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Short answer, No Long answer Noooooo. But seriously I was just taking about how this is a shame

There is also an alternative security checkpoint but it is not always open.

Hi，confuse with segments，if from nyc to Chicago，then take california zephyr route to emeryille，ca，from there to la，how many segments of the journey，two or three，thanks

I suspect all these stations will stay clean and safe as opposed to Seattle's.

Looking at that map, it goes from Cleveland to the middle of f-ing nowhere, Bumfruck, Ohio. At least run the tracks all the way to Cinci so there’s something to do when we get there.

Aside from the homeless people smoking crack right next to you, DART is pretty good if you commute into downtown and live in the interior suburbs.

The lack of courage to remove automobiles from the streetcar lanes really doomed it. On the occasions where parts of the light rail network are down for planned or unplanned maintenance, the CapHill to International District streetcar would be really useful - if it weren’t getting stuck in traffic with everything else.

5:03 😂to keep homeless away. They do the same at 7-11

Pretty sure the "broken old sign" at 3:50 is a new-ish sign. 🤣

They play opera to annoy homeless people in hopes they will go somewhere else.

Thanks for sharing this excellent and insightful video. It was interesting to see what the system does well and the challenges it's faced. Hoping Addis Ababa can build out even more higher order transit. I also really like the way you went beyond train/transit nerd stuff and shared insight about the culture and traditions in the city and in Ethiopia.

@0:37 - are the ads outdated or doe Ricki Lake still have a tv show in Canada?

For anyone who's willing to try the train beware of thieves overcrowding and overheating.

You are very dedicated to deliver content. You do a great research and try to pronounce everything. Keep it up 👏

I love your pronunciation 👏 6:56 kelal can be light weight or simple By the way amharic is our working language not a national language.

the legroom looks awful. I'm getting blood clots just looking at it. airline execs need to face the consequences of their actions.

It's a shame you were harassed by someone on the Metrorail. I would have just gotten off and taken the next train. Of all the US's metros, Miami is probably one of the safest, I have never encountered problems on it. Ironically, the Metromover is the least safe of the trains and has incidents every so often, usually at night. Since you didn't go to Government Center Station, you missed the ghost platform on the second level which at one point would have been the East/West line before they scrapped expansion plans. Hopefully the system gets expanded someday but there is no local political interest and every time an expansion plan comes along, the county commissioners siphon the money away for pet projects. The southern Busway expansion is currently underway as a Rapid Bus Transit [BRT] with the capability to "Convert To Metrorail" if demand picks up, but I doubt that will ever happen. They are working on the Metromover expansion to the beach but there is a lot of NIMBY pushback currently stalling it.

The Oprah music is a dallas 7-11 thing. It's ment to make it uncomfortable for homeless to hang around

Lake Washington is also rather deep, about 200 feet, which is like 20 story building, thus floating bridge come to the rescue.

7:57 Peep the Countach

I live in downtown Toronto, I have 4 24hr streetcar routes 501, 504, 505, 506, they’re less than 500 meters way from my house. We also have a bus running north south between all 3 streetcar routes. Nights and early mornings are the best no traffic so they run fast. If Seattle linked the 2 they have more people would ride.

Proud of you saying Cuyahoga correctly. Many get it wrong. Also, cool to see you in our area

Sadly I don’t expect they will. I know many of my fellow transit advocates in the city don’t the street care in general. And I get it it’s slow. But we get a lot of tourists who I’ve noticed really like the SLU line. The First Hill Line while slow its for sure useful and was created to supplement the inability to make a Light rail station in First Hill. Anyway I think if anything has to happen the SLU Line could be sacrificed. The First HIll Line needs to stay. The areas it covers are far more dense then SLU. A lot of the building near the SLU line are just office spaces. The First Hill line has lots of density and apartments around it and the College and the medical centers. It should get more improvements and maybe try to push again for it to go a bit more up Broadway at least to E Roy Street.

In addition to not connecting enough neighborhoods, the Seattle streetcars are way too slow. A typical able-bodied person can out-walk them. The slowness increases commute times for riders and holds up traffic for others. On top of that, the lack of seating on the streetcars make them not a great option for people who are not able-bodied. Sure, if you have a wheelchair, you bring your own chair that can strap in, but many people who are able to stand, can't stand for long periods or struggle to balance while in motion. I like the idea of the streetcar, but in terms of the ones we have, the bus lines are way more practical.

The whole deal with the first hill line being hybrid to some extent is quite intriguing, from an operation standpoint. Also 8:17 NCTM cameo 👀👀

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5:03 scared the shit out of me. Look at the fucking creature. Maybe if they get rid of the filth I'll consider riding public transit.

It amazes me that making them one coherent line was considered as an afterthought and not like step 1 in a project to revive a larger network of streetcar lines around Seattle. Even Detroit has a downtown circulator and a battery operated tram. Too bad in that case though they AREN'T one in the same... Just two separate networks that do connect albeit awkwardly...

The first successful electric streetcar line in Pittsburgh was the 57 Glenwood which went to downtown Pittsburgh via @nd Avenue through Hazelwood. I believe the year waw 1884.

Great vid! I'm confused by the Palm Desert ad wrap on a train in Washington...

4:47 I love the TRD taxi van 😂 (Toyota Racing Division)

Hope you saw the Center for Wooden Boats at South Lake Union!

fixed rail transit is a dumb idea.

Firstly, I don’t take the street car most of the time because it could take 15 minutes for a car to come by, and I could have walked to my destination by then. Second off, not at least extending the First Hill line down the new waterfront was a complete miss.

there were plans, then the downtown bus tunnel and later the light rail line linked the two areas, removing the need for both streetcars to be physically connected/combined into one system

Admittedly I don't know much about the light rail in Seattle in particular, but it would be great if people in North America would stop using the expressions "light rail" and "street cars" and just use the word tram. That way it would be more obvious that the same vehicles can be used both on fast grade separated dedicated right of ways and also street running, either with dedicated lanes or even in mixed traffic. Ignoring that I don't know that the light rail infrastructure looks like (except the pictures on Wikipedia...), the street car lines could connect to the light rail at Westlake, Capitol Hill and Intl Dist/Chinatown and/or Pioneer Square. That way you could for example have a service running South Lake Union - Pioneer Square, a service running Uni of Washington - Stadium via the street car line, and whatnot. I get that the light rail uses longer trains, but as long as the infrastructure isn't at capacity it's possible to mix shorter and longer trains. Also the 750/1500V voltage difference isn't a big problem. For example 10 of the class A32 trams used in Stockholm, Sweden, spent their initial life running on a dutch railway with 1500V DC electrification, and was later sold to Stockholm and at that time the additional equipment for 1500V DC was removed as Stockholm uses classic 750V DC tram electrification. (As a side track, in Germany there are trams that can run both on 750V DC and 16kV AC, and there are also trams that can run on 750V DC and diesel, used for various tram-train lines). Not sure about the platform height though but the light rail trains seem to have a relatively low platform. Btw, re cleaning the stops: You kind of have to observe a cycle between cleaning to tell if it's really the transit agency doing a bad work at keeping the stops clean, or if it's just some people "throwing eggs" at the stops. (I wouldn't want to pay the cost of replacing an LCD screen with a minor defect as long as it doesn't seriously impair readability. Those will fail every now and then and not replacing it immediately mostly lowers the maintenance cost. Also it seems like a better investment to have multiple screens, visible from different parts of the stop/shelter. Don't know about Seattle in particular but in general this is a good idea as it makes it easier to avoid other passengers that behave annoyingly, has a repelling smell or whatnot).

3:56 Whoa! Good comment about the shelter maintenance! Nice video summary about these two lines- and props for the overhead street views. The SLU line is obviously a vanity project, and if it went away no one would miss it. And, yes, it does get delayed in traffic: see Westlake Ave. and Denny Way, northbound, in front of Whole Foods during the evening rush, as the streetcar gets blocked by vehicles headed uphill on Denny. Regarding connecting the two: you wouldn't ride it to get from Capitol Hill to SLU or even downtown, as the routing is too circuitous, and vice versa. The only real value would be from Pike Place to Pioneer Square (hello, tourists!), and a rubber-tired trolley could do that for a fraction of the cost. Finally, it's a crime that Seattle didn't have the political courage to insist that the state DOT include a streetcar connection when the "Little Dig", aka the Alaskan Way viaduct removal-and-tunnel project was being designed. Now that I think about it, they should extend the First Hill line from its terminus at Pioneer Square down to the waterfront instead of up First Ave. How about it, SDOT?

As a person who lives in SLU without a car, I still never ride the nearby line. It's just too short to be useful. To get to the nearest stop, I'd have to walk 4-5 blocks, then wait for a streetcar to arrive. By the time that happens, I could have just walked directly to either end of the line. Meanwhile, the buses that run along Fairview and Westlake were full any time I looked at them at rush hour since they're the transit that actually brings people to/from Amazon's buildings going North.

2:27 the white livery with the flowers on car 402 has been around since before the FHS line opened. I distinctly remember getting crapped on by a crow while waiting to take a photo of that vehicle passing Union Station during pre-revenue testing in November 2015.