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(((William Levitt))) and (((Robert Moses))) Oy vey, I wonder what these two have in common!

Thank GOD my home staye in Virginia is going to keep upgrading and expanding amtrak service. I also live in the NEC thankfully.

And then there’s Phoenix valley metro that constantly interacts and competes w vehicular traffic at stop lights and intersections 😖

I live in a close in suburb of Philadelphia and have lived and worked in Philadelphia my whole career. Our city and suburban area are very livable and in my case walkable to get around. Philadelphia’s downtown areas are very walkable and as noted has a good subway service to access most places you want to go in the city proper. For a large city rents an housing prices are not too high except in some downtown and further out suburbs especially the area known as the main line and newer developments. Our city and suburbs have many good resturants and cultural activities for you to see. Our economy is relatively diverse and has a good core of jobs in the education and medical fields.

Hello, I have lived in Sacramento since before light rail began and I am proud that we are one of the first cities to have light rail. Sadly, one of the reasons for low ridership is the perception that they are not safe, real or imagined. Fix this problem and you will see a huge increase in ridership

You should do a Canada city tier list! Like Toronto or Vancouver...

I wish the blue line extended north into Antelope/Citrus Heights, even Roseville. I'd love to take public transportation to go downtown, but its too inconvenient, and even though I hate driving the time it takes to get there is about 1/4th if I drive.

BART is the 3rd best subway/metro system in the US and I will die on this hill. It is the reason San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley remained urban cities with strong economies, avoiding San Jose and other cities without transit access becoming the economic focus of the Bay Area. It was also the metro system with the best cost recovery in the country pre-pandemic and has some of the lowest costs of operation (in spite of being in the most expensive region in the country) so it's doing something right. The Great Society metros are generally all great. Where we've failed is not their design, but the land use surrounding stations. Parking could've always been a part of the station landscape, but it didn't have to dominate the area. TOD surrounding the station should've incorporated parking structures into their design, giving suburban dwellers access to the metro system without compromising on land use directly within the station's catchment area. Same can be said for local bus service at these stations. We have some of the best metro canvasses in the world with these metro systems. There's so many urban blank spaces that can be built up and address the housing concerns of our generation at these sites.

I agree with your list. What I gather is that there are at least 7 cities in the US that are in the B tier (New York wasn't ranked and neither was nearby Jersey City/Hoboken, but the former would be in the S tier and the latter in the A tier). IMO, that's already more "transit-oriented" cities than Canada... first of all, Canada's truly BIG cities are: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Quebec City, Edmonton, Surrey, Mississauga, and Hamilton, and their best system is in Vancouver or maybe Montreal, but they still pale in comparison to SF. Toronto is also mediocre compared to Chicago, and it's actually a bigger city (surpassed Chicago in population a few years ago). The rest of them aren't really remarkable. IDK, Canadians like to rip on America for having "abysmal" transit when the reality is the opposite (they mostly chalk it up to ridership, but why is that more important than actual coverage, efficiency, and infrastructure?)...all it shows is a deep lack of self awareness, which is astonishing and mildly irritating. Fix yourself before you rip on someone else

Publix station is the best named station ever as a floridan

Trams ARE actually better than buses. But they're useless on elevation.

At least here, NYC transit is quite likely to improve in the near future now that we've finally gotten congestion pricing over the line!

New Scifi show?

Did he move to the twin cities?

Admiralteyskaya in Saint Petersburg is deeper at 86m

The most expensive buses and trains on the schedule are the extra ones needed for the rush hour shift. You have to buy extra equipment that is only used for a few hours of the day, and, even worse, unless your system is automated, you have to pay extra for a driver or operator to run a weird split shift with a giant time block where they are off for 4 to 6 hours in the middle of the day, or pay two separate drivers or operators to only work part time. The first type is hard to find employees willing to do it, so you pay them extra, the second requires you to train two employees instead just one, and pay double of certain HR costs and insurance costs. Net result is that those extra peak time runs cost much more than others on an all day run or the like. Having a system where the bus or train comes, say, an even 10 minutes all day is much more efficient than having it come every five minutes peak and every 20 minutes off peak, that sort of thing.

You missed new york subway

Can you do a video of the best places to live with that have some decent walkability. Feel like Chicago and Philly are two places that punch above their weight but would love your insight

Been a Beaverton resident during the original Red Line construction through the expansion of the Blue Line to Hillsboro, and lived in Wilsonville when their diesel train solution up the I-5 corridor to the Beaverton TC was originally put in place. TriMet and METRO couldn’t swallow a good idea if it was chewed and regurgitated for them. The feudal backwardness (advertised as “Keep Portland Weird”) makes East Berlin during the wall look like a model of success. You want to fix the MAX, and solve the congestion problems in Portland? Get rid of the downtown Portland stops entirely! Make the MAX a dedicated cardinal transit system that moves people from the “affordable” suburbs and node Transit Centers, while smaller, more frequent private contractor shuttle buses and Uber/Lyft drivers take the passengers from the nodal TCs to their eventual destinations. Putting the TCs with supporting parking lots outside the city centers will free up the traffic the MAX currently causes. Also, never, EVER dig tunnels and put a subway system in Portland! Most of soil is silt-based and volcanic ash compressed over millennia from the Hood, St Helens, and other Cascade volcanic eruptions. If you know anything about liquefaction and why building anything on top of silt along the fault lines of tectonic plates is a bad idea, especially how often Portland floods from snowmelt down the Willamette watershed, then you know a Portland subway system would be more deadly than the Nimitz Freeway collapse in ‘89.

Northwest Florida beach towns are a great (in a bad way) examples of this. In fact, most of Florida in general is like this. The one thing those beach towns cannot survive without is TOURISM. And everyone drives anyway, including tourists making traffic so much worse and the locals complaining about it.

Yes yes and yes more transit on the weekends

Just watched this video about the 76ers plan to move to China Town from the sea of parking they currently live in with all the other Phili teams. th-cam.com/video/QSdPomzkj3E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=vQ0DYA5RY5I6FGCE How about building a station over the tracks at 30th street station. Help spread the word...

Definitely! I live in Montreal, during the weekdays there are tons of buses and subway service. Weekend service sucks.

Yes! This is finally what virginia railway express is doing in Virginia! They are finally realizing that people would take commuter railroads more than just in the 9-5 commute! The project here is called Transforming Rail in Virginia. You should take a look if you haven't!

DO NOT CALL THE ORANGE LINE THE "G" LINE OR LINES 910 AND 950 THE "J" LINE!!!! Los Angeles IS NOT NEW YORK!!!

Well in germany this exists . But they always comes late

America, stop putting trams/streetcars in deep bored tunnels. If your going to do that, just build a subway

Cars are the way, I'd rather drive my Corvette to work every day than ride the train like a bum.

it's amazing to me that we don't have unmanned electric trolleys in every city.

I have a guy who, if I didn't give him a ride, he wouldn't be able to work at our company. We start work at 6:00 and the only bus that runs past our shop, only runs from 6:00am to 8:00am.

Thought you was talking about zombies

Indeed. Open availability is a must.

Here's my tier list. S. Southwest Chief, California Zephyr, Coast Starlight, A. Sunset Limited, Empire Builder, Cardinal B. Silver Service, Lake Shore Limited, Auto train, C. Capitol Limited, D. Crescent, Texas Eagle F. City of New Orlean.

I always imagine if someone from 200 years ago time traveled to a typical American city (other than NYC, Boston, San Fran), they would think the city had been under siege and abandoned. Half the buildings are gone, replaced by parking lots, and there's no people visible anywhere. They'd probably assume humanity had been wiped out by the 4 wheeled metal machines everywhere.

The real problem is sprawl, which is a result of idiotic zoning laws which prevent low scale commercial uses in residential areas. American suburbs are too low density for walking and biking to be convenient options of travel, so Americans make the logical choice to drive. The real answer is to stop subsidizing the costs of building that way and remove zoning and density restrictions. There's many classic neighborhoods in American that are walkable and bikable. I've been lucky to spend almost my entire life in places like that. I spent 5 years in the suburbs, and hated every second of it. Never again.

I have to uber home because i leave work at 10pm and i refuse to wait till 11pm for a single bus when i know i have another one to catch. That is far too dangerous

putting the words “late night service” over footage of the MAX made me laugh

When the roads are open, transit should be an option.

Bro, the mic goes on your clothing. It is supposed to have a clip.

Portland badly needs overnight buses. Seattle and SF have them, time to get with the times.

Yes, Transit should run all-day every day! If I go to a concert, I have to leave early to catch the last train of the day.

Don’t forget I’m from Philly and Philly is the transit capital of the us

Where in Portland is the thumbnail taken? It’s really pretty.

Notice how all of these cities are in the Deep South?

Needs to be running 24/365. Not everybody works from 9:00 to 5:00. It's also kind of nice to have it available to go someplace other than work. I use it to shop

It should run on weekends and holidays as well as late at night

Congratulations on the move to PDX!

The only 2 silver linings is one: I can see is that I hope this is a wake up call for cities to find more and more efficient ways to plan, spend, fund now that the federal gov is unlikely to do so. If the cost of projects go down, I think there would be much less pushback to build whenever a new democrat institution gets in. Two: there will probably be much less red tape and delays surrounding approvals of construction which maybe could make up difference from having federal transit budgets slashed. Instead of interstate connections, I think agencies should work on their local areas and just get ready for whenever a New Democrat administration comes in to then start up interstate connections.

I went there back in 2017 not realizing it was the deepest station!

FUND SEPTA!