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Until all the new infrastructure and remaking of cities to say a Netherlands model, raising gas prices will just bend over and ram it to the low income. Also, it could be EVs have peaked. Until EVs can be fully recharged in 5 to 10 minutes, and batteries that will give you 350 miles regardless of temperature and items being used. Also, in cities, apartment dwellers are hosed in regards to being able to charge overnight, and let us not forget the massive build out of the power supply and improving and upgrading the power distribution system. There are also massive rural areas where EVs are an actual non-starter. Raise prices on gas and EVERYTHING hauled by trucks will go up, which means the cost of everything will go up, again, absolutely hosing the poor. But hey, go for it, show how much you care about the poor by shafting them. And if you are oh so worried about pollution and global warming, then hammer the People’s Republic of China, who is the absolute largest gross polluter in the world by a big margin. They signed the Kyoto Protocol, who cares, the CCP lies like a rug, they cheat, obfuscate, all claims otherwise. F Denmark. The USAhas states larger than Denmark, and a few of those are empty.

methodology is good. But 10 minutes into and out of downtown train station is way optimistic. Furthermore, once a lot of people are traveling on HSR, the bad guys will target it, and we'll be going through security for HSR just like aircraft. So overall i think this is optimistic wrt HSR.

Ive been telling all my friends about this project thank you for covering it. Cant wait to be sipping an old fashioned screaming 180mph across the mohave desert unreal

By the way, how old are you you because every source I am trying to get it is going, did you mean nerd? No, I city nerd!!!

If we had actual high speed rail that was direct from New York to Philadelphia with easy transfers to regional rail networks, Philadelphia would become the 6th Borough of NYC, even more so than it already has been.

Sad but true.

Thanks for the vid sir - we were down there just a couple weeks ago for the first time and I honestly was thinking, "gosh, that yootoober guy I watch sometimes would be impressed". It amazes me all the transit/rail/city planning, etc that goes on there even when there basically is no vehicular traffic to speak of. As a resident of the greater Seattle metro region I am jealous of their competency and ability to get real improvement done. And hey, the nuke museum is actually quite good, but agree it's in the middle of a very challenging neighborhood. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is worth a stop too.

New York, London, LA, and San Francisco top 4. All major stops for both local and overseas acts touring the World.

I like 311.

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Yeah, my first thought was “why would you go to Wal-Mart?”

The 1 thing that will forever keep Houston from becoming a walkable/bike-able city is the weather. It's hot (90º+ afternoon highs) and humid here from May until usually mid-October some time. And then when it rains, as it has done pretty steadily for the last month, there are hordes of mosquitoes. By some time in June, our nightly lows will be between 75º and 80º with 90 - 100% humidity. That will last until mid-September. For a taste of what a "walkable" Houston would be like, visit the French Quarter in New Orleans any time between now (mid-May) and mid-October. There is a very good reason why all of the south was largely bereft of people until the advent of air conditioning. It's the same reason the Astrodome and the Superdome were the 2 first covered sports stadiums in the US. 95º AND 60 - 70% humidity in the afternoons is just absolutely suffocating. I've lived on the Gulf Coast for more than 50 years. In the summer, I plan all of my yardwork to be done by NLT 11 AM. After that, just no way. For some geographical/weather references, Houston is slightly farther south than Cairo, Egypt. Washington, D.C. had always been considered a hardship assignment for foreign diplomats on account of their hot and muggy summers, until the advent of air conditioning. Even if you took away our cars, this still wouldn't become a walkable city because I expect most people would move just to get away from the heat and humidity.

Pittsburgh Purple (MLK/East, sometimes) is a bronze-rated system. I was surprised and frankly devastated not to see it on the chart. Seeing the video come out early in the week, I said to me wife "I bet we'll see Pittsburgh on there." Normally I don't let my infant son watch TV. However we made an exception, gathering round the tube as I imagine families did when color TV was first activated for what was sure to be a momentous event. We hoisted two sparkling waters but as the graphs filled in I covered my sons eyes. "Don't watch, little one.." I suspect Pittsburgh missed this one because while the ridership on the busway infrastructure was ~200k, only half of that is on the P1 which is grade separate for its entire alignment. There's another 40k riders who take a branch line onto the street to circulate through the university campuses on a different route the P3. That branch is being incorporated into the BRT although it will not have as strong operating characteristics as the original service or even as good as what's shown in your video of ART. Then there's an additional 50kish riders who take suburban collectors and even operators from other counties that piggyback on the alignment. Some but not all of these will serve the stops on the BRT as well, so it's kind of a Ship of Theseus thing as to what "counts" as busway ridership Great video, I am a big fan not to mention user of BRT and glad to see it get some attention!

I wonder where does College station, TX stands on the list!?

I think it's supposed to be adobe reminiscent, a traditional type of architecture from the natives of the area.

Wow, you spent a lot of time being critical of Santa Fe. It's called the city different. Evidently too different for you. It doesn't appeal to everybody and that's good.

Idk I think San Francisco’s BRT is better

Skip!!!! Way too wordy drags didn't make it to the end,

The most amusing to me is that my prius can and has hauled more than the average pickuptruck. It can haul a small camper, a medium boat, and I have hauled two motorcycles on a trailer. Similarly, I have hauled 2k lbs of dirt and 8ft boards for a garden setup in the back, no trailer needed.

There are some very exciting upcoming projects that are worth mentioning here! The city recently received $25 million in funding to turn the Uptown Transit Station (Shown at 10:32) into a mixed-use project with 3 buildings anywhere from 5-7 stories. It was also recently announced that the iconic Bank of the West tower (Shown prominently in the Ernst Haas photograph at 2:20) was bought at auction and is being redeveloped, along with its 13 story neighbor, into a combined 300 condo units with balconies and a rooftop pool. The city has also already secured $130 million for the Rail Trail project which will connect the Railyards District & Downtown to the Sawmill District & Old Town together with the bosque path to create a 9 mile loop of separated bike/pedestrian infrastructure around the center of the city.

I take I-94 all the time travelling from out of the Twin Cities to the hospital/medical center between St. Paul and Minneapolis - I drive past beautiful St. Mary's Cathedral and am just depressed seeing such a nice building adjacent to the freeway. Seriously, it's disgusting. I would much prefer being able to take a train from where I live, which SHOULD 100% EXIST, and then take light rail to my destination. There's already a close by light rail stop to my destination. The fact that I have to drive is the OPPOSITE of freedom. There's already so much traffic it takes forever to traverse that section so any idiot who says "It WoUlD InCrEaSe CoMmUtE TiMes" is just that, an idiot.

YES! Detroit is on the rise! I live in the suburbs and can't believe how much better it has gotten over the past 10 years.

Not having Mississauga is insane but city nerd definitely is America centric so fair.

Some blame has to go on the drivers texting, not paying attention, coupled with a “Get the duck out of my way because I drive an overpowered battering ram to get groceries, or I drive an overly expensive German car, or I am an idiot in a muscle car that is too much for me.” When I have to go to work, I am doing 65 to 70 in the slow lane as everyone else is doing between 75 to 90. If you had pickups and SUVs in the mix in determining overall product MPG.

Unfortunately, it seems that at least part of the issue here is that the income metric means that these are cities that have more effectively priced poor people out. That may be in the form of the very costs being discussed here but it comes in many forms. When we compare SF to NYC (which was on the bad list) one of the sad findings is that poor people have really been driven out of SF but there seems to be quite a few who by some miracle still live in NYC. I'm not necessarily saying that there is one specific policy issue to look at here (though rent control would at least be worth exploring as a possible explanation.) But these kinds of lists are generally an abstract way of teasing out how the viewer might fair in such a city (even if the criteria are never perfect.) But if one city scores well because low income people have essentially all been kicked out, it's hard to look at that and say that any one person would find themself on the right side of that equation. And the income criteria definitely does reward gentrification as a phenomenon.

San Luis Obispo is a WONDERUL city. Lots of rules, but it doesn't mean people follow them. Cool vibe, great dining, beautiful location on the Central Coast. If I had the $$, I would definitely live there.

ART absolutely fucked up central. Mayor Berry made a stupid choice to build it, even against the public’s want, for whatever reason was going through his head. It’s like he asked how can we take a really nice and fluid traffic pattern and turn it to garbage. ART is how.

Wow... ABQ is almost unrecognizable with the BRT in the middle of Route 66

Ring-roads need to be public transit, either Tram/Light-Rail or full on trains, minimum of every 15 minutes.

IF YOU GET HOT.. You can Try the Micro transit YAV Connect inside the CYMPO are. Ohh it's AZ Litterally if you run out of ideas also/too/maybe

Some of these do look like in a city-builder where you unlock some government building you need, so you plop them down in a field some place out of town so they don't block your city-building.

In half of the cities you ranked, you will only want to walk 8 months out of the year due to the fierce winters. Buffalo, Chicago, Milwauke. Baltimore and St. Louis, with a body guard.

Man... have y'all never heard of "multi-storey" carparks?

Looking at this, it might be time for a move, or at least a planned retirement destination. Was that a road runner at 21:50?

An important caveat to Albuquerque's BRT's 5th place on the list is that it's free. Are any of the systems above it free? I know it's not on LA Metro. That's a huge caveat. It's not really a "fare" comparison. The LA Metro's G line BRT checks many of the boxes for a gold standard line, and it's very popular.

I laughed out loud when he said the city was more walkable and people friendly while the video showed completely empty streets. No shade, just an observation, but then again, he might have done it on purpose knowing his wry humor.🤔

I went to visited California in 2007, 2012 and 2017.

@citynerd Would love to hear your thoughts on Solano County / California Forever!

Lived in Seattle 20 years without a motor vehicle, organized North America's first car-free day in 2001, edited Carbusters magazine for a year, and now own a '96 Tacoma pickup truck because being an independent carpenter feels a lot less distasteful than working to make someone else rich. I tried getting by for a year using a car share service, which at the time used 2-seater Smart cars. Now picture one of those with 2x4s and an 8' level protruding from the open rear hatchback window. It almost worked.

I live in rural Wyoming. I have a 2014 Camry and a 2006 Suburban. I have the Suburban because that's what I could afford to buy, and it fits my family. I love it, but I'd rather have an AWD minivan. If I had to get a truck, I'd get something like the Maverick, but I'll wait for Toyota to come out with their small truck. Ford sucks.

13:50 When you stop negatively judging Marxists, Socialists, and Communists, who have every right to exist and be in power and government as anyone else forced into this world without their prior consent by their breeders, then we will stop judging you from forcing FAR MORE than your fair share of DANGEROUS RISK onto pedestrians compared to those of us who drive reasonable sized cars, and for you from forcing your FAR MORE CO2 damage to the climate than the rest of us.

The hour long metrolink ride from DT Long Beach is pretty horrid. Most uncomfortable I've ever felt riding public transit in the USA. Clutch your bags and pray!

To the idiot who labelled those you disagree with because they believe we should get rid of all cars: Does not matter that I do not agree with them either. THEY were forced into the world by their breeders without their consent. If THEIR voices are not given equal time as anyone else's in government and media, then they should be. What matters is if the negatives of what they propose and the positives have a net positive that is maximal over all other options. Obviously, since you and I disagree with them, you and I conclude that: no. "getting rid of all cars" is not optimal Otherwise I don't have to take seriously ideas, LET ALONE LAWS, forced on me that irrelevant politicians and presidents are crazy to impose on me. Like laws making it a crime to end animal cruelty by freeing all factory farms animals and ending factory farming.

Why are you squaring the time? We square the distance in gravity because we are in 3 spatial dimensions, but since travel is on an approximately 2d surface, the analogous formula would be 1/distance (or 1/time) instead

4:25 - I'm confident the first true FLW Usonian, by Frank's own description was the Jacobs No.1 house in Madison, Wisconsin. I constructed a modern reinterpretation of it in 2008, in NZ. Herbert and Katherine Jacobs later went on to build the famous "Solar Hemicycle" house with Frank, it is called Jacobs 2. No.1 featured many unique things, such as a steam heated floor slab, and the world's first carport. When he coined the term, he stated, "The car is not a horse, and it doesn't need a barn." This was in 1936. And so early it was not yet understood that steam follows the hottest pipe!

I just got back from San Antonio and by the love of God are those freeways/highways terrible. I am not sure which is worse driving on city roads or the freeways. Edit: They've labeled a working class poor white neighborhood in my city as "blighted." Funny because the same council that did continued the tradition of not allowing the people living there to refurbish or tear down old buildings.... Meanwhile I'm pro cheap energy yet for them shutting down a coal plant that I hadn't realized was in the middle of a neighborhood, no points if you guess who lives there (primarily.)

The motels have a real prison looking vibe from the outside. Even the McDonalds in Santa Fe had to bend the knee. Also, it is NOT a lot of fun rolling a suitcase or two a half mile

You had better get rid of most of the room and some of your clothing if you don't like breathing that stuff. Will there be affordable housing for people to live near their jobs? Can you assure that? Take the freeway out and now people have to drive farther to get there, that will help reduce carbon output for sure. Are you even thinking of the 2nd, 3rd or 4th order affects of removing that highway?

I hate the number of pickup trucks on the road, especially when driving behind one. It's like there's a building driving in front of you. Then you see one trying to navigate a crowded parking lot or a narrow street or you hear complaints about the price of gas and you think, why buddy, why. I have to admit, though, I do get it. Same with the ginormous SUVs. When I've driven one, say a rental or a borrowed vehicle, the ability to see over traffic and the feeling of imperviousness - feeling, not fact, btw - is noticeable. Do what you want, they'll get out of the way. And if someone's tailgating you hardly notice. It is, however, very comfortable to tailgate some little car. It's not just a masculinity thing, not just a show of wealth, not just the feeling of power, not just a supposed chick magnet. It's all of it.

Thanks!