@@JFHWM , Finland wasn't unified in independence. There was a civil war just a few month later. Following the civil war there was divided society util 1940.
I hope no one will say that "the Soviet union was closed from the rest of the world" that's an extremely America centric view in the world, Soviet citizens could move between the whole huge soviet Union, including Russia (which itself had smaller republics like Tatarstan, Mari El, kalmykia, so Russia was a federation inside a federation) , Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc, and also they could go to socialist republics like Yugoslavia and Poland. In the same way I can say that the US was closed because they ONLY could go to the western Europe and not into the huge countries and republics of Kazakhstan, Russia and China.
It is important to note that that map featured on the cover of a book about the design of rapid transit maps. The map connects up all of the cities that have rapid transit, which explains the omission of certain cities.
On the Nova Scotia thing: The US city of Boston actually sent a lot of aid to Nova Scotia after the blast (America was still neutral in WWI at this point so they didn't have a war sucking up their money, unlike Canada) and so still to this day, as a show of gratitude, Nova Scotia sends Boston a Christmas tree every year.
It seems I'm late to the party... 9:28 This is exactly how trains in Central Asia work. I went from Moscow to Bishkek and I had to go thru customs at the Russia-Kazakhstan border as well as the Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan border, all staying on the same train.
There were a bunch of Scottish people who came to Massachusetts. They settled in Blandford. They were going to call it New Glasgow, but the governor denied it.
I can see that the metro has a heavy London-influence. Which puts a huge limit on the creativity of the world metro, and makes it not effective at all.
The only reason why I know about the explosion is that here in Boston, Nova Scotia sends a giant Christmas tree every year, as a thank you because Massachusetts was the first to help out after it.
Great food for thought! We travelled up the east coast of the US by train a couple of months ago, and a high speed rail network would have come in very handy! Currently going through Europe by train, and if there was a high speed network that could get us home to Sydney we'd be cheering! 😁
It may take slightly longer than flying but some people would much prefer a train ride over an airplane for many reasons. I’ll take a 6 hour train ride over a 2 hour flight plus check in time and security, etc.
Unbelievable that I started watching you because of a xbox game! I am 44 and without sounding patronising you are doing a better job explaining COVID-19 than any one else including all main stream media....thank you for reassuring my daughter 👍🏻
Dude I've been watching your geography videos for a long time and I just noticed that this is your second channel and you are actually a Minecraft youtuber. I'm mindblown .
Trains used to be very heavily traveled in the US, but as soon as cars and planes came around, hardly anyone uses them anymore. I very much doubt a high-speed train will work in the states unless there’s a huge incentive for it.
You probably could make a “one rail network” between Europe, Asia and Africa as the seas separating them are relatively narrow in places the cost would be astronomical though. I have taken the Eurotunnel from Dover to France then to Spain then to southern Spain it was surprisingly easy I think we had 3 train changes for something like 5000 miles of journey so it would be hard to complain so we are not fair off having a easy access euro train network
In the video you're talking about the train and how it's quicker to go with plane. Yes, it may be quicker but there you have to book a flight and get there on time. While on trains, you just show up, go on a train (Which is cheaper than going on a plane) and go.
I think one benefit of an America-wide metro system would be a cheaper option of transit. For example, I live in OKC and a trip to Denver wouldn’t actually save much time in comparison to taking a highway. However, if the cost of the metro system was cheaper or a yearly subscription sort of thing, the use of the metro might be favorable for cost efficiency. Rather than spending $100+ per trip to Denver for gas each time I go to Denver, I could spend maybe $100 a year for access to the metro system. Plane tickets aren’t even a part of a cost efficient method unfortunately :/
Even in that scenario, I'd rather drive so I have more control and freedom of movement. Maybe when I'm driving, I feel like taking a break or making a pit stop, because I'm the driver, I can. Plus, if I drive then I can control who is a passenger allowing me to not be around anyone that I dislike and don't have to deal with any strangers. Also, since I would be driving and not taking a train, I can smoke as much as I feel like without offense and I can listen to any kind of music I want and listen to it as loud as I want. And the best part is that because I'm driving, I can drive directly to my destination to the exact parking lot. If you take a train, it won't necessarily take you to your designation but rather take you to a train stop that happens to be in the same city as your destination (or maybe not, maybe the train takes you to a neighboring city). Driving beats the ever living shit out of flying or train.
Farfetched obviously, but Jakarta to Auckland is nearly 9000km if it's via New Guinea/New Caledonia? Sydney to Auckland would make more sense at about 2700km via Norfolk Island.
This map is clearly inspired by the London underground map. That’s why there is the loop in South America (reminds the underground loop at Heathrow). The yellow line acts like the Circle Line, you have a red line going through the middle and the black line has got two parts like the Northern Line. That’s the reason why some routes don’t make any sense - they are meant to imitate London and not to be actually reasonable.
Also this train system wouldn't make domestic train systems just disappear so that japan point is kinda dumb if you think about it for more than ten seconds
The map is not a fantasy metro system. It was produced by TfL to show all the countries that have metro systems. The map is made to mirror the shape of the LU lines and is not pretending to be practical
I think that the only way to make a 6 hour underground tunnel with no stops possible is if they built in “rest stops” for emergency purposes throughout the line that have access to the surface. But the amount of money needed for the infrastructure of a world metro would be better spent on planes and research into making planes more efficient in my opinion.
Can we talk a little bit about the thumbnail? The map seems... pretty cursed if I can say so. The UK is bigger than Australia, Saint Petersburg, Oslo and Helsinki are like on the north pole, Mexico is extremely thicc. Why does it look like that?
This map is a disaster. In North America, the orange line zigzags between the east coast and the lower Midwest before crossing the Gulf of Mexico to reach Mexico City, then again immediately after, crossing over itself just north of Jacksonville on the way to Europe. The Asian section is even worse. Wuhan is almost directly between Chengdu and Shanghai, but has its stop after Shanghai instead. Meanwhile, the Beijing to Kobe segment must pass straight through Seoul without stopping. Putting Pyongyang min the map at all is... lunacy. It's a similar story for the other lines.
All jokes/things aside I think this is not a world metro map per se, I think this is a map of cities with metro systems, designed to look like a worldwide metro system
Theres a train from Sydney to Perth which is 4 days and is used for tourism so I feel if there was a train from LA to New York it would be for a reason like that rather then normal transport.
I thing this kind of world metro would be some kind of ultra high speed trains and would be complemented with the national high/superhigh/ultrahigh speed rail networks, so the japanese examples ypu could use the actual shinkansen. but it's very weired the triple line alongside the transiberean.
Hi. I'm late here, but wtf this world metro map is EXTREMELY annoying in how inaccurate it is in terms of positioning of cities. It really grinds my gears 😫
So the east coast US line goes from Miami up to Jacksonville and then ALL the way to Dallas and then ALL the way back to ATL and then somehow zigzags back to St Louis? Whateverrrr
I guess instead of a "worldwide metro network" it's meant more to be a high-speed-rail network, connected to other local lines. But even then, this specific network does not make much sense. The relative locations of several of those cities are also quite a bit off. Just looking at those in and around Germany - why would you go north around Berlin from Prague to Amsterdam? From Nuremberg through Linz to Munich? The transatlantic line would likely start in Ireland instead of Rotterdam, too.
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The worst thing about the world map is they forgot the world is a globe, and that to go from japan to America you have to go around the whole world instead of going east.
Strange how Minsk (Belarus) is on the different line than Warsaw (Poland) and Moscow (Russia) while being in reality between them And also how there's no intersection with the Kiev line Minsk -> Kiev : guess I travel through Ufa?
Very interesting that between Amsterdam and Praque no Leipzig or Dresden is put is hillarious. Also I Think this thing is Made by a german becaus there are a lot of cities from germany put in this (Hamburg, Hannover, Bielefeld, Berlin, Ruhrregion, Cologne/Bonn, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Wuppertal, Nuremburg, Munich) 😅😂
5:35 I think that East - West coast high speed rail is thought mainly for cargo And about the metro, I think that he doesn't know anything about italian geography...a metro that from Napoli goes to Genova (on the north west side of Italy) without a stop in Roma and than goes to Brescia? 😂 I mean Genova is on the south of Torino, and from Genova to Brescia you can only have 2 roads: one stops in Milano and the other in Bologna...and from Brescia you can't go to Münich without passing from Verona...it really doesn't make sense 😂 Edit: now I got it. He wrote Brescia but he meant Bologna 🤔 However Napoli - Roma - Bologna - Münich makes more sense, so Roma is the big forgiven
Imagine you want to go from The Hague to Rotterdam and you miss the stop and find yourself in New York
yep it’s something i’d actually do
Well simple solution hold up the train and make them driv3 in reverse backwards
Make them have to switch trains in rotterdam
*New Amsterdam
Oh that happened to me once.. well meant to go to the last stop in Malmö and ended up in Denmark... At 15 with my best friend lmao
That would actually be pretty cool but if the train goes to fast the worlds chunks might not load.
hmmmmmm🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️
*too lol
Oh let's hope it has 16 times the detail than fallout 4
JUST GET A NEW COMPUTER DAMMIT ITTL BE BETTER
It’ll load since we’re playing SRLCraft on Multiplayer
That Nova Scotia explosion occured on the same day Finland declared independence.
that's a great way to prove the point that clear defining moments have ways to unify people, and sadly this doesn't have that
@@ibx2cat The finns were unified in their independence at least.
concidence
cries in Swedish rule
@@JFHWM , Finland wasn't unified in independence. There was a civil war just a few month later. Following the civil war there was divided society util 1940.
“Why don’t we have a worldwide metro network?”
*looks at history before 1991*
“Oh yeah.”
The world was decided in 2 blocks.
I hope no one will say that "the Soviet union was closed from the rest of the world" that's an extremely America centric view in the world, Soviet citizens could move between the whole huge soviet Union, including Russia (which itself had smaller republics like Tatarstan, Mari El, kalmykia, so Russia was a federation inside a federation) , Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc, and also they could go to socialist republics like Yugoslavia and Poland. In the same way I can say that the US was closed because they ONLY could go to the western Europe and not into the huge countries and republics of Kazakhstan, Russia and China.
Ikr bruh. The soviets were so closed from the rest of the world
the Soviet union was so closed from the rest of the world
@@epicsleet1 triggered
Because the seats arent 2 meters apart
DØTI wtf is meters
@@Khloya69 The length of a minecraft block.
Macaroon_Nuggets what’s a Minecraft?
@@Khloya69 It is virtual world that lets you mine and craft. (among other things)
ChloeWade a meter is:
A unit of measurement
100 centimeters
3.2808 feet
39.370 inch
It is important to note that that map featured on the cover of a book about the design of rapid transit maps. The map connects up all of the cities that have rapid transit, which explains the omission of certain cities.
Thomas Hatchett ahh that explains a lot. I thought the creator just didn’t care about Africa that much lol
Thanks. Was wondering why a worldwide metro would have a stop in Portland and not Seattle.
I have this book! it's more about the aesthetics of metro diagrams rather than the systems themselves. fantastic read/watch
Thomas Hatchett it omits Seattle yet it has the World Famous Monorail. 🚝
@@LordMelbury1953 I think it focuses on light rail and metros.
Yeah, the Japanese part especially makes no sense at all:) Cheers from Kobe!
On the Nova Scotia thing: The US city of Boston actually sent a lot of aid to Nova Scotia after the blast (America was still neutral in WWI at this point so they didn't have a war sucking up their money, unlike Canada) and so still to this day, as a show of gratitude, Nova Scotia sends Boston a Christmas tree every year.
Why are they not doing a circle line around the globe?
Jokes how whoever made this map has pretty much dragged a London tube map over a world map
6:47 - The last service to be built, is in Africa. .. racist?
So random to see Bielefeld of all cities on the world metro map
yay sound
Gg first comment
@HPR Stillwagon
n o b o d y. c a r e s.
I have the book that map in the thumbnail comes from. It is a map guide of metro lines around the world. (Not a world line, it's just coverart)
When you reach day 500 in Mini Metro
Talk about that concept of digging a panama canal 2.0 from the ocean to the australian desert to turn it into a beautiful, lush paradise
Please
It seems I'm late to the party...
9:28 This is exactly how trains in Central Asia work. I went from Moscow to Bishkek and I had to go thru customs at the Russia-Kazakhstan border as well as the Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan border, all staying on the same train.
Looking at that metro map, teleportation seems more likely to exist first.
There were a bunch of Scottish people who came to Massachusetts. They settled in Blandford. They were going to call it New Glasgow, but the governor denied it.
I can see that the metro has a heavy London-influence. Which puts a huge limit on the creativity of the world metro, and makes it not effective at all.
Well it’s just made to connect the metro systems of cities together, I’m not sure how much influence can be involved there
Fun fact: Assuming similar costs to the chunnel, a New York to London line would cost around $2,350,645,161,290 USD.
I love how Hamburg is in Scandinavia and Medellin almost in Ecuador
The only reason why I know about the explosion is that here in Boston, Nova Scotia sends a giant Christmas tree every year, as a thank you because Massachusetts was the first to help out after it.
Great food for thought! We travelled up the east coast of the US by train a couple of months ago, and a high speed rail network would have come in very handy! Currently going through Europe by train, and if there was a high speed network that could get us home to Sydney we'd be cheering! 😁
You can travel by train from anywhere in the UK to ho chi Minh in Vietnam that's a pretty big rail network.
Wait no Chicago on the worldwide metro, looks like I’ll be going on a plane
Had a stroke looking at the thumbnail map
A Europe Metro would probably make more sense
Happy to see my home city Genoa on the map :)
THE RETURN OF THE KING...
WITH SOUND!!!
Dude the tube map of the world is an illustration for a book. The stops are based on where there were urban rail systems in 2005. It's not serious.
It may take slightly longer than flying but some people would much prefer a train ride over an airplane for many reasons. I’ll take a 6 hour train ride over a 2 hour flight plus check in time and security, etc.
Unbelievable that I started watching you because of a xbox game! I am 44 and without sounding patronising you are doing a better job explaining COVID-19 than any one else including all main stream media....thank you for reassuring my daughter 👍🏻
Dude I've been watching your geography videos for a long time and I just noticed that this is your second channel and you are actually a Minecraft youtuber. I'm mindblown .
Geography now: *am I a joke to you*
Trains used to be very heavily traveled in the US, but as soon as cars and planes came around, hardly anyone uses them anymore. I very much doubt a high-speed train will work in the states unless there’s a huge incentive for it.
Toycat asking the big questions
You probably could make a “one rail network” between Europe, Asia and Africa as the seas separating them are relatively narrow in places the cost would be astronomical though.
I have taken the Eurotunnel from Dover to France then to Spain then to southern Spain it was surprisingly easy I think we had 3 train changes for something like 5000 miles of journey so it would be hard to complain so we are not fair off having a easy access euro train network
In the video you're talking about the train and how it's quicker to go with plane. Yes, it may be quicker but there you have to book a flight and get there on time. While on trains, you just show up, go on a train (Which is cheaper than going on a plane) and go.
I think one benefit of an America-wide metro system would be a cheaper option of transit. For example, I live in OKC and a trip to Denver wouldn’t actually save much time in comparison to taking a highway. However, if the cost of the metro system was cheaper or a yearly subscription sort of thing, the use of the metro might be favorable for cost efficiency. Rather than spending $100+ per trip to Denver for gas each time I go to Denver, I could spend maybe $100 a year for access to the metro system. Plane tickets aren’t even a part of a cost efficient method unfortunately :/
Even in that scenario, I'd rather drive so I have more control and freedom of movement. Maybe when I'm driving, I feel like taking a break or making a pit stop, because I'm the driver, I can.
Plus, if I drive then I can control who is a passenger allowing me to not be around anyone that I dislike and don't have to deal with any strangers. Also, since I would be driving and not taking a train, I can smoke as much as I feel like without offense and I can listen to any kind of music I want and listen to it as loud as I want. And the best part is that because I'm driving, I can drive directly to my destination to the exact parking lot. If you take a train, it won't necessarily take you to your designation but rather take you to a train stop that happens to be in the same city as your destination (or maybe not, maybe the train takes you to a neighboring city).
Driving beats the ever living shit out of flying or train.
@@johnnyslokes2712 guess it depends on what you’re prioritizing.
Gotta love when a map shows Madrid where Barça is and Barça where Valencia is
It’s almost as if this is the *second* time this has been uploaded🤔.
Ah that melbourne stop looks closer to Adelaide than Melbourne.
3:35 i noticed how new york has the red, white, and blue lines
How did you see Denver to Omaha as four and a half hours? It's like two and a half according to the scale! That's so fast right?
Can you do a video showing how screwed up the gerrymandering is in the US?
*techtonic plates have entered the chat*
I feel bad for who evers driveing
It seems there’s now a city in Sicily called Palmero
Farfetched obviously, but Jakarta to Auckland is nearly 9000km if it's via New Guinea/New Caledonia? Sydney to Auckland would make more sense at about 2700km via Norfolk Island.
This map is clearly inspired by the London underground map. That’s why there is the loop in South America (reminds the underground loop at Heathrow). The yellow line acts like the Circle Line, you have a red line going through the middle and the black line has got two parts like the Northern Line. That’s the reason why some routes don’t make any sense - they are meant to imitate London and not to be actually reasonable.
15:55 - South America is like Heathrow Airport.
San Diego to Las Vegas to Los Angeles isn't the quickest.
the map you used is killing me 9:00
Also this train system wouldn't make domestic train systems just disappear so that japan point is kinda dumb if you think about it for more than ten seconds
The map is not a fantasy metro system. It was produced by TfL to show all the countries that have metro systems. The map is made to mirror the shape of the LU lines and is not pretending to be practical
Reason #1 it would cost at least 100 dollars
Impossible to connect Australia, New Zealand, and the Malay Achipelago with the World Metro Network.
I think that the only way to make a 6 hour underground tunnel with no stops possible is if they built in “rest stops” for emergency purposes throughout the line that have access to the surface. But the amount of money needed for the infrastructure of a world metro would be better spent on planes and research into making planes more efficient in my opinion.
St Louis is nowhere the coast. How’s it getting a stop and Indianapolis doesn’t
Does he own the book ‘Metro Maps Of The World’? As that map is in the front cover of the book.
How the hell would there be a constructed stop in places like Bilbao and St Louis but literally none in sub Saharan Africa
Can we talk a little bit about the thumbnail? The map seems... pretty cursed if I can say so. The UK is bigger than Australia, Saint Petersburg, Oslo and Helsinki are like on the north pole, Mexico is extremely thicc. Why does it look like that?
This map is a disaster. In North America, the orange line zigzags between the east coast and the lower Midwest before crossing the Gulf of Mexico to reach Mexico City, then again immediately after, crossing over itself just north of Jacksonville on the way to Europe. The Asian section is even worse. Wuhan is almost directly between Chengdu and Shanghai, but has its stop after Shanghai instead. Meanwhile, the Beijing to Kobe segment must pass straight through Seoul without stopping. Putting Pyongyang min the map at all is... lunacy. It's a similar story for the other lines.
All jokes/things aside I think this is not a world metro map per se, I think this is a map of cities with metro systems, designed to look like a worldwide metro system
Theres a train from Sydney to Perth which is 4 days and is used for tourism so I feel if there was a train from LA to New York it would be for a reason like that rather then normal transport.
Helsinki to St Petersburg is about 400km. Via Warsaw and Moscow it’s about 3000km :D
This map still hasn’t solved the Darien Gap. Anyone in South America has to go to Lisbon to and transfer to get to North America.
There should be a link to Portland to Calgary or Vancouver
To go from Jacksonville to Atlanta you have to go all the way over to Dallas and back.
I thing this kind of world metro would be some kind of ultra high speed trains and would be complemented with the national high/superhigh/ultrahigh speed rail networks, so the japanese examples ypu could use the actual shinkansen. but it's very weired the triple line alongside the transiberean.
in four hundred years they will laugh at this. they will laugh at you, mr toycat. all the way down to their worldwide metro system
Living in Nova Scotia, I hear that a lot.
You could go faster if a vacuum maglev is built
Hi. I'm late here, but wtf this world metro map is EXTREMELY annoying in how inaccurate it is in terms of positioning of cities. It really grinds my gears 😫
cant wait to get on the wrong train the world tube and have 9 hours to think about my great choices
So the east coast US line goes from Miami up to Jacksonville and then ALL the way to Dallas and then ALL the way back to ATL and then somehow zigzags back to St Louis? Whateverrrr
I guess instead of a "worldwide metro network" it's meant more to be a high-speed-rail network, connected to other local lines.
But even then, this specific network does not make much sense.
The relative locations of several of those cities are also quite a bit off. Just looking at those in and around Germany - why would you go north around Berlin from Prague to Amsterdam? From Nuremberg through Linz to Munich? The transatlantic line would likely start in Ireland instead of Rotterdam, too.
i'm getting a bit of deja vu here
In order to get proper coverage, the world would need to look like OpenTTD
Am i recognizing to some extend thet the worldwide metro looks like the london metro
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Maybe we put people into claustrophobic single person capsules and propel them through pipelines like in the Bond film The World is Not Enough.
The worst thing about the world map is they forgot the world is a globe, and that to go from japan to America you have to go around the whole world instead of going east.
There's whole Pacific Ocean to cross
Who would build metro underneath it?
We could forget about the idea of countries all together. Great idea for globalization
Once again I win!
Strange how Minsk (Belarus) is on the different line than Warsaw (Poland) and Moscow (Russia) while being in reality between them
And also how there's no intersection with the Kiev line
Minsk -> Kiev : guess I travel through Ufa?
Now with sound!
one thing that makes this not really viable PLATE TECTONICS
Traveling by train is really fun, but it's hard to imagine passenger train lines connecting all of the USA. We're just too spread out for that.
Didn't you already make that video?
Very interesting that between Amsterdam and Praque no Leipzig or Dresden is put is hillarious.
Also I Think this thing is Made by a german becaus there are a lot of cities from germany put in this (Hamburg, Hannover, Bielefeld, Berlin, Ruhrregion, Cologne/Bonn, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Wuppertal, Nuremburg, Munich) 😅😂
Why would anybody build a world wide metro, We already have trains.
10:24 is no one gonna talk about how there’s a route through Pyongyang?
If you live in london look at the worldwide metro and connect it to your local metro and see were you would be in the worldwode metro
5:35 I think that East - West coast high speed rail is thought mainly for cargo
And about the metro, I think that he doesn't know anything about italian geography...a metro that from Napoli goes to Genova (on the north west side of Italy) without a stop in Roma and than goes to Brescia? 😂 I mean Genova is on the south of Torino, and from Genova to Brescia you can only have 2 roads: one stops in Milano and the other in Bologna...and from Brescia you can't go to Münich without passing from Verona...it really doesn't make sense 😂
Edit: now I got it. He wrote Brescia but he meant Bologna 🤔
However Napoli - Roma - Bologna - Münich makes more sense, so Roma is the big forgiven
and they don't connect America to Asia through the Behring Strait...
Yes I do not have the death experience
@ibx2cat You should create your own world metro
US public transit lines that work
Acela
Seattle to LA
Chicago to NY
Why does it look like Vancouver is in Alaska 😂
Maybe if Scotland kept part of New Jersey, it would not be so terrible...