I want all the car heads who think public transportation is bad to realize that if everyone who didn't want to drive took public transit we'd have less traffic for people that actually like driving...
Yup. Car heads! I am a bad driver. I space out. I drive at or below the speed limit. And I drive a pickup truck (my dad's.) so if I mess up, everyone else will lose before I do. Believe me, you want me out of the road. I want out of the road. Please help support public transport so I don't have to drive anymore.
German here: Theoretically we have a good public transportation system it's just that the politicians (or whoever decides that) ✨saved money✨ for years and didn't update or repair anything so now everything is falling apart and is being frantically repaired which makes the train super unreliable.
another problem is that like ppl that don't live. in cities are usually not able to get anywhere without a car and I mean it (I'm German and I grew up on a farm in buttfuck nowhere and I'm living there again and it's a fucking TRAVESTY there's only busses for school kids that come three times a day (if you're lucky) so if you wanna use publica transportation you can a) walk like three hours (this is hyperbole) to the next bus stop (without ANY sidewalks present so it's genuinely unsafe to do that) ride on a bike which is ALSO unsafe as shit bc there's no way to get off the street which gets REALLY busy or drive to the bus. stop in your CAR which defeats the whole purpose. if you wanna use the train you gotta drive to the. next train station which is 15 minutes by car to get there. so no, public transport has never been great especially for me bc I was always stuck without being able to do anything.
Same thing here in Italy. It's infinitely better than the US but the right will always try to privatize everything by cutting public services (healthcare, public transportation, education system etc.) and then use that as an excuse to privatize more to supposedly fix the problems that they created by cutting fundings for these programs.
@@RabidDogma yes, I do. What gave you the impression that I don't? A lot of things (politically, economically, socially) do go back to Raegan and his policies, just like a lot of things go back to the Soviets and theirs. Things can go back to multiple different places, cultures and times, regardless of politics.
Phoenix is built on a grid system and as someone who doesn't have a car because I'm broke asf it's nice to be able to get almost anywhere in the city with just two buses
@@davecarl7142biking is great until it’s 110 F outside. I bike commute in Los Angeles but I just couldn’t during our recent heatwave. I’m guessing Phoenix sees temps like that a few weeks a year.
Something that people never mention about public transit is that people who aren't allowed to drive still need to get to work somehow. If public transportation isn't available their only option is to drive with a suspended license, which was suspended because someone thought it was dangerous for them to be on the road. Telling them not to drive is a great idea in theory, but at the end of the day it's not like they can just walk to work when it was already a 30+ minute drive
As a Colombian I’m pretty glad you mentioning our transportation system but it actually kinda sucks lol Bogotá is one of the biggest cities in the world that doesn’t have a subway or train system. Which is effing ridiculous.
I was gonna say lmao. I've been to Bogotá and the traffic is horrendous even with the buses there's still so much traffic. Edit: not to mention the fact that the Picó y Placa system even exists
@@mobi4482FUCK pico plaqua. I went to Bucaramanga to visit family and was extremely shocked they also had it despite only having half a million inhabitants. You don't need it
Canada here: Pubtrans in my city has the fun benefit where the entire city council has a stake in the locally owned cab company! Because of transfers and how awkward and easy it is to miss a bus, a 45 minute walk can turn into a 2 hour bus ride. Luckily startup locally owned uber-likes are way cheaper than the cabs, but still. It'd be better if the busses didn't suck. Also if bus drivers were paid enough to deal with shit.
i cannot stress how badly i hate the ttc, why do i have to leave for work 110 minutes before my shift starts for a 25 minute drive i just want busses to be a good option
Another problem with electric vehicles is that lithium mines have horrid consequences on the environment that no one talks about. The lithium mine in Thacker Pass was heavily scrutinized by the indigenous and others who live(d) in the area because lithium mines destroy entire ecosystems. Lithium mining requires incomprehensible amounts of water, water that does not naturally pool in areas with high lithium content, so they drain it from sources that are far, far away
@@fostersmall3570 the best thing would be to do federally funded science like we did when we went to the moon but do it for personal transportation. nuclear is the obvious path towards large scale power but in private transportation were seeing things like steam coming back.
Another person you might want to look into is Robert Moses. He's part of the reason why public transit sucks! He had insane hatred of Black and poor people. Behind the Bastards did a two-part podcast on him.
Yes, he’s responsible for a lot of the road/highway design in NYC. He could play politics like no one else ever has been able. A genius who used his immense talents for mostly bad. The famous/infamous tome The Power Broker is about him. An absolute doorstopper of a book, a brick to sit on your shelf to tell people you’re either well-read or a pretentious a-hole.
i one time had a full mental breakdown because there’s ZERO public transportation where i live and i didn’t have a car at the time. like we don’t even have taxis or city buses, you have to drive an hour minimum to get to a city with those. and they are the ONLY form of public transportation they have as well 😟 i ended up being jobless for 6 months because of it, wasn’t until i was able to get another car that i was able to work. i live in east texas btw, so the middle of nowhere basically 😭
@@SuperRat420 this was obviously something that crossed my mind, but where i live all the job opportunities were 10-15 miles away on long stretches of very hilly road where people go 70-80 with no bicycle lanes. very dangerous conditions, texas drivers are known to be reckless. 4 of those months were also during the summer when it was 90-100 degrees every day. trust me i wanted to work, i had no options at the time.
I feel you. Live just southeast of Houston, and you'd think with all the construction and mfs moving over here in mass, there would be job opportunities - nope. The last "decent" job i had was in Sugarland, TX about 30-40 minutes from home. A car is damn near MANDATORY in texas.
A very awesome cool fun thing about public transit is not just cities but in rural areas. Rural public transit is critically underfunded and developed, so if you live in the boonies, you have to have a car or you're stuck wherever you are with no way out.
People out that ways think of all public transportation users as junkies or city heads but quite often I'd be out there with my semi truck, making their way of life possible, then be stranded, especially on 34 hour reset. Like why should I be able to travel freely
Public transit could help rural people the most! With smaller communities more sparsely populated it's quite literally easier to connect everyone to each other and even easier to connect them to transit hubs should they want to travel to other parts of the country. No more driving to a rural airport to take a multi-hop flight to a nearby city. So many European villages are connected by rail to larger centers (and American farming towns could add a bus/or light metro to connect the homes to the town center). It's frankly a little victim complex when rural folks complain about no one building transit for them, when in fact transit folks want it everywhere, but anti-transit propaganda is so common in the US. The country isn't as big or rural as most people would like to believe.
@@ShouPowEurope isn’t a country. I literally went to Google maps and just picked a random country a pin fell on. Which was Croatia. Sure they have trains but your idealistic view doesn’t exist in a majority of places.
@@inthestarrysky6166 what does Europe not being a country have to do with anything?? Europe is a continent full of wonderful to abhorrent train transit countries. But basically all of them have better passenger transit. Also continental Europe as a whole is an excellent proxy for the continental US when comparing transit infrastructure. The EU (and various other European politcal association groups) do end up functioning like American federalism and this European transit planners can actually seek inspiration from the US when planning their cross border transit. Dropping a random map pin and comparing isn't the point. We should be seeking transit solutions in places with similar population density, population, and terrain. Switzerland is my quick & dirty proxy for NJ, but it largely works to conceptualize which train tech and scheduling could work. Croatia maybe could be approximated to Delaware, CT, or Maine but haven't spent most of time researching those states, or Croatia (not exactly a great example but still better than us lol). Why would my idealistic view exist in a majority of places? It wouldn't be an ideal then, it'd be the standard 🥲 Your whole logical premise feels faulty? America has terrible passenger transit. Most places have better. Almost nowhere has excellent transit around the whole country (except Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ukraine, etc). The Paris/ile de France is a great example for every city on the northeast corridor but even Paris has drawbacks. All of those countries tho still don't accurately reflect how we can roll out transit here. Again the whole point is we're supposed to be building transit that works in our towns and states. Nobody has been creative & determined enough to make it work, but that's not because it's impossible. Only because of decades of corporate propaganda and a new helplessness culture most Americans seem to accept when discussing quality of life (or lack thereof) here. It's really not difficult to plan & execute transit, like at all. It's only difficult to convince stubborn Americans to do something good for them (that happens to be good for everyone) because of this massive self-centered entitlement culture we deal with.
Unfortunately since I live in the middle of nowhere USA, there really is no public transportation around. If I'm lucky, I'll see a taxi once every 3 months, and that's about it
The brightline in South Florida is one of the biggest cases of people are not educated/prepared for bullet trains in the US. What was supposed to be a high speed train actually operates at like 40-60 mph, negating the whole appeal of bullet trains. Additionally, so many people have died/cars have been destroyed because people IGNORE THE TRAIN ALERT SYSTEMS!? Literally all the deaths are due to people being dumb (excluding the ones to suicides) and at this point, most people think it’s just another instance of South Florida’s biggest industry: insurance fraud.
@@IndustrialParrot2816 as someone who’s taken it several times, it only runs at high speeds a small percentage of the time, especially in the first half of its journey through South Florida. The point being it doesn’t run at the ideal speed for most of the journey, thus not making it a high speed train, whatever speed they hope to run at or not.
Tugg opening this video in a way that feels like slander to us southerners (fair) for not taking the subway (unfair) when WE WOULD IF WE COULD. I've heard stories told of these entities called "passenger trains" and "Busses" but its not like I've ever seen one.
Living in the south of Mississippi we ain’t got passenger trains and we barely have busses. However they are in the middle of trying to put together a train from nola to somewhere in Florida I think.
Part of the point though is that we need public transit. If a city doesn't have public transportation it's because the people in the city have decided not to have it. If you want it, you need to make your desires known. Write to your elected officials and all that
bro when you said amtrack isn’t that bad i shivered, i’ve ridden the train 4 times and only once did it go SLIGHTLY smoothly, the first time someone thought they could beat the train and got hit by it, which i understand wasn’t their fault but the train didn’t even start moving for 4 hours and this was at one of the first few stops, leaving the train to be 8 hours late when we finally got on, and made us 14 hours late when we finally got to our destination ! the next we were only 2 hours late when we were dropped back off which is the smoothest it has ever gone, the next thing that happened the brakes caught on fire because they didn’t do proper maintenance and got caught in the wheels, so that was super fun and because they told us when they had us evacuate the train not to grab all of our suitcases and things we couldn’t even get on another train and had to wait at a dingy train station for 3 hours, and then since we were the first stop on the way back it wasn’t late but we were once again 7 hours late getting to our destination and wouldn’t provide us any food, amtrack is actually so bad, never use it, do anything in your power to not use it for long distances, invest in other public transportation and beg for different or better passenger trains
Tug’s ability to cover hot button political issues from an overtly partisan perspective in a way that makes the content seem completely apolitical is unmatched
i dont even want a car, i want nothing more than to just hop on a trolley and go to work, but as someone who takes a bus there is always sketchy people. people get shot on busses, rob people, get in fights, etc. it feels so unsafe taking a bus which is why i dont take them unless necessary. not to mention half of the bus drivers dont gaf unless it messes with their time.
The good thing about public transport as well is it promotes walking since you can't just drive to where you need to go. Also I'm lucky to live somewhere where most of the time I've been on a bus, I've felt safe
visit north europe sometime if you can, i live in finland and we have one of the best metro and city bus transport, theres always a bus or a metro every 5-10 minutes to the spot you want, everyone is very quiet and theres very few fire arms overall (usually only police and hunters own guns) so it doesnt even cross my mind really. sometimes two drunk people talk loudly, but if they are really loud the bus driver will make get get off on the next stop, overall people like the peace and quiet in public, also part of the reason why we are kinda lonely.... lol
I live in Japan and while it’s fun to idealize the punctuality and speedy bullet trains as a tourist, there’s nothing more exhausting than having to commute over an hour every day to work - packed like sardines into a hot car surrounded by sweaty salarymen. Not to mention almost once a day here entire lines have to stop because someone unalived themselves by jumping in front of a train. I’d do anything to have my own personal space again.
I've commuted regularly on US public transit which has the added bonus of being regularly packed and filthy and I would STILL say an hour on public transit is less stressful than an hour of driving.
I have lived in Paris and London for a while, using their subway lines to get to school and even taking public buses to travel outside the city. Vs in Orlando FL, where I would have to add at least 3 hours to my commute and I often got left in downtown at midnight because the 1 bus that took me to the one train station would just. Not show up
I love taking the bus everyday. It makes me feel like I’m a part of my community. I see the same regulars all the time, I chat and say good morning to the same drivers. I even bought one of my favourite drivers a retirement gift when he left. Like yea there’s gonna be people who are tripping balls or who are talking too loudly on their phone sometimes but like I said they’re just a part of the community lol. Just sit back and observe
Individualism is also one of the biggest reason for the widespread decline in use of public transport. People don't form communities anymore and as a consequence are lonely. So they try to mend it by trying to get famous. How do you get famous? Appear different, unique, rich. But it doesn't cure that loneliness and instead grooms younger people into this route, hence continuing the cycle of shitshow.
14:15 there's a widely unknown drug trade that occurs on amtrak because it has basically no security and almost nobody rides it. many large scale distributors would not use amtrak to move drugs if they had higher ridership, but the drug trade is too profitable for the US to step in/interfere in any way. if ridership increases, illegal drug availability will decrease.
being a brit and hearing tugg talk about trains is crazy. I get a train almost everyday to college and you can get a train to literally anywhere, i couldnt imagine not having access to trains or buses (yes i know they can be crap sometimes but usually there are other options to the cancelling of them)
Big Tugg going hard on this one. Not enough people see cars as a huge problem when it clearly is. It's a domino effect that infects every aspect of our lives, from safety to convenience to where we live and how we live, to how expensive our lives are. You didn't mention that owning a car is vastly more expensive overall.
@@__-tp4tm It being a huge problem does not disregard its usefulness. I have a problem with the ubiquity of cars and our dependence on them. That is a huge problem.
@@krmn Yeah, would've been a good addition to the claim of it being a problem. Cuz most the time when people state a huge problem with absolutely no mention of it's usefulness in contrast, they just be hatin' on it. People can't read your thoughts, especially not through a comment.
I actually rode a bullet train on my trip to japan. The thing was so fast it was unbelievable, and extremely smooth! I highly recommend it if you ever consider going to japan.
God, I wish my city wasn't so spread out. It would take me an hour and 2 minutes to take over transportation, 49 minutes to bike, and 15 minutes to drive. Like, it's just not even comparable. I miss living in DC, Metro there was so good and I didn't realize how good I had it
My stepdaughter wanted to take the train from Portland to our central Washington city, but the closest it would go was Wishram, which is a one horse town if I ever saw one. A village if you will. So we had to drive three hours round trip twice to pick her up and drop her off. Thankfully she got her own car so she can use the same amount of gas that we did when she used the train, without the extra inconvenience on our part
What’s baffling is that an unlimited REGIONAL pass for all transit in the DFW metroplex (and a bit outside of it too!) isn’t even $200/month You could MAYBE get 3 tanks of gas on that, MAYBE. That’s 2 round trips from Dallas to Fort Worth if you push it. And then you have insurance, and maintenance, and tolls, and the car itself is NEVER under $10k these days even if it’s a used junker… And because it’s seen as “low class” or “welfare” they won’t put it in cities like Frisco outside of extremely limited shuttles to very specific places and school buses.
Probably a little bit of an exaggeration, $200 will easily fill the average tank 4 times. Fair points on everything else though, the current barrier to entry just to simply own a car is too expensive for a lot of people right now
@@freeroyal378 it depends on your area and your car. Gas around here is about $4/gallon on average and most people have 20 gallon tanks if you average it out so a tank would be $80. Between Dallas and Fort Worth it’s around 35 miles on average, but that’s a direct line along highways that can and DO get backed up for hours on end, so you also have to factor in stall time. That’s also if you’re going city limit to city limit, and those are MASSIVE cities. If you’re going from one far end to an opposite far end in the other city, it can creep up into nearly 45+ miles… on a direct line.
@@Ac3_Silvers Yup, fosure. A 20 gallon tank is still on the high end even for larger SUV’s, so I think the average is more like 15 for a regular car. Although sure, a bigass F350 super duty is gonna be a 50 gallon tank, but I wouldn’t put any truck that big in the same category as a typical car you’d want for commuting 45+ miles daily. Pretty sure average price for 87 gas in the US is more like $3.50, which would be right around 50 bucks for a 15 gallon tank.
As a DFW local who's doing some stuff with improving PubTrans in the region, its not as cut and dry at "its for poor people so we dont want it." It applies to an extent, but for DART (the Dallas side) the agency is funded by taking half of all sales tax from member cities. Large cities/suburbs like Arlington, Frisco, Grand Prairie, etc. dont have the ability to cut out 50% of their sales tax from their budget, and DART doesnt have the capability at the moment to even attempt to imlement new services for them since they're cash strapped and facing funding... conundrums, from some of the suburbs. Some other cities have occassionally worked with DART for public transit for most of the non member cities it just isnt financially possible to make that happen.
I took the bus for 2 years when i lived in las vegas. And it was miserable between all the junkies constantly bugging you for money, every other stop someone would try to fight the bus driver for not giving them a free ride. Not one day during my time on public transport were any of the buses on time. Id have to leave my house for work 4 hours early and transfer 3 times to go 10 miles. Id like to not have to own a car it would definitely save a lot of money but the buses here are such a waste of time, on several occasions i would just walk to and from work because it took about the same time as taking the bus.
Can't culturally shame folks for using public transportation and purposely kneecap it then turn around and act as if it's an innate fact of public transportation
9:45 Japan has such good public transportation that once a Bullet Train left 20 seconds EARLY, and the train company put out a big apology saying it was unacceptable (Just to get extra specific, I forget the exact time but lets say the train was supposed to leave 45 seconds after 9;06, the train still left at 9;06, just 25 seconds after rather than 45 seconds)
As someone who relied heavily and and basically lived on septa for the first 24 years of my life, I agree that public transit sucks. However it would be helpful if it were more available in the suburbs, that was the only reason I got my license, moved to the burbs after I got married and had a kid on the way and public transit up here isn't reliable. The first time I was planning on going to Brooklyn I looked into taking trains and buses but I became too much of a gas-ass and it seemed too complicated. The tolls however are insane and I wish that wasn't the case. I commend you for taking trains to come down this way, I wouldn't have the patience
Wanting to drive into Brooklyn while living in a Philly suburb is kinda mental illness.. NJT, Amtrak, and septa suck in a global context, but they provide good transportation during the day, and with a little thought it's quite easy. Probably 2 hours tops with "septa Amtrak MTA combo" but that requires forethought on booking Amtrak at a good price. Taking septa and njt to NYC is also possible but low-key sucks Imo.. but I would rather get hit by car than drive into NYC.
There’s another thing to consider in this too. Tire emissions. They add to microplastics. There’s no research to prove that microplastics are actually harmful but obviously having literal tons of invisible pieces of plastic/rubber everywhere (including our lungs and every organ) cannot be an okay thing
As someone who lives in a rural area I ask what public transit? I mean yeah I could walk to work it's only like 2 miles but I'm a janitor and I don't want to walk 2 miles to then walk 5 miles around a department store sweeping.
Do you actually live in a "rural" area tho? Especially if your work is only two miles away... I ask because 80% of Americans (and increasing) live in urbanized areas. I was raised in central NJ and so many of my classmates would claim we're in a rural farm town largely because they had no concept of how others lived. We could take a 1,15 train to NYC lmao. So its highly unlikely you live in an actually rural area but: 2 miles is an easy bike commute (biking is always part of improved mobility in society, people all around the world bike to/from work in all kinds of weather). Bonus for biking is that you'll live healthier longer if you bike. In low density urbanized areas, say outer PA, the plains states, and the southwest, buses would easily be able to connect housing communities with the centralized downtowns that have existed for a while. In the MOST rural places, northern Wyoming, eastern Montana, inhabited Alaska, fixed trains would actually be a great solution as they have the lowest cost of operation & easiest to scale. And when dealing with extremely rural communities it'd actually be quite simple to plan where exactly everyone in a community would need to go. Every transit plan needs to be built with & for the people who live there. There is a mode of transit that's feasible for literally everyone on the planet, it's really just a matter of finding good examples (say Switzerland as a model for NJ) and applying what already works to our lifestyles. Overall a 2 mile commute is very very short. With high speed rail you could do a 100mi commute in the same time it takes you to walk those 2 miles (but super commuting is not ideal).
@@ShouPow The population of my town is under 10,000 with nearest town to it being 5 miles with pop of 60 and beyond that is just fields and forest for miles in all directions. the only trains are freight trains and bus stops don't exist.
I live in a very rural area, as in from my house there is 20 miles of unpaved road u til you get to "Town" and in the last census, Town had less than 400 people. We get 55 inches of snow in the winter and temperatures as low as -20⁰F every winter. The nearest walmart or mcdonalds is 75 miles away. No amount of public transit is going to help the truly rural areas without bankrupting the country. For urban and suburban areas, I can see it, but private vehicles will ALWAYS need to be an option.
@@zelatoth yes that is the issue, the lack of passenger transportation infrastructure... Most of this country is criss-crossed with freight tracks and using them for passenger transit is quite simple. It's even easier to put buses on the road. You're just describing why you can't take transit right now, not why transit isn't feasible. Also in extreme winter conditions, rail transit (tbh any public transit) is superior to personal vehicles for safety & reliability. It's much easier to winterize railroads and transit Right of way than winterizing a whole state and making sure everybody has salt, snow chains, and all wheel drive. Places with fewer people, again, make transit planning and execution easier, not more difficult. We're both speaking to the same problem: rural folks don't have access to good transit, but they should and it's not hard to do so.
in toronto most of our transit consists of streetcars and our subway, streetcars are a very big part of our transit and are a very popular choice for getting people to school or to work or just around the city
Tugg mentioning my city on a video was not on my Bingo card. The Metro system in Medellín, Colombia, is actually pretty good. It has different types of vehicles that cover a pretty good part of the city, including those cable cars you showed, trains, a tram, and many buses covering areas that those types of vehicles can't reach. It's reliable, for the most part, and you can move from one vehicle to another, either without having to pay for another ticket or paying a small fraction of it.
I don’t think he went into enough detail about how hard it is to use public transportation here. So much of this country is mostly empty, I don’t live in that small of a town and the only public transportation here is a train going to the biggest city near us which is like 30 minutes away.
You realize these are choices made by your local town boards and city planners and zoning laws? These are all changeable (just like they were changed for the car). It's not immutable that some American towns are poorly organized, and again, it's not even the majority case for where the majority of Americans live. Also if you're in a place with a 30min train to a city, that sounds like it's pretty urban and your area would likely benefit from a feeder service into that urban train. Like a bus or light metro.
I love that better public transit and pedestrians infrastructure literally makes driving better for drivers, yet drivers absolutely hate the idea of anyone having the freedom to choose how they travel. To drivers they basically all think you need to drive or end yourself. They prove it daily by hitting everyone and everything they. I missed off a food truck after they tried to run me off the side of the road I turned in to them so they had to hit me or swerve and miss me. He chose the later and honked at me as if I was the asshole. I never left the shoulder.
Girl that's called care evasion. It can happen everywhere. In German speaking places there usually aren't even fare gates. Most light rail and streetcars don't have fare gates either 🙄
My uncle is a (retired) bus driver and the guy is crazy. In a fun way. His bus got stuck in traffic and decided to lighting everyone’s mood by yelling “who wants to party?!?” And the blast EDM thoughout the bus.
I've had dreams about public transportation for the past 2 days and every one of them ended in me dying trying to get home from Philadelphia. I feel like this is my calling to get on a train to Philly because honestly I really wanna
I love driving my car as much as the next guy but DAMN Just the thought of global warming made me have a small panic attack. I’m just 1 dude like WTF am I going to do about it
As a car person, I also love public transit. If more people used public transit (including me) cars on the road or in cities and those who have cars made the conscious decision that they need a vehicle to do something public transit can't do and traffic wouldn't be as bad when I drive for work (I may be a senior in college but I work on film sets during the summer and driving is required)
4:51 im starting to think that everyone who watched who framed roger rabbit had a different experience because every time that movie is brought up it sounds like a different movie from the last time i heard about it
I spent a summer in Denver, i loved that the public transit passes were so cheap and discounted for certain people (senior citizens, youth, people with disabilities, first responders, etc...) but i was always shocked at how poorly upkept the stations were. Dirty with broken escalators, sometimes thered be needles on the floor, and untrained security. Id have used it way more if i felt safe 😅
Taking the train in Tokyo during commuting hours in the summer is literally hell. Plus most of the people here do not wear deodorant, the stations are always hotter than outside. People pass out waiting for the trains. People get shoved or jump on to the tracks. I like having the trains but the system is not perfect at all. They speed to meet the schedule so people get knocked down or throw up from the rocking and there have been a few trains that jump the tracks and kill dozens of people. I’m sick of people acting like Japan is a utopia. There are a lot of things that totally suck here.
As someone who uses the London Underground, the most used metro service on the planet. I would take that daily over the death trap that is car transport
You can buy a car in Tokyo then. I saw plenty of personal cars while visiting. Even a freaking Hummer driving through Shibuya. Or a moped, or an electric bike. You have choices. Americans do not. You WILL sit for 2hrs in traffic in the morning, and 2hrs in the afternoon. You WILL pay $10,000/year for that car and it WILL lose value really quickly. And you WILL have to live with the fact that you have a pretty high chance of being disabled or killed on it.
My town has a bus system. The closest bus stop to me is over a mile away, and the closest bus stop to my work is about 6 blocks. Also, I have a set schedule of 8-4.30. The bus runs at 7am (would get to my work at 8:30 and 6 for home. And I have kids to get from day care, a bus isn't feasible for me to use at all. But I would if I could. Lol
Oilfield worker here, even if you got rid of every vehicle on the planet 10 years ago it wouldn't have stopped the drilling. If you use soap, plastic, or beauty products then you'd still be buying the raw. Oil makes the modern world go round and the only thing that's gonna change that is the world dying with us
As a car guy, I do agree. I mean the worse thing happened to a car guy is not the goverment banning cars but getting your car got rammed by some random idiots on wheels. Plus if you're onto motorsports, a racetrack built nearby is great (except of that dumb racetrack vs suburban backlash). Or if you like driving, a clearer road would be great. Be like Japan, go to work with public transport by day, Illegal street drifting on empty road at night.
Imagine how much more community minded we would all be if we didn’t drive everywhere. People do not understand why I don’t drive. They can’t comprehend it. I have a little e-scooter and if I need six bags of mulch for the garden and a curtain rod I just stand on the bags and joust my way down the street. For real. It’s just better. I wish our whole societies weren’t built around roads. What a waste.
that sounds absolutely horrifying and dangerous but that is so awesome of you. i love seeing people bike and scoot(????) everywhere with grocery bags and just to travel. and itd also be so much better if everything wasnt 3 thousand miles away. trying to go to the store? walk down 7 flights of stairs bc the elevator doesnt work and then you have to cross like 9 roads and 4 dont have pedestrian crossing and none have bike lanes then get almost hit off the road and woohoo youre there after an hour and 45 minutes! now go back with your $600 dollars worth of groceries :) likeAGH MAKE IT CLOSER GIVE US COMMUNITY
Even in a big city, people outside of cars are so much nicer. Riding a bike (or the bus) everywhere has made me feel like I’m actually part of the local community. also, Bike trailers and cargo (e-)bikes have gotten really good. If you’re looking to upgrade your vehicle.
@@biancanicholls3683 right and people have had small children for millennia without cars. And even in the time of cars still live without cars in places with adequate transit. I get if you don't have transit, but it's quite possible to live with kids in the US and not have a car. Also not to mention the social stunting suburbia & car dependency foists onto children.
I really wish we had better public transport, or even just mass transit at all in some places in the US, but even if we did I just know that there are people that would make it uncomfortable and trash it in no time.
I mean transit exists in NJ and NYC, possibly the "dirtiest" places in the country and it's frankly fine. Yes I've pooed on the NJT outta desperation and I'm still alive to tell the tale. Stop it with the urban fears and thinly veiled racism.
Finally! a topic I learned 2 years ago from Not Just Bikes! The problem is very existant in Canada and where I live in Canada is in a straight line by the US (perfect for...idk maybe a high speed rail) and I live in a suburban area with no car and that's...ughhh
10:48 its totally possible to achieve in my country we have great public transport and it’s very safe minus the occasional terror attack that blows up a bus everyone has a car but it’s faster to take the train or take the car to the train station also we don’t have public transportation on Saturdays due to religious reasons
I am 40. I didn't plan on this either. Just so you know, we've all been saying the same things for the last 30 years. It's a slow circling of the drain.
In California the Hov lane ends for the stupid TOLL ROADS 😡 The AmTrack is cool though... It's smooth enough I can paint my nails on it. Which yes I've only done when no one else is in the same car as me😅😅 In my city of Riverside public buses are free for the summer and they run a special for Fridays where it's only 25¢. Also they give out bus passes if you get public assistance ❤
In China pretty much the entire country and half of east Asia is connected by highspeed train. There's busses everywhere and you even can call drones to charge your EV 😂
The stigma around public transportation is so insane. My town even though it’s pretty big is weirdly shaped so the bus stops are like 20-30 minutes away from any buildings especially my neighborhood and there’s like no sidewalks, my town was built for cars not people. I was never taught how to use buses or trains bc it’s seen as a poor person/homeless person thing and it’s where weird people would be.
The US is a weird, weird place. I cannot wrap my head around how public transport can be something that people are vehemently against. Some people are really fucking strange. Great video though, Tugg! Have an awesome week! Peace from me-a Swedish woman, who's living in Norway :)
Well cities are litteraly built around the car not busses plus it's a freedom thing lots of people live out side the city the work in so public transit doesn't work well ontop the public transit we do get is destroyed and never maintained people seem to forget the usa is like all of Europe but with newer cities alot of Europe wasn't made for cars so people don't use cars
I dont think I’ve ever met anyone who’s against the expansion of public transport here in the US. More just like the current public transport offerings suck, and cars will always be necessary for a majority of those living outside of major cities. Building a robust interconnected public transport is probably way easier to accomplish in small countries. I think people forget the entire US is like 20x larger than any one European country
I think the people here would love trains and public transport everywhere but nothing ever changes here it’s all about cars and it’s horrible a lot of places here aren’t even safe to walk sidewalks just vanish or aren’t a thing. Things need to change
Dude I've been saying this shit for years. I got hit by a car and a police officer told me that I should have been wanting a visibility fast during the daytime. Fuck cars
As in, wearing a hi-viz vest? That's a crazy thing to say to a car victim! Not to mention the fact that the science on whether hi-viz actually helps with making you visible to car drivers is murky at best
During the daytime? Actually insane. I wear hiviz/reflective clothing at night when I’m running or biking. I think it’s the reflective strips that do more good than the hiviz but they usually come combined. When a headlight hits reflective, it freakin glows. But during the daytime, with no directional light? I think the CO from all the cars has gone to the officer’s head…
Bro that's insane but unsurprising. The amount of victim blaming for pedestrians and cyclist is insane. "Look both ways before crossing" bro I can't count how many 2 ton cars who don't look both ways for pedestrians when rolling through stops and right on red.
I would use Uber 90% less if the busses in my city just ran later, but the last bus stops running just before 8 pm, and it's not even the one that I would take home from work.
Btw, I hate escalators. Just thought I should put that out there. I don't just hate them because of my Final Destination level fear that they occasionally induce, but because as a concept for use by everyone, they're stupid. Having them for the sake of the mobility of people who actually need them is nice, but I bet we could do a good two-for-one health patch in this country by replacing the majority of escalators with regular stairs. It would decrease traffic congestion for public transit, while also forcing people to exercise; I don't enjoy exerting myself, but God gave me two legs.
I feel like they’re not great for people with mobility issues, in that wheelchair users or people with walkers would have difficulty using them, so for full accessibility you need elevators along with your escalators. The primary purpose I see is in some subway stations, there are escalators that are I s2g 5 or 6 stories tall, tall enough that stairs would be a workout for even fit people, and that see enough throughput that elevators just couldn’t keep up.
Yeah, I can see where you might be coming from but I can't imagine the Washington or Atlanta Metro users wanting to replace their massive fricken cold war-era escalators with stairs Toronto has many stations with stairs next to escalators. When I've just gone shopping or am lugging a bunch of stuff, I go escalator When I'm without all the stuff and the escalator is full-ish, I take the stairs Personally, It's another quality of life / convenience thing that keeps me wanting to take transit
Bro I would fuck with a subway SO HARD. I'm 19 and don't have my yet license because I hate driving (and generational trauma), and all we have is a damn MART bus that is not reliable in the slightest. So I just have to annoy my parents to take me everywhere :)
I want all the car heads who think public transportation is bad to realize that if everyone who didn't want to drive took public transit we'd have less traffic for people that actually like driving...
Tight analysis and i agree
holy shit hi spantz i didnt know you fw big tugg
didint even know you watch big tugg but its starting to make sense why lol
Yup.
Car heads! I am a bad driver. I space out. I drive at or below the speed limit. And I drive a pickup truck (my dad's.) so if I mess up, everyone else will lose before I do.
Believe me, you want me out of the road.
I want out of the road.
Please help support public transport so I don't have to drive anymore.
I'm sure if public transport was of higher quality, such as clean, safe, and fast (high speed trains), it would be used more.
Whiskers is right. We do need to rise against our oppressors
Didn’t expect you to be here
Didn't know you was a Tugglett man
@@Ron-vl7hihes always here
her name is abby
Hello there, didn't expect you here
I get most of my news of the world from Tugg randomly dropping a new fact when he gets scared
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German here: Theoretically we have a good public transportation system it's just that the politicians (or whoever decides that) ✨saved money✨ for years and didn't update or repair anything so now everything is falling apart and is being frantically repaired which makes the train super unreliable.
Ah yes
Deutsche Bahn
Now it makes sense why Germans complain about the Deutsche bahn so much, you guys basically have english austerity
another problem is that like ppl that don't live. in cities are usually not able to get anywhere without a car and I mean it (I'm German and I grew up on a farm in buttfuck nowhere and I'm living there again and it's a fucking TRAVESTY there's only busses for school kids that come three times a day (if you're lucky) so if you wanna use publica transportation you can a) walk like three hours (this is hyperbole) to the next bus stop (without ANY sidewalks present so it's genuinely unsafe to do that) ride on a bike which is ALSO unsafe as shit bc there's no way to get off the street which gets REALLY busy or drive to the bus. stop in your CAR which defeats the whole purpose. if you wanna use the train you gotta drive to the. next train station which is 15 minutes by car to get there. so no, public transport has never been great especially for me bc I was always stuck without being able to do anything.
"Der Zug von München nach Achen verspätet sich um 5 Stunden."
Same thing here in Italy. It's infinitely better than the US but the right will always try to privatize everything by cutting public services (healthcare, public transportation, education system etc.) and then use that as an excuse to privatize more to supposedly fix the problems that they created by cutting fundings for these programs.
"Does everything go back to the Soviets?"
If my experience with Metal Gear has taught me anything, yes. It's always the Soviets.
Either the Soviets, or Reagan.
If not Soviets, Mongols.
@@PawsOnTheBalcony you realize that those are complete opposites, right?
@@RabidDogma yes, I do. What gave you the impression that I don't?
A lot of things (politically, economically, socially) do go back to Raegan and his policies, just like a lot of things go back to the Soviets and theirs. Things can go back to multiple different places, cultures and times, regardless of politics.
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'Studies show that cars are more dangerous than guns, that's why I own 10 guns, in case some maniac tries to bring in a car'
- BigTugg
Typo…
is that a gravity falls reference i see
@@imabitsilly118 Yes
@@spino-ace I FIX
Grunkle Stan
Phoenix is built on a grid system and as someone who doesn't have a car because I'm broke asf it's nice to be able to get almost anywhere in the city with just two buses
This and the lightrail is pretty nice too whenever I’ve used it
Lol, live in Phx during my childhood and early adult life. I had a choice of busses or my bike. I chose the bike.
@@davecarl7142biking is great until it’s 110 F outside. I bike commute in Los Angeles but I just couldn’t during our recent heatwave. I’m guessing Phoenix sees temps like that a few weeks a year.
@thehousecat93 lol, I was mowing lawns in that June when phx was 122°F. Good times...
WE LOVE CORNISH PASTY, WE LOVE THE BIG FUCKIN NET THINGS, WE LOVE OVER POLICING
Something that people never mention about public transit is that people who aren't allowed to drive still need to get to work somehow.
If public transportation isn't available their only option is to drive with a suspended license, which was suspended because someone thought it was dangerous for them to be on the road.
Telling them not to drive is a great idea in theory, but at the end of the day it's not like they can just walk to work when it was already a 30+ minute drive
Or for college areas.
If you can't get to the bars without driving... a lot of young people WILL drive while intoxicated.
what about disabled people? Sorry, you have a minor disorder that can make you spasm when you see flashing lights. You can't work.
As a Colombian I’m pretty glad you mentioning our transportation system but it actually kinda sucks lol Bogotá is one of the biggest cities in the world that doesn’t have a subway or train system. Which is effing ridiculous.
I was gonna say lmao. I've been to Bogotá and the traffic is horrendous even with the buses there's still so much traffic.
Edit: not to mention the fact that the Picó y Placa system even exists
@@mobi4482 when My uncle ran me trhough pico y placa I almost threw up, my family is fairly lucky tho cause my uncle and cousins both have a cab
@@JonathanRodriguez-dz6gn its so bad I do not understand why the haven't tried to build a subway or public train system!! HA SIDO DECADAS
@@mobi4482FUCK pico plaqua. I went to Bucaramanga to visit family and was extremely shocked they also had it despite only having half a million inhabitants. You don't need it
Bogotá. Balcony of Backwards (and maybe the Andes)
I ran into Tugg once on the F train, he was nibbling on a bread tie and kept muttering something about the "rat king", great entertainer he is
man for a second i was worried because 80% of this sentence could have been true.
yeah I don't think Tugg ever takes the F train
@biggtugg wh-
Which 20% isn't true-
Canada here: Pubtrans in my city has the fun benefit where the entire city council has a stake in the locally owned cab company! Because of transfers and how awkward and easy it is to miss a bus, a 45 minute walk can turn into a 2 hour bus ride.
Luckily startup locally owned uber-likes are way cheaper than the cabs, but still. It'd be better if the busses didn't suck.
Also if bus drivers were paid enough to deal with shit.
I swear, “Lobbying” is destroying so many governments right now
i cannot stress how badly i hate the ttc, why do i have to leave for work 110 minutes before my shift starts for a 25 minute drive i just want busses to be a good option
This just reminds me of the weird glove man who went around Canada picking up drunk folks acting like an Uber/cab
@@Pekoe. Except the TTC is way better than most public transit agencies in North America, I love the TTC and GO Transit
Dang the entire country of Canada commented on Tugg's video? What a win.
Proper public transit also makes driving more fun by dramatically decreasing traffic.
Another problem with electric vehicles is that lithium mines have horrid consequences on the environment that no one talks about. The lithium mine in Thacker Pass was heavily scrutinized by the indigenous and others who live(d) in the area because lithium mines destroy entire ecosystems. Lithium mining requires incomprehensible amounts of water, water that does not naturally pool in areas with high lithium content, so they drain it from sources that are far, far away
Well, we better sweep that under the rug.
Go green!
Yeah oil and gas have historically been super cleanly extracted with literally no environmental impact.
Yeah fr. I feel like the best of both worlds is plug in hybrids
@@ZombiePepperoni uhhh........anything digging deep into the earth has environmental impact..
@@fostersmall3570 the best thing would be to do federally funded science like we did when we went to the moon but do it for personal transportation. nuclear is the obvious path towards large scale power but in private transportation were seeing things like steam coming back.
Another person you might want to look into is Robert Moses. He's part of the reason why public transit sucks! He had insane hatred of Black and poor people.
Behind the Bastards did a two-part podcast on him.
He's the big bad in a New York season of D20, and I fully forgot he was real! He built most of the highways in New York, right?
@@369thegoosedrankwine he's a major reason why our public transit is trash.
Yes, he’s responsible for a lot of the road/highway design in NYC. He could play politics like no one else ever has been able. A genius who used his immense talents for mostly bad. The famous/infamous tome The Power Broker is about him. An absolute doorstopper of a book, a brick to sit on your shelf to tell people you’re either well-read or a pretentious a-hole.
Have you ever shat on it's grave?
i one time had a full mental breakdown because there’s ZERO public transportation where i live and i didn’t have a car at the time. like we don’t even have taxis or city buses, you have to drive an hour minimum to get to a city with those. and they are the ONLY form of public transportation they have as well 😟 i ended up being jobless for 6 months because of it, wasn’t until i was able to get another car that i was able to work. i live in east texas btw, so the middle of nowhere basically 😭
Bicycle
@@SuperRat420 Some people physically can't ride bicycles.
@@SuperRat420 this was obviously something that crossed my mind, but where i live all the job opportunities were 10-15 miles away on long stretches of very hilly road where people go 70-80 with no bicycle lanes. very dangerous conditions, texas drivers are known to be reckless. 4 of those months were also during the summer when it was 90-100 degrees every day. trust me i wanted to work, i had no options at the time.
@@SuperRat420carheads also demonize and dehumanize cyclists
I feel you. Live just southeast of Houston, and you'd think with all the construction and mfs moving over here in mass, there would be job opportunities - nope. The last "decent" job i had was in Sugarland, TX about 30-40 minutes from home. A car is damn near MANDATORY in texas.
A very awesome cool fun thing about public transit is not just cities but in rural areas. Rural public transit is critically underfunded and developed, so if you live in the boonies, you have to have a car or you're stuck wherever you are with no way out.
People out that ways think of all public transportation users as junkies or city heads but quite often I'd be out there with my semi truck, making their way of life possible, then be stranded, especially on 34 hour reset. Like why should I be able to travel freely
Public transit could help rural people the most! With smaller communities more sparsely populated it's quite literally easier to connect everyone to each other and even easier to connect them to transit hubs should they want to travel to other parts of the country. No more driving to a rural airport to take a multi-hop flight to a nearby city.
So many European villages are connected by rail to larger centers (and American farming towns could add a bus/or light metro to connect the homes to the town center).
It's frankly a little victim complex when rural folks complain about no one building transit for them, when in fact transit folks want it everywhere, but anti-transit propaganda is so common in the US.
The country isn't as big or rural as most people would like to believe.
@@ShouPowEurope isn’t a country. I literally went to Google maps and just picked a random country a pin fell on. Which was Croatia. Sure they have trains but your idealistic view doesn’t exist in a majority of places.
@@inthestarrysky6166 what does Europe not being a country have to do with anything??
Europe is a continent full of wonderful to abhorrent train transit countries. But basically all of them have better passenger transit. Also continental Europe as a whole is an excellent proxy for the continental US when comparing transit infrastructure. The EU (and various other European politcal association groups) do end up functioning like American federalism and this European transit planners can actually seek inspiration from the US when planning their cross border transit.
Dropping a random map pin and comparing isn't the point. We should be seeking transit solutions in places with similar population density, population, and terrain.
Switzerland is my quick & dirty proxy for NJ, but it largely works to conceptualize which train tech and scheduling could work. Croatia maybe could be approximated to Delaware, CT, or Maine but haven't spent most of time researching those states, or Croatia (not exactly a great example but still better than us lol).
Why would my idealistic view exist in a majority of places? It wouldn't be an ideal then, it'd be the standard 🥲
Your whole logical premise feels faulty? America has terrible passenger transit. Most places have better. Almost nowhere has excellent transit around the whole country (except Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ukraine, etc). The Paris/ile de France is a great example for every city on the northeast corridor but even Paris has drawbacks. All of those countries tho still don't accurately reflect how we can roll out transit here.
Again the whole point is we're supposed to be building transit that works in our towns and states. Nobody has been creative & determined enough to make it work, but that's not because it's impossible. Only because of decades of corporate propaganda and a new helplessness culture most Americans seem to accept when discussing quality of life (or lack thereof) here. It's really not difficult to plan & execute transit, like at all. It's only difficult to convince stubborn Americans to do something good for them (that happens to be good for everyone) because of this massive self-centered entitlement culture we deal with.
Unfortunately since I live in the middle of nowhere USA, there really is no public transportation around. If I'm lucky, I'll see a taxi once every 3 months, and that's about it
Asking if the cat had anything to say made me laugh more than i’d like to admit 😭💀
The cat is keeping you big as hell!
Sweden is indeed peak
@@HajimeKashimoOFFICIAL Nuh uh
The brightline in South Florida is one of the biggest cases of people are not educated/prepared for bullet trains in the US. What was supposed to be a high speed train actually operates at like 40-60 mph, negating the whole appeal of bullet trains. Additionally, so many people have died/cars have been destroyed because people IGNORE THE TRAIN ALERT SYSTEMS!? Literally all the deaths are due to people being dumb (excluding the ones to suicides) and at this point, most people think it’s just another instance of South Florida’s biggest industry: insurance fraud.
Not quite it runs at 110 mph
@@IndustrialParrot2816 as someone who’s taken it several times, it only runs at high speeds a small percentage of the time, especially in the first half of its journey through South Florida. The point being it doesn’t run at the ideal speed for most of the journey, thus not making it a high speed train, whatever speed they hope to run at or not.
Tugg opening this video in a way that feels like slander to us southerners (fair) for not taking the subway (unfair) when WE WOULD IF WE COULD.
I've heard stories told of these entities called "passenger trains" and "Busses" but its not like I've ever seen one.
Ha ha
Right? California cities have trains and occasionally busses but the rest of us are straight up effed
Right? I'm an 8 hour walk from anything, I def need a vehicle lol
Living in the south of Mississippi we ain’t got passenger trains and we barely have busses. However they are in the middle of trying to put together a train from nola to somewhere in Florida I think.
Part of the point though is that we need public transit. If a city doesn't have public transportation it's because the people in the city have decided not to have it. If you want it, you need to make your desires known. Write to your elected officials and all that
Born too late to be a medieval knight
Born too early to live in space
Born just in time to watch Big Tugg
ill never be a roman
ill never reach the stars
born too late for great wars too early for mars
Born too late to fight in the Middle East
Born to early to fight in the Middle East
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@@Epsilon1111-c5kI don't mean to be tell you what to do, but please refrain from making this type of commentary.
@@betuna9487 why what’s bad about my comment
Here in Taiwan the subway (MRT) is super clean, always on time and about $1 (USD) to get where you need to go... It's amazing
bro when you said amtrack isn’t that bad i shivered, i’ve ridden the train 4 times and only once did it go SLIGHTLY smoothly, the first time someone thought they could beat the train and got hit by it, which i understand wasn’t their fault but the train didn’t even start moving for 4 hours and this was at one of the first few stops, leaving the train to be 8 hours late when we finally got on, and made us 14 hours late when we finally got to our destination ! the next we were only 2 hours late when we were dropped back off which is the smoothest it has ever gone, the next thing that happened the brakes caught on fire because they didn’t do proper maintenance and got caught in the wheels, so that was super fun and because they told us when they had us evacuate the train not to grab all of our suitcases and things we couldn’t even get on another train and had to wait at a dingy train station for 3 hours, and then since we were the first stop on the way back it wasn’t late but we were once again 7 hours late getting to our destination and wouldn’t provide us any food, amtrack is actually so bad, never use it, do anything in your power to not use it for long distances, invest in other public transportation and beg for different or better passenger trains
"thought they could beat the train" and "wasn't their fault" are mutually exclusive
Tug’s ability to cover hot button political issues from an overtly partisan perspective in a way that makes the content seem completely apolitical is unmatched
hes literally on the left wtf are you talking about
@@ambrosesky my brother in Christ read the comment, do you know what “overtly partisan” means??
@@ambrosesky translation “Tugs ability to be a leftie while giving off the vibe he is speaking about things apolitically is impressive”
@@RunD.Ones1sin fairness, who the hell knows what 'partisan' means
Electric cars don't work well in the winter
And he said people who don't like Electric cars suck
He is center left
i dont even want a car, i want nothing more than to just hop on a trolley and go to work, but as someone who takes a bus there is always sketchy people. people get shot on busses, rob people, get in fights, etc. it feels so unsafe taking a bus which is why i dont take them unless necessary. not to mention half of the bus drivers dont gaf unless it messes with their time.
The good thing about public transport as well is it promotes walking since you can't just drive to where you need to go. Also I'm lucky to live somewhere where most of the time I've been on a bus, I've felt safe
I know right :(
visit north europe sometime if you can, i live in finland and we have one of the best metro and city bus transport, theres always a bus or a metro every 5-10 minutes to the spot you want, everyone is very quiet and theres very few fire arms overall (usually only police and hunters own guns) so it doesnt even cross my mind really. sometimes two drunk people talk loudly, but if they are really loud the bus driver will make get get off on the next stop, overall people like the peace and quiet in public, also part of the reason why we are kinda lonely.... lol
I live in Japan and while it’s fun to idealize the punctuality and speedy bullet trains as a tourist, there’s nothing more exhausting than having to commute over an hour every day to work - packed like sardines into a hot car surrounded by sweaty salarymen.
Not to mention almost once a day here entire lines have to stop because someone unalived themselves by jumping in front of a train.
I’d do anything to have my own personal space again.
Japan isnt the only place with public transport 🤷♂️
@@BrakeCoach he mentioned it specifically in the video and I wanted to give my opinion on the one I’ve experienced 🤷♂️
I've commuted regularly on US public transit which has the added bonus of being regularly packed and filthy and I would STILL say an hour on public transit is less stressful than an hour of driving.
I have lived in Paris and London for a while, using their subway lines to get to school and even taking public buses to travel outside the city.
Vs in Orlando FL, where I would have to add at least 3 hours to my commute and I often got left in downtown at midnight because the 1 bus that took me to the one train station would just. Not show up
I love taking the bus everyday. It makes me feel like I’m a part of my community. I see the same regulars all the time, I chat and say good morning to the same drivers. I even bought one of my favourite drivers a retirement gift when he left. Like yea there’s gonna be people who are tripping balls or who are talking too loudly on their phone sometimes but like I said they’re just a part of the community lol. Just sit back and observe
Yep I ride the King County Metro Route [REDACTED] from [REDACTED] to [REDACTED] In Seattle
Individualism is also one of the biggest reason for the widespread decline in use of public transport.
People don't form communities anymore and as a consequence are lonely. So they try to mend it by trying to get famous. How do you get famous? Appear different, unique, rich.
But it doesn't cure that loneliness and instead grooms younger people into this route, hence continuing the cycle of shitshow.
14:15 there's a widely unknown drug trade that occurs on amtrak because it has basically no security and almost nobody rides it. many large scale distributors would not use amtrak to move drugs if they had higher ridership, but the drug trade is too profitable for the US to step in/interfere in any way. if ridership increases, illegal drug availability will decrease.
If Inside Out was about me Tugg would be my Anger
being a brit and hearing tugg talk about trains is crazy. I get a train almost everyday to college and you can get a train to literally anywhere, i couldnt imagine not having access to trains or buses (yes i know they can be crap sometimes but usually there are other options to the cancelling of them)
Big Tugg going hard on this one. Not enough people see cars as a huge problem when it clearly is. It's a domino effect that infects every aspect of our lives, from safety to convenience to where we live and how we live, to how expensive our lives are. You didn't mention that owning a car is vastly more expensive overall.
Need a car for my job, agree with most of the sentiment apart from the full on rejection of cars.
@@__-tp4tm 10:36 - it's not a complete rejection of cars. It's about reprioritising our transport systems
@@krmn "Not enough people see cars as a huge problem when it clearly is."
My comment isnt for the Video, it's a response to your comment.
@@__-tp4tm It being a huge problem does not disregard its usefulness. I have a problem with the ubiquity of cars and our dependence on them. That is a huge problem.
@@krmn Yeah, would've been a good addition to the claim of it being a problem.
Cuz most the time when people state a huge problem with absolutely no mention of it's usefulness in contrast, they just be hatin' on it.
People can't read your thoughts, especially not through a comment.
I actually rode a bullet train on my trip to japan. The thing was so fast it was unbelievable, and extremely smooth! I highly recommend it if you ever consider going to japan.
I still say we need those Futurama tubes
11:04 "every other country can figure this out why can't we?" should be America's slogan
God, I wish my city wasn't so spread out. It would take me an hour and 2 minutes to take over transportation, 49 minutes to bike, and 15 minutes to drive. Like, it's just not even comparable. I miss living in DC, Metro there was so good and I didn't realize how good I had it
My stepdaughter wanted to take the train from Portland to our central Washington city, but the closest it would go was Wishram, which is a one horse town if I ever saw one. A village if you will. So we had to drive three hours round trip twice to pick her up and drop her off. Thankfully she got her own car so she can use the same amount of gas that we did when she used the train, without the extra inconvenience on our part
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What’s baffling is that an unlimited REGIONAL pass for all transit in the DFW metroplex (and a bit outside of it too!) isn’t even $200/month
You could MAYBE get 3 tanks of gas on that, MAYBE. That’s 2 round trips from Dallas to Fort Worth if you push it. And then you have insurance, and maintenance, and tolls, and the car itself is NEVER under $10k these days even if it’s a used junker…
And because it’s seen as “low class” or “welfare” they won’t put it in cities like Frisco outside of extremely limited shuttles to very specific places and school buses.
$200/month is just about what I was paying for only the car insurance in Los Angeles, not to mention fuel or maintenance.
Probably a little bit of an exaggeration, $200 will easily fill the average tank 4 times. Fair points on everything else though, the current barrier to entry just to simply own a car is too expensive for a lot of people right now
@@freeroyal378 it depends on your area and your car. Gas around here is about $4/gallon on average and most people have 20 gallon tanks if you average it out so a tank would be $80. Between Dallas and Fort Worth it’s around 35 miles on average, but that’s a direct line along highways that can and DO get backed up for hours on end, so you also have to factor in stall time.
That’s also if you’re going city limit to city limit, and those are MASSIVE cities. If you’re going from one far end to an opposite far end in the other city, it can creep up into nearly 45+ miles… on a direct line.
@@Ac3_Silvers Yup, fosure. A 20 gallon tank is still on the high end even for larger SUV’s, so I think the average is more like 15 for a regular car. Although sure, a bigass F350 super duty is gonna be a 50 gallon tank, but I wouldn’t put any truck that big in the same category as a typical car you’d want for commuting 45+ miles daily. Pretty sure average price for 87 gas in the US is more like $3.50, which would be right around 50 bucks for a 15 gallon tank.
As a DFW local who's doing some stuff with improving PubTrans in the region, its not as cut and dry at "its for poor people so we dont want it." It applies to an extent, but for DART (the Dallas side) the agency is funded by taking half of all sales tax from member cities. Large cities/suburbs like Arlington, Frisco, Grand Prairie, etc. dont have the ability to cut out 50% of their sales tax from their budget, and DART doesnt have the capability at the moment to even attempt to imlement new services for them since they're cash strapped and facing funding... conundrums, from some of the suburbs. Some other cities have occassionally worked with DART for public transit for most of the non member cities it just isnt financially possible to make that happen.
I took the bus for 2 years when i lived in las vegas. And it was miserable between all the junkies constantly bugging you for money, every other stop someone would try to fight the bus driver for not giving them a free ride. Not one day during my time on public transport were any of the buses on time. Id have to leave my house for work 4 hours early and transfer 3 times to go 10 miles. Id like to not have to own a car it would definitely save a lot of money but the buses here are such a waste of time, on several occasions i would just walk to and from work because it took about the same time as taking the bus.
yes bc Las Vegas isn't doing anything to make public transit better
Rather build the hyperloop or something
Can't culturally shame folks for using public transportation and purposely kneecap it then turn around and act as if it's an innate fact of public transportation
solution: everyone drive their own bus to work each day then everyone is using pubtrans
9:45 Japan has such good public transportation that once a Bullet Train left 20 seconds EARLY, and the train company put out a big apology saying it was unacceptable (Just to get extra specific, I forget the exact time but lets say the train was supposed to leave 45 seconds after 9;06, the train still left at 9;06, just 25 seconds after rather than 45 seconds)
As someone who relied heavily and and basically lived on septa for the first 24 years of my life, I agree that public transit sucks. However it would be helpful if it were more available in the suburbs, that was the only reason I got my license, moved to the burbs after I got married and had a kid on the way and public transit up here isn't reliable.
The first time I was planning on going to Brooklyn I looked into taking trains and buses but I became too much of a gas-ass and it seemed too complicated.
The tolls however are insane and I wish that wasn't the case. I commend you for taking trains to come down this way, I wouldn't have the patience
SEPTA can be great
Wanting to drive into Brooklyn while living in a Philly suburb is kinda mental illness.. NJT, Amtrak, and septa suck in a global context, but they provide good transportation during the day, and with a little thought it's quite easy. Probably 2 hours tops with "septa Amtrak MTA combo" but that requires forethought on booking Amtrak at a good price. Taking septa and njt to NYC is also possible but low-key sucks Imo.. but I would rather get hit by car than drive into NYC.
There’s another thing to consider in this too. Tire emissions. They add to microplastics. There’s no research to prove that microplastics are actually harmful but obviously having literal tons of invisible pieces of plastic/rubber everywhere (including our lungs and every organ) cannot be an okay thing
As someone who lives in a rural area I ask what public transit? I mean yeah I could walk to work it's only like 2 miles but I'm a janitor and I don't want to walk 2 miles to then walk 5 miles around a department store sweeping.
That's pretty weak two miles
Do you actually live in a "rural" area tho? Especially if your work is only two miles away...
I ask because 80% of Americans (and increasing) live in urbanized areas. I was raised in central NJ and so many of my classmates would claim we're in a rural farm town largely because they had no concept of how others lived. We could take a 1,15 train to NYC lmao.
So its highly unlikely you live in an actually rural area but:
2 miles is an easy bike commute (biking is always part of improved mobility in society, people all around the world bike to/from work in all kinds of weather). Bonus for biking is that you'll live healthier longer if you bike.
In low density urbanized areas, say outer PA, the plains states, and the southwest, buses would easily be able to connect housing communities with the centralized downtowns that have existed for a while.
In the MOST rural places, northern Wyoming, eastern Montana, inhabited Alaska, fixed trains would actually be a great solution as they have the lowest cost of operation & easiest to scale. And when dealing with extremely rural communities it'd actually be quite simple to plan where exactly everyone in a community would need to go.
Every transit plan needs to be built with & for the people who live there. There is a mode of transit that's feasible for literally everyone on the planet, it's really just a matter of finding good examples (say Switzerland as a model for NJ) and applying what already works to our lifestyles.
Overall a 2 mile commute is very very short. With high speed rail you could do a 100mi commute in the same time it takes you to walk those 2 miles (but super commuting is not ideal).
@@ShouPow The population of my town is under 10,000 with nearest town to it being 5 miles with pop of 60 and beyond that is just fields and forest for miles in all directions. the only trains are freight trains and bus stops don't exist.
I live in a very rural area, as in from my house there is 20 miles of unpaved road u til you get to "Town" and in the last census, Town had less than 400 people. We get 55 inches of snow in the winter and temperatures as low as -20⁰F every winter. The nearest walmart or mcdonalds is 75 miles away.
No amount of public transit is going to help the truly rural areas without bankrupting the country. For urban and suburban areas, I can see it, but private vehicles will ALWAYS need to be an option.
@@zelatoth yes that is the issue, the lack of passenger transportation infrastructure... Most of this country is criss-crossed with freight tracks and using them for passenger transit is quite simple. It's even easier to put buses on the road.
You're just describing why you can't take transit right now, not why transit isn't feasible.
Also in extreme winter conditions, rail transit (tbh any public transit) is superior to personal vehicles for safety & reliability. It's much easier to winterize railroads and transit Right of way than winterizing a whole state and making sure everybody has salt, snow chains, and all wheel drive.
Places with fewer people, again, make transit planning and execution easier, not more difficult. We're both speaking to the same problem: rural folks don't have access to good transit, but they should and it's not hard to do so.
in toronto most of our transit consists of streetcars and our subway, streetcars are a very big part of our transit and are a very popular choice for getting people to school or to work or just around the city
Tugg is beginning to evolve into Not Just Bikes
Tugg mentioning my city on a video was not on my Bingo card. The Metro system in Medellín, Colombia, is actually pretty good. It has different types of vehicles that cover a pretty good part of the city, including those cable cars you showed, trains, a tram, and many buses covering areas that those types of vehicles can't reach. It's reliable, for the most part, and you can move from one vehicle to another, either without having to pay for another ticket or paying a small fraction of it.
I love ur pfp! I loved watching gravity falls lol
I don’t think he went into enough detail about how hard it is to use public transportation here. So much of this country is mostly empty, I don’t live in that small of a town and the only public transportation here is a train going to the biggest city near us which is like 30 minutes away.
Exactly and so much here isn’t even walkable to walk to them etc
You realize these are choices made by your local town boards and city planners and zoning laws? These are all changeable (just like they were changed for the car). It's not immutable that some American towns are poorly organized, and again, it's not even the majority case for where the majority of Americans live.
Also if you're in a place with a 30min train to a city, that sounds like it's pretty urban and your area would likely benefit from a feeder service into that urban train. Like a bus or light metro.
I loved this but I had to giggle because I live in the middle of nowhere and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a train in my life 😂
I love how this channel has become somewhat educational now. It's hilarious
my town recently built a bike lane! although theres only one bike lane and its barely half a mile long
I love that better public transit and pedestrians infrastructure literally makes driving better for drivers, yet drivers absolutely hate the idea of anyone having the freedom to choose how they travel. To drivers they basically all think you need to drive or end yourself. They prove it daily by hitting everyone and everything they. I missed off a food truck after they tried to run me off the side of the road I turned in to them so they had to hit me or swerve and miss me. He chose the later and honked at me as if I was the asshole. I never left the shoulder.
In Britain the tube/subway service is free if you push though the barriers and buses too if you say you’ve forgotten your wallet 🇬🇧
Girl that's called care evasion. It can happen everywhere. In German speaking places there usually aren't even fare gates. Most light rail and streetcars don't have fare gates either 🙄
@@ShouPow it’s a moral standpoint. If they didn’t embezzle and wank away funds we’d be able to afford free public transport.
My uncle is a (retired) bus driver and the guy is crazy. In a fun way. His bus got stuck in traffic and decided to lighting everyone’s mood by yelling “who wants to party?!?” And the blast EDM thoughout the bus.
Parents in areas with shit transit have my sympathy but everyone else, kills me to see lines of cars with just the driver
I've had dreams about public transportation for the past 2 days and every one of them ended in me dying trying to get home from Philadelphia. I feel like this is my calling to get on a train to Philly because honestly I really wanna
I love driving my car as much as the next guy but DAMN Just the thought of global warming made me have a small panic attack. I’m just 1 dude like WTF am I going to do about it
As a car person, I also love public transit. If more people used public transit (including me) cars on the road or in cities and those who have cars made the conscious decision that they need a vehicle to do something public transit can't do and traffic wouldn't be as bad when I drive for work (I may be a senior in college but I work on film sets during the summer and driving is required)
4:51 im starting to think that everyone who watched who framed roger rabbit had a different experience because every time that movie is brought up it sounds like a different movie from the last time i heard about it
Tugg, stop avoiding the question. What are your thoughts on the current economic crisis in Sri Lanka, and what do you think we can do to fix it?
I want Tugg to acknowledge me more than I want to live
@@The_Sri_Lankan_economy hi im big tugg, im on an alt account, i dont acknowledge you and i dont care if you live or die! :D - big tugg
@@The_Sri_Lankan_economy get well soon :)
I keep telling him he'll go to hell if he doesn't, but he hasn't listened yet.
Who gives a shit? It's their problem
Tugg we don't face our fears we ride them 🌪️ 0:14
I am NOT going back to my ex. I know he sent you. 😐
TORNADO WRANGLER HELL YEAH
LOVED THAT MOVIE
I spent a summer in Denver, i loved that the public transit passes were so cheap and discounted for certain people (senior citizens, youth, people with disabilities, first responders, etc...) but i was always shocked at how poorly upkept the stations were. Dirty with broken escalators, sometimes thered be needles on the floor, and untrained security. Id have used it way more if i felt safe 😅
American public transport is bad, not public transport in general
True
Taking the train in Tokyo during commuting hours in the summer is literally hell. Plus most of the people here do not wear deodorant, the stations are always hotter than outside. People pass out waiting for the trains. People get shoved or jump on to the tracks. I like having the trains but the system is not perfect at all. They speed to meet the schedule so people get knocked down or throw up from the rocking and there have been a few trains that jump the tracks and kill dozens of people. I’m sick of people acting like Japan is a utopia. There are a lot of things that totally suck here.
So true, I live here and the daily commute is exhausting and stressful
@@neruoka bot stole your comment btw
@@Erusean_pilot glad someone recognized my genius 😮💨
As someone who uses the London Underground, the most used metro service on the planet. I would take that daily over the death trap that is car transport
You can buy a car in Tokyo then.
I saw plenty of personal cars while visiting.
Even a freaking Hummer driving through Shibuya.
Or a moped, or an electric bike.
You have choices.
Americans do not.
You WILL sit for 2hrs in traffic in the morning, and 2hrs in the afternoon.
You WILL pay $10,000/year for that car and it WILL lose value really quickly.
And you WILL have to live with the fact that you have a pretty high chance of being disabled or killed on it.
My town has a bus system. The closest bus stop to me is over a mile away, and the closest bus stop to my work is about 6 blocks.
Also, I have a set schedule of 8-4.30. The bus runs at 7am (would get to my work at 8:30 and 6 for home.
And I have kids to get from day care, a bus isn't feasible for me to use at all. But I would if I could. Lol
Oilfield worker here, even if you got rid of every vehicle on the planet 10 years ago it wouldn't have stopped the drilling. If you use soap, plastic, or beauty products then you'd still be buying the raw. Oil makes the modern world go round and the only thing that's gonna change that is the world dying with us
Good to see bigtugg in his Not Just Bikes era lmao
This coming up on my notifications a day after my uncle died in a car accident is wild
hope you’re doing alright.
wow thats insane. you can do this
As a car guy, I do agree. I mean the worse thing happened to a car guy is not the goverment banning cars but getting your car got rammed by some random idiots on wheels. Plus if you're onto motorsports, a racetrack built nearby is great (except of that dumb racetrack vs suburban backlash). Or if you like driving, a clearer road would be great.
Be like Japan, go to work with public transport by day, Illegal street drifting on empty road at night.
0:01 Is that world at war audio? To answer my question, yes. Yes, it is.
Haha good catch
Me, a blue collar worker with no real hope of ever being able to take public transportation due to my hours and city infrastructure limitations: 😅
damn
nobody asked
Imagine how much more community minded we would all be if we didn’t drive everywhere. People do not understand why I don’t drive. They can’t comprehend it. I have a little e-scooter and if I need six bags of mulch for the garden and a curtain rod I just stand on the bags and joust my way down the street. For real. It’s just better. I wish our whole societies weren’t built around roads. What a waste.
that sounds absolutely horrifying and dangerous but that is so awesome of you. i love seeing people bike and scoot(????) everywhere with grocery bags and just to travel. and itd also be so much better if everything wasnt 3 thousand miles away. trying to go to the store? walk down 7 flights of stairs bc the elevator doesnt work and then you have to cross like 9 roads and 4 dont have pedestrian crossing and none have bike lanes then get almost hit off the road and woohoo youre there after an hour and 45 minutes! now go back with your $600 dollars worth of groceries :) likeAGH MAKE IT CLOSER GIVE US COMMUNITY
Even in a big city, people outside of cars are so much nicer. Riding a bike (or the bus) everywhere has made me feel like I’m actually part of the local community.
also, Bike trailers and cargo (e-)bikes have gotten really good. If you’re looking to upgrade your vehicle.
If you ever have small children you'll understand why driving is essential lol
@@biancanicholls3683 right and people have had small children for millennia without cars. And even in the time of cars still live without cars in places with adequate transit.
I get if you don't have transit, but it's quite possible to live with kids in the US and not have a car.
Also not to mention the social stunting suburbia & car dependency foists onto children.
@@ShouPow let me rephase, essential for my mental health lol
“Like being introduced to a stranger’s bedroom” like Air BnB? Lol
I really wish we had better public transport, or even just mass transit at all in some places in the US, but even if we did I just know that there are people that would make it uncomfortable and trash it in no time.
I think you know who would trash ot
I mean transit exists in NJ and NYC, possibly the "dirtiest" places in the country and it's frankly fine. Yes I've pooed on the NJT outta desperation and I'm still alive to tell the tale.
Stop it with the urban fears and thinly veiled racism.
Finally! a topic I learned 2 years ago from Not Just Bikes! The problem is very existant in Canada and where I live in Canada is in a straight line by the US (perfect for...idk maybe a high speed rail) and I live in a suburban area with no car and that's...ughhh
Imagine closing an ESCALATOR off to use because it stopped working
10:48 its totally possible to achieve in my country we have great public transport and it’s very safe minus the occasional terror attack that blows up a bus everyone has a car but it’s faster to take the train or take the car to the train station also we don’t have public transportation on Saturdays due to religious reasons
0:41 Well, that's terrifying tugg
7:12 really solidifying that terror there tuggster
god tugg it’s 1am and now that’s all i’m gonna think about
7:12 really solidifying the terror there Tuggster
"We are so fucked." Yep. I dont plan to live past 40. That is only 13 years away. Human greed is killing the planet. So just enjoy life while you can.
I am 40. I didn't plan on this either. Just so you know, we've all been saying the same things for the last 30 years. It's a slow circling of the drain.
Reject doomerism. A better world is possible.
Doomerism is so cringe dude
Chill out on the Doomerism. Maybe humans aren't the world-killers you think they are. And what if you do life past 40? That's way too short.
@@nicolashromyk5397id suggest looking into global methane and carbon/nitrous oxide levels in the atmosphere. It's reality man
Went to Japan last year.... We took the train and subway everywhere... It was amazing
In California the Hov lane ends for the stupid TOLL ROADS 😡
The AmTrack is cool though... It's smooth enough I can paint my nails on it. Which yes I've only done when no one else is in the same car as me😅😅
In my city of Riverside public buses are free for the summer and they run a special for Fridays where it's only 25¢. Also they give out bus passes if you get public assistance ❤
In Australia the bus cost 50 cents to get on a bus all over the country as far as i can tell
In China pretty much the entire country and half of east Asia is connected by highspeed train. There's busses everywhere and you even can call drones to charge your EV 😂
God only knows what my conservative family would think of the idea of drones coming to charge my car
I love Tugg's videos they always give me such a crippling feeling of existential dread for the future of humanity
9:48 except for the movie bullet train
The stigma around public transportation is so insane. My town even though it’s pretty big is weirdly shaped so the bus stops are like 20-30 minutes away from any buildings especially my neighborhood and there’s like no sidewalks, my town was built for cars not people. I was never taught how to use buses or trains bc it’s seen as a poor person/homeless person thing and it’s where weird people would be.
Big Tugg is my adult version of Saturday Morning Cartoons
14:45 there’s a city in Canada called London in Ontario
I think trains and busses should have decontamination every 15-30 minutes where they release like febreeze from the ceiling
The US is a weird, weird place. I cannot wrap my head around how public transport can be something that people are vehemently against. Some people are really fucking strange. Great video though, Tugg! Have an awesome week! Peace from me-a Swedish woman, who's living in Norway :)
Well cities are litteraly built around the car not busses plus it's a freedom thing lots of people live out side the city the work in so public transit doesn't work well ontop the public transit we do get is destroyed and never maintained people seem to forget the usa is like all of Europe but with newer cities alot of Europe wasn't made for cars so people don't use cars
@@domicci4460all this comment says to me is that you don’t know what trains are.
I dont think I’ve ever met anyone who’s against the expansion of public transport here in the US. More just like the current public transport offerings suck, and cars will always be necessary for a majority of those living outside of major cities. Building a robust interconnected public transport is probably way easier to accomplish in small countries. I think people forget the entire US is like 20x larger than any one European country
I think the people here would love trains and public transport everywhere but nothing ever changes here it’s all about cars and it’s horrible a lot of places here aren’t even safe to walk sidewalks just vanish or aren’t a thing. Things need to change
@@thehousecat93 I know trains I used to use then for work the problem is cities are built around cars unlike Europe countries or again countries
1:06 it’s time to party like 2023 (cyberpunk 77 reference)
Based reference
9:32 CANADA 🦅🦅🦅🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁🍁🍁🦫🦫🦫⛰️⛰️⛰️
Dude I've been saying this shit for years. I got hit by a car and a police officer told me that I should have been wanting a visibility fast during the daytime.
Fuck cars
As in, wearing a hi-viz vest? That's a crazy thing to say to a car victim! Not to mention the fact that the science on whether hi-viz actually helps with making you visible to car drivers is murky at best
During the daytime? Actually insane. I wear hiviz/reflective clothing at night when I’m running or biking. I think it’s the reflective strips that do more good than the hiviz but they usually come combined. When a headlight hits reflective, it freakin glows. But during the daytime, with no directional light? I think the CO from all the cars has gone to the officer’s head…
Bro that's insane but unsurprising. The amount of victim blaming for pedestrians and cyclist is insane. "Look both ways before crossing" bro I can't count how many 2 ton cars who don't look both ways for pedestrians when rolling through stops and right on red.
@@jamesclawson9243”you don’t understand, I HAVE to run every red light I see! I’m IMPORTANT and red lights don’t APPLY to me.” -average car user.
12:49 I’m over here
go get em, tiger
The hero we all need
NO FUCKING WAY COLOMBIA WAS MENTIONED it was a jump scare, not gonna lie. I had to pause de video to process this
I would use Uber 90% less if the busses in my city just ran later, but the last bus stops running just before 8 pm, and it's not even the one that I would take home from work.
Btw, I hate escalators. Just thought I should put that out there. I don't just hate them because of my Final Destination level fear that they occasionally induce, but because as a concept for use by everyone, they're stupid. Having them for the sake of the mobility of people who actually need them is nice, but I bet we could do a good two-for-one health patch in this country by replacing the majority of escalators with regular stairs. It would decrease traffic congestion for public transit, while also forcing people to exercise; I don't enjoy exerting myself, but God gave me two legs.
I feel like they’re not great for people with mobility issues, in that wheelchair users or people with walkers would have difficulty using them, so for full accessibility you need elevators along with your escalators. The primary purpose I see is in some subway stations, there are escalators that are I s2g 5 or 6 stories tall, tall enough that stairs would be a workout for even fit people, and that see enough throughput that elevators just couldn’t keep up.
Yeah, I can see where you might be coming from but I can't imagine the Washington or Atlanta Metro users wanting to replace their massive fricken cold war-era escalators with stairs
Toronto has many stations with stairs next to escalators. When I've just gone shopping or am lugging a bunch of stuff, I go escalator
When I'm without all the stuff and the escalator is full-ish, I take the stairs
Personally, It's another quality of life / convenience thing that keeps me wanting to take transit
Bro I would fuck with a subway SO HARD. I'm 19 and don't have my yet license because I hate driving (and generational trauma), and all we have is a damn MART bus that is not reliable in the slightest. So I just have to annoy my parents to take me everywhere :)
FISH POPULATIONS ARE DWINDLING!
15:28 bus lanes