"As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing." Aesop
“You mean we weren’t supposed to sack the class-C corporations for more money?” - ideologically subverted Democrats, probably Honestly it gets pretty depressing when you realize a Japanese car company makes more American made cars by composition than GM, and their based in the south and heartland.
Daily reminder the USA's motor vehicle manufacturers literally bought out all the rail companies and disbanded or gutted them to create a car monopoly.
Even the politicians.... I have not heard of a single US politician, dem or rep, bring up railway construction. Not only that there's barely any American group which raises the need for railways, despite all of them complaining about traffic.
@@rajatsinghbhandari9549 Maybe Bernie’s talked about it a bit, but if he did it more then all the car manufacturers would PUMP money into the candidate running against him.
@@verycoolguy8455 lol thanks for showing your level of intelligence white Boi blue, but Bernie is for corporation's taking over because he accepts money from them, and he has to bring up issues that aren't the real problem.
But the suited man on the TV said I could eat 5 quarter pounders, feign exercise, and down dozens of mind enhancing drugs as long as my giant SUV was a hybrid!
@1996 Honda NSX Type R >we can’t even enjoy our old classics or sports cars Meanwhile the 20+ year old vehicles go down the road just fine and I'm flying past the dumbshits in the sports cars that never learned what a gas pedal is.
More roads means more cars means more customers. I don't agree with the mindset, only that I think that's *a* reason for why things are they way they are.
@@Quackerilla GM made most of the trains too though. What really killed rail in the US was the Boeing 707 and the Cold War rationale behind funding the Interstate system.
@@wormwoodbecomedelphinus4131 in the USA time is the most valuable resource of all. Imagine this, your a average American worker who lives near the east coast and you want to go on vacation to the west coast. Well you only get 1 week off a year so a 5h plane ride vs a 48 hour train ride and you can do the math. It’s not a cost issue it’s a time issue
Its probably because of how complex they look/are and how a bunch of the moving parts are exposed, it just adds character to them. But then modern trains are all streamlined, slick and *boring*
Meh. Modern trams are pretty sweet, but the old streetcars were just like buses that were limited in where they could go. Most of them sat right in the same traffic jams and didn't have coverage into the suburbs, had the same capacity as a bus, and couldn't make use of the new freeways. I'd take a vintage bus over a vintage streetcar too, especially when the Feds were handing out freeways for 90% off. My city used to have streetcars back in the ye olde days; they got a lot of extra coverage by going to buses without having to modify the streets to get it. Then in the 70s they REALLY got coverage when they made the bus lines into a fast-grid system that covers the whole area. But modern high-capacity articulated low-floor trams ARE sweet and should definitely be pursued as an upgrade from busy bus lines.
@@JETZcorp The thing about streetcars is the major traffic jams they got caught in only started happening in large amounts after the feds shilled out our cities to companies like GM. As more cars filled the roads, streetcars slowed down before being bought up and torn out by auto companies.
@@negative6442 At least in my city, you can read about the huge traffic jams that were happening as early as the 1920s. It's why they built Harbor Dr and the Banfield Freeway before the Federal money came in. Interstate Bridge was a dumpster fire of a bottleneck almost immediately after it was built, and it still is today. I can't even imagine how bad that crossing would be if they still had streetcars trundling across it at 20 under like they used to. I think we imagine that traffic only got started from the freeways because that's the kind of traffic we know, and it's coincided with the television era. But there's plenty of olde timey pictures you can find of insane gridlocks of Model-Ts just completely snarled up in full Cambodia-style Chaos. That's not to say there aren't problems with those old freeways, obviously. They tended to be really destructive to places they went through, exit spacing was usually WAY too close, and there weren't enough crossings to keep them from cutting cities in half. But at least they got built. Now we don't build anything. No infrastructure can stay viable when the local population goes 10x but nothing new is added.
The majority of these aren’t even Atomic Age! The only one that truly is the E or F unit seen at the end. The rest are all born during or after the Great Depression, but before WW2.
@@radical9862 I don’t think you understand the comment. None of these trains involve Nuclear Power. An Atomic Age train only talks about the aesthetics. Something similar to an F7 unit.
@@josephmelton4721 Who would risk their life to live in such a shithole? Only refujees or marginalized, who do not have eny opportunities at home. Wealthy migrants go to northern europe or canada.
Top Gear got it right when they said we should invest in public transport so people who like and need cars don't have the roads clogged up by people who just want to move from Point A to Point B and don't care how. Unfortunately in America right now, basically only Cars or Airplanes are good for Intercity or Interstate transit.
Henry Ford's original vision for the car was to get people stuck in cities a way to get out into nature, he actually expressed disappointment for how things turned out.
Might just be one of the most based uses of this meme, unironically Thank God I dont have to endure the infrastructure nightmare that is the US! Our roads do suck, sure, but Czech railways... well they arent the best either, but you can get literally everywhere with em. :D As it should be.
i mean i'd say this is probably one of the few proper uses of this song/meme format instead of the incredibly repetitive *insert thing here* *insert weekday here* format
Czech railways are much better than Polish. Here most of local lines were cut in '90s and on most of remaining trains are too few. Like only 4 or 5 paris of train per day... Only in some richer regions local councils created their own small train companies to save local trains, because that was the only solution, so there local trains are more numerous.
In the past things were made pretty resiliant since they didn't expect to be constantly changing the design every 3 months. Hell, there's even televisions that saw constant use in the '40s and are still working to this day. But now literally everything is made in a disposable fashion, almost everything is unrepairable when it takes some damage and it's cheaper to buy a new one than calling in a repairman. Even tools are failing, most old timers still use their drills from the '70s or '90s, while gen z have to buy a new one every now and then, not because they ruined it, but because it couldn't handle a regular amount of usage.
All because this way, the owning class can sell us even more instances of goods that used to last a lifetime. Because all they give a rat's ass about is making sure the money number goes up instead of down next financial quarter. They're addicts. Process addicts. Just like a gambler or a lootbox whale.
@@theplanetmercury3313 It ain't the market to blame when all the big players decide to collude to break the system so they can all exploit people more without consiquence. A free market isn't free when its' occupied by a handful of conglomerates who crush all competition. You don't have to look back more than a year to see how much of a fan the current system is of free enterprise.
I’ve been to Union Station in Kansas City (as well as the nearby Liberty Memorial) several times in my life, and every time I’ve been there I was always astonished at how *beautiful* the place is. They built a *train station* like a Roman temple. I’m not even 30 yet, and I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that everything after Art Deco was a mistake.
@@TruePT It was an art/architectural style from the first half of the 20th century, it fell out of style sometime in the 1960’s. If you’ve ever played the first Bioshock game, I can guarantee you’ve seen Art Deco.
If you ever get the chance to visit Chicago's Union Station, it's also just gorgeous. Takes the Roman temple feeling to the next level, as there's two statues of goddesses representing day and night overlooking the tunnel to the boarding platforms.
Same problem in my country. Railroads got destroyed in favor of highways, and we suffer from distribution and transportation problems ever since... Despite numerous projects to bring them back, we are still with the crappy, badly maintained highways that kill thousands a year. Really beautiful video.
@@josephmelton4721 Trains are in fact more efficient at carrying people than cars, they just require this complex process called urbanisation and public investment. I know it’s hard for some to accept that efficient transportation requires that they ride a box of metal for 50 people rather than a box of metal for 5, and live closer to other people, but such is the sacrifice needed for good things.
@@jasonstormsong4940 I honestly dont want to live in a cramped city inside a tiny apartment. Theres nothing better than having you own house outside the city.
@@ZerpsT That's ai coloured footage. The real buildings had a lot more colour to them with different stones, brass, chrome or bricks adding a lot of diversity between them. You can see on a building like 70 pine street where they use material contrasts to break up the shape even more. Or something like the American Radiator Building for a wild use of colour. And obviously something like the chrysler building stands out beautifully. Certainly a lot less bland use of materials than modern buildings, i'll take it over a shapeless glass edifice any day of the week.
That statue 1:43 (Situated in Detroit) is very symbolic. It represents a golden age where Detroit was the nation's futuristic paragon, full of the most advanced transportation infrastructure in the world. This statue is symbolic of what was lost for Detroiters. And thus fits this video perfectly.
That crash on Amtrak Cascades shown at the beginning was on a brand-new section of track, too. It's not even that the US doesn't invest in infrastructure, a lot of the problem is that what we DO invest in is crappy. And... why ARE cars so boring now?! Where did the tail fins go? Why can nobody tolerate to buy an interesting color? What's wrong with people? I have 3 cars - a cherry red pickup with fender stripes, a pearlescent lime-green Insight, and a vintage Civic in metallic teal. And people choose to drive grey Rav4's. I'd be depressed too.
Cars are so fuckin boring now because all the good designers left or retired and now we're stuck with trend chasing morons who couldn't come up with an original idea to save their lives.
Well, its because of all the crash test...testing the cars have to go through before being "ok that's safe enough" by the government...and also there's all that tech stuff too like wifi and touchscreen....touchscreens......
@@jackalenterprisesofohio The thing is, there are lots of interesting cars for sale, but they don't sell very well. A Mazda3 in candy red with a stick shift and turbo is pretty interesting, but everyone instead chooses CUVs in monochrome colors. I think every industry on Earth wants to be iPhone to make money, and tragically they're not even wrong. Death to all the iCars.
@@gomiyaro A lot of this actually isn't true. The boring cars are often more expensive to produce and get worse fuel economy. I would argue that, while cars ARE more boring overall, the sheet metal is the most complex it's ever been, with all sorts of funky ziggy-zags. Look at the headlight and tail light assemblies; they're actually monstrously complex and ruinously expensive to manufacture and replace. But the cars are still boring, because the engineers come up with a big toaster, and then the designers try in desperation to make that look interesting. But it's still a zig-zaggy toaster. Regarding paint, white and black are pretty cheap, but the silvers and greys are surprising. The industry has spent millions to develop paints where the metallic particles lay in certain ways to create color within the silver and grey. That said they've also worked on making these as single paints, as opposed to old candy paints which were 4 different paints applied in layers. Those are still more expensive, but a good old fire engine red or 1990s forest green is still cheaper than a lot of these grey's, especially the expensive and ugly matte grey that is popular on $150,000+ German cars. It's well known that black is the hardest color to maintain, except for the bougie matte colors which you have to deliberately keep un-shiny. The reason for the boring colors are twofold. First is simply that most people don't want to stand out. Their car is an appliance, they want to be anonymous and unseen for a sense of privacy. Second is the dealerships. They know that most people will accept a boring color even if they don't prefer it, whereas an interesting color will either be preferred or a firm deal-breaker. Lime green will turn more people off than on. So they order mostly boring colors from the manufacturer to fill the lot. Then when you're there shopping for your car, perhaps there's one in a color you like but all the wrong options, or one with the leather and Bluetooth and whatever you desire, but it's in silver. So you buy the silver. If customers bought directly from manufacturers and could stand to wait more than 5 minutes, we would see better colors. Not a lot, but more. Safety does have an influence, especially pedestrian safety which limits just how pointy the nose of a car can be. But you can still make a sleek and interesting car, just not as pointy as a Countach or a C3 Corvette. The problem is, people don't even buy CARS now, they all buy these miniature SUVs. All the interior space of a 1980s subcompact hatchback, all the weight of a 1968 Buick, costing +$5,000 and getting -7mpg compared to the sedan equivalent. They all have automatic or CVT transmissions because people want to feel nothing. Hyper-damped electronic throttles because people want to feel nothing. Electric steering with zero feedback from the road because people want to feel nothing. Glammed up with ziggy-zags and fake off-road fenders and overcomplicated headlights and 20-inch rims (which make cars ride like crap) to disguise the toaster shape. Doused in trendy electronic toys which everyone knows will be outdated and borderline unusable in 5 years. Welcome to your rolling iPhone. Or rather, OUR rolling iPhone because it's a lease. You own nothing and you like it that way. Please see us again when you want a bigger screen and a 'clean' interface. That costs us 30 cents and costs you 30 grand.
Thank the American auto companies for doing everything they could to undermine and destroy every other facet of public transit to make people reliant on personal vehicles.
@@sirmount2636 I sure do love being stuck in my own personal oven for 5 hours because some jackass with no idea how to turn was given the license to drive another metal box and caused about 80 other metal boxes to get stuck in traffic.
The American motor industry unironically has been disastrous for the world. Not only in regards to infrastructure, put environmentally cars are infinitely more devastating / harder to integrate with green technologies. Our gov in Australia is increasingly adopting an American Neo-Capitalist mindset and it is depressing, has been for a while
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 Yeah bro I love car dependency, I love air pollution and not being able to walk anywhere or bike anywhere. I really love not having any other viable means of public transportation /s
As some one who lives in the philippines I would say a similar situation was occuring here until the new administration came about and not only vowed but showed people the already existing projects and infastructure that were recently built and helped benefit people
I am confident that the murals at 0:28 are from Union Terminal in Cincinnati, and the opening of the terminal appeared later in the edit, thank you for using these beautiful artworks 👏
I still cannot believe, to this very day, that once upon a time the powers that be in Cincinnati wanted to tear that magnificent structure down and put in a mall.
0:47 I have the Lionel Legacy model of this train, Empire State Express, I love it so much. Of course, not a single NYC Hudson is preserved today, not even on static display. One tender that was converted into a steam generator, doesn't really count.
I really appreciate just how much attention Cincinnati Union Station got here. I refuse to call it Cincinnati Museum Center. Henry Flagler built a railroad from Miami to Key West. What a chad.
It's not that we were born in the wrong decade, it's that we grew up being taught to live in a world that no longer exists. But that dream is still there, and a dream is all humankind needs to persevere through darkness. To achieve, or re-achieve, greatness once more.
I live in Cincinnati and would visit Union Terminal all the time as a kid. It's beautiful. It was made back when people actually cared about what they were building and architecture had a beauty standard. Side note: Ohio is supposed to get a passenger rail that connects Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati (I don't know why this wasn't already a thing; seems like a no brainer). I doubt it will be like the glory days of American rail travel, but it will be a step in the right direction.
We can have this again. All it takes is time, dedication, the will to convince people, the determination to fight for your vision, and a plan. Unfortunately, many people these days with longing for a better time fail to actually DO anything.
I pray for the day that Innovation, competition and a decentralized market can bring innovation creativity, art and optimism not just for the rail industry but all industries that wish to see a new horizon and build a better tomorrow.
I know it sounds cringe as fuck but I’m more and more wanting to return to the mid-late 1900s (like 1970-1980), like I know it sounds stupid cuz I’m commenting this online but I don’t like our hyper-tech world where numbers controls people, big government gets bigger, and we lose more freedom. I don’t think we should exactly return to a reactionary, primitive, and unaccepting world; just one where people are individuals free to live their lives with no worry what political parties who want to exploit them will put in place, a world where we can make our own stuff without constant regulation acting like a lemonade stand is an anthrax-bomb, and where people irregardless of race, sexuality, and all the rest of it are free to live without woke people telling them how to act or edgy people attacking them (and that goes for white, straight males as well).
@@grambo4436 Yeah the early 2000s and 1990s weren’t that bad; I just meant by the 1970s and 1980s as the main years btw; there’s stuff from earlier and later I wouldn’t mind having.
Innovation, creativity, art and optimism don't come about with a decentralised market. The world we live in today is the exact consequence of the world you both admire. That's how capitalism evolves: run the simulation a thousand times, you'll get monopolies and technical stagnation a thousand times. That's simply how it is, unless of course, you change the system. Now that would bring optimism, inspire arts, lead technology and, hopefully, lead to a future were we don't go extinct because a oil company blames *you* , with your "carbon footprint" ,one man, for the world collapsing caused by their ocean spilling, their lack of ethics and, generally speaking, greed.
I find it so weird that videos like this that show the Majesty of the Early 20th Century world provide me with this pining-nostalgia-for a time I didn't even exist in, and my parents barely did. Amazing…rather depressing too, the truth of it. Where can I find more like this?
Shame to think the country that had all but perfected long-distance mass transit by the turn of the 20th century has fallen into such a state. Condolences from Russia, crumbling infrastructure is an unfortunate commonality we have.
@@kaisercollins3097 but the states are also more like their own countries, so why don't the states adopt some mass transit and then ones that are close together can glue their transit together ? Hell why the fuck doesn't the large area populations within the state's just have actual public transportation? So the people within cities don't need to rely on cars, and can sell them and flood the used car market ?
@@dankmemes8619 they have more than enough money to do all of the above. Large cities are too corrupt to do so. Even though they recieve limitless funds and contribute nothing they can’t get their own heads out of their asses.
Here in Brazil the same had happened, we just dropped our railroads to construct some highways because is more "easy" and "cheap". We still paying the price of abandonment of our railways.
I just realised this after playing Transport Fever 1 and 2. American trains used to be something else back in the 30s and 40s. Milwaukee Hiawatha was one of my favourite trains..
There used to be a rail line that went through our town ): ,from 1844-1989 was adbanndoned and torn out due to slowing passenger numbers,the train station is still there built in the 1840s and you can still find some of the tracks and bridges but the rest is gone and late at night you can hear the ghosts of steam and diesel locomotives running it used to be a major link for local communities in later years used as a freight line
Just imagine what we could have today had we stayed the course, It's so sad, we were one of the earliest adopters of the railroad, yet we've all but forgotten about it.
Man, I don't know. Sometimes I wonder how urban planners can look at every bit of evidence and ignore it to continue building car-dependent crapholes like Houston. Remember that time when all the countries of the world looked to America for a shining model of greatness and wealth? I came up with my own little quote referring to car-dependent carbon copy suburbs that are plastered literally everywhere in North America. "Housing for Hell's upper class." You can survive, sure, but is it really "living"? I see lots of comments everywhere on the internet longing for a return to everything shown in this video. I hope that soon there'll be enough people wanting this dream to return that it might actually happen.
@@sovb oh my god. I grew up in Houston my entire life and i didnt realize how shitty it was till I moved to Iowa. I mean I always hated living there but I couldnt explain why. I just assumed a world covered in concrete and grime and shitty traffic was the norm. Houston is TERRIBLE and im never moving back. 90% of their roads dont have sidewalks. I was isolated in my house my entire childhood because we were surrounded by freeways/stroads, making it unsafe for me to go outside, and because of the lack of sidewalks I couldnt even walk somewhere. I couldnt even get something to eat 5 minutes away. Too unsafe. My family was too busy working to take my anywhere, and i was too young to drive. It really sucked Iowa is.... Its wonderful. Its so wonderful. The traffic isnt terrible, the city isnt covered in dirt and trash, they actually have sidewalks so i can walk places without the fear of being hit.... I am never going back
@@puppiekit the sad thing is, you don't have to go to just houston to find roads without sidewalks, parking lots everywhere, and Ponzi scheme urban development. you can pretty much go to any slightly major city in the entirety of North America, and you'll find some area that's at least similar. The only places free of this is the few areas built before that style of development and undemolished, like Toronto's relatively-unharmed streetcar suburbs, or small towns. Houston is just a particular bad example, and that's a pretty terrible thing. Nowadays, EVERYTHING in America is built around the car. Want to use whatever semblance of intercity and beyond rail there is? Better have a car to get to the station! Speaking of Toronto, moreso Ontario, GO Transit (our intercity commuter rail system run by the provincial/state government) you'd better have a car to get to the station if you live anywhere outside of Toronto itself. And even then it's usually underfunded and underdeveloped. I sure do love my local transit having service cuts due to worker shortages and the subway closing every weekend so they can work on an insanely over budget and over time transit project!
@@sovb In the US, even smaller towns have newer developments built only around the car. I grew up in one, and despite being right next to downtown, I couldn't get there without a car due to us being separated by a local highway.
Частенько люблю смотреть старые кинохроники, и чем чаще смотрю, тем чаще приходит понимание того, что мир словно был честнее что ли... Было бы здорово хотя б на сутки в те времена попасть и пройтись по тем улицам, проехаться на поезде XX Century, или на этих самых трамваях. Спасибо автору за хорошую подборку и отлично подобранный аудиоряд.
Nice video! I really like this song, and yeah it honestly really fits how we just took a dump on public transit and even pedestrian accessibility in the last 70 years or so. And, I'm sorry about your fiance, dude.
I live in the country mountains where trains would be extremely unfeasible and cars do a very good job. That said I love trains when I do go to the big cities I really wish the rail system would be better
But we need to recognize car's early importance as the only reasonable means we found the remove horses from cities at the time. In the early 1900s, the accumulation of manure and horse cadavers were seen as the #1 deterrent in urban development.
I heard there was an old railway train station in the city I used to live at. Thank god it's tomb is being preserved today as an aquarium, hotel and amusement park in one whole area. They even admit that the place was an old train station! *Though, I'd like to see the place as a REAL train station from it's prime purpose.* The aquarium I went to was still thrilling to visit today, however.
Basically the government should focus cities on making city a pedestrian. To people saying it's not convenient that's bullshit. If our ancestors in 3-4 generation way back can do it then we can. The trick is that by making city pedestrian city in the first place or implemented for long time. Peopleple who will be bred and born there doesn't have that popping thought of having a car or like "No this city is not for cars".
Every time I’ve been in a traffic jam up north, I look for the nearest passenger line and say “man I wish I were that train right now, flying past all this traffic without any stresses.” I’ve only taken one Amtrak trip in my lifetime but dammit it was worth the experience. Sure they can be regarded as slow by today’s fast-paced travel standards but the leisure I felt being able to watch the world go by from a perspective that can’t be replicated by car or plane was magical. Such a shame the automobile industry killed the train in the 1940-60s.. Funny how most cars on the road or at dealerships wouldn’t be where they are without trains to transport them around the country.
Oh yeah baby, it’s back!
"Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back!"
Yeah, all videos used this music got taken down and banned. My favourite Trump video is now gone
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It’s so good to see this again! I missed it!!
I am so friggin happy it's back
"As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing." Aesop
since when do the rich have to replace the government
@@uchennanwogu2142 government is the rich
@@uchennanwogu2142 the rich controls the government with their money.
“You mean we weren’t supposed to sack the class-C corporations for more money?” - ideologically subverted Democrats, probably
Honestly it gets pretty depressing when you realize a Japanese car company makes more American made cars by composition than GM, and their based in the south and heartland.
in a world wide war there are no good guys
Daily reminder the USA's motor vehicle manufacturers literally bought out all the rail companies and disbanded or gutted them to create a car monopoly.
Even the politicians.... I have not heard of a single US politician, dem or rep, bring up railway construction. Not only that there's barely any American group which raises the need for railways, despite all of them complaining about traffic.
@@rajatsinghbhandari9549 Maybe Bernie’s talked about it a bit, but if he did it more then all the car manufacturers would PUMP money into the candidate running against him.
@@verycoolguy8455 ah Bernie, the lamest revolutionary ever. Everyone's against him, even he himself.
@@rajatsinghbhandari9549 I wish he was a revolutionary 😔✊
@@verycoolguy8455 lol thanks for showing your level of intelligence white Boi blue, but Bernie is for corporation's taking over because he accepts money from them, and he has to bring up issues that aren't the real problem.
Still don't get how people think 6 lanes of traffic everywhere is sustainable development
But the suited man on the TV said I could eat 5 quarter pounders, feign exercise, and down dozens of mind enhancing drugs as long as my giant SUV was a hybrid!
man i love the highways, theyre what make our american cars so cool
@1996 Honda NSX Type R
>we can’t even enjoy our old classics or sports cars
Meanwhile the 20+ year old vehicles go down the road just fine and I'm flying past the dumbshits in the sports cars that never learned what a gas pedal is.
More roads means more cars means more customers.
I don't agree with the mindset, only that I think that's *a* reason for why things are they way they are.
@@Quackerilla GM made most of the trains too though. What really killed rail in the US was the Boeing 707 and the Cold War rationale behind funding the Interstate system.
Rail made america. Make america rail again!
Weak infrastructure = weak country
@@AmericanRailClub Not to mention, no major rail related manufacturing, designing or general interest in the U.S. anymore.
the virgin car driver vs the chad train taker
Why Americans don't ride the rails as often as we Europeans do?
@@svyatozar Because Americans are addicted to cars ever since the Interstate Highway Act of the 1950s.
I look at old buildings and wonder why they seem more futuristic than ours
Communism
@@dragonl76lu23 determinism
Because back then we had a future.
@@erwinkonopka7071 we did where did we diverge from maybe we will never know
Modernism
I will always remember what they took from us, what we could have
Never forget.
Here here
I agree
@@AmericanRailClub Amen
Do something about it
“Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we’ve lost and what leisure we’ve sacrificed in the race for efficiency.”
- Ginger Rogers
Wait a second… that profile picture…
i can still hear Sean Bean when reading this quote.
Time efficient, but not resource efficient.
@@wormwoodbecomedelphinus4131 in the USA time is the most valuable resource of all. Imagine this, your a average American worker who lives near the east coast and you want to go on vacation to the west coast. Well you only get 1 week off a year so a 5h plane ride vs a 48 hour train ride and you can do the math. It’s not a cost issue it’s a time issue
Taking a long journey on a train sounds super pleasant
15 minutes to get from LA central to the beach. That’s what they told us when the tram use to run. Now it takes an hour on the 60 bc of traffic.
Solution? Bring back trams
@Quattro Bajeena that's why you start in No-Where Nebraska.
@Quattro Bajeena Fack 'em.
@Quattro Bajeena Public transportation in LA is gross.
Now people so much ego, pride to not travel by trams, trains whatever. Good luck in convincing people to take the train.
God there's something incredibly beautiful about old steam train engines.
Its probably because of how complex they look/are and how a bunch of the moving parts are exposed, it just adds character to them. But then modern trains are all streamlined, slick and *boring*
@@crackingly I mean while that is true nobody wants to ride one of those to get to work, it's just a lot more efficient to have a electric train
Steel horses. Big, beautiful, complex and strong!
The good thing is that there are probably modern ways to re-implement them in more ecological ways
@@Nate-wf5hk make an electric train that looks like a steam train. Problem solved
It angers me so much how the car companies destroyed America's streetcars.
Meh. Modern trams are pretty sweet, but the old streetcars were just like buses that were limited in where they could go. Most of them sat right in the same traffic jams and didn't have coverage into the suburbs, had the same capacity as a bus, and couldn't make use of the new freeways. I'd take a vintage bus over a vintage streetcar too, especially when the Feds were handing out freeways for 90% off. My city used to have streetcars back in the ye olde days; they got a lot of extra coverage by going to buses without having to modify the streets to get it. Then in the 70s they REALLY got coverage when they made the bus lines into a fast-grid system that covers the whole area. But modern high-capacity articulated low-floor trams ARE sweet and should definitely be pursued as an upgrade from busy bus lines.
@@JETZcorp The thing about streetcars is the major traffic jams they got caught in only started happening in large amounts after the feds shilled out our cities to companies like GM. As more cars filled the roads, streetcars slowed down before being bought up and torn out by auto companies.
@@negative6442 At least in my city, you can read about the huge traffic jams that were happening as early as the 1920s. It's why they built Harbor Dr and the Banfield Freeway before the Federal money came in. Interstate Bridge was a dumpster fire of a bottleneck almost immediately after it was built, and it still is today. I can't even imagine how bad that crossing would be if they still had streetcars trundling across it at 20 under like they used to. I think we imagine that traffic only got started from the freeways because that's the kind of traffic we know, and it's coincided with the television era. But there's plenty of olde timey pictures you can find of insane gridlocks of Model-Ts just completely snarled up in full Cambodia-style Chaos. That's not to say there aren't problems with those old freeways, obviously. They tended to be really destructive to places they went through, exit spacing was usually WAY too close, and there weren't enough crossings to keep them from cutting cities in half. But at least they got built. Now we don't build anything. No infrastructure can stay viable when the local population goes 10x but nothing new is added.
@@negative6442 What streetcars needed (and still need) is dedicated lanes so they can bypass traffic jams!
@@JETZcorp Suburbs were always a bad idea. Boroughs were always better and streetcars work better on right of ways
Finally, a little dark age showing an empirical objective decline in its subject
Cope 🚗
@@sirmount2636 About?
@@sirmount2636 alright then, keep your climate destroying greedmobiles.
@@derpcade What’s the best climate to get stabbed in the subway?
@@sirmount2636 What’s the best car to get plowed into by a freight truck on the freeway during rush hour traffic?
It almost sounds like "when public transit's gone"
Now I can't un hear it.
Timestamp?
@@polkanietzsche5016 0:36
Public transit sucks. We americans prefer our own vehicles to public transit. It's trash.
@@josephmelton4721 I agree.
I'm never been a rail fan, but those Atomic Age train designs are gorgeous.
The majority of these aren’t even Atomic Age! The only one that truly is the E or F unit seen at the end. The rest are all born during or after the Great Depression, but before WW2.
@@radical9862 I don’t think you understand the comment. None of these trains involve Nuclear Power. An Atomic Age train only talks about the aesthetics. Something similar to an F7 unit.
It’s more late Art Deco, but yes, they look dope
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see you become the villain
Except us have never been a hero
@@МаксимСалтыков-о9л yea thats why....everyone for the last 200 years has been dying to get here. Keep being petty though
@@josephmelton4721 Who would risk their life to live in such a shithole? Only refujees or marginalized, who do not have eny opportunities at home. Wealthy migrants go to northern europe or canada.
You either died or dead.
I'd vote for an American Infrastructure Party.
A developed country is not one where poor people ride cars, it’s one where rich people use public transport
Damn right
Top Gear got it right when they said we should invest in public transport so people who like and need cars don't have the roads clogged up by people who just want to move from Point A to Point B and don't care how. Unfortunately in America right now, basically only Cars or Airplanes are good for Intercity or Interstate transit.
Amen brother
I don't want self driving cars. I want a modernized infrastructure.
Nah I want cars
Electric cars are the future
@@sirmount2636 why
@@rolloxra670 >sd car gets hacked
>hacker takes control
>plows your vehicle into pedestrians
>”who could have forseen this?!”
@@BeanOfBean You’re a Watch Dogs fan I see
Henry Ford's original vision for the car was to get people stuck in cities a way to get out into nature, he actually expressed disappointment for how things turned out.
Where can I read about this?
@@DuneJumper Ford's autobiography "My Life and Work"
He would have blamed (((General Motors)))
Might just be one of the most based uses of this meme, unironically
Thank God I dont have to endure the infrastructure nightmare that is the US! Our roads do suck, sure, but Czech railways... well they arent the best either, but you can get literally everywhere with em. :D As it should be.
i mean i'd say this is probably one of the few proper uses of this song/meme format instead of the incredibly repetitive *insert thing here* *insert weekday here* format
Ha-ha, you know nothing about our russian roads - they worse in few times more.
America's cities used to be beautiful like yours, now it's modern hell. Help us Europe.
Czech railways are much better than Polish. Here most of local lines were cut in '90s and on most of remaining trains are too few. Like only 4 or 5 paris of train per day... Only in some richer regions local councils created their own small train companies to save local trains, because that was the only solution, so there local trains are more numerous.
most european countries to my knowledge are still using railways of some sort, and most are good.
In the past things were made pretty resiliant since they didn't expect to be constantly changing the design every 3 months.
Hell, there's even televisions that saw constant use in the '40s and are still working to this day.
But now literally everything is made in a disposable fashion, almost everything is unrepairable when it takes some damage and it's cheaper to buy a new one than calling in a repairman.
Even tools are failing, most old timers still use their drills from the '70s or '90s, while gen z have to buy a new one every now and then, not because they ruined it, but because it couldn't handle a regular amount of usage.
All because this way, the owning class can sell us even more instances of goods that used to last a lifetime. Because all they give a rat's ass about is making sure the money number goes up instead of down next financial quarter.
They're addicts. Process addicts. Just like a gambler or a lootbox whale.
Planned obsolescence moment
Thank Capitalism for planned obselescence.
@@theplanetmercury3313 Ain't that the truth...
@@theplanetmercury3313 It ain't the market to blame when all the big players decide to collude to break the system so they can all exploit people more without consiquence. A free market isn't free when its' occupied by a handful of conglomerates who crush all competition. You don't have to look back more than a year to see how much of a fan the current system is of free enterprise.
Great editing especially the end
Thank you!
Woah. Didn't expect to see you
Whoa you're here
I’ve been to Union Station in Kansas City (as well as the nearby Liberty Memorial) several times in my life, and every time I’ve been there I was always astonished at how *beautiful* the place is. They built a *train station* like a Roman temple.
I’m not even 30 yet, and I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that everything after Art Deco was a mistake.
Forgive my ignorance but, what’s Art Deco?
@@TruePT Do a google search
@@TruePT It was an art/architectural style from the first half of the 20th century, it fell out of style sometime in the 1960’s. If you’ve ever played the first Bioshock game, I can guarantee you’ve seen Art Deco.
@@willrogers3793 Oh that’s what it’s called?! Man that was an awesome style! I watched my bro play Bioshock and we both loved it!
If you ever get the chance to visit Chicago's Union Station, it's also just gorgeous. Takes the Roman temple feeling to the next level, as there's two statues of goddesses representing day and night overlooking the tunnel to the boarding platforms.
Reject automobile. Reject modernity.
Embrace trains. Return to tradition.
Trains are tradition and the future.
"It's too costly", "It's not feasible", "It's communism", are the arguments you hear when public transportation is brought up
There is another that america is too BIG for trains i mean just look at russia
@@KSUser-0301 yeah look at russia with their almost uninhabited norther siberia... NO EXCUSE /srs
It's amazing how most americans forgot their own history and are convinced cars have always been the norm and the best transportation.
Public transit is garbage. Thats why I like my car
@@josephmelton4721 *i hate people benefiting from public transit so I own a car to own them*
@@sirmount2636 wtf
@@sirmount2636 because every train in America is urban rapid transit where this happens right?
Literally no one is trying to take their cars away, yet these people have taken our trains away
Same problem in my country. Railroads got destroyed in favor of highways, and we suffer from distribution and transportation problems ever since... Despite numerous projects to bring them back, we are still with the crappy, badly maintained highways that kill thousands a year. Really beautiful video.
Trains are great for carrying everything but people.
Like trains are damn cool, my regret is that I only get to ride it once
@@josephmelton4721 Trains are in fact more efficient at carrying people than cars, they just require this complex process called urbanisation and public investment. I know it’s hard for some to accept that efficient transportation requires that they ride a box of metal for 50 people rather than a box of metal for 5, and live closer to other people, but such is the sacrifice needed for good things.
@@jasonstormsong4940 I honestly dont want to live in a cramped city inside a tiny apartment. Theres nothing better than having you own house outside the city.
@@xXYannuschXx Thats really debable take it from a guy whos family lives in rural south carolina
The skyline at 0:52 just looks absolutely incredible.
I seriously wish I could see that in real life
To me it's just too bland and grey. Blue or silver tinted windows would have been better imo
@@ZerpsT That's ai coloured footage. The real buildings had a lot more colour to them with different stones, brass, chrome or bricks adding a lot of diversity between them. You can see on a building like 70 pine street where they use material contrasts to break up the shape even more. Or something like the American Radiator Building for a wild use of colour. And obviously something like the chrysler building stands out beautifully.
Certainly a lot less bland use of materials than modern buildings, i'll take it over a shapeless glass edifice any day of the week.
God, that clip of that K4s and GG1 running side-by-side at 1:42 is incredible. Where did that come from?
Most the Dark Age memes are ironic. This one genuinely makes me feel empty for what could have been
This depresses me, as someone who's from a country that embraced railways, automobiles, and a bit of aviation all at once (Japan)
This is why I’m studying to be an urban planner!
I hope you make it and do some good
HELLL YEAH I BELIEVE YOU CAN MAKE THE NEWER GEN A LOT BETTER THAN THE BOOMERS LOL
@@maggiem215 DAMN YOUR CAT HAS FAT CHEEKS
Thanks Man
and then you learn that the job isnt about city planning but actually doing paperwork.
That statue 1:43 (Situated in Detroit) is very symbolic. It represents a golden age where Detroit was the nation's futuristic paragon, full of the most advanced transportation infrastructure in the world. This statue is symbolic of what was lost for Detroiters. And thus fits this video perfectly.
Back then when buildings actually had style.
That crash on Amtrak Cascades shown at the beginning was on a brand-new section of track, too. It's not even that the US doesn't invest in infrastructure, a lot of the problem is that what we DO invest in is crappy.
And... why ARE cars so boring now?! Where did the tail fins go? Why can nobody tolerate to buy an interesting color? What's wrong with people? I have 3 cars - a cherry red pickup with fender stripes, a pearlescent lime-green Insight, and a vintage Civic in metallic teal. And people choose to drive grey Rav4's. I'd be depressed too.
what happened to the mudguards?
Cars are so fuckin boring now because all the good designers left or retired and now we're stuck with trend chasing morons who couldn't come up with an original idea to save their lives.
Well, its because of all the crash test...testing the cars have to go through before being "ok that's safe enough" by the government...and also there's all that tech stuff too like wifi and touchscreen....touchscreens......
@@jackalenterprisesofohio The thing is, there are lots of interesting cars for sale, but they don't sell very well. A Mazda3 in candy red with a stick shift and turbo is pretty interesting, but everyone instead chooses CUVs in monochrome colors. I think every industry on Earth wants to be iPhone to make money, and tragically they're not even wrong. Death to all the iCars.
@@gomiyaro A lot of this actually isn't true. The boring cars are often more expensive to produce and get worse fuel economy.
I would argue that, while cars ARE more boring overall, the sheet metal is the most complex it's ever been, with all sorts of funky ziggy-zags. Look at the headlight and tail light assemblies; they're actually monstrously complex and ruinously expensive to manufacture and replace. But the cars are still boring, because the engineers come up with a big toaster, and then the designers try in desperation to make that look interesting. But it's still a zig-zaggy toaster.
Regarding paint, white and black are pretty cheap, but the silvers and greys are surprising. The industry has spent millions to develop paints where the metallic particles lay in certain ways to create color within the silver and grey. That said they've also worked on making these as single paints, as opposed to old candy paints which were 4 different paints applied in layers. Those are still more expensive, but a good old fire engine red or 1990s forest green is still cheaper than a lot of these grey's, especially the expensive and ugly matte grey that is popular on $150,000+ German cars. It's well known that black is the hardest color to maintain, except for the bougie matte colors which you have to deliberately keep un-shiny.
The reason for the boring colors are twofold. First is simply that most people don't want to stand out. Their car is an appliance, they want to be anonymous and unseen for a sense of privacy. Second is the dealerships. They know that most people will accept a boring color even if they don't prefer it, whereas an interesting color will either be preferred or a firm deal-breaker. Lime green will turn more people off than on. So they order mostly boring colors from the manufacturer to fill the lot. Then when you're there shopping for your car, perhaps there's one in a color you like but all the wrong options, or one with the leather and Bluetooth and whatever you desire, but it's in silver. So you buy the silver. If customers bought directly from manufacturers and could stand to wait more than 5 minutes, we would see better colors. Not a lot, but more.
Safety does have an influence, especially pedestrian safety which limits just how pointy the nose of a car can be. But you can still make a sleek and interesting car, just not as pointy as a Countach or a C3 Corvette.
The problem is, people don't even buy CARS now, they all buy these miniature SUVs. All the interior space of a 1980s subcompact hatchback, all the weight of a 1968 Buick, costing +$5,000 and getting -7mpg compared to the sedan equivalent. They all have automatic or CVT transmissions because people want to feel nothing. Hyper-damped electronic throttles because people want to feel nothing. Electric steering with zero feedback from the road because people want to feel nothing. Glammed up with ziggy-zags and fake off-road fenders and overcomplicated headlights and 20-inch rims (which make cars ride like crap) to disguise the toaster shape. Doused in trendy electronic toys which everyone knows will be outdated and borderline unusable in 5 years. Welcome to your rolling iPhone. Or rather, OUR rolling iPhone because it's a lease. You own nothing and you like it that way. Please see us again when you want a bigger screen and a 'clean' interface. That costs us 30 cents and costs you 30 grand.
I don't think I've seen anything more badass than about 10 guys *pulling* a train
Thank the American auto companies for doing everything they could to undermine and destroy every other facet of public transit to make people reliant on personal vehicles.
Personal vehicles are far superior to being packed in a tuna can called the subway. I sure do love all the homeless people screaming too
@@sirmount2636 I sure do love being stuck in my own personal oven for 5 hours because some jackass with no idea how to turn was given the license to drive another metal box and caused about 80 other metal boxes to get stuck in traffic.
@@S3b0rg Far superior to being mugged or being peed on by homeless
@@sirmount2636 Maybe if youd stop doing that to the passengers, it wouldnt be a problem
@@tibbers3755 Don't bother with Sir Mount, he loves simping for automobile companies that are actively destroying their country's environment.
The American motor industry unironically has been disastrous for the world. Not only in regards to infrastructure, put environmentally cars are infinitely more devastating / harder to integrate with green technologies. Our gov in Australia is increasingly adopting an American Neo-Capitalist mindset and it is depressing, has been for a while
Literally the opposite . Australia used to be based bad asses now it’s full of weak cowards who gave up the most important thing. Guns
>adopting an American Neo-capitalist mindset
cry harder, Stars and Stripes forever!
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 Yeah bro I love car dependency, I love air pollution and not being able to walk anywhere or bike anywhere. I really love not having any other viable means of public transportation /s
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 Americans when the government starts exporting it's teachings of gay anal sex to random backwater middle Eastern places
As some one who lives in the philippines I would say a similar situation was occuring here until the new administration came about and not only vowed but showed people the already existing projects and infastructure that were recently built and helped benefit people
I am confident that the murals at 0:28 are from Union Terminal in Cincinnati, and the opening of the terminal appeared later in the edit, thank you for using these beautiful artworks 👏
I still cannot believe, to this very day, that once upon a time the powers that be in Cincinnati wanted to tear that magnificent structure down and put in a mall.
0:47 is such a badass clip
How many times is this going to disappear and come back, God damn Columbia Records
0:47 I have the Lionel Legacy model of this train, Empire State Express, I love it so much. Of course, not a single NYC Hudson is preserved today, not even on static display. One tender that was converted into a steam generator, doesn't really count.
I really appreciate just how much attention Cincinnati Union Station got here. I refuse to call it Cincinnati Museum Center.
Henry Flagler built a railroad from Miami to Key West. What a chad.
It's not that we were born in the wrong decade, it's that we grew up being taught to live in a world that no longer exists. But that dream is still there, and a dream is all humankind needs to persevere through darkness. To achieve, or re-achieve, greatness once more.
IT’S BACK AND SHELL FOREVER REMAIN 🎉
I live in Cincinnati and would visit Union Terminal all the time as a kid. It's beautiful. It was made back when people actually cared about what they were building and architecture had a beauty standard. Side note: Ohio is supposed to get a passenger rail that connects Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati (I don't know why this wasn't already a thing; seems like a no brainer). I doubt it will be like the glory days of American rail travel, but it will be a step in the right direction.
holy shit a little dark age video that is actually good
We can have this again.
All it takes is time, dedication, the will to convince people, the determination to fight for your vision, and a plan.
Unfortunately, many people these days with longing for a better time fail to actually DO anything.
I pray for the day that Innovation, competition and a decentralized market can bring innovation creativity, art and optimism not just for the rail industry but all industries that wish to see a new horizon and build a better tomorrow.
Innovation, competition, and decentralization will not come by themselves. Somebody will bring them about.
I know it sounds cringe as fuck but I’m more and more wanting to return to the mid-late 1900s (like 1970-1980), like I know it sounds stupid cuz I’m commenting this online but I don’t like our hyper-tech world where numbers controls people, big government gets bigger, and we lose more freedom. I don’t think we should exactly return to a reactionary, primitive, and unaccepting world; just one where people are individuals free to live their lives with no worry what political parties who want to exploit them will put in place, a world where we can make our own stuff without constant regulation acting like a lemonade stand is an anthrax-bomb, and where people irregardless of race, sexuality, and all the rest of it are free to live without woke people telling them how to act or edgy people attacking them (and that goes for white, straight males as well).
@@NeapolitanNegus To me its like the bright futurism with the cultural and entertaiment side of the 1980's - mid 2000's.
@@grambo4436 Yeah the early 2000s and 1990s weren’t that bad; I just meant by the 1970s and 1980s as the main years btw; there’s stuff from earlier and later I wouldn’t mind having.
Innovation, creativity, art and optimism don't come about with a decentralised market.
The world we live in today is the exact consequence of the world you both admire. That's how capitalism evolves: run the simulation a thousand times, you'll get monopolies and technical stagnation a thousand times.
That's simply how it is, unless of course, you change the system.
Now that would bring optimism, inspire arts, lead technology and, hopefully, lead to a future were we don't go extinct because a oil company blames *you* , with your "carbon footprint" ,one man, for the world collapsing caused by their ocean spilling, their lack of ethics and, generally speaking, greed.
I love how you call back towards Detroit before the mess of highways
This must be what it must have been like to live during the Middle Ages but to have known what Rome was like.
The US used to have the world's largest rail network connecting sea to shining sea, but the damn car companies made us throw it all away
When the walkable city, trains and cars could all live in harmony.
I get such an overwhelming melancholy from this video. Man, what are we doing...
American rail club coming in with that meme heat. And, I'm here for it. Subbed.
"Was this your home?"
"It was, and it was beautiful"
now I feel like a fucking foreigner in my own country...
0:40 and 0:46 where does this gorgeous footage come from?
I find it so weird that videos like this that show the Majesty of the Early 20th Century world provide me with this pining-nostalgia-for a time I didn't even exist in, and my parents barely did.
Amazing…rather depressing too, the truth of it.
Where can I find more like this?
Shame to think the country that had all but perfected long-distance mass transit by the turn of the 20th century has fallen into such a state. Condolences from Russia, crumbling infrastructure is an unfortunate commonality we have.
It’s just the nature of being as large as we are no country our size can depend on mass transit it doesn’t work.
@@kaisercollins3097 but the states are also more like their own countries, so why don't the states adopt some mass transit and then ones that are close together can glue their transit together ? Hell why the fuck doesn't the large area populations within the state's just have actual public transportation? So the people within cities don't need to rely on cars, and can sell them and flood the used car market ?
@@dankmemes8619 they have more than enough money to do all of the above. Large cities are too corrupt to do so. Even though they recieve limitless funds and contribute nothing they can’t get their own heads out of their asses.
Even my home state of Indiana had a rail system, the Monon, taking people in and out of Indy.
A fellow Hoosier.
"Train good, car bad." ~WTYP Podcast
"lets just destroy the singer building and replace it with a square"
Here in Brazil the same had happened, we just dropped our railroads to construct some highways because is more "easy" and "cheap". We still paying the price of abandonment of our railways.
I just realised this after playing Transport Fever 1 and 2. American trains used to be something else back in the 30s and 40s. Milwaukee Hiawatha was one of my favourite trains..
The US now has a third world rail network.
Because we don't need it
Now? We've had one for at least 50 years at least in the passenger realm.
@@xertz2502 As if the automobile/airline duopoly has been working out so well.
@@AmericanRailClub yes airplanes and vehicle travel has been working great??
@@xertz2502 really? Traffick cost America billions a year. That's not good. Rail would save money in America and make us money in the future
There used to be a rail line that went through our town ): ,from 1844-1989 was adbanndoned and torn out due to slowing passenger numbers,the train station is still there built in the 1840s and you can still find some of the tracks and bridges but the rest is gone and late at night you can hear the ghosts of steam and diesel locomotives running it used to be a major link for local communities in later years used as a freight line
Those steam locomotives just..... mhmmm perfection
REJECT CAR EMBRACE TRAIN
we could've had the best public transportation in the world, but we chose the car (or rather, it was chosen for us)
It’s why the elderly don’t stop driving when they obviously should. You can’t get anywhere without driving.
This makes me nostalgic for an era that's been over for over half a century.
That's not nostalgia, that's sadness. You want this glory to return.
Just imagine what we could have today had we stayed the course, It's so sad, we were one of the earliest adopters of the railroad, yet we've all but forgotten about it.
In some ways we've advanced so far, in others we've fallen behind...
"We need more trains, and fast ones too"
-A wise American
How could we fall so far in such a short period of time?
Man, I don't know. Sometimes I wonder how urban planners can look at every bit of evidence and ignore it to continue building car-dependent crapholes like Houston. Remember that time when all the countries of the world looked to America for a shining model of greatness and wealth?
I came up with my own little quote referring to car-dependent carbon copy suburbs that are plastered literally everywhere in North America.
"Housing for Hell's upper class."
You can survive, sure, but is it really "living"? I see lots of comments everywhere on the internet longing for a return to everything shown in this video. I hope that soon there'll be enough people wanting this dream to return that it might actually happen.
@@sovb oh my god. I grew up in Houston my entire life and i didnt realize how shitty it was till I moved to Iowa. I mean I always hated living there but I couldnt explain why. I just assumed a world covered in concrete and grime and shitty traffic was the norm.
Houston is TERRIBLE and im never moving back. 90% of their roads dont have sidewalks. I was isolated in my house my entire childhood because we were surrounded by freeways/stroads, making it unsafe for me to go outside, and because of the lack of sidewalks I couldnt even walk somewhere. I couldnt even get something to eat 5 minutes away. Too unsafe. My family was too busy working to take my anywhere, and i was too young to drive. It really sucked
Iowa is.... Its wonderful. Its so wonderful. The traffic isnt terrible, the city isnt covered in dirt and trash, they actually have sidewalks so i can walk places without the fear of being hit.... I am never going back
@@puppiekit the sad thing is, you don't have to go to just houston to find roads without sidewalks, parking lots everywhere, and Ponzi scheme urban development. you can pretty much go to any slightly major city in the entirety of North America, and you'll find some area that's at least similar. The only places free of this is the few areas built before that style of development and undemolished, like Toronto's relatively-unharmed streetcar suburbs, or small towns. Houston is just a particular bad example, and that's a pretty terrible thing. Nowadays, EVERYTHING in America is built around the car. Want to use whatever semblance of intercity and beyond rail there is? Better have a car to get to the station! Speaking of Toronto, moreso Ontario, GO Transit (our intercity commuter rail system run by the provincial/state government) you'd better have a car to get to the station if you live anywhere outside of Toronto itself. And even then it's usually underfunded and underdeveloped. I sure do love my local transit having service cuts due to worker shortages and the subway closing every weekend so they can work on an insanely over budget and over time transit project!
@@sovb In the US, even smaller towns have newer developments built only around the car. I grew up in one, and despite being right next to downtown, I couldn't get there without a car due to us being separated by a local highway.
Wow, a little dark age edit that isn’t traditionalist cringe and actually presents a good critique of our current society. Hats off to you sir!
lmao, aint no cringe ur just coping
Go be a communist somewhere else
@@adam3496 'return to tradition' is cope from people who their ancestors would hate regardless
Частенько люблю смотреть старые кинохроники, и чем чаще смотрю, тем чаще приходит понимание того, что мир словно был честнее что ли... Было бы здорово хотя б на сутки в те времена попасть и пройтись по тем улицам, проехаться на поезде XX Century, или на этих самых трамваях.
Спасибо автору за хорошую подборку и отлично подобранный аудиоряд.
I keep coming back to this vid mainly because it's so well made. Bravo.
Rest in Peace LA tram network. Rest in Peace Toon Town.
Nice video! I really like this song, and yeah it honestly really fits how we just took a dump on public transit and even pedestrian accessibility in the last 70 years or so. And, I'm sorry about your fiance, dude.
I live in the country mountains where trains would be extremely unfeasible and cars do a very good job. That said I love trains when I do go to the big cities I really wish the rail system would be better
a little dark age both the left and the right can come together and lament
We got infrastructure little dark age before GTA 6
beyond real
Remember when we used to have public transit? And passenger rail to almost every town? I don't. They were gone long before my time.
0:51 holy shit what's the original source of the New York one
But we need to recognize car's early importance as the only reasonable means we found the remove horses from cities at the time. In the early 1900s, the accumulation of manure and horse cadavers were seen as the #1 deterrent in urban development.
Perfectly made, absolutely beautiful. Thank you for this.
As an American that traveled the world, this legitimately depresses me.
Always fun sitting under overpasses and looking up to see netting there to catch falling concrete. Progress!
This video single handedly convinced me that trains are superior to cars
My county in Indiana is surprisingly good on roads and bridges. They seem to be on top of that
It's a whole different story down in Marion county.
Lol hosier
Beautiful. May Holly rest in peace. This video made me very sad :(
I heard there was an old railway train station in the city I used to live at. Thank god it's tomb is being preserved today as an aquarium, hotel and amusement park in one whole area. They even admit that the place was an old train station!
*Though, I'd like to see the place as a REAL train station from it's prime purpose.*
The aquarium I went to was still thrilling to visit today, however.
Most interesting version of this meme ever. Even traffic is ruined :D Also end with dying screen fits well.
America pioneered mass railway systems and public transportation through it, it is sad that things turned out the way they are
Every industrial country of 19th century did that, it was collective effort of industrialized world.
I wish all fellow train enjoyers a very pleasant evening
Basically the government should focus cities on making city a pedestrian. To people saying it's not convenient that's bullshit. If our ancestors in 3-4 generation way back can do it then we can. The trick is that by making city pedestrian city in the first place or implemented for long time. Peopleple who will be bred and born there doesn't have that popping thought of having a car or like "No this city is not for cars".
"An elegant weapon for a more civilized age"
Every time I’ve been in a traffic jam up north, I look for the nearest passenger line and say “man I wish I were that train right now, flying past all this traffic without any stresses.” I’ve only taken one Amtrak trip in my lifetime but dammit it was worth the experience. Sure they can be regarded as slow by today’s fast-paced travel standards but the leisure I felt being able to watch the world go by from a perspective that can’t be replicated by car or plane was magical.
Such a shame the automobile industry killed the train in the 1940-60s.. Funny how most cars on the road or at dealerships wouldn’t be where they are without trains to transport them around the country.