Once you actually crunch the numbers, the specific monorail projects proposed for this corridor are clearly inferior to the specific heavy rail projects proposed. Not saying monorail is bad everywhere; it's just that the specific proposal is wrong here. nandert has several long videos explaining the details.
An arborist or botanist would be good, but this situation calls more for a Landscape Architect. Allowing more light below a transit line would be great, since I see a lot of dead space underneath the Expo Line, though that's usually because Metro probably doesn't want to maintain the landscape.
Been waiting for this. Love the progress from the first episode. Even though I live 11000 km away, I'm interested in learning more about the area's struggles and success stories. After all, one can always prep for the future by learning about the woes of cities bigger than one's own.
Oh no, please no more gadgetbahns! All of these things promise the moon and then fall on their face! Monorail always was and still is a terrible idea. Some cities and jurisdictions have inadvertently locked themselves into this technology based on the hype. Some have even made it work, but at a much higher cost and still with less capacity and numerous drawbacks over conventional rail. Why would we want to repeat this mistake if we already know that conventional electric rail has won? Monorail lost, it didn't replace regular rail. Please let it go and move on. Conventional rail is such a finely tuned machine at this point that it is insane to choose it's expensive ugly monorail cousin. To this day monorails are still all turnkey solutions with zero cross-compatibility that lock a jurisdiction into artificially high prices practically forever. Let's just build a nice cutting-edge conventional rail system which we can upgrade in a few decades to whatever the latest technology is! Let's leave the gadgetbahn vaporware to those cities that have something to prove or want to "put themselves on the map". That's where those belong! LA needs an actual high-capacity, high-performance system with gobs of extensibility and adaptability to account for future increases in passenger numbers!
As a Chinese American, I kind of cringed when you said "ChongKing". It's pronounced more like "chong cheen". Also, just a tip, but your audio has a pretty echo-y sound, which you probably want to work on.
The elevated monorail plan avoids what would be the busiest station in the Metro system at UCLA. That’s a nonstarter Regardless of the technology, which you show the positives for, this is not a good application and the monorail proposals for Sepulveda are full of the kind dubious claims that made monorails infamous in The Simpsons
Great video! Subbed immediately! This is really high quality and lovely and I cannot wait to see where this goes! You are in LA, eh, have you seen this? www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-tongva-map/ It is not quite urban transport, but it is urban history. Los Angeles is still within the country of Tovaangar (which is within the states of California and the USA), and so you might find this article interesting!
Once you actually crunch the numbers, the specific monorail projects proposed for this corridor are clearly inferior to the specific heavy rail projects proposed. Not saying monorail is bad everywhere; it's just that the specific proposal is wrong here. nandert has several long videos explaining the details.
Hell no to monorail! Your arguments for it are pretty weak. Heavy rail is the way to go.
You could just build heavy rail elevated like BART
An arborist or botanist would be good, but this situation calls more for a Landscape Architect. Allowing more light below a transit line would be great, since I see a lot of dead space underneath the Expo Line, though that's usually because Metro probably doesn't want to maintain the landscape.
Been waiting for this. Love the progress from the first episode. Even though I live 11000 km away, I'm interested in learning more about the area's struggles and success stories. After all, one can always prep for the future by learning about the woes of cities bigger than one's own.
Amazing content as always- keep it up!
Oh no, please no more gadgetbahns! All of these things promise the moon and then fall on their face! Monorail always was and still is a terrible idea. Some cities and jurisdictions have inadvertently locked themselves into this technology based on the hype. Some have even made it work, but at a much higher cost and still with less capacity and numerous drawbacks over conventional rail. Why would we want to repeat this mistake if we already know that conventional electric rail has won? Monorail lost, it didn't replace regular rail. Please let it go and move on.
Conventional rail is such a finely tuned machine at this point that it is insane to choose it's expensive ugly monorail cousin. To this day monorails are still all turnkey solutions with zero cross-compatibility that lock a jurisdiction into artificially high prices practically forever. Let's just build a nice cutting-edge conventional rail system which we can upgrade in a few decades to whatever the latest technology is!
Let's leave the gadgetbahn vaporware to those cities that have something to prove or want to "put themselves on the map". That's where those belong! LA needs an actual high-capacity, high-performance system with gobs of extensibility and adaptability to account for future increases in passenger numbers!
As a Chinese American, I kind of cringed when you said "ChongKing". It's pronounced more like "chong cheen". Also, just a tip, but your audio has a pretty echo-y sound, which you probably want to work on.
So “Chong Cheen”, not “Chong Sheen”?
i wish LA Metro had more parking spots and faster commute/transfer times because the current infrastructure and system they have is not working well..
The elevated monorail plan avoids what would be the busiest station in the Metro system at UCLA. That’s a nonstarter
Regardless of the technology, which you show the positives for, this is not a good application and the monorail proposals for Sepulveda are full of the kind dubious claims that made monorails infamous in The Simpsons
Ever heard of the purple line?
@@qjtvaddict It's "UCLA" stop is also not on campus, but is a mile or two south on Wilshire.
Great video! Subbed immediately! This is really high quality and lovely and I cannot wait to see where this goes!
You are in LA, eh, have you seen this? www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-tongva-map/ It is not quite urban transport, but it is urban history. Los Angeles is still within the country of Tovaangar (which is within the states of California and the USA), and so you might find this article interesting!
We do not use the word transport we use the words public transportation or transit
Yeah, probably because transport can also refer to a type of ship.