10 More Unique Modes of Transportation Within The U.S.

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@BenShutUp Ай бұрын

Dude this was so well done! Fascinating stuff! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 One day I’m gonna visit Pittsburgh and ride that super steep rail line.

@AllTheUrbanLegends Ай бұрын

2:12 Vegetarian Cafeteria!? Do you know what year this is from? It's especially wild because it basically looks like a Veg SRO..

@wiggetman Ай бұрын

I live in morgantown it's something that makes our boring town unique. Apparently the traffic used to back up to downtown before the prt was built it also just got 5 million in state funding for station upgrades and stuff lile that

@jsn_alva Ай бұрын

We could use a people mover in SanDiego. Balboa park, airport downtown area. It's getting to that point.

@anthonysnyder1152 Ай бұрын

Does the trolley not serve those areas?

@jsn_alva Ай бұрын

@anthonysnyder1152 Yes and no. The stations are close-ish. However, you have to transfer to another mode of transportation. Downtown to balboa is cut off by the 5 freeway. It is very obvious during the holidays or when there are events in balboa. They do offer shuttle busses on these occasions, but they're just as much stuck in traffic as everyone else. Bottlenecks everywhere. On other days, you could get a bus to these places. The point is efficiently moving masses directly to a destination without contributing to or interfering with traffic. Something like a skyrail could do this, at least, IMO. Plus, a skyrrail would be cool in this city, lol.

@Ponchoed Ай бұрын

Bremerton-Port Orchard passenger ferry - The Carlisle II has been in service since 1917 and is operated by Kitsap Transit. It serves as a feeder to the larger Bremerton-Seattle ferry.

@stickynorth Ай бұрын

I've always wanted to ride the Westinghouse People mover in W Virginia as much as the OG Disney People mover's that use passive unpowered cars to move people. Always a fan of UTDC based transit systems like Vancouver and Detroit. It's a shame it was never expanded city wide as intended because if it had the city would have had a different and ultimately better trajectory...

@paulj6756 Ай бұрын

The PCC cars in San Francisco are mainly ex-SEPTA (Philadelphia) cars painted in tribute to cities which once operated them. For example, the only two surviving Chicago PCCs are at the Illinois Railway Museum. Also the red incline cars in Pittsburgh are those of the nearby Duquesne Incline.

@wiggetman Ай бұрын

also do the Huntsville alabama hospital tram i think it's kinda interesting but don't know much about it

@hobog Ай бұрын

5:55 as long as there's no standard of road signals and car transponders for coordination, autonomous cars have same flaws as people. FHA addressed this with a test in the '90s of autonomous cars on a test freeway lined with signals and sensors

@EdwardM-t8p Ай бұрын

Please, present Miami's Metromover.

@vpolite1 Ай бұрын

The PCC cars are a part of the Market Street Railway. It actually uses more than just the PCC cars.

@kiosk5595 Ай бұрын

SF and NOLA legacy streetcars, though not unique historically, are unique in remaining as modes of public transport today. Also a fan of Seattle’s Monorail as being somewhat unique, as well as efficient (Las Vegas’ Monorail is not super efficient imo). Honolulu’s new “Skyline” is unique in being both driverless and having platform screen doors, a rarity for the US

@vpolite1 Ай бұрын

10,000 daily trips for the OHSU tram?

@allanegleston4931 Ай бұрын

we should have never torn the old systems oout . but i like the idea of a brill car powered py a genset.

@Ponchoed Ай бұрын

Would be nice to see this lighter, quicker, cheaper option explored more, especially for non-major transit locations, like in Astoria. Sure a $450 million rail line is better but you wont get the support for it at that cost and with 4 years of construction, especially when for $45,000 you could run an old streetcar on an existing abandoned freight rail track and start the operation in 3 weeks.

@allanegleston4931 Ай бұрын

ah, , heathrow aiprot has a prt systm