Thats not a map of the road network in Europe, its just the international road shipping routes. A map of the roads would pretty much be a solid block of colour.
@@LeeleeSTAR Extremely misleading and OLD... that only show the European Commission planning for 2030 high-speed *troncal* rail lines in Europe. For example, here in Spain we have the 2nd biggest HSR network after China. We now have 4300 km (we surpassed 4k mark on January 2023 already) and have another 15000 km of conventional railways. Also we have 18000 km of highways and another 325000 km of roads... in Spain alone. So the real maps would crush the ones from USA.
What amazes me, as a Canadian, is how Americans really believe that they are the best in the world, when they are really very backward in terms of transportation, health care, crime, safety, food quality, etc, etc.
That's why they want to englobe Canada: they somehow wish to down you at their level in the bad things. I obviously admit there are good things in the USA, but to believe to be the first in everything only complies to their American Dream that, as George Carlin said, means they can just make it real when asleep.
Its the brainwashing from the media and schooling and culture that gives that impression (former US brainwash-ee speaking). Americans dont even realize they are affected that way until they can get out of the US and travel, which many do not. Only 51% of americans have a passport, and few take the costly journey across either ocean. However, I really like Tyler because he seems very open minded and interested to explore the world vicariously through others in their own videos and culture. Ive seen a lot of people who see a video like the ones he views and just shut their eyes and bury their brains in the sand, and claim "thats not true!". I like to hear his impressions, because as a former american, its interesting to see him discover the same things I came to be aware of.
The map of 'all the train lines' is just showing the main international links. If you look at the rail network in any individual country you will see far more lines than shown here. Equally the European road network map doesn't show anything like half the motorways in the UK (and so I assume elsewhere as well).
Yes its showing the links not the routes, for example London to Brussels and Paris rather than the one channel tunnel link. Its pretty much a map of the European TEN-T transport network while the UK was still part of it.
Your feeling of "being naked" when not having a car is definitely a very american feeling. I moved to sweden a year ago from the US, and I chose not to buy a car. I can walk 2 blocks (less than 2 minutes) and I have access to 2 grocery stores, clothing shops, electronics, hardware, hair salons, jewlery, and any other thing you can imagine. If I want more specialty goods, i can take a train to Stockholm which takes 45 minutes, and I can walk or take trams or buses for super cheap. BTW, the trains are very reliable and run every 15 minutes. You can buy a ticket for $4 for 75 minutes of travel: take the train, bus, tram, metro all on the same ticket. I have not missed my car at all... and I never want to own one. The other day, I went to 6 stores doing errands, and got back to my apartment within 30 minutes. No joke. I timed it. I feel freed from my car, not "stuck" as you thought you might because I can go ANYWHERE, and not have to pay high car payments or gas or insurance.
Happy to hear fellow Swede (and Stockholmer)! I agree! 😊👍 And the tube is usually like 2-10 minutes in between trains. Inner city buses kind of the same, depends on how many people ride. Takes about an hour from one end of the city suburbs to the other side (North to South). If that doesn't suit you local trains (pendeltåg) are another option.
I’m in the UK. Live 10 minutes from the train station which gets me to London in 45 minutes. Also live 6 minutes from my local town. I have a car which sits outside my house week after week and is only used at most once a month. I would love to get rid of it as everything I need is on my doorstop except when I need to visit friends and family as they are spread out throughout the UK.
The thing that amazes me about Americans is that they see the car as independence whereas it's actually the complete opposite. Americans have become dependant on the car. Tyler himself said that he'd feel trapped without it. Americans used to be able to walk anywhere they needed to go, towns were designed that way. Once everyone started to own cars, town planners realised that they could just build loads of houses on the outskirts of town, far away from the amenities. And now people were reliant on the car because they were now miles and miles away from work, school, and shops with no alternative transport options.
Ther's simply just one reason. The US car manufatcturers does not want people to use public transport and therefore it's not funded. The US government is for the corporations and not for it's sitizens.
Those TRAIN ROUTES shown are 'ONLY' the main (fast track) lines. Each country then has MANY other, 'local' train lines or routes with more frequent stopping and stations, in between (sometimes slower too); allowing people to get most places in Europe or the UK.
The Ten-T network are the routes the EU declared as vital for connectivity between the countries. They are now building out those lines with billions in financing. Notable examples are the massive tunnels through the Alps to connect Italy with France (Turin-Lyon), the railline through Switzerland, to connect freight between Italy and Germany, the Fehmarnbelt tunnel (18km subsea tunnel) to connect Germany and Denmark and the new trainline from Poland through all the Baltic countries up to Helsinki.
As a European visiting friends in the US i remember being shocked at the state of public transportation when i went the first time. On subsequent trips i knew what to expect (still have a stack of 1$ bills that i kept in case i needed a bus). I remember when i first arrived in New York and the train looked so delapidated. But i thought "well, it's a huge city, you get all sorts, maybe in this area i travel through there must be a lot of people that are destructive/don't respect the infrastructure". But then the Grayhound was quite awful too, and badly maintained. And each bus stop looked terrible, dirty, abandoned. And when i got to Ithaca i used the local buses and they were in a dreadful state too. And you couldn't even buy tickets online or have a subscription or smth! Heck, you couldn't even pay by card! You had to have the exact dolar amount (which was pretty high actually given the horrible service) and give it to the driver for each trip. I was mind blown to see such poor public transport in a university town. Over here we have great public transport everywhere but i think especially in university towns, since by default students are poor(er) and have far fewer cars, and therefore public transport is very important to the life of the city. I was in uni back then in Grenoble and generally felt that if a tram didn't show up after 3 mins wait in the morning the service was bad. After i moved to other cities i realized our trams were indeed very frequent, but even now if in the morning i have to wait longer that 5-7 mins i feel there must have been some problem on the network. And I've visited a bit while in the US, went to Niagara and other places, and it was the same everywhere. Basically if you don't have a car you're busted! I was going on foot to the mall and for a good part of the hour-long walk there weren't even sidewalks! It seemed so unhelpful... And I can't for the life of me understand why you sequester homes together and don't allow any shops! Like if you need a bottle of milk or bread or something you are forced to DRIVE for like 20 mins?!? Or in my case walk over an hour... Wtf?!? Why?!??? Makes no sense! Having shops around us both more comfortable and bolsters local economy. It's so much easier when you just have small local business all over. If i run out of bread on sunday morning i just walk 5 minutes to the nearest bakery and come home with freshly bakes bread and probably croissants too because OMG they smell so good! I don't need to get in my car and drive to a hypermarket and buy some plastic wrapped toast that was baked in a huge factory 3 days ago and tastes like cr*p... I really can't understand this about America, how did you people end up with this system?! Why don't you change it?! It's so restrictive, yet nobody bats an eye. You just adapt to making your life more difficult instead of improving the systems, and that's generally because then it would make everyone's life easier and somehow that's bad?!? Wtf?!??? It's baffling to anyone who isn't an American.
Its because americans dont know any better. Stale bread is the norm. Driving cars is the norm. They are socially conditioned and brainwashed by media and school to accept the things around them. There is no comparison for them to say "I want that". No TV show to show actual european life: buying groceries around the corner. If there is,, is assumed to be a big city, like New York, and everything smaller is that way because it is. They really have zero concept of how european cities and towns work. --speaking as a former american.
That's the dreaded neighbourhood zoning system, that forbids to mix residential homes and businesses. That's destroying their society, along with parking lots and school districts which lead to segregation.
Y por eso ellos crearon las CIUDADES DE 15 MINUTOS y piensan que han inventado algo... Y como guinda del pastel, NOS LAS EXPORTAN A NOSOTROS LOS EUROPEOS, donde nuestras ciudades tienen ese sistema, desde el Imperio Romano, HACE 2.000 AÑOS, DOS MIL... 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
In France, if you go to work by public transit, if your company has more than 11 employees, it's mandatory for your employer to pay minimum 50% of the cost. Most of the time, they pay half of your monthly pass and sometimes 100%. And they sometimes pay the gas for your car if you drive other employees. They also can pay you a bike. All of this is encourage by public aids to the companies.
In Hungary our employer pays for the employees public transport as well. If I have to drive to a different town that I live in, the company covers a part of the costs, but not completely.
9:00 In Romania for example it's not that we're disincentivized driving our cars just so we use more public transportation. The real reason is that we may want to drink something and we can't drive back home in our cars. The public transportation is a added bonus !🤣
I’ve lived in 2 European capital cities for my whole life and I have never had a driving license. I have thought about it a few times but it comes to the fact that I really wouldn’t Need a car that often. Insurance fees, reparation costs, parking lot rent, fuel costs, cost of the car itself while needing it maybe once a month if even that is just a cost that seems really unnecessary at this point of my life. If I need to get a lot of groceries at once or furniture/house hold stuff I just order it online. Otherwise I walk 5 min to the grocery store and get what I need.
I live in the UK, I do own a car but I chose not to use it too often. I am mindful of impact on environment and trying to get at least an hour of exercise.I walk my kids to school and back which makes 3.4 miles every day all together. If I need to attend some kind of appointment in town I take a bus (it's cheaper than paying for a car park). I do use my car for shopping trips, going to the seaside and rainy days.
13:00 USA legalized corruption in politics and ever since big business interests have been slowly, but surely replacing existing and future systems built for citizens' and the nation's best interests, to ones that maximize profits for just a handful of corporations Additionally, EU has been slowly but surely pushing for these sort of sensible improvements (inc uding many failures as well) that improve and unify the continent, while minimizing waste and overhead
Tax works a bit differently. People in the USA pay exceptionally low taxes. In comparison, Europe have around 30-50% taxes + vat. While ex-soviet nations used to have even higher taxes. But these usually also represent the public spending. Eastern-Europe used to have and still have trolley-busses, city-busses, very many trams, and suburban trains. While in Western Europe I felt like there is a lot less public transportation, depending on where and what, it's still a massive and well connected, easy-to-crossthrough system. These are also modified by many other things too, and nation things generally. Some better, some less. Some are more or better organized, relying on different things, have lots of mountains, while others have better trains or rails. The budget has to be distributed somehow too. You can't expect the USA with low density and low taxes to have these. In big cities, metropolises these things work better. But what about the rest? Imagine if americans would have to pay from one day to the other 50% tax + 25% vat, on everything. How would that look like? Could the economy still even function? My country, an Eastern European country, has prefab areas from the soviet era, usually high density, well planned and rural areas. In small cities you can just walk everywhere. It's 10-20 minutes. In the prefab area, there are trams usually or the like. But also, the kindergarten for me is 3 minutes, a school I donno, while the shop is 2 minutes. The next shop is 3 minutes. Another shop 5-10 minutes of walking. Or minutes with a tram. Both plazas are 30 min or 1 hour, 20-30 minutes if I hurry. But around 13-15 minutes with a tram. But also.. my country was planned around this. So it's easier like this. Everything is prepared for this, so that 1$ spent, is spent loads of times better. While for the USA, it might not be the same.
Sorry Tyler, bad excuse. Canadians need a passport to travel outside our country as well (and yes, it's also massive) and we are well-travelled and also fairly well-versed in the cultures of others.
In 2015, my mother in law’s company closed its production facility in the US and moved it a few kms across the border into Canada. It was like The Enlightenment, leaving ignorance, stupidity and bigotry at the border. The company employs some 14,000 people around the world but we find great satisfaction in not employing a single U.S. American.
The map at minute 7 only specifies the European highways that cross several countries,,, then each country has its network of highways with or without tolls, dual carriageways, national highways, provincial highways and regional roads, and trains. The commuter trains are missing - which are normally short distances - that run through the towns on the outskirts of large or not so large cities - greetings.
7:22 the European road network is very incomplete. Many highways are missing. My country, Portugal (S-W corner of Europe) has basically 3 highway systems going North-South and at least 3 going West-East and connecting with Spain. In the picture, You see only part of the oldest highway N-S going from Porto to Setubal, and only 2 of the 3 W-E connections to Spain. Spain looks also incomplete, and so does France. I think the map shows a highlight of highways with international connections, i.e., highways that are continuous accross the borders of each country.
Also, the video mainly shows examples of cities on flat land and relatively recent, like in Germany or Netherlands (which makes me feel the author lives in that region). Now, this is completely different of cities of the Mediterranean which grew around a castle on the top of a hill. I am talking of cities with more than 1000 years of existence. There are quite a few. I live in city with around 2100 years. It's quite common really. The streets on the most ancient parts of those cities are concentric, very narrow, and usually quite steep, so building a public transportation for those areas is in most cases impossible. Same for bicycles. In those parts of the city, walking is actually the best, if not the only, solution.
Another point to consider is the Deutschlandticket which allows Germans to use all public transport in Germany except for the high speed trains for 58 € per month or 40.60 € per month as a job ticket. That includes buses, trains, trams, ferries and even some on demand cars for the Last mile depending on the location and time. Since you ask "What do WE do?": The US prefers to spend its money on weapons. To each their own.
I really like this channel. These sorts of educational videos aren't the sorta thing I'd normally watch, but seeing your reactions and explanations of how they compare to the US makes them more entertaining for me, so thanks.
What you have to remember is that the US and Canada were literally built on rail. Rail companies built the country by buying up land to the west from where they were, built stations and making a return on investment in a couple of years. Back in the day basically every city had trams too. Nowadays you can still see that history when roads are being upgraded, finding tram tracks underneath the top asphalt layer.
Europe is really good. Also, I found public transportation in China, sooo much better than in the USA. Ah, there you have touched a sore point: Learn from Europe? In the USA almost all is left to private business. In Europe or China, not. In the USA, not to let private business do things its way, is a strict no,no,no.
Urban planning in North American cities, creating large suburban areas, expanding city limits, and dispersing populations outside urban areas, has hampered the development of public transportation and made citizens more dependent on cars.
I like the idea that i can stand in Strøget in Copenhagen and get this crazy idea that I want to eat at a restaurant in Sweden, and get on a train and be in Malmø 20 minutes later. Or want to have a Pernod at the Champs Elysees and fly to paris and be there 90 minutes later.and that's doable with 20+ counties. And the price for a return ticket is the same as a cinema ticket and some sweets basically. Thats so wonderful to know.
A few points: 1. Streetcars as you called them, are called Trams and they're an alternative to buses (but buses are still used) and have right of way over all other road users. I know in the US, San Francisco has trams. 2. Europe has extensive road networks, the maps comparing riads are only showing the large roads, not all roads (in fact very few of the roads). 3. Taxes are certainly high but cars are not as expensive as made out and frustratingly, driving a car has become cheaper than public (privately owned by companies) transport (least in the UK), which it shouldn't be. Nonetheless, we have public transport systems, so you can get about to some extent without a car, but the transport system in the UK is expensive. 4. Not everyone drives all the time, people use public transport, despite the cost, especially in cities where parking is difficult and expensive. 5. The US also has cars with much larger and polluting engines than many other countries have, and that (although claimed) has nothing to to with country size. Most small engine cars (by small, 2 litre or less) is perfectly big enough. A good car can drive for 1000s of miles with zero issues (beyond refilling). 6. You can get to any country in UK via public transport or by car. By train you can get places very fast. 7. The UK left the EU, meaning UK citizens do not have freedom of movement in Europe anymore, Brexit was the most stupid, self defeating thing the UK did, thanks to gullible people. 8. The UK transport has a lot of maintenance issues however, and that's thanks to privatisation of the trains, buses, etc. Still, despite the issues, it's still good to have a generally well connected transport system, though there have be cuts to various routes in the UK, meaning skme places have limited or no public transport.
I noticed that in the UK the public transportation was very expensive, but also in Germany. The same ticket that cost 1-2€ in my country, cost 35€ in Germany. Ridiculously overpriced.
Tyler, imagine getting on the Eurostar train in London and getting off in Paris a couple of hours later, (other destinations are available), you would love it!!😊 Also, there are more rail lines in the UK than shown, so that makes getting around easy, and quicker than by car. Don't forget National Express, the coach network, a bit like Greyhound only smarter and more comfortable 🙄 and goes to lots of places, even the continent using ferries. You need to cross the pond to explore the 'fun factory', otherwise known as Europe!! 🙋♀️🇬🇧🤗
Rail Cars on streets are called Trams. Like a bus on rails. Here in Manchester, UK our trams run on streets and on older railway lines. They stopped doing return tickets, and for the same price as a return you get unlimited travel all day in that pricing zone.
Hi Tyler; Brit here with a recent first visit to San Antonio. My daughter and I thought it'd be a great idea to get a bus into the city. Or to a mall. Or anywhere. 25 minutes walk to nearest bus stop, which was serviced twice a day. And the pedestrian crossings are terrifying. WALK, but there will still be cars turning on the crossing while you're on it. No way America will ever be able to adapt to using their cars less
I agree. I travel for work and goto California, Ohio, and Kentucky. My hotel is always horrified when I suggest I walk to a restaurant (or mall, cafe, bar, shops) that is only 20 minutes walk away!! They always insist on giving me a courtesy lift to my destination. 🤷♀ Interestingly, Massachusetts is a great walking destination.
European cities being much older with architecture that should be preserved, the streets were for horses and wagons. They didn't want to destroy beautiful iconic cities by building wide thoroughfares so they were simply adapted to accommodate public transit. It's fast, efficient, well designed, runs on regular and frequent schedules and takes the mayhem and stress out of commuting and that makes for happier people. In cities like Amsterdam thousands use bikes to commute and there are parking ramps for them. God only knows how you can find your bike parked among the thousands. Often biking is faster than sitting in traffic and you actually get exercise.
"They didn't want to destroy beautiful iconic cities by building wide thoroughfares so they were simply adapted to accommodate public transit." Sorry, but that just plain wrong. Show me any single bus or any single tram/train/streetcar that's smaller / fits better through narrow streets than a car. The fact that in many historic town centers we have narrow streets is NOT the reason why we have public transport. It is however of course in a lot of cases the reason for certain design decisions. e.g. using narrow gauge for the tram (Augsburg and many others) or using extra short busses for certain routes (e.g. Hamburg Blankenese Treppenviertel). AND it is the reason why parking or even entering the city by car can be restrictive. But the argumentation that that would be the reason we have public transport in the first place is plain wrong.
As a matter of fact In the 60's the government wanted to bulldoze half Amsterdam to make room for a highway going into the city. But people took to the streets and protested relentlessly against it
@@j.4941 - You say trams etc. don't fit any better than a car but it is also about the NUMBER of cars that would clog up the streets (also considering current restrictions re the resultant pollution). The number of people who can travel on a tram or bus vs one or two per car is a space saver. That is why in some cities there are fees and parking non-existent. It's also true that city planners did not want the cultural/architectural heritage of their cities to be obliterated by streets. Europe has centuries more heritage and they appreciate it. Also, due to the age of European cities, the changes have been more gradual. In places like the US, much cultural and environmental heritage has been obliterated for their obsession with cars carrying a single person. If a building or subdivision is over 50 years old, regardless of its potential heritage value, just knock it down to accommodate more cars.They have it ass backward. The rationale for public transit can be and is both so you cannot say I am totally wrong.
Most people in Europe who live outside the major cities do own cars, they just don't use them as much. If you want to go into a city it's often just more convenient to jump on a train. And most towns are designed for pedestrians and, more recently, cycling. So people walk a lot more when they are in urban areas. There are also options like "park and ride", so if you live outside a smaller city, you may drive to the outskirts, park at specific sites that have regular buses (e.g. every 15mins) into the town centre.
Not that long ago I watched a video made by an American about my country of Denmark. It was facepalming from start to finish. He got most things completely wrong, and even those, that were technically correct, he totally misunderstood and misrepresented. Like the cars. He claimed, that we Danes cycle everywhere, coz we cant afford cars. Even if his accent hadnt marked him as American, the absolute drivel of his video wouldve busted him. Most American bs ever.
I love being able to move around the continent with ease. I went to Bratislava in Slovakia on a city break. Wonderful place but one day we woke up and decided to walk to the train station and see how much it was to go to Vienna in Austria for the day. It was so cheap we explored the city which was unplanned at the start of the trip. Again, we went to Dubrovnik in Croatia for our summer holiday and managed to visit Kotor Bay in Montenegro and Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina by bus. Both beautiful and with their own unique cultures and experiences.
ALso to note that Europe highways are real highways with steel barrier between lines and also all highways have net on side so animals cant enter highway .Everything that dont have that animal net is not consider higway but just motorway
I think the video left another importent part out. Think how many hours an american spend in a car, and have to concentrate on traffic, while in europa you can enter a train, and relax, beeing on your computer, talk to others, doing some knitting, doing homework or just take a nap!! In trains you even can bring your bike!!
Love the connectivity here. In two weeks time I'm going skiing in Italy. From Bristol in the UK I'm going by train to Venice then bus to the hotel in the Dolomites. It will take two days with a stop in Milan on the way there and Munich on the way home but I love it as it is so relaxed and comfortable. My return ticket is £230 so as much as a flight without the hassle. In the UK I mainly travel by train and take my bike and can get everywhere I need to go. Just love public transport. Downsides things can run late and miss connections but I've never been stranded and always reached my destination
8 parking spaces to 1 car in America makes sense, it's scary how bad Drivers Americans are and the size of parking spots compared to Europe is crazy. The US parking spots are much bigger and people still can't park properly
Nobody could accuse the average U.S. American of being a deep thinker. They constantly vote against the best interests of their country and themselves. They’re the stupidest people on earth.
I live in Germany. A few decades ago when I went to art school, I remember that we had a bad photocopy of a statue that we had to draw from (basically try to draw that statue from different angles from imagination, based on the photo). The real statue was in Paris. So some of my classmates just decided to go to Paris over the weekend. Basically, they took a bus on Friday evening, arrived in Paris on Saturday, went to the museum, did live drawings of the statue, took walks through Paris until the evening and then took an overnight bus back to Germany. They then handed in the assignment on Monday. XD
The US used to have one of the biggest passenger rail networks in the world. But then freight took priority. The max speed for a passenger train in the US apart from the Northeast corridor is 79mph
Here in Germany we got a so called "Deutschland Ticket" (Germany Ticket). At the moment it is priced 58€ a month. (about 60$) With this ticket you can ride ANY local train, tram, bus, interregional trains (you can imagine this a train runs in or through one/two US states) in the whole county as often you like. Excluded are high speed and long distance (whole country without switching trains).
Lol! There are actually special subscriptions that allow you to travel all over the European rail system for 1 month for like 300€. They advertise for that exactly with adds about "visit Europe from Stockholm to Madrid" and they even give itinerary idea if you want to visit say Northern Europe, or Southern Europe or Central Europe. If i had the time I'd do a lot more traveling 😅
Tyler, as a follow-up on the video, you might like to watch this that answers many of your questions: "Why The US Has No High-Speed Rail" - CNBC Sadly, it's mainly due to the pressure of the car and oil industries lobbies ... You might also like to see what Franco-British megaproject links the UK (via England) to the Continent (awesome!): "The Channel Tunnel: Planned Since 1802" - Megaprojects
Us citizens need to ask for better education. 1. Auto companies and fuel companies bought up efficient mass transit in cities and closed them down. 2. Despite some rail goods transport, a major proportion is dominated by the road lobby.
Hey, this was clearly set out in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Lets face it, cartoons are the main way in which US children acquire knowledge. I suspect WFRR is not certified for children, because Jessica!
Oh ye tax is huge, there are also bans on old cars entering certain central areas in big cities. I lived 15 years in the capital of my country and did not need a car. I was 2/5 mins away from a metro, bus and a tramp stop (the railway inside the city). And all comes every 5-10-20 minutes.Even at night. You can drink and go home safe. And now you can also rent an e-car or e-scooter or a bike from spots in the city via app, go to where you need to and just leave it there around, it has gps, it will be collected or picked up by the the next person.
The map at the start only shows the most important train routes in Europe. There are many more, ranging from other main inter-city lines down to branch lines in rural areas, plus the dense commuter train networks (above ground and underground) surrounding big cities. Also, the passenger train system in China, especially high speed, is even more advanced than in Europe.
It seems to me that the greater extent of the high speed rail system in China is a result of two differences from Europe: 1. very centralised government with few limits on the commands it can issue; 2. a low value placed on existing property that would be eliminated by the construction of the new line. In most European countries (certainly in the UK), the loss of houses, historic sites, natural resources etc. that would be bulldozed to make way for HSR lines is not justified by the slight time saving. It would be quick and easy to build a HSR line from London to Glasgow or Edinburgh if it wasn't for all the stuff in between.
You do realise Tyler do you that parts of the USA will be flooded as seas rise. And do you realise that fossil fuels will run out too? Avoiding consequences of climate change and fossil fuel use is not possible. Its just that some will feel it before others.
Had to edit this.. we don't mostly. A large number of people do. But transport near London is much better and better value. Congestion is bad on roads in other cities. Not so much a major issue in London if you have the option of public transport @@Albanach-je1nk
About 11 min in you state a car is autonomy, I during decades of living in various countries never myself owned a car...used them occasionally n travelled across Europe both by train, ferries or car, ferries etc ...but cars are trouble. Finding parking, constant maintence, insurance, petrol, parking fees or tickets blah so on...the most freedom I've ever felt was in Ireland, Spain, Denmark, UK living in mixed communities (small shops, multiple family housing, few apartments buildings, a little centre, few cafés, green grocer's, maybe a 2nd hand shop, local employment, schools, medical centres (free), strong communal bond, no long commute/traffic, time for children/leisure, local wildlife, green areas, forest, possibility to forage, often apartments have court yards with communal gardens...so you can do fun things with children, it's often safer n common to walk/bike to school or work...short days, holiday days and maternity leave, no weapons/gun violence...etc...when I see urban us sprawl spreading (huge one family housing, large but unproductive lawn space n gigantic wide roads, motorway over passes etc) n no wild green lands, so much cement n tarmac ...I sometimes feel like crying bc you have so much beautiful land. But outdated zoning regulations, industry and the idea of American exeptionslism + (often) lack of knowledge of how sick this is, or not having public health, being pushed to work too much for too little n your in need of change electoral system (incl the 2 party thing) makes me so sad. Hope younger generations can find a better, more equitable, green, safe, less violent etc way forward...ps sorry for my lack of punctuation etc
I live in the UK and got a car but still take the bus to work cuz it's close to home. It costs me a fiver for a day ticket less then fuel and parking and you get a few steps in.
I'm in England. I don't have a car. I don't use public transport. I cycle everywhere. Maybe I'll use public transport when I'm a pensioner and get the bus pass.
I am from Madrid, we have cars but we try to use them as little as posible. Weekends to go to the country side. When we are in the city we use public transport, very reliable and cheaper than using our cars. Trains in Spain are brilliant one of the best high speed that take us anywhere fast and easily
Probably the best decision ever made but with a bad timing! No worries mate because it won't take long anymore for other nations to follow the good example! More and more people are getting fed up with the EU holding them back to progress and losing more and more of their souvereignty on a daily basis! The EU as a trading platform (as EG and EEG once were) was a great idea, yet as a governing entity it's an inevitable car crash!
@@classesanytime Which nations are these? Because I don't see any other EU states clamouring to leave. If anything I see more states wanting to be in the EU (Georgia, Ukraine). EU holding back progress? And how as the UK progressed since it's dreary departure, because I haven't noted anything? Also it was the EC/EEC moron not EG/EEG!
@@classesanytime Don't agree. We need to be trading effectively with our nearest trading block, which is Europe. Also we need to be in Europe to be effective on the world stage. Our GDP has crashed. There aren't any advantages that I can see being out of the Community. We haven't any serious new trading partners. We don't have easy access to Europe which is a distinct disadvantageto smaller businesses, and ordinary commuters. Ignorance took us out and we are paying the price.
@wolfslair31 No reason for name calling mate, in my country it's called EG and EEG and it's not my fault that you haven't had a proper education and a tunnel vision or an addiction to MSM brainwash techniques! Was I talking about government views or desires?? No mate, I was referring to actual people who are fed up with it all and yes I think PEOPLE could prospect more as individuals instead of lining the pockets of the EU and their own government officials! What has the UK's government actually done to get on top of the situation to make things better after Brexit??? They hate or simply just want to play the dominant factor (Just as their fucked up colony USA) concerning China, Russia, Africa and the whole of South America, not even contemplating how hard they need these countries to survive! Love it or hate it mate, BRICS XL has the future and is only gaining momentum as we speak while the whole "western world" is declining by the minute!
When you consider the railways, those yellow lines are the main routes, inbetween will be secondary lines and branches. And that's even after the cutbacks of the 60s. What doesnt help is the vast distances in the US its just much more practical to drive, as to build a railway between towns might be prohibitively expensive and to do so for public transport rather than freight might not fly with the various financial people who hold the purse strings. Here in the UK we got rid of a lot of our tram networks just before WW2 (another point, much of Europe was flattened during thexwar and coumd be rebuilt, the trams were often the first thing to be up and running again) and we for many years had only one remaining tram line, in Blackpool, until Manchester and Sheffield started to reintroduce them, now their being put back in many cities, with Coventry about to reintroduce them.
The feeling of vulnerability without a car is very much an American mindset. Well, not just an American mindset, but an American _reality_ - for you guys, you _actually_ cannot function without a car. You are shackled to cars and to car transport - I don't _need_ a car to get anywhere. I can safely and easily walk to the shops to get whatever I want without having to cross any massive dangerous roads - everything is interconnected by pedestrian paths and routes (not to mention we have legally protected ancient footpaths in England (called "public rights of way"), which mean we can even walk across privately owned land if a public right of way passes there and we are respectful), and we don't seperate our housing off in the these weird American "suburbs" where you keep people distant from amenities and schooling to _force_ them to own a car to be able to do anything. I could walk to school on my own from around the age of... well it was a long time ago now, but 7 or 8 years old? Whereas my understanding is that parents pretty universally have to drive their kids to school in the USA, because they live seperated off in suburbs and unable to safely and easily access anything without cars. Being without a car in Europe is not a limit on your autonomy - being without public transport and safe walking infrastructure in the USA _is_ a limit on your autonomy. Thanks for continuing to look in to alternative ways of living and functioning as a society from around the world, Tyler - the USA has a uniquely powerful media bubble preventing its citizens from learning about anything outside it, so I appreciate your effort in that regard!
The UK road network is a little over 250,000 miles, and the British rail network a little under 10,000 ( this doesn't include Northern Ireland). The video appeared to show a number of trams (US streetcars) in cities, which are not counted as part of the rail system but, like bus services, are often operated by local service providers.
While it is an option, public transport isn't always the best (preferred) way to travel for most Europeans. I live in a capital city, my office is 10 kilometers away (6 miles). Using public transport(Bus to a metro station, metro to go near the office and then walk about 1.5 km), it takes me anywhere from 1 hour to 1 hour and 40 minutes to go to there. In perspective, if I use my car to go there, it takes me anywhere from 15 to 35 min depending on the traffic... and I park in the office building, no walking required. I don't want to waste 3 hours of my time every day in public transport, crammed in a bus with 100 other people. It also gets quite cold during the winter (-10 to -20 degrees C, or around 0 degrees F), so waiting at a bus stop or walking for 20 minutes can be quite painful.
True(ish), but the major issue is it is not exclusively for Freight. The passenger network uses the same lines, passenger trains have by US federal law priority over freight, but this is never enforced. So passenger trains are held up by freight, making them slower, but more importantly unreliable. It is a profitable freight system.
@ all over the world passengers trains have priority. And they use the same rail tracks. The issue wasn’t about the regulations each country has, it’s about the size of it. And that being said, the largest rail networks are mainly in Asia. So Russia, China, India and Pakistan have them. Now how efficient are being used, it’s another topic
@@grigoretiplea You say all over the world passenger trains have priority, I think you will find that is not true in the US. They may technically have priority, but that's not how they operate, in practice. Schedules are not adhered to. If your main customer base is freight, its likely you will priorities freight trains. If your main customer is passengers, you might well not allow very long slow moving freight trains, I think most of Europe restricts the length of freight trains, I believe this is to stop them from clogging up the schedule.
On the topic of the Schengen Area, you can travel between all of these countries as a foreigner - such as an American. Wanna go to Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Copenhagen and anywhere else? One visa (Schengen Visa), any airport to fly in/out from (they don't have to be in the same country) and virtually no passport checks outside of airports.
Sometimes they bring back the passport control on the borders between selected countries. For example in 2015 when lots of immigrants came thru Hungary, Austria used to check at the borders. But for a citizen from the schengen area passport is not required. It’s enough to have an ID or a driver’s licence.
Most Americans also don't know that even car models sold both in Europe and the US are different with just an example Ford Kuga(EU) or Escape(US) it has an MPG in EU at 261MPG the US version 101MPG both of them the Plugin Hybrid version of the car this is over 100% difference in MPG on the same car and the towing is also around 3 times more on the EU version(1500lbs vs just over 4500lbs)
In 1993 when I was 13yo we visited relatives in Florida. One day I asked to borrow a bicycle and take a ride around the neighborhood and they looked at me like I was crazy. They could not believe that my parents let me do that! And it was a very nice and quiet neighborhood with mostly old people. I also remember when we drove somewhere, they saw someone walking and made comments about it, like it was strange and it had to be a criminal or something! 😄 Greetings from Sweden!
I don't know how it is in the USA. But here they don't just build parking lots, they also build both above-ground and underground parking garages. So they don't just go wider, they go higher and deeper! And so they save on parking spaces.
6:34 trams , also in Scotland they’ve added “bike lanes “ which takes away from actual car space on the road , effectively halving the drivable space each lane , which no one uses , you’ll be lucky to see one bike use it in a week if that , which had caused more traffic to build up , great job there ( sarcasm)
Tyler, in 2022 the wife and me traveled from Stuttgart (Southwest Germany) to Paris, France by a fast train TGV. We arrived at Paris after around 2 hours. From Paris to Barcelona, Spain, it was slower, but we made it in around 10 hours. With the plane, we would have landed after 2,5 hours and paid less. In Europe you always have the choice between different public transports. Most we use the train and rent a car at our destination, if we need one. I hope, I could help out. Elmar from Germany
I am convinced that you would actually feel liberated not to be dependent on a car every time you need to get from A to B. In Europe, most trips around a city will be faster on foot, by bike or by public transport than by car. And if you want, you can still have a car and use it when it is actually the most practical choice for you. I would never take my car into the center of the city I live in. Not even if I didn't have to pay for parking. It is simply easier and more convenient to use public transport.
The map at 7:34 doesn't show all the highways of Europe. I you were to paint Germany's highways on that map then the whole country would be just one blob of color. Same goes for the railways map at the start. The infrastructure networks are so dense that they can't be represented on that scale. What you see are just the major transit routes, but the networks themselves are much more dense. 8:03 6 out of 10 are European cities :)))
This yellow grid in the beginning of the video, is the MAIN international high speed corridors. There are hundreds - if not thousands - regional, local or national lines. In Switzerland, for instance, there are no place you can't go without a car. There are trains, buses, trams, metro, ferries, funiculars, covering the whole country. Most cities with more than 2-300000 inhabitants, have trams, light rail, metro, and/or extensive bus networks. Frequent, reliable, and fairly in-expensive. And BTW, the insane taxes Americans are paying, are predominantly going to defense (kickbacks, and buying politicians), and for tax breaks to the insanely rich.
Those are actually trams. In my native Rīga (Capital of Latvia), we hawe those a lot. Rīga has troleys and buses as well covering all the city in many so much routes.
I've been to the US, mostly Texas, I lived in my sister in law's house in New Braunfels between Austin and San Antonio for 3 months making trips to other parts of the US. But I went to Fort Worth, Tx by train. There was only ONE train a day, one going the other way. So it's not just the lack of tracks, it's also the lack of trains.
16:50 I suppose that's true how traveling is so easy within Europe. For this summer I have a 3 week road trip planned with the family starting in the Netherlands, going down to Belgium, quick visit in Luxembourg, then France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and back to the Netherlands. The only non-European thing about this trip is that we'll be taking the car. We are traveling with two dogs and going by public transport with pets is just not ideal...
It should be noted that we’re not really “anti” driving as such, if you prefer to drive then you’d probably have a better driving experience compared to in America as we have comparatively far less traffic. I just got back from an 800 mile round trip drive to Scotland and back, but if I wanted to, I could ride my bike to the train station a few minutes away from me, get a train to London and then get a train into Europe and travel by train to some niche little village in rural Germany, all without having to do any driving. It’s great to have the option to chose. Fuel is comparatively much more expensive here compared to the U.S. though. It’s great to have the option to chose. And if I didn’t want to drive or take the train, there’s a lot of budget airlines flying all over Europe. I’m from the U.K. and my friend randomly decided on a Friday night on the way home from work, that he wanted to go to Barcelona in Spain to go clubbing, so got on a plane that night for like £30. It’s great to have the freedom to travel wherever I want, whenever I want, with it being easy and affordable. Busses in cities is another big thing. In London, most bus stops will have a bus arriving every 2 or so minutes. It’s great for if you want to go out drinking with your friends because you don’t have to worry about a designated driver.
Its mostly because of wars, During WW Armies found out that good train line can supply tons of troops and supplies fast and secured(armored train cars). So major track development happened during and after wars.
There's a reason for why you need a car in America. The government asked 1 Henry Ford to help design the cities and towns etc, asking a car manufacturer to design your roads.... As a brit tho, I've never seen 2 floor trains like in America
The total length of railways in Europe (geographical Europe) is comparable to that of the US, as is the land area. However, railways in the US are not widely used for public transportation. One reason is that the companies owning the tracks prioritize maximizing profits from freight operations and are reluctant to share their corridors with passenger trains. Or if they are willing to share the cost is too high for the operator. This is why the trip from Chicago to LA by train costs $1000+ easily. The second reason is that most of the railways have seen little modernization since their construction. The outdated infrastructure limits transportation speeds. While 40-50 MPH is sufficient for cargo, it’s far too slow for passenger trains traveling long distances across the country. A third reason ties into the second: most US rail lines aren’t electrified. In contrast, in Europe, most main lines are electrified, with only lesser-used lines relying on diesel. Electrification is beneficial for both the economy and the environment, as it enables trains to accelerate faster and operate more efficiently especially in the mountainous areas. While the transition is costly, it pays off if the lines are heavily utilized. In the US, however, electrification is rare because the infrequent rail traffic makes it nearly impossible to recoup the investment.
In Austria we have a ticket thats about 1000 € (for people under 26 it's 821€) where you can use all of the public transport for a year :) it's honestly the best thing ever
If I want to go to my office I get out of my apartment, walk 7 minutes to the metro, spend 12 minutes in a train, then walk 8 minutes to office. On my way I can visit 5 different supermarkets and a bunch of food stalls (and many other different shops). I usually just buy groceries on my way home like 3 times a week. I am 30 and I have no need to own a car at all. I can't imagine I would want to live in a non-walkable city.
I'm from the Netherlands. My boyfriend and i frequently drive to Germany to do grocery shopping, because everything is much cheaper in Germany. Also i don't have a drivers license (my boyfriend does). If i want one, i would pay around 2000-3000 euro's only to get the license. Not to talk about the costs of buying an extra car, insurance and gas to keep driving. In comparison: i can travel by train for 2(!!!) years between my town and job for 1680 euro's. I just need to cycle to the train station wich takes 10 minutes.
Europe used to be very car-centric in the ‘70, but we evolved. A lot of city centers are now car-free. Parking in the city is made expensive and visitors are encouraged to park on the edge of the city and then take public transport
I live in Austria and here there are a few main things that keep you from using a car as your main thing: - High Taxes, Oil/Gas Prices - Very Expensive to get a car. What a full course costs in the US is equivalent to the two driving licenses you get during the course (since those are state card you need to pay them) - It goes so far, that a car is normally considered as a luxury item. So per default, its seen as something you don't necessarily need and are just wealthy enough to afford. Thats also why its not covered by basic insurances that cover your needs like Home and etc. Also the reason why in Europe you often lose your car first if you don't pay your bills.
It’s interesting, in the UK in the 50s and 60s there were a lot of trams in major cities and they took them out, presumably as the number of cars on the road increased. Fairly recently, perhaps in the last 10-15 years they’ve started putting tram lines back in in places like Edinburgh and Birmingham. A lot of the city centres are more pedestrianised now and they have introduced a ‘clean air’ tax in some places to reduce the number of cars producing pollution in certain areas. As for the rail network, it is excellent and extensive. One thing that was very popular when I was a teenager was inter-railing where students could get cheap train travel across Europe and they’d take time out to travel around and gain experience of other countries and cultures. I think we’re very lucky in Europe that we have such great transport links.
One thing the video misses is the control factor. In a car you go any place at any time. Trains, buses etc can be cancel at any point. For example during covid the system can be shut down. They cant do that with a personal vehicle. I am in the UK and will be keeping my truck, although they are making it more expensive every year with tax, fuel. insurance etc. 😒
Thats not a map of the road network in Europe, its just the international road shipping routes. A map of the roads would pretty much be a solid block of colour.
Indeed that map is horrendously misleading. 😂
@@LeeleeSTAR Extremely misleading and OLD... that only show the European Commission planning for 2030 high-speed *troncal* rail lines in Europe. For example, here in Spain we have the 2nd biggest HSR network after China. We now have 4300 km (we surpassed 4k mark on January 2023 already) and have another 15000 km of conventional railways. Also we have 18000 km of highways and another 325000 km of roads... in Spain alone. So the real maps would crush the ones from USA.
Channel is LOL LOL LOL .... done by a 5 year old kid
That is exactly what I was about to comment. There are lots more, even between small cities...
@@BlackHoleSpain as usual the Americans have it all wrong, they are so incredibly ignorant.
What amazes me, as a Canadian, is how Americans really believe that they are the best in the world, when they are really very backward in terms of transportation, health care, crime, safety, food quality, etc, etc.
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England built the first steam train they made them across the world with rothchilds
@@Basic-c2r Yeah, weird isn't it? Is that the way that Americans are kept placid. By telling them that they are the best at everything?
That's why they want to englobe Canada: they somehow wish to down you at their level in the bad things. I obviously admit there are good things in the USA, but to believe to be the first in everything only complies to their American Dream that, as George Carlin said, means they can just make it real when asleep.
Its the brainwashing from the media and schooling and culture that gives that impression (former US brainwash-ee speaking). Americans dont even realize they are affected that way until they can get out of the US and travel, which many do not. Only 51% of americans have a passport, and few take the costly journey across either ocean.
However, I really like Tyler because he seems very open minded and interested to explore the world vicariously through others in their own videos and culture. Ive seen a lot of people who see a video like the ones he views and just shut their eyes and bury their brains in the sand, and claim "thats not true!". I like to hear his impressions, because as a former american, its interesting to see him discover the same things I came to be aware of.
The map of 'all the train lines' is just showing the main international links. If you look at the rail network in any individual country you will see far more lines than shown here.
Equally the European road network map doesn't show anything like half the motorways in the UK (and so I assume elsewhere as well).
I came here to say the same thing. These maps are only showing the high speed railway lines and motorways.
@@kirsteneasdale5707 It's not even all the motorways though. The M1 doesn't even feature, let alone the A1M or anything going east/west.
Yes its showing the links not the routes, for example London to Brussels and Paris rather than the one channel tunnel link. Its pretty much a map of the European TEN-T transport network while the UK was still part of it.
Quite. The Netherlands has the densest road network of the EU. The map doesn't show that.
denmark has quite a few more motorways than showed on that map aswell
Europe isn't living in the future, the USA is living in the past.
if they lived in the past, they would have better designed cities and infrastructure
When I flew back from LA to Amsterdam I literally thought : "I go back to the future"
The USA was built by the railroads. I've seen all those western films; e.g. ''How the West was Won''.
@@Inucroft
Back to life... Back to reality...
Japan & China is the future
Your feeling of "being naked" when not having a car is definitely a very american feeling. I moved to sweden a year ago from the US, and I chose not to buy a car. I can walk 2 blocks (less than 2 minutes) and I have access to 2 grocery stores, clothing shops, electronics, hardware, hair salons, jewlery, and any other thing you can imagine. If I want more specialty goods, i can take a train to Stockholm which takes 45 minutes, and I can walk or take trams or buses for super cheap. BTW, the trains are very reliable and run every 15 minutes.
You can buy a ticket for $4 for 75 minutes of travel: take the train, bus, tram, metro all on the same ticket.
I have not missed my car at all... and I never want to own one. The other day, I went to 6 stores doing errands, and got back to my apartment within 30 minutes. No joke. I timed it. I feel freed from my car, not "stuck" as you thought you might because I can go ANYWHERE, and not have to pay high car payments or gas or insurance.
Happy to hear fellow Swede (and Stockholmer)! I agree! 😊👍
And the tube is usually like 2-10 minutes in between trains. Inner city buses kind of the same, depends on how many people ride.
Takes about an hour from one end of the city suburbs to the other side (North to South). If that doesn't suit you local trains (pendeltåg) are another option.
Or parking charges.
I’m in the UK. Live 10 minutes from the train station which gets me to London in 45 minutes. Also live 6 minutes from my local town. I have a car which sits outside my house week after week and is only used at most once a month. I would love to get rid of it as everything I need is on my doorstop except when I need to visit friends and family as they are spread out throughout the UK.
@@Smudgie33 Just get rid of it and rent one when you need it.
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The thing that amazes me about Americans is that they see the car as independence whereas it's actually the complete opposite.
Americans have become dependant on the car. Tyler himself said that he'd feel trapped without it. Americans used to be able to walk anywhere they needed to go, towns were designed that way. Once everyone started to own cars, town planners realised that they could just build loads of houses on the outskirts of town, far away from the amenities. And now people were reliant on the car because they were now miles and miles away from work, school, and shops with no alternative transport options.
Ther's simply just one reason.
The US car manufatcturers does not want people to use public transport and therefore it's not funded. The US government is for the corporations and not for it's sitizens.
I think you got a point there. Corporations run everything, because the ideal is $$$$$, not improvement.
Those TRAIN ROUTES shown are 'ONLY' the main (fast track) lines. Each country then has MANY other, 'local' train lines or routes with more frequent stopping and stations, in between (sometimes slower too); allowing people to get most places in Europe or the UK.
The Ten-T network are the routes the EU declared as vital for connectivity between the countries. They are now building out those lines with billions in financing. Notable examples are the massive tunnels through the Alps to connect Italy with France (Turin-Lyon), the railline through Switzerland, to connect freight between Italy and Germany, the Fehmarnbelt tunnel (18km subsea tunnel) to connect Germany and Denmark and the new trainline from Poland through all the Baltic countries up to Helsinki.
The UK is in Europe.
@@johnfisk811 this video refers to Europe as, well, European union. Not the continent
@@johnfisk811Not any more.
@@johankaewberg8162it is outside the European Union but still in Europe
The idea that, according to the map, there is only one major road in France is plainly nuts. There are autoroutes/freeways/motorways everywhere.
D'après un autre commentaire c'est parce que c'est les "shipping roads"
As a European visiting friends in the US i remember being shocked at the state of public transportation when i went the first time. On subsequent trips i knew what to expect (still have a stack of 1$ bills that i kept in case i needed a bus). I remember when i first arrived in New York and the train looked so delapidated. But i thought "well, it's a huge city, you get all sorts, maybe in this area i travel through there must be a lot of people that are destructive/don't respect the infrastructure". But then the Grayhound was quite awful too, and badly maintained. And each bus stop looked terrible, dirty, abandoned. And when i got to Ithaca i used the local buses and they were in a dreadful state too. And you couldn't even buy tickets online or have a subscription or smth! Heck, you couldn't even pay by card! You had to have the exact dolar amount (which was pretty high actually given the horrible service) and give it to the driver for each trip. I was mind blown to see such poor public transport in a university town. Over here we have great public transport everywhere but i think especially in university towns, since by default students are poor(er) and have far fewer cars, and therefore public transport is very important to the life of the city. I was in uni back then in Grenoble and generally felt that if a tram didn't show up after 3 mins wait in the morning the service was bad. After i moved to other cities i realized our trams were indeed very frequent, but even now if in the morning i have to wait longer that 5-7 mins i feel there must have been some problem on the network.
And I've visited a bit while in the US, went to Niagara and other places, and it was the same everywhere. Basically if you don't have a car you're busted! I was going on foot to the mall and for a good part of the hour-long walk there weren't even sidewalks! It seemed so unhelpful... And I can't for the life of me understand why you sequester homes together and don't allow any shops! Like if you need a bottle of milk or bread or something you are forced to DRIVE for like 20 mins?!? Or in my case walk over an hour... Wtf?!? Why?!??? Makes no sense! Having shops around us both more comfortable and bolsters local economy. It's so much easier when you just have small local business all over. If i run out of bread on sunday morning i just walk 5 minutes to the nearest bakery and come home with freshly bakes bread and probably croissants too because OMG they smell so good! I don't need to get in my car and drive to a hypermarket and buy some plastic wrapped toast that was baked in a huge factory 3 days ago and tastes like cr*p... I really can't understand this about America, how did you people end up with this system?! Why don't you change it?! It's so restrictive, yet nobody bats an eye. You just adapt to making your life more difficult instead of improving the systems, and that's generally because then it would make everyone's life easier and somehow that's bad?!? Wtf?!??? It's baffling to anyone who isn't an American.
Its because americans dont know any better. Stale bread is the norm. Driving cars is the norm. They are socially conditioned and brainwashed by media and school to accept the things around them. There is no comparison for them to say "I want that". No TV show to show actual european life: buying groceries around the corner. If there is,, is assumed to be a big city, like New York, and everything smaller is that way because it is. They really have zero concept of how european cities and towns work. --speaking as a former american.
That's the dreaded neighbourhood zoning system, that forbids to mix residential homes and businesses.
That's destroying their society, along with parking lots and school districts which lead to segregation.
Y por eso ellos crearon las CIUDADES DE 15 MINUTOS y piensan que han inventado algo...
Y como guinda del pastel, NOS LAS EXPORTAN A NOSOTROS LOS EUROPEOS, donde nuestras ciudades tienen ese sistema, desde el Imperio Romano, HACE 2.000 AÑOS, DOS MIL... 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
American: The car is freedom !!
European: Not having to own a car is freedom !
That map doesn’t even show the motorways in Britain, so it needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt.
Yeah, idk what even that map is supposed to be representing
It doesn't even have the M1 and A1(M) on it lol
But this is a map of the EU, and Britain left the EU, so their network is their own network. Didn't the tories want to close the tunnel ?
@@erikaverink8418 No, the Tories didn’t want to close the tunnel. Not even they are that insane. Although they come close.
Maybe it's a map of highways connecting countries excluding other highways inside each country
In France, if you go to work by public transit, if your company has more than 11 employees, it's mandatory for your employer to pay minimum 50% of the cost. Most of the time, they pay half of your monthly pass and sometimes 100%. And they sometimes pay the gas for your car if you drive other employees. They also can pay you a bike. All of this is encourage by public aids to the companies.
Wow!
@@TylerRumple These procedures does not only apply to France, it's the same here in Germany and in many other European countries as well.
In Czech republic the same. If you have to drive to work at least 15/20 kilometers, the company covers the cost of transportation.
My employer in the Netherlands pays 100% if you go public. And 21ct per km if you go by car/bike
In Hungary our employer pays for the employees public transport as well. If I have to drive to a different town that I live in, the company covers a part of the costs, but not completely.
9:00 In Romania for example it's not that we're disincentivized driving our cars just so we use more public transportation.
The real reason is that we may want to drink something and we can't drive back home in our cars. The public transportation is a added bonus !🤣
I’ve lived in 2 European capital cities for my whole life and I have never had a driving license. I have thought about it a few times but it comes to the fact that I really wouldn’t Need a car that often. Insurance fees, reparation costs, parking lot rent, fuel costs, cost of the car itself while needing it maybe once a month if even that is just a cost that seems really unnecessary at this point of my life. If I need to get a lot of groceries at once or furniture/house hold stuff I just order it online. Otherwise I walk 5 min to the grocery store and get what I need.
I live in the UK, I do own a car but I chose not to use it too often. I am mindful of impact on environment and trying to get at least an hour of exercise.I walk my kids to school and back which makes 3.4 miles every day all together. If I need to attend some kind of appointment in town I take a bus (it's cheaper than paying for a car park). I do use my car for shopping trips, going to the seaside and rainy days.
13:00 USA legalized corruption in politics and ever since big business interests have been slowly, but surely replacing existing and future systems built for citizens' and the nation's best interests, to ones that maximize profits for just a handful of corporations
Additionally, EU has been slowly but surely pushing for these sort of sensible improvements (inc uding many failures as well) that improve and unify the continent, while minimizing waste and overhead
Tax works a bit differently. People in the USA pay exceptionally low taxes. In comparison, Europe have around 30-50% taxes + vat. While ex-soviet nations used to have even higher taxes. But these usually also represent the public spending. Eastern-Europe used to have and still have trolley-busses, city-busses, very many trams, and suburban trains. While in Western Europe I felt like there is a lot less public transportation, depending on where and what, it's still a massive and well connected, easy-to-crossthrough system. These are also modified by many other things too, and nation things generally. Some better, some less. Some are more or better organized, relying on different things, have lots of mountains, while others have better trains or rails. The budget has to be distributed somehow too.
You can't expect the USA with low density and low taxes to have these. In big cities, metropolises these things work better. But what about the rest? Imagine if americans would have to pay from one day to the other 50% tax + 25% vat, on everything. How would that look like? Could the economy still even function? My country, an Eastern European country, has prefab areas from the soviet era, usually high density, well planned and rural areas. In small cities you can just walk everywhere. It's 10-20 minutes. In the prefab area, there are trams usually or the like. But also, the kindergarten for me is 3 minutes, a school I donno, while the shop is 2 minutes. The next shop is 3 minutes. Another shop 5-10 minutes of walking. Or minutes with a tram. Both plazas are 30 min or 1 hour, 20-30 minutes if I hurry. But around 13-15 minutes with a tram.
But also.. my country was planned around this. So it's easier like this. Everything is prepared for this, so that 1$ spent, is spent loads of times better. While for the USA, it might not be the same.
Sorry Tyler, bad excuse. Canadians need a passport to travel outside our country as well (and yes, it's also massive) and we are well-travelled and also fairly well-versed in the cultures of others.
In 2015, my mother in law’s company closed its production facility in the US and moved it a few kms across the border into Canada. It was like The Enlightenment, leaving ignorance, stupidity and bigotry at the border. The company employs some 14,000 people around the world but we find great satisfaction in not employing a single U.S. American.
The map at minute 7 only specifies the European highways that cross several countries,,, then each country has its network of highways with or without tolls, dual carriageways, national highways, provincial highways and regional roads, and trains. The commuter trains are missing - which are normally short distances - that run through the towns on the outskirts of large or not so large cities - greetings.
7:22 the European road network is very incomplete. Many highways are missing. My country, Portugal (S-W corner of Europe) has basically 3 highway systems going North-South and at least 3 going West-East and connecting with Spain. In the picture, You see only part of the oldest highway N-S going from Porto to Setubal, and only 2 of the 3 W-E connections to Spain. Spain looks also incomplete, and so does France. I think the map shows a highlight of highways with international connections, i.e., highways that are continuous accross the borders of each country.
Also, the video mainly shows examples of cities on flat land and relatively recent, like in Germany or Netherlands (which makes me feel the author lives in that region). Now, this is completely different of cities of the Mediterranean which grew around a castle on the top of a hill. I am talking of cities with more than 1000 years of existence. There are quite a few. I live in city with around 2100 years. It's quite common really. The streets on the most ancient parts of those cities are concentric, very narrow, and usually quite steep, so building a public transportation for those areas is in most cases impossible. Same for bicycles. In those parts of the city, walking is actually the best, if not the only, solution.
I'm Portuguese too but I live in the United Kingdom and we have many motorways not shown on the map aswell
Another point to consider is the Deutschlandticket which allows Germans to use all public transport in Germany except for the high speed trains for 58 € per month or 40.60 € per month as a job ticket. That includes buses, trains, trams, ferries and even some on demand cars for the Last mile depending on the location and time.
Since you ask "What do WE do?":
The US prefers to spend its money on weapons. To each their own.
We call the ones that drive on the roads at 6:51 trams
That trams thingy look so cute!
@@nikkkk1633 They are very cute. Our new trams even have smileys painted on them. So cute.
@@Kareszkoma I wish they were edible
I really like this channel. These sorts of educational videos aren't the sorta thing I'd normally watch, but seeing your reactions and explanations of how they compare to the US makes them more entertaining for me, so thanks.
What you have to remember is that the US and Canada were literally built on rail. Rail companies built the country by buying up land to the west from where they were, built stations and making a return on investment in a couple of years. Back in the day basically every city had trams too. Nowadays you can still see that history when roads are being upgraded, finding tram tracks underneath the top asphalt layer.
The English invented the steam train and buid them across the world with rothchilds backing it
This is only a small part of the railway systems in Europe. There are plenty of other rail lines. Also Eastern Europe was not pictured.
Europe is really good.
Also, I found public transportation in China, sooo much better than in the USA.
Ah, there you have touched a sore point:
Learn from Europe?
In the USA almost all is left to private business.
In Europe or China, not.
In the USA, not to let private business do things its way, is a strict no,no,no.
Urban planning in North American cities, creating large suburban areas, expanding city limits, and dispersing populations outside urban areas, has hampered the development of public transportation and made citizens more dependent on cars.
I like the idea that i can stand in Strøget in Copenhagen and get this crazy idea that I want to eat at a restaurant in Sweden, and get on a train and be in Malmø 20 minutes later. Or want to have a Pernod at the Champs Elysees and fly to paris and be there 90 minutes later.and that's doable with 20+ counties. And the price for a return ticket is the same as a cinema ticket and some sweets basically. Thats so wonderful to know.
How do disabled people who can't drive get around in the U.S?
Well as there's no real disability benefits, they're probably homeless, so don't have to travel.
I'm not joking either.
A few points:
1. Streetcars as you called them, are called Trams and they're an alternative to buses (but buses are still used) and have right of way over all other road users. I know in the US, San Francisco has trams.
2. Europe has extensive road networks, the maps comparing riads are only showing the large roads, not all roads (in fact very few of the roads).
3. Taxes are certainly high but cars are not as expensive as made out and frustratingly, driving a car has become cheaper than public (privately owned by companies) transport (least in the UK), which it shouldn't be. Nonetheless, we have public transport systems, so you can get about to some extent without a car, but the transport system in the UK is expensive.
4. Not everyone drives all the time, people use public transport, despite the cost, especially in cities where parking is difficult and expensive.
5. The US also has cars with much larger and polluting engines than many other countries have, and that (although claimed) has nothing to to with country size. Most small engine cars (by small, 2 litre or less) is perfectly big enough. A good car can drive for 1000s of miles with zero issues (beyond refilling).
6. You can get to any country in UK via public transport or by car. By train you can get places very fast.
7. The UK left the EU, meaning UK citizens do not have freedom of movement in Europe anymore, Brexit was the most stupid, self defeating thing the UK did, thanks to gullible people.
8. The UK transport has a lot of maintenance issues however, and that's thanks to privatisation of the trains, buses, etc.
Still, despite the issues, it's still good to have a generally well connected transport system, though there have be cuts to various routes in the UK, meaning skme places have limited or no public transport.
I noticed that in the UK the public transportation was very expensive, but also in Germany. The same ticket that cost 1-2€ in my country, cost 35€ in Germany. Ridiculously overpriced.
I'm 37 yo, living in Helsinki, Finland and never needed car here. I don't even have driving licence.
The UK loves trains so much, we built a railway under the sea to connect us to mainland Europe 😃
The French kind of helped aswell
Tyler, imagine getting on the Eurostar train in London and getting off in Paris a couple of hours later, (other destinations are available), you would love it!!😊
Also, there are more rail lines in the UK than shown, so that makes getting around easy, and quicker than by car. Don't forget National Express, the coach network, a bit like Greyhound only smarter and more comfortable 🙄 and goes to lots of places, even the continent using ferries.
You need to cross the pond to explore the 'fun factory', otherwise known as Europe!! 🙋♀️🇬🇧🤗
Rail Cars on streets are called Trams. Like a bus on rails. Here in Manchester, UK our trams run on streets and on older railway lines. They stopped doing return tickets, and for the same price as a return you get unlimited travel all day in that pricing zone.
Hi Tyler; Brit here with a recent first visit to San Antonio. My daughter and I thought it'd be a great idea to get a bus into the city. Or to a mall. Or anywhere. 25 minutes walk to nearest bus stop, which was serviced twice a day. And the pedestrian crossings are terrifying. WALK, but there will still be cars turning on the crossing while you're on it. No way America will ever be able to adapt to using their cars less
I agree. I travel for work and goto California, Ohio, and Kentucky. My hotel is always horrified when I suggest I walk to a restaurant (or mall, cafe, bar, shops) that is only 20 minutes walk away!!
They always insist on giving me a courtesy lift to my destination. 🤷♀
Interestingly, Massachusetts is a great walking destination.
European cities being much older with architecture that should be preserved, the streets were for horses and wagons. They didn't want to destroy beautiful iconic cities by building wide thoroughfares so they were simply adapted to accommodate public transit. It's fast, efficient, well designed, runs on regular and frequent schedules and takes the mayhem and stress out of commuting and that makes for happier people. In cities like Amsterdam thousands use bikes to commute and there are parking ramps for them. God only knows how you can find your bike parked among the thousands. Often biking is faster than sitting in traffic and you actually get exercise.
"They didn't want to destroy beautiful iconic cities by building wide thoroughfares so they were simply adapted to accommodate public transit."
Sorry, but that just plain wrong.
Show me any single bus or any single tram/train/streetcar that's smaller / fits better through narrow streets than a car.
The fact that in many historic town centers we have narrow streets is NOT the reason why we have public transport.
It is however of course in a lot of cases the reason for certain design decisions. e.g. using narrow gauge for the tram (Augsburg and many others) or using extra short busses for certain routes (e.g. Hamburg Blankenese Treppenviertel). AND it is the reason why parking or even entering the city by car can be restrictive.
But the argumentation that that would be the reason we have public transport in the first place is plain wrong.
As a matter of fact In the 60's the government wanted to bulldoze half Amsterdam to make room for a highway going into the city. But people took to the streets and protested relentlessly against it
@@j.4941 - You say trams etc. don't fit any better than a car but it is also about the NUMBER of cars that would clog up the streets (also considering current restrictions re the resultant pollution). The number of people who can travel on a tram or bus vs one or two per car is a space saver. That is why in some cities there are fees and parking non-existent. It's also true that city planners did not want the cultural/architectural heritage of their cities to be obliterated by streets. Europe has centuries more heritage and they appreciate it. Also, due to the age of European cities, the changes have been more gradual. In places like the US, much cultural and environmental heritage has been obliterated for their obsession with cars carrying a single person. If a building or subdivision is over 50 years old, regardless of its potential heritage value, just knock it down to accommodate more cars.They have it ass backward. The rationale for public transit can be and is both so you cannot say I am totally wrong.
Due to the oil and gas companies, and greedy govts., cars, rather than trains, took priority in America.
Most people in Europe who live outside the major cities do own cars, they just don't use them as much. If you want to go into a city it's often just more convenient to jump on a train. And most towns are designed for pedestrians and, more recently, cycling. So people walk a lot more when they are in urban areas. There are also options like "park and ride", so if you live outside a smaller city, you may drive to the outskirts, park at specific sites that have regular buses (e.g. every 15mins) into the town centre.
Not that long ago I watched a video made by an American about my country of Denmark. It was facepalming from start to finish. He got most things completely wrong, and even those, that were technically correct, he totally misunderstood and misrepresented. Like the cars. He claimed, that we Danes cycle everywhere, coz we cant afford cars.
Even if his accent hadnt marked him as American, the absolute drivel of his video wouldve busted him. Most American bs ever.
I love being able to move around the continent with ease. I went to Bratislava in Slovakia on a city break. Wonderful place but one day we woke up and decided to walk to the train station and see how much it was to go to Vienna in Austria for the day. It was so cheap we explored the city which was unplanned at the start of the trip. Again, we went to Dubrovnik in Croatia for our summer holiday and managed to visit Kotor Bay in Montenegro and Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina by bus. Both beautiful and with their own unique cultures and experiences.
7:35 these are transport corridors which combine rail and highways. in total Europe has 73000 km of highways vs. 76000 in the USA
ALso to note that Europe highways are real highways with steel barrier between lines and also all highways have net on side so animals cant enter highway .Everything that dont have that animal net is not consider higway but just motorway
Also a good one is about the Netherlands. I think you should watch that one too. It is really good
Finland, baltic countries, and former soviet block countries have wider railroad tracks than rest of Europe. That causes some difficulties.
That's Currently being changed with a massive ongoing project called "Rail Baltica"
I think the fact that all the shops and houses are all mixed in together helps everyone get about too
I think the video left another importent part out. Think how many hours an american spend in a car, and have to concentrate on traffic, while in europa you can enter a train, and relax, beeing on your computer, talk to others, doing some knitting, doing homework or just take a nap!! In trains you even can bring your bike!!
Love the connectivity here. In two weeks time I'm going skiing in Italy. From Bristol in the UK I'm going by train to Venice then bus to the hotel in the Dolomites. It will take two days with a stop in Milan on the way there and Munich on the way home but I love it as it is so relaxed and comfortable. My return ticket is £230 so as much as a flight without the hassle. In the UK I mainly travel by train and take my bike and can get everywhere I need to go. Just love public transport. Downsides things can run late and miss connections but I've never been stranded and always reached my destination
8 parking spaces to 1 car in America makes sense, it's scary how bad Drivers Americans are and the size of parking spots compared to Europe is crazy. The US parking spots are much bigger and people still can't park properly
Nobody could accuse the average U.S. American of being a deep thinker. They constantly vote against the best interests of their country and themselves. They’re the stupidest people on earth.
I live in Germany. A few decades ago when I went to art school, I remember that we had a bad photocopy of a statue that we had to draw from (basically try to draw that statue from different angles from imagination, based on the photo). The real statue was in Paris. So some of my classmates just decided to go to Paris over the weekend. Basically, they took a bus on Friday evening, arrived in Paris on Saturday, went to the museum, did live drawings of the statue, took walks through Paris until the evening and then took an overnight bus back to Germany. They then handed in the assignment on Monday. XD
The US used to have one of the biggest passenger rail networks in the world. But then freight took priority. The max speed for a passenger train in the US apart from the Northeast corridor is 79mph
Not just freight, cars did too. They got rid of their infrastructure in less than a decade.
When you were digging the trams, at 6-7 minutes, the video was from Helsinki. The city I was born in.
They are called trams. From Edinburgh to Paris to Amsterdam to Berlin. In fact all over the place.
Here in Germany we got a so called "Deutschland Ticket" (Germany Ticket). At the moment it is priced 58€ a month. (about 60$) With this ticket you can ride ANY local train, tram, bus, interregional trains (you can imagine this a train runs in or through one/two US states) in the whole county as often you like. Excluded are high speed and long distance (whole country without switching trains).
Lol! There are actually special subscriptions that allow you to travel all over the European rail system for 1 month for like 300€. They advertise for that exactly with adds about "visit Europe from Stockholm to Madrid" and they even give itinerary idea if you want to visit say Northern Europe, or Southern Europe or Central Europe. If i had the time I'd do a lot more traveling 😅
Tyler, as a follow-up on the video, you might like to watch this that answers many of your questions: "Why The US Has No High-Speed Rail" - CNBC
Sadly, it's mainly due to the pressure of the car and oil industries lobbies ...
You might also like to see what Franco-British megaproject links the UK (via England) to the Continent (awesome!): "The Channel Tunnel: Planned Since 1802" - Megaprojects
Us citizens need to ask for better education. 1. Auto companies and fuel companies bought up efficient mass transit in cities and closed them down. 2. Despite some rail goods transport, a major proportion is dominated by the road lobby.
Hey, this was clearly set out in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Lets face it, cartoons are the main way in which US children acquire knowledge. I suspect WFRR is not certified for children, because Jessica!
Oh ye tax is huge, there are also bans on old cars entering certain central areas in big cities. I lived 15 years in the capital of my country and did not need a car. I was 2/5 mins away from a metro, bus and a tramp stop (the railway inside the city). And all comes every 5-10-20 minutes.Even at night. You can drink and go home safe. And now you can also rent an e-car or e-scooter or a bike from spots in the city via app, go to where you need to and just leave it there around, it has gps, it will be collected or picked up by the the next person.
The map at the start only shows the most important train routes in Europe. There are many more, ranging from other main inter-city lines down to branch lines in rural areas, plus the dense commuter train networks (above ground and underground) surrounding big cities. Also, the passenger train system in China, especially high speed, is even more advanced than in Europe.
It seems to me that the greater extent of the high speed rail system in China is a result of two differences from Europe: 1. very centralised government with few limits on the commands it can issue; 2. a low value placed on existing property that would be eliminated by the construction of the new line. In most European countries (certainly in the UK), the loss of houses, historic sites, natural resources etc. that would be bulldozed to make way for HSR lines is not justified by the slight time saving. It would be quick and easy to build a HSR line from London to Glasgow or Edinburgh if it wasn't for all the stuff in between.
@6;30 Those are called a Tram in UK, @7:50 we have waaaay more motorways than shown in that diagram.
At least you guys provided us with Planes, Trains & Automobiles, im cool with that👍🏻
Ok, so Alstom, Siemens, Ansaldo Breda, Airbus, ATR, etc don't exist. They must be imaginary 🧙
@@Ratzie01 I think he meant the movie...
You do realise Tyler do you that parts of the USA will be flooded as seas rise. And do you realise that fossil fuels will run out too? Avoiding consequences of climate change and fossil fuel use is not possible. Its just that some will feel it before others.
England still has a lot of congestion as public transport is still quite expensive, especially trains.
That's because most of you live around London.
Had to edit this.. we don't mostly. A large number of people do. But transport near London is much better and better value. Congestion is bad on roads in other cities. Not so much a major issue in London if you have the option of public transport @@Albanach-je1nk
What you call these.? Trailcars? Nope, it’s Raitiotievaunu 😂 aka Ratikka or Spåra. Those were from Helsinki Finland.
In Hungary we call them ‘villamos’, ‘tram’ in English.
Dude a train that runs on road (a tram)😮 I am a Brit
'Streetcar' is definitely also a correct term, but mostly used outside of the UK...
Streetcar is mainly an American term, just like light rail transit. That basically happened because trams have a bad reputation in North America.
About 11 min in you state a car is autonomy, I during decades of living in various countries never myself owned a car...used them occasionally n travelled across Europe both by train, ferries or car, ferries etc ...but cars are trouble. Finding parking, constant maintence, insurance, petrol, parking fees or tickets blah so on...the most freedom I've ever felt was in Ireland, Spain, Denmark, UK living in mixed communities (small shops, multiple family housing, few apartments buildings, a little centre, few cafés, green grocer's, maybe a 2nd hand shop, local employment, schools, medical centres (free), strong communal bond, no long commute/traffic, time for children/leisure, local wildlife, green areas, forest, possibility to forage, often apartments have court yards with communal gardens...so you can do fun things with children, it's often safer n common to walk/bike to school or work...short days, holiday days and maternity leave, no weapons/gun violence...etc...when I see urban us sprawl spreading (huge one family housing, large but unproductive lawn space n gigantic wide roads, motorway over passes etc) n no wild green lands, so much cement n tarmac ...I sometimes feel like crying bc you have so much beautiful land. But outdated zoning regulations, industry and the idea of American exeptionslism + (often) lack of knowledge of how sick this is, or not having public health, being pushed to work too much for too little n your in need of change electoral system (incl the 2 party thing) makes me so sad. Hope younger generations can find a better, more equitable, green, safe, less violent etc way forward...ps sorry for my lack of punctuation etc
I want to point out that there is more than one road in Ireland!!
The Netherlands has more than 3 too, last time I checked.
@rmyikzelf5604 Yes. The Netherlands have great motorways and smaller roads. It's a very well organised country.
Nice try, nobody believes that, good luck on your second road
Any good road in Ireland was funded by the EU...
I live in the UK and got a car but still take the bus to work cuz it's close to home. It costs me a fiver for a day ticket less then fuel and parking and you get a few steps in.
I'm in England. I don't have a car. I don't use public transport. I cycle everywhere. Maybe I'll use public transport when I'm a pensioner and get the bus pass.
Cycling is one of the biggest causes of traffic problems where I live.
@@michaelcallaghan4073 That is hard to believe considering how much less space a cyclist needs compared to a car
@@AndreasPeters-r3e - Yes, they need less space but they don't act like it!
A cyclist too often takes the up same lane as a car.
And, traveling more owly, and more erratically, slows everyone down.
I am from Madrid, we have cars but we try to use them as little as posible. Weekends to go to the country side. When we are in the city we use public transport, very reliable and cheaper than using our cars. Trains in Spain are brilliant one of the best high speed that take us anywhere fast and easily
And we in Britain were stupid enough to leave the EU.
True. A very bad idea and surprised that people thought that it was a good one. How do we reenter ?
Probably the best decision ever made but with a bad timing!
No worries mate because it won't take long anymore for other nations to follow the good example!
More and more people are getting fed up with the EU holding them back to progress and losing more and more of their souvereignty on a daily basis!
The EU as a trading platform (as EG and EEG once were) was a great idea, yet as a governing entity it's an inevitable car crash!
@@classesanytime Which nations are these? Because I don't see any other EU states clamouring to leave. If anything I see more states wanting to be in the EU (Georgia, Ukraine). EU holding back progress? And how as the UK progressed since it's dreary departure, because I haven't noted anything? Also it was the EC/EEC moron not EG/EEG!
@@classesanytime Don't agree. We need to be trading effectively with our nearest trading block, which is Europe. Also we need to be in Europe to be effective on the world stage. Our GDP has crashed. There aren't any advantages that I can see being out of the Community. We haven't any serious new trading partners. We don't have easy access to Europe which is a distinct disadvantageto smaller businesses, and ordinary commuters. Ignorance took us out and we are paying the price.
@wolfslair31 No reason for name calling mate, in my country it's called EG and EEG and it's not my fault that you haven't had a proper education and a tunnel vision or an addiction to MSM brainwash techniques!
Was I talking about government views or desires??
No mate, I was referring to actual people who are fed up with it all and yes I think PEOPLE could prospect more as individuals instead of lining the pockets of the EU and their own government officials!
What has the UK's government actually done to get on top of the situation to make things better after Brexit???
They hate or simply just want to play the dominant factor (Just as their fucked up colony USA) concerning China, Russia, Africa and the whole of South America, not even contemplating how hard they need these countries to survive!
Love it or hate it mate, BRICS XL has the future and is only gaining momentum as we speak while the whole "western world" is declining by the minute!
When you consider the railways, those yellow lines are the main routes, inbetween will be secondary lines and branches. And that's even after the cutbacks of the 60s.
What doesnt help is the vast distances in the US its just much more practical to drive, as to build a railway between towns might be prohibitively expensive and to do so for public transport rather than freight might not fly with the various financial people who hold the purse strings.
Here in the UK we got rid of a lot of our tram networks just before WW2 (another point, much of Europe was flattened during thexwar and coumd be rebuilt, the trams were often the first thing to be up and running again) and we for many years had only one remaining tram line, in Blackpool, until Manchester and Sheffield started to reintroduce them, now their being put back in many cities, with Coventry about to reintroduce them.
The feeling of vulnerability without a car is very much an American mindset. Well, not just an American mindset, but an American _reality_ - for you guys, you _actually_ cannot function without a car. You are shackled to cars and to car transport - I don't _need_ a car to get anywhere. I can safely and easily walk to the shops to get whatever I want without having to cross any massive dangerous roads - everything is interconnected by pedestrian paths and routes (not to mention we have legally protected ancient footpaths in England (called "public rights of way"), which mean we can even walk across privately owned land if a public right of way passes there and we are respectful), and we don't seperate our housing off in the these weird American "suburbs" where you keep people distant from amenities and schooling to _force_ them to own a car to be able to do anything. I could walk to school on my own from around the age of... well it was a long time ago now, but 7 or 8 years old? Whereas my understanding is that parents pretty universally have to drive their kids to school in the USA, because they live seperated off in suburbs and unable to safely and easily access anything without cars. Being without a car in Europe is not a limit on your autonomy - being without public transport and safe walking infrastructure in the USA _is_ a limit on your autonomy. Thanks for continuing to look in to alternative ways of living and functioning as a society from around the world, Tyler - the USA has a uniquely powerful media bubble preventing its citizens from learning about anything outside it, so I appreciate your effort in that regard!
The UK road network is a little over 250,000 miles, and the British rail network a little under 10,000 ( this doesn't include Northern Ireland). The video appeared to show a number of trams (US streetcars) in cities, which are not counted as part of the rail system but, like bus services, are often operated by local service providers.
And Britain voted to leave the EU
Biggest shot in the foot that we ever did, Brexit was the shittest gift that keeps on giving 🤬
While it is an option, public transport isn't always the best (preferred) way to travel for most Europeans.
I live in a capital city, my office is 10 kilometers away (6 miles). Using public transport(Bus to a metro station, metro to go near the office and then walk about 1.5 km), it takes me anywhere from 1 hour to 1 hour and 40 minutes to go to there. In perspective, if I use my car to go there, it takes me anywhere from 15 to 35 min depending on the traffic... and I park in the office building, no walking required. I don't want to waste 3 hours of my time every day in public transport, crammed in a bus with 100 other people. It also gets quite cold during the winter (-10 to -20 degrees C, or around 0 degrees F), so waiting at a bus stop or walking for 20 minutes can be quite painful.
The US actually has the worlds biggest rail network its just exclusively used for freight.
And badly maintained
Actually, the biggest rail network in the world it’s in Russia. You forget that Russia spreads on 3 continents
True(ish), but the major issue is it is not exclusively for Freight.
The passenger network uses the same lines, passenger trains have by US federal law priority over freight, but this is never enforced.
So passenger trains are held up by freight, making them slower, but more importantly unreliable.
It is a profitable freight system.
@ all over the world passengers trains have priority. And they use the same rail tracks. The issue wasn’t about the regulations each country has, it’s about the size of it. And that being said, the largest rail networks are mainly in Asia. So Russia, China, India and Pakistan have them. Now how efficient are being used, it’s another topic
@@grigoretiplea You say all over the world passenger trains have priority, I think you will find that is not true in the US.
They may technically have priority, but that's not how they operate, in practice.
Schedules are not adhered to.
If your main customer base is freight, its likely you will priorities freight trains.
If your main customer is passengers, you might well not allow very long slow moving freight trains, I think most of Europe restricts the length of freight trains, I believe this is to stop them from clogging up the schedule.
On the topic of the Schengen Area, you can travel between all of these countries as a foreigner - such as an American. Wanna go to Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Copenhagen and anywhere else? One visa (Schengen Visa), any airport to fly in/out from (they don't have to be in the same country) and virtually no passport checks outside of airports.
Sometimes they bring back the passport control on the borders between selected countries. For example in 2015 when lots of immigrants came thru Hungary, Austria used to check at the borders. But for a citizen from the schengen area passport is not required. It’s enough to have an ID or a driver’s licence.
Most Americans also don't know that even car models sold both in Europe and the US are different with just an example Ford Kuga(EU) or Escape(US) it has an MPG in EU at 261MPG the US version 101MPG both of them the Plugin Hybrid version of the car this is over 100% difference in MPG on the same car and the towing is also around 3 times more on the EU version(1500lbs vs just over 4500lbs)
In 1993 when I was 13yo we visited relatives in Florida. One day I asked to borrow a bicycle and take a ride around the neighborhood and they looked at me like I was crazy. They could not believe that my parents let me do that! And it was a very nice and quiet neighborhood with mostly old people.
I also remember when we drove somewhere, they saw someone walking and made comments about it, like it was strange and it had to be a criminal or something! 😄
Greetings from Sweden!
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I don't know how it is in the USA. But here they don't just build parking lots, they also build both above-ground and underground parking garages. So they don't just go wider, they go higher and deeper! And so they save on parking spaces.
6:34 trams , also in Scotland they’ve added “bike lanes “ which takes away from actual car space on the road , effectively halving the drivable space each lane , which no one uses , you’ll be lucky to see one bike use it in a week if that , which had caused more traffic to build up , great job there ( sarcasm)
Tyler, in 2022 the wife and me traveled from Stuttgart (Southwest Germany) to Paris, France by a fast train TGV. We arrived at Paris after around 2 hours. From Paris to Barcelona, Spain, it was slower, but we made it in around 10 hours. With the plane, we would have landed after 2,5 hours and paid less. In Europe you always have the choice between different public transports.
Most we use the train and rent a car at our destination, if we need one.
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Elmar from Germany
I am convinced that you would actually feel liberated not to be dependent on a car every time you need to get from A to B. In Europe, most trips around a city will be faster on foot, by bike or by public transport than by car. And if you want, you can still have a car and use it when it is actually the most practical choice for you.
I would never take my car into the center of the city I live in. Not even if I didn't have to pay for parking. It is simply easier and more convenient to use public transport.
The map at 7:34 doesn't show all the highways of Europe. I you were to paint Germany's highways on that map then the whole country would be just one blob of color.
Same goes for the railways map at the start. The infrastructure networks are so dense that they can't be represented on that scale. What you see are just the major transit routes, but the networks themselves are much more dense.
8:03 6 out of 10 are European cities :)))
This yellow grid in the beginning of the video, is the MAIN international high speed corridors. There are hundreds - if not thousands - regional, local or national lines. In Switzerland, for instance, there are no place you can't go without a car. There are trains, buses, trams, metro, ferries, funiculars, covering the whole country. Most cities with more than 2-300000 inhabitants, have trams, light rail, metro, and/or extensive bus networks. Frequent, reliable, and fairly in-expensive. And BTW, the insane taxes Americans are paying, are predominantly going to defense (kickbacks, and buying politicians), and for tax breaks to the insanely rich.
Those are actually trams. In my native Rīga (Capital of Latvia), we hawe those a lot. Rīga has troleys and buses as well covering all the city in many so much routes.
I've been to the US, mostly Texas, I lived in my sister in law's house in New Braunfels between Austin and San Antonio for 3 months making trips to other parts of the US. But I went to Fort Worth, Tx by train. There was only ONE train a day, one going the other way. So it's not just the lack of tracks, it's also the lack of trains.
16:50 I suppose that's true how traveling is so easy within Europe. For this summer I have a 3 week road trip planned with the family starting in the Netherlands, going down to Belgium, quick visit in Luxembourg, then France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and back to the Netherlands. The only non-European thing about this trip is that we'll be taking the car. We are traveling with two dogs and going by public transport with pets is just not ideal...
It should be noted that we’re not really “anti” driving as such, if you prefer to drive then you’d probably have a better driving experience compared to in America as we have comparatively far less traffic. I just got back from an 800 mile round trip drive to Scotland and back, but if I wanted to, I could ride my bike to the train station a few minutes away from me, get a train to London and then get a train into Europe and travel by train to some niche little village in rural Germany, all without having to do any driving. It’s great to have the option to chose. Fuel is comparatively much more expensive here compared to the U.S. though.
It’s great to have the option to chose. And if I didn’t want to drive or take the train, there’s a lot of budget airlines flying all over Europe. I’m from the U.K. and my friend randomly decided on a Friday night on the way home from work, that he wanted to go to Barcelona in Spain to go clubbing, so got on a plane that night for like £30.
It’s great to have the freedom to travel wherever I want, whenever I want, with it being easy and affordable. Busses in cities is another big thing. In London, most bus stops will have a bus arriving every 2 or so minutes. It’s great for if you want to go out drinking with your friends because you don’t have to worry about a designated driver.
Its mostly because of wars, During WW Armies found out that good train line can supply tons of troops and supplies fast and secured(armored train cars). So major track development happened during and after wars.
There's a reason for why you need a car in America. The government asked 1 Henry Ford to help design the cities and towns etc, asking a car manufacturer to design your roads....
As a brit tho, I've never seen 2 floor trains like in America
The total length of railways in Europe (geographical Europe) is comparable to that of the US, as is the land area. However, railways in the US are not widely used for public transportation. One reason is that the companies owning the tracks prioritize maximizing profits from freight operations and are reluctant to share their corridors with passenger trains. Or if they are willing to share the cost is too high for the operator. This is why the trip from Chicago to LA by train costs $1000+ easily. The second reason is that most of the railways have seen little modernization since their construction. The outdated infrastructure limits transportation speeds. While 40-50 MPH is sufficient for cargo, it’s far too slow for passenger trains traveling long distances across the country.
A third reason ties into the second: most US rail lines aren’t electrified. In contrast, in Europe, most main lines are electrified, with only lesser-used lines relying on diesel. Electrification is beneficial for both the economy and the environment, as it enables trains to accelerate faster and operate more efficiently especially in the mountainous areas. While the transition is costly, it pays off if the lines are heavily utilized. In the US, however, electrification is rare because the infrequent rail traffic makes it nearly impossible to recoup the investment.
In Austria we have a ticket thats about 1000 € (for people under 26 it's 821€) where you can use all of the public transport for a year :) it's honestly the best thing ever
If I want to go to my office I get out of my apartment, walk 7 minutes to the metro, spend 12 minutes in a train, then walk 8 minutes to office. On my way I can visit 5 different supermarkets and a bunch of food stalls (and many other different shops). I usually just buy groceries on my way home like 3 times a week. I am 30 and I have no need to own a car at all. I can't imagine I would want to live in a non-walkable city.
I'm from the Netherlands. My boyfriend and i frequently drive to Germany to do grocery shopping, because everything is much cheaper in Germany. Also i don't have a drivers license (my boyfriend does). If i want one, i would pay around 2000-3000 euro's only to get the license. Not to talk about the costs of buying an extra car, insurance and gas to keep driving. In comparison: i can travel by train for 2(!!!) years between my town and job for 1680 euro's. I just need to cycle to the train station wich takes 10 minutes.
Europe used to be very car-centric in the ‘70, but we evolved. A lot of city centers are now car-free. Parking in the city is made expensive and visitors are encouraged to park on the edge of the city and then take public transport
I live in Austria and here there are a few main things that keep you from using a car as your main thing:
- High Taxes, Oil/Gas Prices
- Very Expensive to get a car. What a full course costs in the US is equivalent to the two driving licenses you get during the course (since those are state card you need to pay them)
- It goes so far, that a car is normally considered as a luxury item. So per default, its seen as something you don't necessarily need and are just wealthy enough to afford. Thats also why its not covered by basic insurances that cover your needs like Home and etc. Also the reason why in Europe you often lose your car first if you don't pay your bills.
The first railroad was donated in 1815 by John Stevens..a smart move to connect the states.
It’s interesting, in the UK in the 50s and 60s there were a lot of trams in major cities and they took them out, presumably as the number of cars on the road increased. Fairly recently, perhaps in the last 10-15 years they’ve started putting tram lines back in in places like Edinburgh and Birmingham. A lot of the city centres are more pedestrianised now and they have introduced a ‘clean air’ tax in some places to reduce the number of cars producing pollution in certain areas.
As for the rail network, it is excellent and extensive. One thing that was very popular when I was a teenager was inter-railing where students could get cheap train travel across Europe and they’d take time out to travel around and gain experience of other countries and cultures. I think we’re very lucky in Europe that we have such great transport links.
One thing the video misses is the control factor. In a car you go any place at any time. Trains, buses etc can be cancel at any point. For example during covid the system can be shut down. They cant do that with a personal vehicle. I am in the UK and will be keeping my truck, although they are making it more expensive every year with tax, fuel. insurance etc. 😒