The Failure and Success of Great American Transit | History of Streetcars, Part 1

[@Bureaucromancer]

I really can't put my finger on WHY, because frankly there are plenty of videos that hit a lot of the same topics... but this series just makes me happy to watch.

[@sh0gun___]

I'd be perfectly fine with a channel entirely dedicated to streetcars to be honest.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

A Desire Named Streetcar

[@bojacob7154]

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[@landynnathan7430]

@Bo Jacob instablaster ;)

[@bojacob7154]

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[@bojacob7154]

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[@ClaudiaNW]

This is a great series. Thanks to Donoteat for sending me here.

[@bigmoodenergy]

Cancelled for stanning streetcars

[@quentin2776]

excellent video!! really appreciate the names for people and places. You name dropped Roland Park. I grew up in Baltimore in and around the actual Roland Park. Our streetcar infrastructure is gone now, obviously. Except for the streetcar stop shelters, which are quite nice. But because they sit in medians between busy streets (Saint Paul and Greenway + University parkway and Overhill), they don't have any use as bus shelters and they're too inconvenient to be used as parks or resting areas. So they just kinda sit there, collecting dust, occasionally being plowed into by trucks.

[@bigmoodenergy]

ty for sharing this! I love old trolley shelters that have stuck around, I found the one on University Parkway and Overhill and it has beautiful detailing.

[@teagan6828]

Wow, I've always wondered what that structure at St. Paul and Greenway was! I had no idea it was used for streetcars.

[@badnoisebebopblackoutnetwo3348]

Classic A.A.Ron joke, hehe. Beautiful!

[@harri2626]

Superb presentation and graphics. The main difference between US streetcar development and European tramway development seems to be the profit motive. In the UK, many horse or steam tramways started as privately owned lines under short term leases until "bought" by the local municipalities who then electrified the lines and used the profits to subsidise the rates (local taxes on households and businesses). However, many municipalities neglected to re-invest the profits and this led to a gradual deterioration of the systems leading to the inevitable call for "cheap" bus substitution.

[@contrapunctusmammalia3993]

i always thought first gen british trams suffered similar fates to american ones, looking up where I live, the tram company was purchased by a regional bus company consortium in the 1930s which went in and bussed everything. Public bodies were not really relevant until the 1960s when the busses were nationalised.

[@punman5392]

Boston’s Green Line E branch still runs on the street. It’s still part of the oldest underground public transit tunnel in the Country.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Exactly, but except maybe for a short stretch to Hyde Square the section from Heath Street to Forest Hills / Arborway ain't NEVAH coming back! Because too many cars. 😡

[@mysticrailroad]

tremendous video.

[@Velcera]

this series is great! just stumbled upon it.

[@contrapunctusmammalia3993]

that performance of the mandolin concerto is like the nicest mixed thing ive ever heard

[@cmdr_stretchedguy]

Not related to mass transit really, but... For an interesting grid setup of streets where they were started one way and expanded a different way, look at my old hometown of Rapid City, South Dakota (left there in 2000). The initial grid in the late 1800s was setup with north/south streets relating to magnetic north, versus later expansion of streets were adjusted to true north, except in areas where elevation affected the road more than anything else.

[@TheDutchMitchell]

So I've looked the city up on maps and I must say that, as a European, that city looks like a very shitty place to live.

[@MattsScaleModels]

As an Aussie tramway/streetcar tragic, this video is great to see, thank you!

[@rayfridley6649]

The first city-wide electric streetcar service was Richmond, VA, premiered on February 2, 1888, and lasted until 1949.

[@maglorian]

thank you comrade Zip-zaps!

[@leongkinwai9709]

13:50 Next you'll tell me his wife was named Dee Nice or something

[@radwilly1770]

THIS IS AMAZING WORK!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!

[@michaelkirschner]

Horses have a lifetime of a few years: Jesus!

[@bigmoodenergy]

yeah it's kind of horrifying they just drove them til they dropped over, really really awful.

[@Sp4mMe]

But they are bio-degradable. It's just a shame nobody had invented/popularized kebap yet, otherwise there'd have been a secondary use, too ...

[@loplopthebird1860]

@@Sp4mMe r/cursedcomments

[@ocularpatdown]

Apparently I have a more-than-latent interest in mass transit, and streetcars are just fascinating to me. I grew up in Los Angeles, which per the legends, had one of the most extensive streetcar systems in the world. What a damn tragedy it got all torn down. I know LA Metro is a step to returning to some halfway decent mass transit back home, but oh, what would I have given to ride a Red Car. The only street car I really grew up with was the SF cable car system. I had left SoCal by the time the Red Line opened in San Diego and right after ground was broken for the LA Subway. I live now between Baltimore (which has a sad system) and Washington (which is pretty damn good, quite convenient). and wish to the transit gods that intercity travel was actually a good thing. I mean, WTF that there's no MARC on the weekends. I can still see old streetcar tracks scattered about Baltimore, and I just wonder how it was like in the past days. The light rail works well enough, but we only use it to go to Orioles game or Inner Harbor. WMATA is far more efficient and extensive. Heh, I lived in Philadelphia for years and thought SEPTA was a mess. That thing runs like clockwork compared to MTA. :/ Thank you for these videos.

[@thisislesbomaya]

STREETCAR GANG

[@LPenn0505]

Damn! I wish I hadn't learned the truth about what happened to horses pulling trolleys. Now I don't want to start in 1850 in Transport Fever.

[@daniellxnder]

iirc horse-drawn carts have like 5 years of lifespan in that game? 😶

[@tylerzipay9536]

Stay well, everyone. Please wash your hands as much as possible and do what you can to help your elderly, sick, and out of work friends and family. We'll get through this TOGETHER!

[@GeneralJackRipper]

_"I don't know how people were creating these walkable places."_ Well congratulations I can enlighten you to the fact that before Henry Ford, walking was THE ONLY WAY TO GET AROUND THE CITY. Of course it's going to be built to be walked, WHEN LITERALLY EVERYONE WALKED. Why this has become some generational mystery just boggles my mind.

[@yedoom]

Now that's some good content

[@blujitsu2180]

Now this is the stuff.

[@poznanskiszybkowiec_official]

Many European Countries Like Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary And Even GDR Invested In Trams Since They Are The Alternative To Buses. One thing That U.S never Knew, That Trams Don't Make Traffic Jams. Because If Made A Dedicated Line where they Don't Run On Streets Or In The Middle Of The Avenue. Can Decrease Time Needed to Travel From One District To Another, it Was Just the XXI Century That Some USA Cities Started Ordering Trams From Škoda And Inekon. After Those Cities Like Portland Realised That Traffic Jams Are The Reason Why Tram Network Is Needed. Let Me Tell You Something. When East Berlin Invests On Trams. West Berlin Invests On It's Metro Network. Trams Are Cheaper Than Metros. Because when Making Tram Lines. You can Make A Pre-Metro Line, In Other Words a Fast Tram Route. This Route When Not Colliding With Any Roads Allows Trams To Run At their Design High-Speeds. Like In Poznań, When Since 1997 Trams Operate At The Speed Of 70km/h Between 6 Stations. Słowiańska To Os. Sobieskiego. This has Shortened The Travel To Piątkowo District Up To 15 Minutes

[@michaelkirschner]

A A Ron :)

[@dvderek]

Love the music tbh

[@han2552]

whipping girl... i see you

[@bigmoodenergy]

tryna sprinkle education in so the train boys aren't just eating pure garbage, next video, I will open it

[@SparenofIria]

That ending was so hilarious

[@andrewscolari5724]

Hey Bigmoodenergy. I've recently purchased Cities skylines Deluxe edition and I want to build a city that looks like Washburn in the early 1900s., just like in this video. How can I get the game to do that?

[@peterahrens3594]

Love Transit! ❤❤❤❤

[@pmcgee003]

Thanks also for the reading reference in picture. 👍

[@Furore2323]

Yes to everything.

[@jasonb7330]

Just started watching, but fully expect to see my Midwest House in your Midwest City

[@Kingsleyrulz]

Hiting me with that gymnopedie no 1 shit at the start, thats not fair.

[@steph_man372]

Trams are the vegetables, meat, potatoes and dessert!

[@MK---00]

What video game or software is making those city sims?

[@bigmoodenergy]

I'm using the game Cities: Skylines

[@kirstenlambertsen8826]

Streetcars AND Satie? SOLD.

[@tmthycnnlly]

Links to the videos Javier mentioned?

[@bigmoodenergy]

they should be on cards at 28:10 and 28:14, here they are if they don't show up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHKVm6N3h9aGbaOVc kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoLMmJqdorpkg6c

[@OhSome1HasThisName]

​@@bigmoodenergy hey, loved the episode, just to let you know that in the description, the link to the Streets Lecture is missing (the HUF Lecture link is there twice) :)

[@bigmoodenergy]

@@OhSome1HasThisName thank you, it's fixed!

[@tylerzipay9536]

You use unpaid grad student labor for your videos too?!?! This is a major issue for left wing urban planning youtubers!!!

[@viniciusdesouzamaia]

I actually heard a teacher once refer to her interns jokingly as SL-interns. In Brazil.

[@paulmentzer7658]

I heard one teacher said interns were better then slaves. You have to feed and house slaves.....

[@certifiedforkliftdriver9987]

holy shit ive been waitingn for so long

[@BURNANNATOR]

Is your major urban planning?

[@bigmoodenergy]

Myself (Alex), no. Javier has a master's degree in planning.

[@prismane_]

street car nation rise up

[@TheWerecatboy]

*Watching the video in 2020* "When Bernie Sanders is elected" HAHAHAAHAHAHAH we're all gonna die.

[@bigmoodenergy]

it was an optimistic take 🥺

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Yeah we got stuck with Biden instead and a grand coalition from tea party conservative to progressive socialist, all now called "the far left", had to vote for him to get rid of the most dishonest, corrupt, lazy, and dictatorial president EVAH.

[@paulmentzer7658]

Not all southern Senators left the Government in 1861, Senator and later Vice President and Prisident Andrew Johnson stayed in the US Senate.

[@thatnickid100]

I think youtube is making me autistic and i love it

[@zellfaze]

Liberate horses. Nobody should work so hard they die after just a few years. That's insane.

[@GeneralJackRipper]

_"Genocide, cultural erasure, and mass displacement."_ Yeah that's called "War" there buddy.

[@SkywalkerWroc]

Just to clarify - the first streetcar mentioned in the video was the first one in the US. World's first one run in the UK, second was in the Czech Republic (for decades it was the world's longest lane, stretching 120km by the time the first tiny streetcar appeared in the USA). In fact, basically all of the tram innovations come from Europe (eg. electric tram was first invented and (prototype) built near St Petersburg, with the first commercial line operating in Berlin).

[@bigmoodenergy]

It's a US series, everything should be assumed to be in reference to the US unless stated otherwise.

[@mwl5]

Attractive, intelligent, likes street cars, mass transit, cities skylines, and history... I think I just found my ideal GF lol.

[@trainluvr]

By the title I thought i would see a review of all the american historic streetcar systems like, you know, Memphis, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa-Ybor, Fort Collins, Kenosha, etc. When you do the Heavy Rail episode please make note that the 1970s Great Society subways were never called that until the book Great Society Subway was published. I'm not a know-it-all, but I know a lot.

[@han2552]

shut up. thanks

[@BrizzyMo]

Streetcars are cool. Libtardation is not.