Catholic Church. The Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill is really cool! The Art Deco Coit Tower was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify San Francisco. It was designed by architects Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Temple Howard. It was the site of some of the first public works murals executed under the Public Works Administration, later known as the WPA. The interior features fresco murals in the American Social Realism style, painted by 22 different onsite artists and their numerous assistants. Three artists preferred oil on canvas and worked offsite. One artist preferred egg tempera rather than fresco. Arthur Brown Jr. designed many things in San Francisco besides the Coit Tower, including San Francisco City Hall, Pacific Gas and Electric Company General Office Building and Annex, the War Memorial Opera House (with G. Albert Lansburgh, who worked on El Capitan in Hollywood, Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Orpheum Theater in LA and New Orleans, and Al Hirschfeld Theatre/Martin Beck Theatre in NYC), and the Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco Art Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital, and the 50 United Nations Plaza Federal Office Building. Outside San Francisco, he worked on Pasadena City Hall, San Diego's Santa Fe Depot, the Interstate Commerce Commission Building (the ICC was abolished in 1996), its near-twin the Department of Labor Building (the Environmental Protection Agency occupies both buildings), and the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, and a bunch of things at Stanford University like Hoover Tower, Toyon Hall, Memorial Hall, Burnham Pavilion, and the Cecil H. Green Library
Telegraph Hill was known as Loma Alta (or "High Hill") during the Spanish and Mexican eras of the city's history. Before the shoreline of San Francisco had been pushed eastward by landfill, the bottom of Loma Alta would have formed the shoreline of San Francisco Bay between North Point and Yerba Buena Cove. It became known as Telegraph Hill because of semaphore, a windmill-like structure erected in September 1849, for the purpose of signaling to the rest of the city the nature of the ships entering the Golden Gate. Atop the newly built house, the marine telegraph consisted of a pole with two raisable arms that could form various configurations, each corresponding to a specific meaning: steamer, sailing boat, etc. The information was used by observers operating for financiers, merchants, wholesalers and speculators. Knowing the nature of the cargo carried by the ship they could predict the upcoming (generally lower) local prices for those goods and commodities carried. Those who did not have advance information on the cargo might pay a too-high price from a merchant unloading his stock of a commodity, a price that was about to drop. In October 1850, the ship Oregon signaled to the hill as it was entering the Golden Gate the news of California's then acquired statehood.
Thank you so much for this history lesson
My favorite Miles In Transit moment was sharing the announcement of the album release and enjoying every one of the transit adventures.
i've been waiting for this since you guys initially rode the seattle trolleybuses in summer 2022... i was living over by SPU right by where the 3, 4 & 13 run back then! I was a pretty new follower then so I didn't make it out to the meet up, but it was still cool to follow on twitter. now i live on capitol hill right where the former 47/newly extended 3 run and i love getting to take a trolleybus to work everyday. my girlfriend lived on beacon hill for years and had a 36 stop right out front of her apartment, too - suffice to say we are a very pro-trolleybus household! great job getting this all out and thanks for giving me something to do for 3 hours during christmas week!
That's awesome to hear, sorry we missed you at the time! We love pro-trolleybus households!
This video is life affirming, thank you Miles and Jackson
Thank YOU!
When I was living in university district in Seattle I heard a loud crash/boom and turned around to see a trolley’s wires come off and spark up. That’s when I realized trolley buses existed
I just found your channel this week, (although I believe I watched a video a long time ago), and have binged a ton of them. I've never had a thought about public transport but nonetheless I am intrigued, entertain , and addicted.
Top tier channel
This video's a heck of a commitment for a new channel, so hugely appreciated! Thanks so much!!
hello i am back to comment again as i have now finished the video. im not one to get parasocial but i love you guys. happy to have found this channel and this community of like minded nerds even if im scared to talk in discord! hope you had a lovely holiday season and thank you for everything
Happy holidays to you as well, thanks so much for finishing the video and being a part of this amazing community!
Redacted, Redacted, please let me be extracted, for by your presence I'm distracted, and my enjoyment is subtracted!
Amazing.
Heck yeah, thank you so much!!!
Dang, a whole year. I think this was the first year where I watched every upload as consistently as I could. It did not disappoint! I really enjoyed the great race to rock away beach and the diner videos from earlier in the year. Really entertaining! It’s refreshing to see a channel not out to get views or fame and fortune, but just having fun and sharing it with the world. Thanks for another amazing year, Miles, and I look forward to more from you in 2025!
Wow, I really appreciate that! Thank you so much!!
A few little corrections on the Seattle history segment (which gets things 90% right, so kudos!):
The Metro referendum was in 1972, which gave the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (mostly known for their water quality authority) only a few months to fully take over Seattle Transit System and a suburban bus company. They saw major success and growth while deploying a lot of innovations, like express freeway buses with flyer stops (something the Seattle area now has tons of), which led to a culture of bus-riding that held on for a long time. It didn't become part of the county government (and renamed King County Metro) until 1992.
Duly noted, thank you!!
The freaking sound of the electronic motors in the back of da bus is dope.
I SET AN ALARM LIKE I SAID I would 😂 I got so excited when I saw it was posted. Thanks for putting in all the work to get this video out !
Thank you for being one of the first commenters!!