The buses built in the US looks like the first oldest models I drove as a bus driver in Sweden back in 2000. Anything built after 2000 are space ships compared to the US ones.
@@michalandrejmolnar3715 the buses that run city and regional services in Sweden are done by private companies. In the region I live in they often get a 8 year contract and the biggest reason for them getting the contract is low prices and good service. The buses are interestingly getting nicer and nicer even though they should have gotten more basic to save money for those companies. The low floor buses were introduced in my town when I was 15 and they looked more modern than what i see IS buses look like today and I’m 47 years old. It was a weird feeling getting a job as a bus driver at 23 years old and getting to drive the buses that I used to ride to school.
And the new trend is for even those to have illegal "temporary" registration plates, no insurance, no inspection. and there is basically zero enforcement on this because the authorities know that driving is typically necessary even for the poor so they don't bother anyone unless they break other traffic laws. Cars get rolled over and have no functioning lights and still drive around. It is madness here.
i remember a morning that was especially unique that morning instead of the regural city bus a nice new man model arrived to transport me to school it had tinted windows, nice heating, modern comfy interrior, especially the seats, i slept the whole way and still remember it clearly after like 10 years, it was so quiet like a bentley or any very high end luxury car, tho it was a diesel, just loved it,never seen it again for like 3 years still using public transport it was a miracle with the dimmed light my god
Safety chapter, where it is inside-car safety is highlighted, while the rest of the world goes from the softest traffic to the most robust, where the pedastrians is the most vulnerable.
I like the fact that you are open to look outside of the american bubble...selfreflection is often missed in America 😂 ..not everything in America is the best😂
My city in Germany recently got some electric buses. They are really cool and incredibly quiet. They charge during the breaks they take and the terminal stations and also during the night in the depot. Love taking them! Also the main reason why I don't like trucks and SUVs is just because they're so large. I drive a Volvo V60, not exactly a big car by german standards but not a small one either. And I realised that this size is the limit for me. I wouldn't want anything bigger for the streets I drive through. Also driving a huge truck comes with certain negative stereotypes over here. If for example you're a guy you are compensating for certain ... physical SHORTcomings with such a huge car. And you probably think that you're the most important person on the road. So, even more reasons to better not be seen near such monsters. 😅
9:45 ironically sometimes it's the opposite! The cybertruck isn't allowed to be sold over here because of safety regulations Edit: looool this was brought up like 2 minutes later.
It looks like you guys in North America build your busses in a way, so that you can clean them regularly just with a high pressure cleaner on the inside and outside.
Here in Florida more specifically in pinnelas County we have buses made by guilic (i dont know how its spelled) and byd which is new here and trying to sleep on those buses after school is very uncomfortable and they generally look bland to me
The first interior shot shown looked just like I remember our local city buses in Uppsala, Sweden. Admittedly I only ride the bus a few times a year but they do rattle and shake, partly due to endless amounts of speed bumps.
@@Xanthopteryx This is from an Uppsala buss and it looks similar to your example. I note that from the high line number it's a regional bus, not local (city) so it may be slightly different from the city buses. th-cam.com/video/iJRJN9hjIu8/w-d-xo.html
@@Tguson I think most areas are pretty similar. Only in Stockholm alone there are several different types. This is what were there in end of 2022: • Ledbussar (articulated): 1 060, varav (of which): -Röda ledbussar (red articulated): 760 -Blå stombussar (blue rapid transit): 279 -Blå ledbussar, eldrivna (blue articulated electric): 21 • Övriga bussar (other): 1 336, varav (of which): - ”Vanliga” röda bussar (regular red): 503 -Eldrivna röda bussar (electric red): 10 -Boggiebussar (bogie): 770 -Dubbeldäckare (double decker): 39 -Midibussar (midi size): 9 -Minibussar (mini size): 5 There have also been one or two autonomous buses in regular traffic (tests) since 2018 but that ended autumn last year. This was to gather data and now they can start launching other non testing lines.
@@Tguson That shot looked like one of the earlier MB Citaro buses, as those already had the small, somewhat raised seat right by the first door on the left of the shot. Basically took those since elementary school in my city.
Growing up in London, buses were just a part of normal everyday life. Same with the tube and trains. And later trams. I never owned a car in the 40 years I lived there.
nice, not being forced to have and operate a car, saves you so much money. hopefully in the next few years London (and the rest of the UK) are able to expand their (safe and modern) cycle infrastructure. the more options we have to get around the better. more choice = more freedom
@@IWrockerWhen GM discontinued the fishbowl New Look buses in the 1970s many operators hated the new RTS buses that replaced them, to the point that they introduced the Classic bus in 1983. Again, in 1999, New Flyer introduced the futuristically styled Invero, which was also hated by operators.
Hard job. Poorly paid, irregular and split working hours, the toughest health test and annoying passengers. I have respect for that. Not everyone can handle nerves for long.
The socialist movements as far away in the past as 1870s had big influence on politics in which industrialization was big, even Bismarck reacted with concessions like government healthcare with which they wanted to take wind from their sails. After 1917 fascism was created to defeat the Soviet Union, then during and after WW2 had to make international concessions to the European socialist movements (Germany, UK, Austria, France, almost Italy, Nordic countries) and in comparison to the communist countries which legalized abortion, parental leave and guaranteed healthcare by 1918-1922
The socialist movements as far away in the past as 1870s had big influence on politics in which industrialization was big, even Bismarck reacted with concessions like government healthcare with which they wanted to take wind from their sails. After 1917 fascism was created to defeat the Soviet Union, then during and after WW2 had to make international concessions to the European socialist movements (Germany, UK, Austria, France, almost Italy, Nordic countries) and in comparison to the communist countries which legalized abortion, parental leave and guaranteed healthcare by 1918-1922
Yes unless you're outside of Germany i don't know anybody (except germans and not even all of them) who calls it M.A.N. the rest of the world just pronounces it as man.
Biggest problem with usa policys and regulation, is that usa does not seem to see what other countries do better and implement it. They just want to do their own thing😂 other countries understand that other countries might do stuff better and learn from eachother. Usa is in a bouble and don’t want to learn from oher countries. We in Norway take ideas from countries around the world. Even "bad"countries do some stuff better than other. We can all learn from eachother
Riga (Latvia) is far from perfect example (well, everybody knew that any big project would include some secret payments) but public transportation for me always felt "good stuff" here. Busses, troleys or trams (latest re-placement since need to rebuild old rails) all are comfy and even people who drives cars daily will often take them.
Yup i'm dutch and we have pretty much the best roads in the world (from my own experience) and its because we steel every good idee we see in any other country. You might have better ones in Norway but i only did around 200 miles there so i can't make a real assesment.
@@arturobianco848 roads in Norway are pretty safe but most roads are slow 70kmt or 80kmt is the most normal. I think many countries has better roads then Norway but we have hard terrain to build in. Montains and fjords everywhere. Ferrys etc. but yes very few people die in traffic accidents, even tho its ice roads. In 2021 86 people died in traffic accidents. But they are working to get it down to 0.- probably not possible but thats their goal and they are working on it all the time. Vison Zero In 2002, the Storting adopted Vison Zero. This is a vision of no one killed or seriously injured in road traffic. Ever since 1970, long-term and targeted traffic safety work has been conducted in Norway, and this has yielded results. The number of deaths per year has decreased from 560 in 1970 to about 100 in recent years. Don’t think its like that in the states.
When I went to New York on holiday in 1996, we caught a double decker bus from midtown to the World Trade Center. Whilst on the bus I was reading the old signage inside and realised it was a bus from Sheffield, England where I live. I’d probably already been on that bus years before it ever got to America.
I had a similar experience years ago in Glasgow (UK) with a river ferry. To my utter surprise, I saw signs with instructions in Dutch from the GVB (GemeenteVervoerBedrijf = gemeentevervoer bedrijf) Amsterdam. The old ferry for transport across the IJ had apparently been sold to the Scots.🙂🙃
I live in the UK. Not a major city, just a small town. I travel everywhere, every day by bus. To and rom work, between work sites when I have to work at more than one location, I go by bus for shopping and leisure trips an, if I need a care, I hire one - maybe two or three times a year. I didn't believe it for the longest time (I used to be a real petrol-legs) but it is surprisingly easy and convenient to use public transport as your main mode of travel. Fun fact. about ten years ago I went to visit some people at an event in Arse-End-Of-Nowhere, Indiana. I found a bus that would take me most of the way and a second local bus that would take me to the nearest town to the event. Then I got a cab to the actual event. When I turned up and told the folks how I got there, they couldn't have been more surprised if I told them I had teleported or dug a tunnel the whole distance. One local man told me that there weren't any bus services in the area and he found it incomprehensible that there were buses. Going home, he gave me a lift in his truck to the bus stop (three or four miles from his house) just so he could see me get on the bus he never knew existed. FYI, the local bus was a small minibus that doubled as a school bus at those specific times of day and was very comfortable. The Indianapolis bus was like a brick on wheels with what appeared to be NO suspension and zero seat padding. It was barely one step up from being transported as freight - the single worst bus I have ever travelled on and I have been on 100 year old, historic buses in a transport museum!
i live 12 miles from was 2nd largest city Birmingham. i was shocked i could not get in to Coventry before 8am and in wales 12 miles trip i could be in Wrexham before 8am. so i got job in Cov and i had to quite that job as you expect 8am in to city should be no issue. and from my home Kenilworth to hospital that can take hour but ten min drive, or hospital in the city it multi buses and over hour for 20 min drive max and it costs 2x times plus what it cost me in car inc parking charge. id never use a bus again, unless you want to be miles from were you want to be or spend a hell of a lot longer getting to places
FYI, I only got my driver's license at age 39, because before that I could just walk or take public transport everywhere. It was only when I moved to the countryside that I needed a car. At 37 I got my motorbike license, but only because I wanted a motorbike.
I got my license at 26, after I lived in UK for few years. Could get away without driving for another few years, but good that I had my license by the time I started commuting for 30+miles, so that insurance was cheap. Also, I built some experience by then
In Poland we have trolleybuses, electric buses, CNG buses with engines from Cummins company- in Krakow they recently opened an engine factory, and traditional diesel buses.
It is indeed M.A.N which is an abbreviation for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg. (Machine factory Augsburg Nuremberg). Augsburg and Nuremberg are two cities in the German state of Bavaria. The company is a conglomerate that builds busses, trucks and diesel engines. It's part of Traton which is in its turn part of Volkswagen. Other parts of Traton are Scania and Navistar.
When I was a kid, busses were freedom for us. Used to go all over London on busses and the tube, during the school holidays. I'd imagine American kids are very reliant on family/friends for lifts everywhere?
Yea American kids usually walk/ride bicycles in their neighborhood but if they wanna go somewhere (to the mall, restaurants, school, etc.) they have to have their parents drive them or carpool with someone else
In many European countries kids of school/university age get discounts and or free travel on public transport, even trains, it not only promotes freedom of movement and independence for kids, but also greatly reduces/removes the need for parents to take kids to and from school, and reduces the number of cars near schools.
Here in Mexico City buses have their own exclusive lanes, often driving in the opposite direction of the car traffic and travel time is less than half the travel time. Also public transportation uses contactless payment e.g. with your phone.
It's the same in Sydney, bus express lanes! Tap on Tap off, easy transfer to another bus, train or ferry or tram with the same card or phone - not sure about the rest of Australia! 👍
I was living in The Netherlands for 5 years and working at Schiphol (Amsterdam) airport. There are I believe 12 routes connecting the airport with all adjacent areas by electric buses. Also, the regular buses with combustion engine are connecting the airport with most of the larger cities in 20km radius. And if there's no bus for you to go where you need to, you can simply hop on a train right underneath the airport itself and will take you almost everywhere. Netherlands has an amazing public transport infrastructure indeed.
Big city's yes, villages no. I have a friend in a village where bus drives till 5 once a hour, and in the weekend not at all, in the weekend he has to bike 1.5 hour to the nearest city, also everything closed on sunday😂
@@Daniel-qz8bp How often do busses go from remote rural villages in the US? .. Oh, never? I'll take the 'once an hour til 5' over 'never'. And shops are only closed on sundays in the very religious areas. In many towns, even smaller ones, shops are opened on sunday.
I'm a french bus driver and i can add that more people use the busses in europe because more and more cities taxes the park drive in town insanely, autorities want you to park your car outside the cities and take the busses. Another add is that if the busses become better for the passenger that's not the case for the driver, please constructors just put the doors buttons on the steering wheel we push it more than a hundred time a day and can't to it in a straight position in many busses.
Yes, Sydney is like that they definitely prefer people to use public transport and made it possible to catch a bus, tram, train or ferry approx every five minutes anywhere around the city and inner suburbs! Leave your car for the weekends, or just drive through!
There is a difference between a bus and a coach. Functionally buses are multi stop and coaches are point-to-point. But structurally a coach is designed to be more comfortable for long haul rides and may even have a toilet onboard.
Thats just an english distinction, in my country its called a Bus for both of them (well technicly we do have the same sort of distinctions but nobody really usses it).
@@daveofyorkshire301 In my language, Finnish, we do distinct those bus types but we don't have a single word for each of them. We just call them longhaul buses or local/city buses and from that you know which type we are talking about.
In German we just use a compound word, ‘Reisebus’ (literally: travel bus), for coaches. One definition is that don’t have any spaces designed for people to stand, something that city busses generally have.
Interesting detail, the Belgian (Flemish) bus builder Van Hool is bankrupt, largely thanks to the Flemish (state-related) public transport company "de Lijn", which preferred to order buses in China rather than award the order to Van Hool, despite the fact that In the Netherlands, enormous problems and defects were reported with the same Chinese buses. Van Hool is/was known worldwide for its quality. My 2 cents from Belgium.
I'm from the UK and it's not a matter of having a car or taking a bus, it's about having the option to choose. I have a car and most of the time it sits outside my house. I live on the edge of a small city so if I want to go into town I get the bus - it stops 3 minutes walk from my house, runs every 15 minutes all day, I don't have to find or pay for parking, or bother driving if I want to go to the next city I'll get buses and trains, if I want to stay longer or have a drink etc I can. If I'm going somewhere without convenient buses, late at night, or if I've got a load of stuff I'll take the car.
I would say the biggest problem in the US is the roads that are very big, this means a pedestrian has a hard time walking from one place to another as crossing a street is already a journey. But people that use a bus usually are pedestrians, meaning they will only use a bus to get to a place that is close to a bus stop. People transporting goods as groceries will rarely be seen in the US as most shops are not within walking distance from peoples homes, this is why everyone in the US needs a car.
Hello from Bulgaria ^_^ Talking about road safety, i have seen some very broken and rusty cars on the American roads. In my country I need to take my vehicle once an year to an authorized repair shop to get my car checked, like an annual doctor check up. If i don't do that my car will be stopped from having road privileges immediately by the first police officer that stopes me and I'll go home by foot. Does your vehicle go to a mandatory doctors check every year?
For short-ish metro city trips, durable seats and cushioning are usually comfy enough. Though my real gripe these days, is the seats on a bus going to the airport are MORE comfy than the economy seats on the plane!
In The Netherlands busses have a circulation plan to help board / exit passengers as quickly as possible: you can only get in at the front door and only exit at all the other doors. So people entering and exiting the bus will not have to struggle past each other. All my local busses are fully electric, which i like a lot as there's 4 per hour coming through the narrow street where I live. When the train is out it gets replaced by old fashioned diesel busses and it's then that i notice how loud conventional busses are.
"You can only get in at the front door" ... Yyyeah, try saying that at like ANY bus stop in the morning on a route to a college/university. Good luck. 😂😂
@@TheMrVengeance there's only one bus line that has an exception in the city where i work, and it only has 1 stop which is the end destination. That bus is a direct line to the university complex from the bus station and it is indeed enter at all doors. They even got footsteps painted on the platform to show where the doors will be when the bus stops at the platform so everyone can queue up. But if there were more stops on the way, those would go by loading in the front / exiting through the other doors.
Really, you could show some cool features in European busses, like the stop buttons for strollers and baby carriages and the bus (the running board) going down electrically to the level of the sidewalk, not only for them but also for old and disabled people.
Many busses in the US look like they were made in the 1980s, school busses do even resemble something from the 1950s. The harsh ride may be due to the use of normal truck chassis? It was like that in Europe in the past, but modern busses are designed from the ground up and do not share parts with trucks other than engines, the large manufacturers like Volvo, Scania, Mercedes and DAF design everything else especially for the use in busses, the bodies are mostly built by independent companies like Van Hool, VDL, Setra, Dennis and Neoplan to name a few, although the truck companies have also ready to use bus models of their own. Electric busses are becoming the normal here in the Netherlands, in order to keep the streets clear of overhead wires these are battery electric and are charged via a pick up on the roof which can be lifted against a live rail at the bus station where the service starts/ends.
It’s just how it is here. With the importance and development of the automobile industry here and the generally young age of our country we have individual cars for each families as our main mode of transportation.
"Having your own car has some benefits as well [...]" It's important to remember that it's not either, or. I ride the bus, mostly in connection with train commutes. I use my bicycle when it's within my city. I also own a car, mostly used for longer trips or if I need to haul something/someone. I think it's often outlined as if you can only ever use one mode of transport. I cycle to work on most days but if the weather is sh** I'll take the car for those 4km. Personal transportation can easily be a mix of different traffic modes. Granted, they have to be available and viable...
but here is a question that I think most people would ask themselves...if I am already paying 30-40 grand for a car...why am I only using it for some trips...why cycle in hot or cold or rain when I can just take the air conditioned box with my music and navigation...where I have the freedom to just go wherever I want after work instead of just going home? I am paying for the car anyway, regardless of how much I use it, so why not get my money's worth out of it?
@@SummitCoyote The "mostly" in my comment is doing a lot of work here. If the weather is.. questionable, there is a high likelihood that I will take the car. It is cheaper to leave your car in the driveway if you don't have to use it. Driving your car costs money. More miles on the odometer will lower the value of the car. Every mile driven uses gas. In Denmark where I live, cost of insurance goes up with more miles driven per year. There are caveats, of course, but my point was only that transportation doesn't need to be an either/or. Just because you own a bicycle, it doesn't mean that you have to ride it for every trip. Just because you live close by a train station, it doesn't mean that you have to take the train every time. Same goes for a car. If you prefer driving, by all means, continue to do so. I'm not going to tell you how to get around. I think it depends heavily on where you live as well. For me, any trip shorter than, say 2 miles, is literally easier and faster by bike, so I use my bike. Also, I suspect only few people in Denmark would ask themselves the question you outline. In fact, most would probably begrudge using their car as much as they do, myself included.
@@SummitCoyote We in the netherlands have more cars per km2 than any other euro country but also have 1.3bicycles per person most of us use the bicycle because its quicker to get where we want to go its that simple. If the distance is too large or the weather sucks (trust me that happens) we might opt for a car if we don't have a car we 'rent' a car like a taxi or bus. Its not always easier to take a car i live in one of the 4 big cities here and if i need to go to work in amsterdam why would i take the car over a train+bicycle. Now the cost of a car is a issue thats why slowly many younger people don't see a car as a status symbol anymore and indeed go 'well i don't need a private car really' and save lots of money.
@@scb2scb2 if you blocked car access to areas and made people ride bikes, a lot of Americans would keel over and have heart attacks or get heatstroke lol. also, what do you do when you get to work or wherever all sweaty? do you just have showers everywhere? keep clothes at the office?
Not many roads are closed really its more that less space is assigned for them and more to bicycles and busses. Many places of work you can take a shower but if you watch any dutch bicycle videos you know its not needed the speed is low enough avg speed is 10mph we are not trying to win the tour the france. These days also ebikes help against the dutch winds. Here is a video i made a few days ago esp. in the mode inner city you get a good idea that cars, people and busses are just fine : th-cam.com/video/l8tfToFiLuQ/w-d-xo.html
5:31 this futuristic bus has been in use in Belfast, Ireland from 2018😂 Up north in Derry all our buses are 100% electric, we also have a ton of double deck buses, and they are as fun as you are imagine 😂
There is another thing here. Is it correct that USA doesn't really have widespread chip and pin and contactless debit card tech? I say this because paying for the bus with contactless is common here and it makes travel really simple. No change required.
@@IWrockerWe have special, contact less, Peggo cards in Winnipeg. But the system has been plagued with problems since it as introduced over 10 years ago. But they're talking about replacing it with a more flexible system that will accept debit, credit cards, and even smart phones.
@@IWrocker ok cool. Yes you can use that on transport in UK anyway (and almost certainly all europe) - there are also various smart travel cards you can buy so it's all cashless. (you can still use change it's fine)
Me and my family took the bus to Pittsburgh City-Center a few times while staying in a hotel about 10miles north. I found it hilarious to read the adds in there for cheap stuff or addiction help programs. The ride was a bit slow but quite affordable. I mean we figured out quickly that we weren‘t the usual customers, but it didn‘t stop us from riding it again.
new ones look a lot better here. The reason ours look outdated is simply because they lasted longer, believe it or not. So we were slower to replace them.
I once worked at MAN Plant, Salzgitter. The TGX and partly also a bus were built on the line. The bus only consisted of a roadworthy, shortened chassis. Dashboard, steering wheel, engine, wheels... everything on it. The seat was a makeshift folding chair, the kind you would use for barbecuing or camping, and was only used to maneuver the vehicle for transport. It was ready to drive in priciple, just without any bodywork and only one garden chair as a driver's seat. Such a chassis can be seen in the film "The Mexican" with Bred Pitt in the scene at the intersection in the desert where he drives through the intersection on a red light and was almost rammed by such a chassis that was driving through the desert at 90 kmh. As I said, without windshields, without roof, without anything, on a folding chair. It was delivered all over the world, where local companies extended the frame accordingly and put a body on the chassis and you had a bus. Today they pack it in individual parts into transport crates and ship them that way. Jokingly called “bus in the box” at the MAN factory.
It is funny to see those „skeletons“ being delivered under its own power: The driver wears motorcycle gear complete with a crash helmet. The same thing is true with light lorries/vans like the Mercedes-Benz three tonners that become campmobiles/RVs or other custom made vehicles.
As someone that makes enough to buy a brand new car every month I still take the tram to work every day here in Sweden. Sure I own 2 cars, but it takes 6-8 mins on the tram while it takes 45-60 mins with the car and then I still need to park. Sure some of that is by design but considering a tram comes every 5 mins, it's comfortable and I spend my time on it chilling with a coffee and reading something it's so much nicer than spending time in the car just to get to work. The same goes for busses, it's just easier to use here, sure I still use my car quite often but I almost always have the option not to and it's always a nice enough experience on the bus/tram that I really don't need a car. Still I live in a large city, it's less crystal clear in rural areas, sure they have busses etc as well, but you do need a car to be "comfortable" doing anything other than going to and from work for the most part.
One thing I've noticed is that a lot of US transit looks very old-school and almost industrial. You have those massive, boxy vehicles, many of them chrome and without much of a soul. Think for example about the NY or Chicago metro or the buses in San Francisco. And speaking of trains: Amtrak, which just looks like a giant metro, rather than a long-range travel option. This trend had even reached the aviation industry. Remember when American Airlines planes used to be all chrome-colored and industrial-looking?
Watching video from Sweden, going to Stockholm from Värmdö, it is kind of lose kommun, 30 min trip. Sitting in quite old Scania, fastened seatbelt, 3 doors, 3 axles, low floors, smooth riding on air suspension.. But you know, what they do during the stops? Right side (doors side) lowers down every time, putting entrance on same level with platform. And USB chargers everywhere. And this vehicle is from 2016.
The thing is most people who take the bus (or other public transport, or a bike, or who walk etc) also have a car. We have two cars, one for me and one for my husband. At my husband's previous job there was a direct bus from near our house straight to his office building, so he took the bus at least half the time. He changed jobs and while he could still take public transport, it's shorter and quicker to take the car because we live in a smaller town and there is no direct bus to his new job. He would have to transfer to a train and then another bus. But even if the car is quicker now, he would still be able to take the bus if he couldn't drive for whatever reason. It would just take a bit longer due to transfer time. If we visit a city center we park our car on a park and ride car park and take the bus. Usually you either can take the bus for free with your parking ticket or you can park for free and only pay for the bus. This is much cheaper and easier than trying to find a parking spot in the center that also costs an arm and a leg.
Exactly my thought. If you go grocery shopping to a big Supermarket on the outskirt of the city, you will clearly use your car. But when you are planning to visit the city center (which in most bigger European cities might be a "pedestrian zone", you'd have to find a parking garage / parking lot. If you planned to stay in the center..... let's say for 3 or 4 hours, a parking garage would cost approximately double the price of taking a bus or tram, if not more! In the US you won't have any problems with parking your car close to your destination, so, why should Americans want to take a bus, where they suspect to stumble upon the poorest, the homeless or the freaks who cannot afford a car? It may be true what Uncle Sam's citizens think: That public transportation is not safe because only used by hobos and junkies. There is simply no good reason to take a bus. In Europe it makes sense to own a car AND use public transportation depending on where you want to go and what you want to do. A friend of mine had a job at a university hospital. They had a parking for employees, but since many of them used it even if they were off duty (for shopping or whatever), they placed a payment barrier at the entry. And gosh, it was expensive! So from that day on she used to take her car to a park and ride and took the bus from there, it was way cheaper than going by car!
@@Herzschreiber What you Europeans do not understand is that in the USA ALL transit systems require local approval & taxes. With spread-out development, the entire transit line has fewer possible passengers within walking distance that a single stop in Europe. Therefore, it is extremely costly for the few passengers, so low-tax politicians regularly target these transit options as wasting money & local people vote against transit to save a little money. Typical comment - "why should I pay for something only some poor drug addict is going to use?" No local money - no transit at all or very little.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Okay, good point. My reply was only adressing the idea that Germans either have a car or use public transportation system, because that isn't true. An other thing I guess has to be taken into account is, that gas is way cheaper in the US, so using a car is less expensive. If people could save money and their taxes wouldn't rise, they would likely be glad to have some transit systems instead of avoiding them?
@@Herzschreiber Those options were destroyed in the period between 1946 & 1960. In 1945 the USA had excellent transit systems as well as excellent intracity rail & even some high-speed rail. That was all gotten rid of in favor of cars & airplanes. To get anything half as good as what Europe has would cost well over a Trillion $ nation wide, or about $5-to$10 Billion per city. without taxes, it cannot be done. Our corporate America would also fight it tooth & nail because they are locked into making profits from the current system.
The problem is really structural and material rather than a case of mindset and thinking. You need to buy more buses, invest more into rail, trams, trolleybuses so that people can use the service and it's convenient.
Oh man, did MAN build some manly machines. We are talking six (!!) figure horse power... It could breathe a Chevy LS in, combust it and throw it right back out again. 😂😂😂 BTW... The Bus at 5:00, the double axle, is blocking the view to my favourite bar. The "Mantra Bar" in Zug, Switzerland. And AFAIK those Buses are long gone. Hybrid (Volvo, Mercedes, MAN,...) is now the hot topic. All EV attempts (battery) failed, EV with power lines work, since the beginning of time. On the buses on my commute we are offered free WLAN and there are also screens which inform us about are next connections, either Bus, Rail sometimes even ships. You should take a look into the Swiss "Postauto". You can get to the most remote Swiss villages by Postauto. Their specific horn, sounded a mile or two in advance, is recognized by every Swiss citizen. Look it up, it's worth it.
its M.A.N. : Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, a german bus manifacturer. The lion on the Logo is actually the Braunschweig lion when they merged with Heinrich-Buessing-Werke
We have busses that go everywhere - there are routes to the smallest towns with 15 people or less. In fact, there are 1 or more forms of public transportation within a quarter mile from ANYWHERE in my country. Half of our work population (CEO's to low paying jobs) use busses or trains as primary every day transport. (Why do you permit your media to lie to you?) your energy consumption per capita (person) is 300% higher than in my country - one of the reasons is public transport. There are up to a 100 persons in a bus, running at lower energy consumption than your average american pick-up truck.
One of the most perplexing things I saw on my trip to the US was what qualifies as a bus stop. Literally just a sign. There wasn't even a pedestrian walkway, it was just a sign saying bus stop on the green next to the road.
@@Hen_von_Amis The only thing remotely close that've seen here in Germany were bus stops with a little wooden shack as shelter netxt to the main village road, but even those were luxurious compared to that thing I saw in the US. Not that I'm categorically denying that the same thing can be in other palces, europe or wherever, or that every bus stop in the US looks like that, but the juxtaposition of that bus stop in the middle of a US city compared to what I see daily in my own was baffling.
@@Aotearas As I said the number such busstops are dwindling and the quality has risen in my area t just that they do exist in small number I don't know about Germany but do I know stops that are 1 small Platform and a Bus bollard that what I mean
@@Hen_von_Amis That was certainly common in rural areas in the UK, but these days more and more of them are at least getting a raised pavement to help people with wheelchairs or pushchairs get on/off.
It's the same in many cities in Europe. Just outside my door in the suburbs of Dublin, we have 1 proper bus stop, and the rest are just posts on the sidewalk or on grass. One thing to consider is the footprint, and the distance between stops. In Dublin the stops are way too close from each other to allow a proper stop with seating. However, having grown in the outskirts of Bordeaux, the distance between stops was greater, and cities had proper (wide to regular size) sidewalks so you could have covered stops with one or more benches, which btw were given for free by J.C Decaux (the advert company the french equivalent to clear channel) who was paying for them through the ads they displayed on the side.
In Finland you dont need bus schedule. They come every 5 minuts. And btw, blue eyes, red beard... your ancestors are most likely from Nordic, Norway perhaps. So you have Viking blood. Take dna test.
My local bus in the southwest of England is a double decker with full high back, faux leather seats with usb charging ports and armrests with good heating in the winter and this is for a local 30min to 1 hour journeys. Btw M.A.N is an abrivation in Germany but in the uk i have always heard MAN as in a guy/bloke its always been this way. So if i verbally said it,its MAN but if i write it down then its M.A.N. Weird i know but thats the way it is been done here for many years. Same as Volvo we don't say the full name Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) We just say Volvo.
I was going to comment that it's not just the US (which is what I thought after reading the video title); but buses in Canada are terrible too. Then the guy opens with a Toronto bus. Also; relating to safety of occupants vs others; I can't remember which company it was but there is a company researching/designing self-driving vehicles that said they are programing the vehicles to prioritize the occupants, and when asked if the vehicle had to choose between running over a group of school children or driving off a cliff; the response was it would protect the occupants and not drive off the cliff.
This shows how evil 'socialism' is, how dare our taxes be spent on nice public transport. Joking aside, the average standard of public transport is actually very good here in UK, plus its free for pensioners
As well as the quality of the vehicles, there's also the question of coverage. In the UK (and for reference, much of Europe does this better than the UK), a village of 1,000 people will usually have at least a daily bus, a town of 5,000 people will usually have at least an hourly service - my town of 20,000 people has a bus every 15 minutes to the nearest city, buses every hour to the nearest towns in three other directions, and one or two buses per hour to residential areas of the town ... and this is a town that has a good train service as well!
When you cannot afford to even learn to drive, you really appreciate better buses. (US safety standards are pretty much entirely designed to protect the US auto industry and exclude outside manufacturers as much as possible - hence why diesels are subjected to far more stringent regulations than petrol: its specifically to attack EU companies.)
These Van Hool buses from Belgium you called "futuristic" are actually in service in my middle-european hometown. A city with just a little bit more than 200.000 inhabitants, And they are trolleybuses, so fully electric. The kind of design of the bus you called "typical" for America now was last seen here in the 1990s. And you have to consider that the "life" of a bus spans from around 15 to 20 years. My city changes its entire fleet every 12 to 15 years.
11:53 Nothing wrong with liking big trucks, just like there is nothing wrong with liking a big loud American muscle car (though there is the environmental aspect to consider, but we can ignore that for this argument), it is however really strange to not take into consideration the vehicle causes to those it hits. By those standards a Tank would be considered the safest vehicle that exists. The Corvette Stingray 1969 is one of my dream cars and part of me is sad that I may never own one because I live in Europe.
"Maybe (you use bus) even every day" Yeah, twice a day. And twice a day I use tram, and twice a day I use metro. It's 16km ride, 40mins by public transport for only 0.43$ ticket (156$ annual ticket for unlimited use of public transport and 2x15minutes shared bicycles every day). By car it's in rush hour about 30 minutes and significantly more expensive. I mean I still don't get how nobody wants to invest in good public transport in your country, because people would love it. Not a single city in USA is close to average cities in Europe, like for example Prague or Bucharest. Which are significantly poorer and smaller cities compare to New York for example, and yet Prague's public transport transfer almost the same number of people every year as MTA. City that is about 6-7 times bigger in population, and working with 22 times bigger budget (NYC budget for 2022 was about 100b US dollars, and Prague's budget was about 100b CZK which equals to 4.5b US dollars).
9:01 We also have those double-decker buses here in Mexico, mainly in CDMX (Mexico City), by the way 5 out of every 10 buses in the country are Mercedes-Benz and the rest are Volvo, VW, etc. Also is funny how he said he wasn't going to talk about Mexico buses but he didn't say he wouldn't show them 5:18, 5:59, 6:39, 8:53, 16:44 LOL
M.A,N. is still right. each letter stands for a city name where 3 different producers had their company before they merged to München Augsburg Nürnberg motor company.
As a German who has used English public transport a couple times, I have to say their trains and buses are so much more comfortable than ours. Tbf though, the bus I was on was just a replacement for a cancelled train, so it was basically a coach, which tend to be nicer. Still, those trains man. The older trains in Germany I took to school when I was in my early teens were still very comfortable but the newer ones they introduced in the 2000s and after are just meh. I guess they're fine but just such a downgrade. Not that that'd be the only issue German public transport is having (everyone knows about our train delays, 1/3 of our trains were late or cancelled in 2023 iirc, but at least in my city it's the buses, too).
i think it has to do with the fact most americans are used to driving cars, so why would a city invest in busses if there is no one taking it. unless that changes it prob. stays a car country for everything.
You hit the nail on the head for "who cares what my car hit as long as Im safe." I was in a crash a couple years ago in my prius. We were T boned but it was by a slightly smaller Ford compact car. If it was a full sized truck like people frequently drive here in Indiana, me and my wife could have ended up in the hospital instead of being able to walk away with no harm done. It scares me to think about it
Here in Czechia, SOR bus is really common. And it is really nice, here where a lot of people drink alcohol, you can't drive can you? So we rely on public transport because drunk driving will kill us all... It is just a given here, you are going to visit a friend in a different town, you are going to party, you ain't driving there. Simple as that. Edit: Sure I have sober friends that could drive me there, but they aren't always available and it is more of a mess compared to public transport that is ready once an hour at least.
Hey bro. You should check out Ben Collins (former stig from top gear) he recently drove a British and American police car . Your opinion would be really welcome
I have a driver's license but I don't have a car. I use trains, buses, metros and trams to travel in my city and other cities when I'm in holidays. If I need a car I ask for my father's or brother's car or I rent one. I'm shocked that you don't have good buses to travel inside or between big cities that are near each other. Here in my town we have simple ones (hybrid), bending ones (hybrid too) and a smaller ones, like a big van to serve the more twisted designed neigbourhoods and streets. The biggers ones provokes traffic jams because the drivers have to manouvre the bus and the city hall decided to put smaller ones with some "on demand" stops.
I rarely take public transit nowadays, but I used to. The most important thing to me was it being actually convenient and somewhat regular and fast. An alternative or complement to driving. In the US for example, taking public transit is slower than using a car in most cases. They don't run regularly enough, are inefficient, slow (like busses getting stuck in traffic), don't go to places people want to be at, etc. The issues make car traffic worse as well. If some of the people who drove their car could be at least tempted to take public transit sometimes, it would mean fewer cars on the road and less parking and road-space needed.
Bus lanes or even bus roads exist elsewhere but ALL of that requires timed and controlled traffic lights which USA doesn't seem to have. Cars, buses and pedestrians get their own phase of the lights and it's all safe.
MAN stands for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg = Machine factory Augsburg - Nuremburg. It was a merger of two machine factories in Augsburg and Nuremberg back in 1898, which founded in 1915 a joint venture with Swiss Automobilwerke Adolph Saurer, the Lastwagenwerke (Truck factory) M.A.N.-Saurer, first producing in Lindau at Lake Constance, then moving to Nuremberg.
The buses built in the US looks like the first oldest models I drove as a bus driver in Sweden back in 2000. Anything built after 2000 are space ships compared to the US ones.
Actually the most of the city buses we get come from Canada what are we getting in the United States
@@scottysmith9687 depends on the city different cities has different needs and requirements
2000 try the 90's😂😂😂
Probably the good things are due to social democracy
@@michalandrejmolnar3715 the buses that run city and regional services in Sweden are done by private companies. In the region I live in they often get a 8 year contract and the biggest reason for them getting the contract is low prices and good service. The buses are interestingly getting nicer and nicer even though they should have gotten more basic to save money for those companies.
The low floor buses were introduced in my town when I was 15 and they looked more modern than what i see IS buses look like today and I’m 47 years old. It was a weird feeling getting a job as a bus driver at 23 years old and getting to drive the buses that I used to ride to school.
General Murican attitude: Buses are for poor people. Yet, you see rust bucket cars on the streets,held together with duct tape.
Capitalist braiwashing propaganda of antisemite Ford works to this day.
And the new trend is for even those to have illegal "temporary" registration plates, no insurance, no inspection. and there is basically zero enforcement on this because the authorities know that driving is typically necessary even for the poor so they don't bother anyone unless they break other traffic laws. Cars get rolled over and have no functioning lights and still drive around. It is madness here.
I just love the plate in the back from Austria; from Graz "G-IWROCKER" NICE!!!
i remember a morning that was especially unique that morning instead of the regural city bus a nice new man model arrived to transport me to school it had tinted windows, nice heating, modern comfy interrior, especially the seats, i slept the whole way and still remember it clearly after like 10 years, it was so quiet like a bentley or any very high end luxury car, tho it was a diesel, just loved it,never seen it again for like 3 years still using public transport it was a miracle with the dimmed light my god
Safety chapter, where it is inside-car safety is highlighted, while the rest of the world goes from the softest traffic to the most robust, where the pedastrians is the most vulnerable.
Hi! From a London bus driver!😋
we had van hool in 1998 in Italy, unbelievable you're considering getting them just now
I like the fact that you are open to look outside of the american bubble...selfreflection is often missed in America 😂 ..not everything in America is the best😂
My city in Germany recently got some electric buses. They are really cool and incredibly quiet. They charge during the breaks they take and the terminal stations and also during the night in the depot. Love taking them!
Also the main reason why I don't like trucks and SUVs is just because they're so large. I drive a Volvo V60, not exactly a big car by german standards but not a small one either. And I realised that this size is the limit for me. I wouldn't want anything bigger for the streets I drive through. Also driving a huge truck comes with certain negative stereotypes over here. If for example you're a guy you are compensating for certain ... physical SHORTcomings with such a huge car. And you probably think that you're the most important person on the road. So, even more reasons to better not be seen near such monsters. 😅
9:45 ironically sometimes it's the opposite!
The cybertruck isn't allowed to be sold over here because of safety regulations
Edit: looool this was brought up like 2 minutes later.
It looks like you guys in North America build your busses in a way, so that you can clean them regularly just with a high pressure cleaner on the inside and outside.
Did you know that M.A.N. was founded in 1758 so basicaly this Company is older than the United states.
On the las "Tag der Bundeswehr"-Day of the German Army, i Fell asleep in the Bus at the Tour Back Home and it was a Bad old German Army Bus.
In Brussels,Belgium, they use for few years hybrid busses and for years, tests with electric and hydrogen
Here in Florida more specifically in pinnelas County we have buses made by guilic (i dont know how its spelled) and byd which is new here and trying to sleep on those buses after school is very uncomfortable and they generally look bland to me
So funny that you say they look futuristic.
Me as a Swede are like: "They look like normal buses?" =)
The first interior shot shown looked just like I remember our local city buses in Uppsala, Sweden. Admittedly I only ride the bus a few times a year but they do rattle and shake, partly due to endless amounts of speed bumps.
@@Xanthopteryx This is from an Uppsala buss and it looks similar to your example. I note that from the high line number it's a regional bus, not local (city) so it may be slightly different from the city buses. th-cam.com/video/iJRJN9hjIu8/w-d-xo.html
@@Tguson I think most areas are pretty similar. Only in Stockholm alone there are several different types. This is what were there in end of 2022:
• Ledbussar (articulated): 1 060, varav (of which):
-Röda ledbussar (red articulated): 760
-Blå stombussar (blue rapid transit): 279
-Blå ledbussar, eldrivna (blue articulated electric): 21
• Övriga bussar (other): 1 336, varav (of which):
- ”Vanliga” röda bussar (regular red): 503
-Eldrivna röda bussar (electric red): 10
-Boggiebussar (bogie): 770
-Dubbeldäckare (double decker): 39
-Midibussar (midi size): 9
-Minibussar (mini size): 5
There have also been one or two autonomous buses in regular traffic (tests) since 2018 but that ended autumn last year. This was to gather data and now they can start launching other non testing lines.
@@Tguson That shot looked like one of the earlier MB Citaro buses, as those already had the small, somewhat raised seat right by the first door on the left of the shot. Basically took those since elementary school in my city.
As a Portuguese, same. They're just buses.
Growing up in London, buses were just a part of normal everyday life. Same with the tube and trains. And later trams.
I never owned a car in the 40 years I lived there.
sounds miserable
@@9.5.9.5 Sounds very lucky getting along without a car.
nice, not being forced to have and operate a car, saves you so much money.
hopefully in the next few years London (and the rest of the UK) are able to expand their (safe and modern) cycle infrastructure.
the more options we have to get around the better.
more choice = more freedom
@@9.5.9.5 typical American 🤡🤡🤡
@@9.5.9.5 What do you want a car for in London? You can walk across the entire city at its widest point, in a few hours.
That bus that you said looked like the typical US city bus, that looked like what our busses looked like back in the 80's early 90s at best! 😅
Haha I figured 😂😂 that’s about right.. America just doing its own thing over here… decades behind 😅
@@IWrockerWhen GM discontinued the fishbowl New Look buses in the 1970s many operators hated the new RTS buses that replaced them, to the point that they introduced the Classic bus in 1983. Again, in 1999, New Flyer introduced the futuristically styled Invero, which was also hated by operators.
USA is a 3rd world country in denial
@@dougbrowning82What was the real reason for this backlash? What exactly didnt they like?
@@FonetikerFrom what I gather, the styling didn't sit well with them.
I'm a busdriver in Ireland. I can make a video of the interior and exterior for you if you want to learn more.
Hard job. Poorly paid, irregular and split working hours, the toughest health test and annoying passengers. I have respect for that. Not everyone can handle nerves for long.
That would be cool! Comment here if you do and send it on my instagram or discord. Or my email on my “about” page 🎉
@@PropperNaughtyGeezer calm down mate
The socialist movements as far away in the past as 1870s had big influence on politics in which industrialization was big, even Bismarck reacted with concessions like government healthcare with which they wanted to take wind from their sails. After 1917 fascism was created to defeat the Soviet Union, then during and after WW2 had to make international concessions to the European socialist movements (Germany, UK, Austria, France, almost Italy, Nordic countries) and in comparison to the communist countries which legalized abortion, parental leave and guaranteed healthcare by 1918-1922
The socialist movements as far away in the past as 1870s had big influence on politics in which industrialization was big, even Bismarck reacted with concessions like government healthcare with which they wanted to take wind from their sails. After 1917 fascism was created to defeat the Soviet Union, then during and after WW2 had to make international concessions to the European socialist movements (Germany, UK, Austria, France, almost Italy, Nordic countries) and in comparison to the communist countries which legalized abortion, parental leave and guaranteed healthcare by 1918-1922
No it is M.A.N. you're saying it right.
Correct it is : M.. A.. N.. . 😉 greetings from germany ✌️
Yes just ask an german the guy from the video he is watching is not german so.
@@normanguttel1080The "a" pronounced as a long AAA Sound, like in hEArt.
orginal company name is "Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG"
Yes unless you're outside of Germany i don't know anybody (except germans and not even all of them) who calls it M.A.N. the rest of the world just pronounces it as man.
Biggest problem with usa policys and regulation, is that usa does not seem to see what other countries do better and implement it. They just want to do their own thing😂 other countries understand that other countries might do stuff better and learn from eachother. Usa is in a bouble and don’t want to learn from oher countries. We in Norway take ideas from countries around the world. Even "bad"countries do some stuff better than other. We can all learn from eachother
we have corrupt people in gov.
Riga (Latvia) is far from perfect example (well, everybody knew that any big project would include some secret payments) but public transportation for me always felt "good stuff" here. Busses, troleys or trams (latest re-placement since need to rebuild old rails) all are comfy and even people who drives cars daily will often take them.
@@elmurcis1europe has been building public transport for decades. Usa has allways buildt for cars.. hard to change that now.
Yup i'm dutch and we have pretty much the best roads in the world (from my own experience) and its because we steel every good idee we see in any other country. You might have better ones in Norway but i only did around 200 miles there so i can't make a real assesment.
@@arturobianco848 roads in Norway are pretty safe but most roads are slow 70kmt or 80kmt is the most normal. I think many countries has better roads then Norway but we have hard terrain to build in. Montains and fjords everywhere. Ferrys etc. but yes very few people die in traffic accidents, even tho its ice roads. In 2021 86 people died in traffic accidents. But they are working to get it down to 0.- probably not possible but thats their goal and they are working on it all the time.
Vison Zero
In 2002, the Storting adopted Vison Zero. This is a vision of no one killed or seriously injured in road traffic.
Ever since 1970, long-term and targeted traffic safety work has been conducted in Norway, and this has yielded results. The number of deaths per year has decreased from 560 in 1970 to about 100 in recent years.
Don’t think its like that in the states.
When I went to New York on holiday in 1996, we caught a double decker bus from midtown to the World Trade Center. Whilst on the bus I was reading the old signage inside and realised it was a bus from Sheffield, England where I live. I’d probably already been on that bus years before it ever got to America.
I had a similar experience years ago in Glasgow (UK) with a river ferry. To my utter surprise, I saw signs with instructions in Dutch from the GVB (GemeenteVervoerBedrijf = gemeentevervoer bedrijf) Amsterdam. The old ferry for transport across the IJ had apparently been sold to the Scots.🙂🙃
I live in the UK. Not a major city, just a small town. I travel everywhere, every day by bus. To and rom work, between work sites when I have to work at more than one location, I go by bus for shopping and leisure trips an, if I need a care, I hire one - maybe two or three times a year. I didn't believe it for the longest time (I used to be a real petrol-legs) but it is surprisingly easy and convenient to use public transport as your main mode of travel.
Fun fact. about ten years ago I went to visit some people at an event in Arse-End-Of-Nowhere, Indiana. I found a bus that would take me most of the way and a second local bus that would take me to the nearest town to the event. Then I got a cab to the actual event. When I turned up and told the folks how I got there, they couldn't have been more surprised if I told them I had teleported or dug a tunnel the whole distance. One local man told me that there weren't any bus services in the area and he found it incomprehensible that there were buses. Going home, he gave me a lift in his truck to the bus stop (three or four miles from his house) just so he could see me get on the bus he never knew existed.
FYI, the local bus was a small minibus that doubled as a school bus at those specific times of day and was very comfortable. The Indianapolis bus was like a brick on wheels with what appeared to be NO suspension and zero seat padding. It was barely one step up from being transported as freight - the single worst bus I have ever travelled on and I have been on 100 year old, historic buses in a transport museum!
This is epic haha thanks for sharing. Seems accurate at how everyone was mind blown that you were able to take buses the whole way 😂🎉
i live 12 miles from was 2nd largest city Birmingham. i was shocked i could not get in to Coventry before 8am and in wales 12 miles trip i could be in Wrexham before 8am. so i got job in Cov and i had to quite that job as you expect 8am in to city should be no issue. and from my home Kenilworth to hospital that can take hour but ten min drive, or hospital in the city it multi buses and over hour for 20 min drive max and it costs 2x times plus what it cost me in car inc parking charge. id never use a bus again, unless you want to be miles from were you want to be or spend a hell of a lot longer getting to places
"You're either living in the future or we are living in the past."
You're definitly living in the past.
For us, these busses are totaly normal.
Our buses are newish. America's buses are 30 years old. Do the math.
@@JoshSweetvalepeople in usa usually do meth instead of math.
I love them and I have a folder about them
come take a ride! (at folder 2) :))
🚅🚈🚞🚝🚂🚃🚄
trains, trams, aren't they all beautifull
@@Keksemann666😂😂😂
It is M.A.N. It's an accronym for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG
and sounds like Emma N
Not acronym, a abbreviation... 😉
Like in G.A.Y.
It's also called U.S.A. and not "Yousa"
@@altblechasyl_cs2093 It`s an acronym!
Whenever I take a bus in the US, coming from Europe, I always feel like I'm stepping into a time capsule
FYI, I only got my driver's license at age 39, because before that I could just walk or take public transport everywhere. It was only when I moved to the countryside that I needed a car. At 37 I got my motorbike license, but only because I wanted a motorbike.
I got my license at 26, after I lived in UK for few years. Could get away without driving for another few years, but good that I had my license by the time I started commuting for 30+miles, so that insurance was cheap. Also, I built some experience by then
I was also 39 when I got my driver's license. 2 years later I got a bus driving licence. Now I drive 18 meter articulated buses as a city bus.
I was around 30 when I took my I still don't own a car
I'm 40 and still don't have a license
Swede here, I'm 57 and never had a drivers license. I do use trains, buses, my bike and my feet 😊
In Poland we have trolleybuses, electric buses, CNG buses with engines from Cummins company- in Krakow they recently opened an engine factory, and traditional diesel buses.
It is indeed M.A.N which is an abbreviation for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg. (Machine factory Augsburg Nuremberg). Augsburg and Nuremberg are two cities in the German state of Bavaria. The company is a conglomerate that builds busses, trucks and diesel engines. It's part of Traton which is in its turn part of Volkswagen. Other parts of Traton are Scania and Navistar.
MAN is successfull in space industry as well.
@@hartmutwrith3134 And used to be a very popular manufacturer of trams
When I was a kid, busses were freedom for us. Used to go all over London on busses and the tube, during the school holidays.
I'd imagine American kids are very reliant on family/friends for lifts everywhere?
Yea American kids usually walk/ride bicycles in their neighborhood but if they wanna go somewhere (to the mall, restaurants, school, etc.) they have to have their parents drive them or carpool with someone else
I had many an interesting ride through Peckham Brixton Camberwell and New cross that give extra validation to your childhood Bus travels ❤
The tube was also another experience 😮 in itself 😊 at that age
In many European countries kids of school/university age get discounts and or free travel on public transport, even trains, it not only promotes freedom of movement and independence for kids, but also greatly reduces/removes the need for parents to take kids to and from school, and reduces the number of cars near schools.
@@TregMediaHD I remember them being free on Sundays iirc.
We'd go all over. Happy memories.
Here in Mexico City buses have their own exclusive lanes, often driving in the opposite direction of the car traffic and travel time is less than half the travel time. Also public transportation uses contactless payment e.g. with your phone.
Uk here we can do contactless payments on buses and have bus lanes
Cool, same in Belgium
It's the same in Sydney, bus express lanes! Tap on Tap off, easy transfer to another bus, train or ferry or tram with the same card or phone - not sure about the rest of Australia! 👍
I was living in The Netherlands for 5 years and working at Schiphol (Amsterdam) airport. There are I believe 12 routes connecting the airport with all adjacent areas by electric buses. Also, the regular buses with combustion engine are connecting the airport with most of the larger cities in 20km radius. And if there's no bus for you to go where you need to, you can simply hop on a train right underneath the airport itself and will take you almost everywhere. Netherlands has an amazing public transport infrastructure indeed.
Big city's yes, villages no. I have a friend in a village where bus drives till 5 once a hour, and in the weekend not at all, in the weekend he has to bike 1.5 hour to the nearest city, also everything closed on sunday😂
@@Daniel-qz8bp How often do busses go from remote rural villages in the US? .. Oh, never? I'll take the 'once an hour til 5' over 'never'. And shops are only closed on sundays in the very religious areas. In many towns, even smaller ones, shops are opened on sunday.
@@TheMrVengeance we were crossing borders for Sunday shopping when I was in Germany (Gronau)
I'm a french bus driver and i can add that more people use the busses in europe because more and more cities taxes the park drive in town insanely, autorities want you to park your car outside the cities and take the busses. Another add is that if the busses become better for the passenger that's not the case for the driver, please constructors just put the doors buttons on the steering wheel we push it more than a hundred time a day and can't to it in a straight position in many busses.
Yes, Sydney is like that they definitely prefer people to use public transport and made it possible to catch a bus, tram, train or ferry approx every five minutes anywhere around the city and inner suburbs! Leave your car for the weekends, or just drive through!
our buses have USB ports and wifi here on the west coast of scotland. a lot of them are electric.
They got nice drivers, too! :-)
Same here in Sweden, usb & wifi makes the ride fly by. And electric busses are so much quieter than the old diesel ones.
You sound like Kamila Harris 😅
@@svenskenh644 I have no idea who that is. Vice president? I'm confused.
@@geofrancis2001 google Kamila Harris + electric busses + usb chargers and you will get a laugh
There is a difference between a bus and a coach. Functionally buses are multi stop and coaches are point-to-point. But structurally a coach is designed to be more comfortable for long haul rides and may even have a toilet onboard.
Thats just an english distinction, in my country its called a Bus for both of them (well technicly we do have the same sort of distinctions but nobody really usses it).
@@arturobianco848 That raises a question I never considered, is it just an English distinction?
@@daveofyorkshire301 In my language, Finnish, we do distinct those bus types but we don't have a single word for each of them. We just call them longhaul buses or local/city buses and from that you know which type we are talking about.
In German we just use a compound word, ‘Reisebus’ (literally: travel bus), for coaches. One definition is that don’t have any spaces designed for people to stand, something that city busses generally have.
@@j3mixa I think another distinction is you legally can't stand (I mean not have a seat) on a coach ride, but you can on a multi stop bus.
Best M.A.N. slogan they ever had was "MAN kann!" / "MAN can!" where they actually said MAN like "man".
Interesting detail, the Belgian (Flemish) bus builder Van Hool is bankrupt, largely thanks to the Flemish (state-related) public transport company "de Lijn", which preferred to order buses in China rather than award the order to Van Hool, despite the fact that In the Netherlands, enormous problems and defects were reported with the same Chinese buses.
Van Hool is/was known worldwide for its quality.
My 2 cents from Belgium.
They will probably take electric buses. In the long term, they will bite their fingers when some bus burns in deposits or others.
If you're interested in cars, you may also be interested on car dependency.. in that case I recommend TH-cam channel Not just bikes.
I'm from the UK and it's not a matter of having a car or taking a bus, it's about having the option to choose. I have a car and most of the time it sits outside my house.
I live on the edge of a small city so if I want to go into town I get the bus - it stops 3 minutes walk from my house, runs every 15 minutes all day, I don't have to find or pay for parking, or bother driving if I want to go to the next city I'll get buses and trains, if I want to stay longer or have a drink etc I can. If I'm going somewhere without convenient buses, late at night, or if I've got a load of stuff I'll take the car.
But dont you think its weird...USA is car based country, but you can drive basically everything what has wheel and lights...soo stupid. Zero safety.
I would say the biggest problem in the US is the roads that are very big, this means a pedestrian has a hard time walking from one place to another as crossing a street is already a journey. But people that use a bus usually are pedestrians, meaning they will only use a bus to get to a place that is close to a bus stop. People transporting goods as groceries will rarely be seen in the US as most shops are not within walking distance from peoples homes, this is why everyone in the US needs a car.
Hello from Bulgaria ^_^
Talking about road safety, i have seen some very broken and rusty cars on the American roads. In my country I need to take my vehicle once an year to an authorized repair shop to get my car checked, like an annual doctor check up. If i don't do that my car will be stopped from having road privileges immediately by the first police officer that stopes me and I'll go home by foot.
Does your vehicle go to a mandatory doctors check every year?
For short-ish metro city trips, durable seats and cushioning are usually comfy enough. Though my real gripe these days, is the seats on a bus going to the airport are MORE comfy than the economy seats on the plane!
In The Netherlands busses have a circulation plan to help board / exit passengers as quickly as possible: you can only get in at the front door and only exit at all the other doors. So people entering and exiting the bus will not have to struggle past each other. All my local busses are fully electric, which i like a lot as there's 4 per hour coming through the narrow street where I live. When the train is out it gets replaced by old fashioned diesel busses and it's then that i notice how loud conventional busses are.
"You can only get in at the front door" ... Yyyeah, try saying that at like ANY bus stop in the morning on a route to a college/university. Good luck. 😂😂
@@TheMrVengeance there's only one bus line that has an exception in the city where i work, and it only has 1 stop which is the end destination. That bus is a direct line to the university complex from the bus station and it is indeed enter at all doors. They even got footsteps painted on the platform to show where the doors will be when the bus stops at the platform so everyone can queue up. But if there were more stops on the way, those would go by loading in the front / exiting through the other doors.
Really, you could show some cool features in European busses, like the stop buttons for strollers and baby carriages and the bus (the running board) going down electrically to the level of the sidewalk, not only for them but also for old and disabled people.
Low Floor Buses are widely used in Europe now, as Wheelchair-accessability is mandatory by Law....
Meanwhile, in the US: 70%, with only one spot that can even be used by wheelchair users? Eh, good enough.
where I live in the UK the buses have free WiFi and phone chargers and a single ticket for any distance costs the same as a bottle of coke
Most of the busses in the UK have free WiFi as well
Many busses in the US look like they were made in the 1980s, school busses do even resemble something from the 1950s.
The harsh ride may be due to the use of normal truck chassis? It was like that in Europe in the past, but modern busses are designed from the ground up and do not share parts with trucks other than engines, the large manufacturers like Volvo, Scania, Mercedes and DAF design everything else especially for the use in busses, the bodies are mostly built by independent companies like Van Hool, VDL, Setra, Dennis and Neoplan to name a few, although the truck companies have also ready to use bus models of their own.
Electric busses are becoming the normal here in the Netherlands, in order to keep the streets clear of overhead wires these are battery electric and are charged via a pick up on the roof which can be lifted against a live rail at the bus station where the service starts/ends.
The mentality in the US is very strange when it comes to public transport. Also the buses looks so oldfashioned.
And disgusting too
It’s just how it is here. With the importance and development of the automobile industry here and the generally young age of our country we have individual cars for each families as our main mode of transportation.
@@brucemcgoose7609It was designed to keep "people of colour" without cars out the suburbs. its nothing to do with the age of the country.
"Having your own car has some benefits as well [...]"
It's important to remember that it's not either, or. I ride the bus, mostly in connection with train commutes. I use my bicycle when it's within my city. I also own a car, mostly used for longer trips or if I need to haul something/someone.
I think it's often outlined as if you can only ever use one mode of transport. I cycle to work on most days but if the weather is sh** I'll take the car for those 4km. Personal transportation can easily be a mix of different traffic modes. Granted, they have to be available and viable...
but here is a question that I think most people would ask themselves...if I am already paying 30-40 grand for a car...why am I only using it for some trips...why cycle in hot or cold or rain when I can just take the air conditioned box with my music and navigation...where I have the freedom to just go wherever I want after work instead of just going home?
I am paying for the car anyway, regardless of how much I use it, so why not get my money's worth out of it?
@@SummitCoyote The "mostly" in my comment is doing a lot of work here. If the weather is.. questionable, there is a high likelihood that I will take the car.
It is cheaper to leave your car in the driveway if you don't have to use it. Driving your car costs money. More miles on the odometer will lower the value of the car. Every mile driven uses gas. In Denmark where I live, cost of insurance goes up with more miles driven per year. There are caveats, of course, but my point was only that transportation doesn't need to be an either/or. Just because you own a bicycle, it doesn't mean that you have to ride it for every trip. Just because you live close by a train station, it doesn't mean that you have to take the train every time. Same goes for a car.
If you prefer driving, by all means, continue to do so. I'm not going to tell you how to get around. I think it depends heavily on where you live as well. For me, any trip shorter than, say 2 miles, is literally easier and faster by bike, so I use my bike.
Also, I suspect only few people in Denmark would ask themselves the question you outline. In fact, most would probably begrudge using their car as much as they do, myself included.
@@SummitCoyote We in the netherlands have more cars per km2 than any other euro country but also have 1.3bicycles per person most of us use the bicycle because its quicker to get where we want to go its that simple. If the distance is too large or the weather sucks (trust me that happens) we might opt for a car if we don't have a car we 'rent' a car like a taxi or bus. Its not always easier to take a car i live in one of the 4 big cities here and if i need to go to work in amsterdam why would i take the car over a train+bicycle. Now the cost of a car is a issue thats why slowly many younger people don't see a car as a status symbol anymore and indeed go 'well i don't need a private car really' and save lots of money.
@@scb2scb2 if you blocked car access to areas and made people ride bikes, a lot of Americans would keel over and have heart attacks or get heatstroke lol.
also, what do you do when you get to work or wherever all sweaty? do you just have showers everywhere? keep clothes at the office?
Not many roads are closed really its more that less space is assigned for them and more to bicycles and busses. Many places of work you can take a shower but if you watch any dutch bicycle videos you know its not needed the speed is low enough avg speed is 10mph we are not trying to win the tour the france. These days also ebikes help against the dutch winds. Here is a video i made a few days ago esp. in the mode inner city you get a good idea that cars, people and busses are just fine : th-cam.com/video/l8tfToFiLuQ/w-d-xo.html
5:31 this futuristic bus has been in use in Belfast, Ireland from 2018😂
Up north in Derry all our buses are 100% electric, we also have a ton of double deck buses, and they are as fun as you are imagine 😂
There is another thing here. Is it correct that USA doesn't really have widespread chip and pin and contactless debit card tech?
I say this because paying for the bus with contactless is common here and it makes travel really simple. No change required.
We have tap and contactless for various retail, shopping, tolls, etc. as for buses and transit, I have No idea honestly
@@IWrockerWe have special, contact less, Peggo cards in Winnipeg. But the system has been plagued with problems since it as introduced over 10 years ago. But they're talking about replacing it with a more flexible system that will accept debit, credit cards, and even smart phones.
@@IWrocker ok cool. Yes you can use that on transport in UK anyway (and almost certainly all europe) - there are also various smart travel cards you can buy so it's all cashless. (you can still use change it's fine)
On buses here, you generally can’t even swipe. You *have* to either use cash or buy a pass.
Me and my family took the bus to Pittsburgh City-Center a few times while staying in a hotel about 10miles north. I found it hilarious to read the adds in there for cheap stuff or addiction help programs. The ride was a bit slow but quite affordable. I mean we figured out quickly that we weren‘t the usual customers, but it didn‘t stop us from riding it again.
new ones look a lot better here. The reason ours look outdated is simply because they lasted longer, believe it or not. So we were slower to replace them.
I once worked at MAN Plant, Salzgitter. The TGX and partly also a bus were built on the line. The bus only consisted of a roadworthy, shortened chassis. Dashboard, steering wheel, engine, wheels... everything on it. The seat was a makeshift folding chair, the kind you would use for barbecuing or camping, and was only used to maneuver the vehicle for transport. It was ready to drive in priciple, just without any bodywork and only one garden chair as a driver's seat.
Such a chassis can be seen in the film "The Mexican" with Bred Pitt in the scene at the intersection in the desert where he drives through the intersection on a red light and was almost rammed by such a chassis that was driving through the desert at 90 kmh. As I said, without windshields, without roof, without anything, on a folding chair.
It was delivered all over the world, where local companies extended the frame accordingly and put a body on the chassis and you had a bus.
Today they pack it in individual parts into transport crates and ship them that way. Jokingly called “bus in the box” at the MAN factory.
PropperNaughtyGeezer sure
It is funny to see those „skeletons“ being delivered under its own power: The driver wears motorcycle gear complete with a crash helmet. The same thing is true with light lorries/vans like the Mercedes-Benz three tonners that become campmobiles/RVs or other custom made vehicles.
As someone that makes enough to buy a brand new car every month I still take the tram to work every day here in Sweden. Sure I own 2 cars, but it takes 6-8 mins on the tram while it takes 45-60 mins with the car and then I still need to park. Sure some of that is by design but considering a tram comes every 5 mins, it's comfortable and I spend my time on it chilling with a coffee and reading something it's so much nicer than spending time in the car just to get to work. The same goes for busses, it's just easier to use here, sure I still use my car quite often but I almost always have the option not to and it's always a nice enough experience on the bus/tram that I really don't need a car. Still I live in a large city, it's less crystal clear in rural areas, sure they have busses etc as well, but you do need a car to be "comfortable" doing anything other than going to and from work for the most part.
Compare fuel prices between US and EU, you will have a bit insight 😅
They make up for it with health care prices 😂
and US fuel is low grade watery shit
@@papalaz4444244can be true, and that's why they use it a lot? 😅
One thing I've noticed is that a lot of US transit looks very old-school and almost industrial. You have those massive, boxy vehicles, many of them chrome and without much of a soul. Think for example about the NY or Chicago metro or the buses in San Francisco. And speaking of trains: Amtrak, which just looks like a giant metro, rather than a long-range travel option. This trend had even reached the aviation industry. Remember when American Airlines planes used to be all chrome-colored and industrial-looking?
Watching video from Sweden, going to Stockholm from Värmdö, it is kind of lose kommun, 30 min trip. Sitting in quite old Scania, fastened seatbelt, 3 doors, 3 axles, low floors, smooth riding on air suspension.. But you know, what they do during the stops? Right side (doors side) lowers down every time, putting entrance on same level with platform. And USB chargers everywhere. And this vehicle is from 2016.
The thing is most people who take the bus (or other public transport, or a bike, or who walk etc) also have a car. We have two cars, one for me and one for my husband. At my husband's previous job there was a direct bus from near our house straight to his office building, so he took the bus at least half the time. He changed jobs and while he could still take public transport, it's shorter and quicker to take the car because we live in a smaller town and there is no direct bus to his new job. He would have to transfer to a train and then another bus. But even if the car is quicker now, he would still be able to take the bus if he couldn't drive for whatever reason. It would just take a bit longer due to transfer time.
If we visit a city center we park our car on a park and ride car park and take the bus. Usually you either can take the bus for free with your parking ticket or you can park for free and only pay for the bus. This is much cheaper and easier than trying to find a parking spot in the center that also costs an arm and a leg.
Exactly my thought. If you go grocery shopping to a big Supermarket on the outskirt of the city, you will clearly use your car. But when you are planning to visit the city center (which in most bigger European cities might be a "pedestrian zone", you'd have to find a parking garage / parking lot. If you planned to stay in the center..... let's say for 3 or 4 hours, a parking garage would cost approximately double the price of taking a bus or tram, if not more! In the US you won't have any problems with parking your car close to your destination, so, why should Americans want to take a bus, where they suspect to stumble upon the poorest, the homeless or the freaks who cannot afford a car? It may be true what Uncle Sam's citizens think: That public transportation is not safe because only used by hobos and junkies. There is simply no good reason to take a bus.
In Europe it makes sense to own a car AND use public transportation depending on where you want to go and what you want to do. A friend of mine had a job at a university hospital. They had a parking for employees, but since many of them used it even if they were off duty (for shopping or whatever), they placed a payment barrier at the entry. And gosh, it was expensive! So from that day on she used to take her car to a park and ride and took the bus from there, it was way cheaper than going by car!
@@Herzschreiber What you Europeans do not understand is that in the USA ALL transit systems require local approval & taxes. With spread-out development, the entire transit line has fewer possible passengers within walking distance that a single stop in Europe. Therefore, it is extremely costly for the few passengers, so low-tax politicians regularly target these transit options as wasting money & local people vote against transit to save a little money. Typical comment - "why should I pay for something only some poor drug addict is going to use?" No local money - no transit at all or very little.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Okay, good point. My reply was only adressing the idea that Germans either have a car or use public transportation system, because that isn't true.
An other thing I guess has to be taken into account is, that gas is way cheaper in the US, so using a car is less expensive. If people could save money and their taxes wouldn't rise, they would likely be glad to have some transit systems instead of avoiding them?
@@Herzschreiber Those options were destroyed in the period between 1946 & 1960. In 1945 the USA had excellent transit systems as well as excellent intracity rail & even some high-speed rail. That was all gotten rid of in favor of cars & airplanes. To get anything half as good as what Europe has would cost well over a Trillion $ nation wide, or about $5-to$10 Billion per city. without taxes, it cannot be done. Our corporate America would also fight it tooth & nail because they are locked into making profits from the current system.
The problem is really structural and material rather than a case of mindset and thinking. You need to buy more buses, invest more into rail, trams, trolleybuses so that people can use the service and it's convenient.
Oh man, did MAN build some manly machines. We are talking six (!!) figure horse power... It could breathe a Chevy LS in, combust it and throw it right back out again. 😂😂😂
BTW... The Bus at 5:00, the double axle, is blocking the view to my favourite bar. The "Mantra Bar" in Zug, Switzerland. And AFAIK those Buses are long gone. Hybrid (Volvo, Mercedes, MAN,...) is now the hot topic. All EV attempts (battery) failed, EV with power lines work, since the beginning of time.
On the buses on my commute we are offered free WLAN and there are also screens which inform us about are next connections, either Bus, Rail sometimes even ships. You should take a look into the Swiss "Postauto". You can get to the most remote Swiss villages by Postauto. Their specific horn, sounded a mile or two in advance, is recognized by every Swiss citizen. Look it up, it's worth it.
Our city has a few fully battery powered buses by Mercedes and they seem to slowly replace old ones
i live in germany, i have no driverlicense, cause.... for what? ich can go everywhere i want, and its cheaper
M-A-N (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg - means Enginefactory ...) is correct pronouncrd like you do it.
The "London" double decker busses can be found in other cities, too. At least in Edinburgh.
Yes, double decker buses are common in towns and cities right across the UK.
And Ireland
its M.A.N. : Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, a german bus manifacturer. The lion on the Logo is actually the Braunschweig lion when they merged with Heinrich-Buessing-Werke
We have busses that go everywhere - there are routes to the smallest towns with 15 people or less. In fact, there are 1 or more forms of public transportation within a quarter mile from ANYWHERE in my country.
Half of our work population (CEO's to low paying jobs) use busses or trains as primary every day transport. (Why do you permit your media to lie to you?) your energy consumption per capita (person) is 300% higher than in my country - one of the reasons is public transport. There are up to a 100 persons in a bus, running at lower energy consumption than your average american pick-up truck.
One of the most perplexing things I saw on my trip to the US was what qualifies as a bus stop. Literally just a sign. There wasn't even a pedestrian walkway, it was just a sign saying bus stop on the green next to the road.
even in europe there are busstops like that in really remote area's however i have heard that these bustops are dewindeling
@@Hen_von_Amis The only thing remotely close that've seen here in Germany were bus stops with a little wooden shack as shelter netxt to the main village road, but even those were luxurious compared to that thing I saw in the US.
Not that I'm categorically denying that the same thing can be in other palces, europe or wherever, or that every bus stop in the US looks like that, but the juxtaposition of that bus stop in the middle of a US city compared to what I see daily in my own was baffling.
@@Aotearas As I said the number such busstops are dwindling and the quality has risen in my area t just that they do exist in small number
I don't know about Germany but do I know stops that are 1 small Platform and a Bus bollard that what I mean
@@Hen_von_Amis That was certainly common in rural areas in the UK, but these days more and more of them are at least getting a raised pavement to help people with wheelchairs or pushchairs get on/off.
It's the same in many cities in Europe. Just outside my door in the suburbs of Dublin, we have 1 proper bus stop, and the rest are just posts on the sidewalk or on grass. One thing to consider is the footprint, and the distance between stops. In Dublin the stops are way too close from each other to allow a proper stop with seating. However, having grown in the outskirts of Bordeaux, the distance between stops was greater, and cities had proper (wide to regular size) sidewalks so you could have covered stops with one or more benches, which btw were given for free by J.C Decaux (the advert company the french equivalent to clear channel) who was paying for them through the ads they displayed on the side.
In Finland you dont need bus schedule. They come every 5 minuts. And btw, blue eyes, red beard... your ancestors are most likely from Nordic, Norway perhaps. So you have Viking blood. Take dna test.
i think you should check more EU coach bus, like Setra
My local bus in the southwest of England is a double decker with full high back, faux leather seats with usb charging ports and armrests with good heating in the winter and this is for a local 30min to 1 hour journeys.
Btw M.A.N is an abrivation in Germany but in the uk i have always heard MAN as in a guy/bloke its always been this way.
So if i verbally said it,its MAN but if i write it down then its M.A.N.
Weird i know but thats the way it is been done here for many years.
Same as Volvo we don't say the full name
Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO)
We just say Volvo.
I was going to comment that it's not just the US (which is what I thought after reading the video title); but buses in Canada are terrible too. Then the guy opens with a Toronto bus.
Also; relating to safety of occupants vs others; I can't remember which company it was but there is a company researching/designing self-driving vehicles that said they are programing the vehicles to prioritize the occupants, and when asked if the vehicle had to choose between running over a group of school children or driving off a cliff; the response was it would protect the occupants and not drive off the cliff.
It's not weird policies and regulations - it's more there are NO policies or regulations in America! The American system is "get on with it"!
This shows how evil 'socialism' is, how dare our taxes be spent on nice public transport. Joking aside, the average standard of public transport is actually very good here in UK, plus its free for pensioners
As well as the quality of the vehicles, there's also the question of coverage.
In the UK (and for reference, much of Europe does this better than the UK), a village of 1,000 people will usually have at least a daily bus, a town of 5,000 people will usually have at least an hourly service - my town of 20,000 people has a bus every 15 minutes to the nearest city, buses every hour to the nearest towns in three other directions, and one or two buses per hour to residential areas of the town ... and this is a town that has a good train service as well!
When you cannot afford to even learn to drive, you really appreciate better buses. (US safety standards are pretty much entirely designed to protect the US auto industry and exclude outside manufacturers as much as possible - hence why diesels are subjected to far more stringent regulations than petrol: its specifically to attack EU companies.)
These Van Hool buses from Belgium you called "futuristic" are actually in service in my middle-european hometown. A city with just a little bit more than 200.000 inhabitants, And they are trolleybuses, so fully electric. The kind of design of the bus you called "typical" for America now was last seen here in the 1990s. And you have to consider that the "life" of a bus spans from around 15 to 20 years. My city changes its entire fleet every 12 to 15 years.
11:53 Nothing wrong with liking big trucks, just like there is nothing wrong with liking a big loud American muscle car (though there is the environmental aspect to consider, but we can ignore that for this argument), it is however really strange to not take into consideration the vehicle causes to those it hits. By those standards a Tank would be considered the safest vehicle that exists.
The Corvette Stingray 1969 is one of my dream cars and part of me is sad that I may never own one because I live in Europe.
"Maybe (you use bus) even every day"
Yeah, twice a day. And twice a day I use tram, and twice a day I use metro. It's 16km ride, 40mins by public transport for only 0.43$ ticket (156$ annual ticket for unlimited use of public transport and 2x15minutes shared bicycles every day). By car it's in rush hour about 30 minutes and significantly more expensive.
I mean I still don't get how nobody wants to invest in good public transport in your country, because people would love it. Not a single city in USA is close to average cities in Europe, like for example Prague or Bucharest.
Which are significantly poorer and smaller cities compare to New York for example, and yet Prague's public transport transfer almost the same number of people every year as MTA. City that is about 6-7 times bigger in population, and working with 22 times bigger budget (NYC budget for 2022 was about 100b US dollars, and Prague's budget was about 100b CZK which equals to 4.5b US dollars).
It is much nicer when you watch and react the whole video. I rather watch 20min full video, than 10min fast blablabla and bye.
I live in Portugal,not all councils,but in mine bus is free for residents,plus it has USB ports and free wifi onboard 😅😁
9:01 We also have those double-decker buses here in Mexico, mainly in CDMX (Mexico City), by the way 5 out of every 10 buses in the country are Mercedes-Benz and the rest are Volvo, VW, etc. Also is funny how he said he wasn't going to talk about Mexico buses but he didn't say he wouldn't show them 5:18, 5:59, 6:39, 8:53, 16:44 LOL
M.A,N. is still right.
each letter stands for a city name where 3 different producers had their company before they merged to München Augsburg Nürnberg motor company.
As a German who has used English public transport a couple times, I have to say their trains and buses are so much more comfortable than ours. Tbf though, the bus I was on was just a replacement for a cancelled train, so it was basically a coach, which tend to be nicer. Still, those trains man.
The older trains in Germany I took to school when I was in my early teens were still very comfortable but the newer ones they introduced in the 2000s and after are just meh. I guess they're fine but just such a downgrade. Not that that'd be the only issue German public transport is having (everyone knows about our train delays, 1/3 of our trains were late or cancelled in 2023 iirc, but at least in my city it's the buses, too).
i think it has to do with the fact most americans are used to driving cars, so why would a city invest in busses if there is no one taking it.
unless that changes it prob. stays a car country for everything.
You hit the nail on the head for "who cares what my car hit as long as Im safe." I was in a crash a couple years ago in my prius. We were T boned but it was by a slightly smaller Ford compact car. If it was a full sized truck like people frequently drive here in Indiana, me and my wife could have ended up in the hospital instead of being able to walk away with no harm done. It scares me to think about it
Here in Czechia, SOR bus is really common. And it is really nice, here where a lot of people drink alcohol, you can't drive can you? So we rely on public transport because drunk driving will kill us all... It is just a given here, you are going to visit a friend in a different town, you are going to party, you ain't driving there. Simple as that.
Edit: Sure I have sober friends that could drive me there, but they aren't always available and it is more of a mess compared to public transport that is ready once an hour at least.
In Europe city busses don´t have to be comfy. You sit on a buss for less than an hour.
Buses and European buses,if people could afford more cars, then 😊
Hey bro. You should check out Ben Collins (former stig from top gear) he recently drove a British and American police car .
Your opinion would be really welcome
Hey ring junkies😊
I have a driver's license but I don't have a car. I use trains, buses, metros and trams to travel in my city and other cities when I'm in holidays. If I need a car I ask for my father's or brother's car or I rent one.
I'm shocked that you don't have good buses to travel inside or between big cities that are near each other. Here in my town we have simple ones (hybrid), bending ones (hybrid too) and a smaller ones, like a big van to serve the more twisted designed neigbourhoods and streets. The biggers ones provokes traffic jams because the drivers have to manouvre the bus and the city hall decided to put smaller ones with some "on demand" stops.
Policies and regulations = monopoly and corruption?
I rarely take public transit nowadays, but I used to. The most important thing to me was it being actually convenient and somewhat regular and fast. An alternative or complement to driving.
In the US for example, taking public transit is slower than using a car in most cases. They don't run regularly enough, are inefficient, slow (like busses getting stuck in traffic), don't go to places people want to be at, etc. The issues make car traffic worse as well. If some of the people who drove their car could be at least tempted to take public transit sometimes, it would mean fewer cars on the road and less parking and road-space needed.
“Policies and regulations” is that Freedom!! lol
the US seems to be still in the 70's with their infrastructure.
I have a suggestion. By RMTransit - Tram Trains are amazing | Das Karlsruher Modell. I think it could be interesting for you
Sadly America is behind on a lot of things
In Poland we have some Hydrogen Powered buses
Bus lanes or even bus roads exist elsewhere but ALL of that requires timed and controlled traffic lights which USA doesn't seem to have. Cars, buses and pedestrians get their own phase of the lights and it's all safe.
MAN stands for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg = Machine factory Augsburg - Nuremburg. It was a merger of two machine factories in Augsburg and Nuremberg back in 1898, which founded in 1915 a joint venture with Swiss Automobilwerke Adolph Saurer, the Lastwagenwerke (Truck factory) M.A.N.-Saurer, first producing in Lindau at Lake Constance, then moving to Nuremberg.