What did you think about today's video? What topics would you like to see me cover in the future? Let me know!

@mikehirst1605

Жыл бұрын

Hey! I came across your channel through your comment on Not Just Bikes's post. Great stuff! Loved the quality of the content itself, especially the interviews, and the flow of the vid, checking up with your journey across town, worked great tying the video together. Great graphics, too, from the hand-drawn stuff to the really clear digital animations. If I could give one tip, the clips pulled from Google Earth are a bit jittery because you're panning with a mouse. Have you checked out Google Earth Studio? It's a great tool to create automated pans and cinematics inside Google Earth. Subscribed!

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

@@mikehirst1605 Thanks for the tip! I'll look into Google Earth studio for future videos. I'm glad you enjoyed, and welcome to the channel.

@danieldaniels7571

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely loved this. And after watching you in Tulsa am suddenly feeling a lot better about the public transit in Phoenix.

@saketjawaji1557

Жыл бұрын

@@mikehirst1605 I want to second this. The interviews were so well done. And its quite unique among similar urbanism channels. But also, overall content is top tier.

@fredashay

Жыл бұрын

Although I'm an advocate of private cars, I agree with you that buildings in towns should be built right up against the sidewalk with the entrance and shops opening directly onto the sidewalk with parking behind the building and maybe a couple of "tunnels" that allow the people to walk out onto the sidewalk after parking. Downtown Somerville NJ is like this.

As a transit rider, here’s a tip: ALWAYS flag down the bus. Doing that has ensured that a bus never flew past me

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, by the time I saw the bus it was already a block away. Great tip for next time though!

@enjoyslearningandtravel7957

Жыл бұрын

@@eryngo.urbanism I was in Santonio Texas riding the bus to get around as a tourist and I waved the bus to let them know I was there and they drove on when I ran after it The driver said they thought I was waving it on meant that I didn’t need that number the bus that I needed a different one.

@grahvis

Жыл бұрын

@@enjoyslearningandtravel7957 . In the UK you stand at the edge of the footpath and hold your arm out horizontally. Where I travel in the country, there are few actual bus stops, given it's safe to do so, the bus will stop anywhere for you.

@ToniGlick

Жыл бұрын

Good idea but ridiculous that you should have to.

@enjoyslearningandtravel7957

Жыл бұрын

@@grahvis good to know

The lack of buses in tulsa is shocking to me coming from the UK. I live in a small town with a population of ~40,000 and we still have a decent bus service that comes every 10-15 minutes, and a few buses that come every 30-60 minutes going to other places. In Bournemouth where I spend a lot of my time, we've got bus services going every 2-5 minutes, and the Poole / Bournemouth area has a pretty similar population to Tulsa. And the UK isn't even the best country in Europe for public transit! I wish you and your city luck with getting better buses.

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

This is something most Americans don't understand. The level of transit you're talking about is entirely achievable. We don't prioritize it here, but the benefits of doing so would be huge.

@moth5799

Жыл бұрын

@@eryngo.urbanism Surely it would be far cheaper to just fund a good bus service than building more stroads and maintaining them? Why doesn't the US do that?

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

@@moth5799 That's the million dollar question, because you're absolutely right.

@kwasiahenkora6583

Жыл бұрын

@@eryngo.urbanism I blame the auto industry… And people’s ignorance of why car dependence is a problem (mostly older people from Gen X and the Boomers)… And American people’s tendency to politicize EVERYTHING.

@TheAmericanCatholic

Жыл бұрын

@@kwasiahenkora6583 it’s poor urban planning after the 1950s where the planners though cars are the future and will make the American dream. This is ironic given what sprawl and cars did to American cities

As someone who grew up in Tulsa and moved to Los Angeles. I can say that the US transit problem exists even in the biggest metro areas. I've considered taking the bus and other optional transit options. But I would have to take an Uber or walk 30min just to get to the closest bus stop. And it would take much longer to reach my destination over using my car. Just like Tulsa everyone has to drive in LA to get around. And the road infrastructure can't keep up with ever-increasing demand for personal vehicles. Bumper to bumper traffic is a common occurrence in LA and I see how the commuter lifestyle effects everyone in this city. Road rage, aggressive driving, cutting off other driver's, and just being inconsiderate of others on the road. I think all across the US we need to improve our public transportation, because it will decrease traffic and be a net positive for everyone, even those who still choose to use a personal vehicle.

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. LA is a whole other beast. I hear that some select parts of the city have decent transit, but that it doesn't really serve the city as a whole. It's honestly crazy, considering it's the second largest city in the country. With both Tulsa and LA it's kinda hard to know where to start, which is why I think good buses are so important. They're the cheapest option in terms of capital investment, we can theoretically get them up and running quickly, and when they're successful they can be replaced with more efficient, likely rail-based modes.

@sarat6488

Жыл бұрын

this country hates poor people, and owning a car is part of "American Exceptionalism". This is a fight we will never win in the current culture.

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

@@sarat6488 So let's get started changing the culture! It may be an uphill battle, but it's one worth fighting.

@KRYMauL

Жыл бұрын

You need a bike to use buses

@zengseng1234

Жыл бұрын

I have a very different experience in LA. I live a two minute walk from metro rail, bus stops, a local coffee shop, bars, and restaurants. It all depends on where you live and work. No, it’s not Rome, but it gets the job done

62 buses is insane! that made me look up how many buses my city (Vancouver BC) has, and it has 1400 busses. the the population size isn't really that much bigger.

@L83467

Жыл бұрын

my town of about 110,000 people in regional australia has 73 buses and coaches

@baddriversofcolga

Жыл бұрын

Urban Vancouver has about 7 times the density, though, for whatever it's worth.

@L83467

Жыл бұрын

@@baddriversofcolga my city in regional australia has a population density of less than half than tulsa yet has more buses

@Aliceintraining

Жыл бұрын

my depo has more buses on night car routes then they have buses.

@greek9244

Жыл бұрын

Go to Northern Ireland and you’ll see buses in every single street basically. Even towns with 200 people have frequent enough bus services. We also have gliders which are like trams and are so much faster than cars. Trains too. I’d still like a lot more trains and they are only every 15 minutes on peak or 30 minutes . 1 hour off peak ):

I really liked hearing about that one rider's first time on the bus, that made me smile. Most people aren't really into transit like urbanists are, but hearing that someone gave the bus a shot and had a good experience (and got a free ride!) is genuinely cool. Maybe they'll ride again, or more strongly consider it next time they have a chance to go downtown to do something. That's how you build transit ridership, by knocking down barriers that make the bus inconvenient enough that people will just say "screw it, I'll drive" and then showing them firsthand that riding the bus is actually like, pretty chill

Coming here as a european, this is insane. The 15-minute headway city that's "too expensive" would be extremely basic over here.

I could be wrong, but I think your $269 Billion is actually $269 Million. The entirety of London's annual budget is "only" $11.4 billion. Aside from that, I really like the video. You explain things very clearly. To me the key issue is not the transit authority, but the lack of funding. Why are they so chronically under funded? As a Brit, I tried to find a similar sized city over here, and came up with Coventry, the city where I went to university. It has a population of 345000, so it's 57000 people less than Tulsa. They have 26 bus lines, run by a variety of private operators who somewhat compete with each other (although not on all routes). Most buses come every 30 minutes at minor bus stops on the edge of town and every 15 minutes on the main routes. If you are closer to the city centre you're going to get buses every 5-10 minutes as the routes are radial and converge as they get closer to the central bus station, which is 2 minutes walk from the main downtown shopping area, which is all pedestrianised. Since I graduated in 2005 the city has had a new train station, all the buses have gone electric and they are making cycle lanes everywhere and blocking cars from driving into the city centre even more than they did before. It CAN be done, if people care enough. The only big advantage it has over Tulsa is the city is quite dense because much of it was built before cars were invented, but it definitely sprawled out in later years. In total it's a circle of about 7 miles across. By the looks of it, Tulsa is twice as long and wide, so about 4-5 times the land area for only slightly higher population. That's definitely going to create some problems!

@alexwright4930

Жыл бұрын

I live the other side of the metropolitan county in the Black Country after graduating from uni in Birmingham. Interesting comparison. Yeah Coventry station looks great now compared to before. Apparently there's a Meriden Gap green belt between Birmingham Airport and Coventry that has stopped Coventry sprawling into Solihull & Birmingham the way it sort of does into Leamington Spa?

Wow. Interesting content presented with video interviews, animations and editing. It’s great to have quality content that is both entertaining and informative. Keep up the good work!

I'm in houston and I rode the bus for the first time a few weeks ago, as well as the light rail. It gave me a sense of freedom I didn't know was possible for me because I cannot drive. I will definitely continue to utilize public transportation for as long as I live in a big city.

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

That's great that you had a good experience, I've heard mixed reviews of Texas' transit systems. Public transit really can be great, but we do have a long way to go to really make it work well for everyone.

@freyak5401

Жыл бұрын

I can drive, but the sense of freedom I get from public transit, walking, and biking is incredible. I'm no longer tied down to this hunk of steel that I have to park somewhere and worry about all day. If I'm doing light travelling I can carry everything I need in a backpack or suitcase and be down for anything anywhere and be reasonably prepared for it.

@no8to8racism

Жыл бұрын

I live in the countryside in Austria. I can drive, even have a car. I just choose not to. I have a "climate ticket", that's a nationwide annual pass for all public transport. I mean, yeah, it sometimes takes some planning, and is slower than a car in some directions. But you can use the time to do other stuff like reading or working on your laptop. Buses and trains have WiFi

@vsbaratinho

Жыл бұрын

houston isnt a big city, maybe a big parking lot.

@mindstalk

Жыл бұрын

@@eryngo.urbanism As you probably know, Houston revamped their bus network in 2015 or so, opting for a ridership strategy of a grid of faster lines. So I'd expect to hear better stories out of recent Houston than other parts of Texas.

Less than 20000 people in the town where I live in Lanarkshire, Scotland, but there are two bus routes that converge near me that can take me to Motherwell, the nearest large town or (one of them) Glasgow which is the large city- I can also walk to two train stations on the mainline between Glasgow and edinburgh, heck I could just bus, bike or even walk (only take about 30 minutes) to Motherwell and get a train all the way to London- I used to have a card that let me get any bus in Scotland free and trains for 40p- this was the greatest thing ever! Way better than a car, I think this is something that needs to be implimented- we subsidize parking and wide roads- why not free transport to create opportunity- imagine being able to go anywhere in your region for free! The opportunities this would open up for everyone are massive! It'd pay for itself in terms of the economic growth you get by enabling mass participation in society. I still appreciate that I can reach almost any settlement in the mainland UK via bus or train should I need to, can be a bit expensive or require multiple connections sometimes due to privatized and disjointed service, but it can get you where you need to go. I am also glad of how much stuff in general I can just walk to, or bike to- even if our infrastructure is bad and you are forced to mix with cars or bother pedestrians.

@brianarbenz7206

Жыл бұрын

I'd love to live in Scotland, particularly Edinburgh, after I retire this year. But I don't think I'll have the financial resources to make a move there (from the U.S.) and find temporary housing until a rental become available.

I used to be a busdriver in a city in sweden, the town has around 100000 pop and is served by a fleet of almost 100 buses. So when i saw your video and heard that Tulsa who is around 10 times bigger(pop served by the buses) are served by around half as many buses, i almost couldn't belive it.

I love the enthusiasm and excitement of that guy who took the bus for the first time LMAO. So wholesome. Transit should be fun, in my opinion (:

Great video! As someone interested in city planning it was cool to see Chase’s perspective. It’s sad to see just how little of a budget transit programs have to work with.

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

Yes! He was very fun to talk to. It's interesting to see how there really are people on the inside already trying really hard to make improvements, but it's such a slow process, especially if there's no political momentum behind their efforts. That last part is what I'm hoping we can change!

The fact that I have absolutely no interest in Tulsa OK (aside from Chandler having to go there for work in Friends of course) and will probably never even visit the place (Dutch citizen here) but you kept me interested throughout the video shows the quality of your content. Great job man. Keep up the good work, looking forward to future videos.

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

Nice! Tulsa is definitely a somewhat unremarkable city, but this just means it's a fairly typical US city. That's why I think it works for me to talk about Tulsa; the lessons we need to learn here are the exact same lessons that need to be learned in a lot of different places throughout the world. I'm glad you enjoyed!

This is some seriously high quality content, keep it up and the algorithm will pick you up and you'll blow up in what feels like overnight, I'm calling it now. Best of luck my fellow Midwestern ex-suburbanite.

Living in Turin (Italy), a city of about 880k people, my sole method of transit throughout the city is public transit. Many people I know complain about the transit system we have, but I think it is actually pretty good (7 + 1 "metropolitan" rail lines, 1 metro line, over 80 urban bus lines...) and seeing how cities in the US with similar population have it honestly makes me cringe... There is room for improvement even here, but people don't recognize how good our systems in Europe are compared to those in the US.

Loved it dude! Especially the stop animation of the drawn streets and cars 😂 really formative and interesting!

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! The Stop-Motion was a last minute idea, I needed a visual example and it seemed like a nice way to do it. It did take a while to put together, so I'm glad you appreciated that.

@naturelover2238

Жыл бұрын

​@@eryngo.urbanism are you going to make a new video

This was eye opening for someone who lives in a public transit city. Go Tulsa, hoping for the best! Great video. 👍

When you mentioned the Bus System in Florence I immediately got flash backs to when I visited my cousins who live there and used the bus with them. They don't own a car and they live in the center of the city where there is very little car traffic. It's very walkable. I could can get to the tram and regional train station just by walkingand the buses got me anywhere I needed to go locally.

My city Richmond VA had a similarly anemic transit system. But three years ago introduced the Pulse bus rapid transit which invigorated ridership and made getting around a whole lot easier. There are a lot of improvements/extensions that could and should be made but its a step in the right direction.

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

It's good to see more and more cities moving in the right direction! This stuff takes decades, so we've gotta keep pushing.

Wow, very well made! Too bad this video only has 280 views : (

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

Hey, I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for helping me get to 281 😜

@forerunner6629

Жыл бұрын

holy shit, actual Clarence commenting on urbanism youtube video, love your videos

I'm glad channels like this exist because as a European I wish I could make as many Americans as possible understand how insane this all looks to us and how vastly improved all your cities could be in just about every conceivable way if you just designed proper public transport. I live in a poor village in the middle of nowhere and still buses are every 15 minutes. That's normal and the bare minimum expected here.

@BreadFred3

Жыл бұрын

Several industries are against improving better public transit. So, to stop any kind of reform, they fund the two political parties. Thus, makes an inadequate public transit system and makes the general population be against public transportation, mainly buses.

@desktopfan8870

Ай бұрын

Europe isn't a flawless utopia. Get off your high horse and mind your own business.

The system doesn't necessarily have to pay for itself in money terms, but could easily prove itself worthwhile in the boost in productivity overall. People always forget that. P.S lol as stated at 10:48 - 10:55 mark.

A 15 minute headway being considered rapid transit really makes my head and heart hurt

8:55 I just felt my stomach drop. My city has only 260 busses and I assumed it was bad. but it only has 700,000 people.

19th Century America already figured out how to make good public transit. Sure, it was often run by private companies but walkable neighborhoods would spring up around train stations and could easily get serviced by street car lines. Then the noisy, dirty, dangerous, expensive private automobile became the normal state and it seems to have just forgotten what made communal transit desirable.

@edwardmiessner6502

Жыл бұрын

If you look at enough videos with footage from the 1920 through 1950s you'll find that the private automobile made communal transportation increasingly impossible!

Great point about building the transit before the density!

Add insult to injury, there’s generally 0% shade provided when using most sidewalks, especially newer ones. Pain.

Such good content. I can’t believe how good this video is from a new channel. The only shortcoming was that by half way through I was super lost - it could benefit from a narrative/core argument to help people with my limited attention span. Also soo many interesting topics in this video deserve their own video Instant subscription. Thank you so much - I’m so grateful to see more channels pop up discussing this

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed! And note taken. Believe it or not, I originally had even MORE stuff packed into this video, which eventually ended up getting split off into the first video I uploaded on the channel. But in the future I will absolutely make a conscious effort to try and make each video more focused, since after all, I can always just make another video if I have more to say on a somewhat related topic. I've mostly just been having a hard time knowing where to start since there is so much to talk about.

@wonjez3982

Жыл бұрын

​@@eryngo.urbanism I gathered some thoughts about this "overwhelming"... the comment got overwhelming too, but maybe there's a few things you can use :) Firstly, nobody can keep their attention for more than a few minutes with a new topic, so length is probably the best variable. I know from myself for a viewer it can take a time until they start to think different and see their options, so "overwhelming" is not necessarily the worst thing. Secondly i'd propose you think about who you want to reach with you content. I, as an intermediate could follow throgh very well without being uninterested. Imo you're able to reach both inermediate urbanists, as well as beginners and have a very understandable approach to it. Every extra knowledge you can put out without losing someones interest is good, eventually people will find themselves thinking about it later. Being too short and on the point might be more effective, but could also feel like indoctrination or brainwashing. Keeping an (over)supply of arguments keeps the viewer from quitting, bacause you can feel there's more to it than an idea. For beginner viewers I think it helps to give multiple examples to a certain topic, so people can find parallels more easily. More seasoned people have a set of situations or roles in their head to asses problems and solutions from different standpoints. They're more used to thinking about others or "the greater good" than the average person. The title "I tried..." also implies you rather want to make a connection to what other people experienced for themselves and take off on it with an explanation. People who click this video probably want confirmation of their own observations, which also reflects in the comments. These kinds of viewers probably rather a basic visualisation of how good service benefits them, a "what you need is..." nothing more. The easiest thing is to narrow your content to specific points that are focused on creating an immersion of the viewer - which your shots really add to already. If you further feel the need to strenghten your arguments, the obvious thing is to repeat the core message while digressing into subtopics, thereby building a stronger and broader argument. If you do get into the planning and derive and combine existing solutions based on the "genereal public need" for transportation, remember to show the viewer what the proposed changes would look like in reality, so they can relate to them. Point out, that they are the public, they benefit and others do too. They don't know technical terms, nor do they ever consider the needs of the general public, they really only ever want(ed) a solution for them, like a safe school way or easy commute. So when you do use terms like "walkability", "user friendly", "effective" or "less car centric", make sure you translate that to something the people can relate to, or f.ex. what it would mean for your experiment. Like at 3:40, either explain why bikes are important and how they would be used, or leave that part out. It's seems logic that micromobility helps in connectivity, but saying this on a sidenote doesn't make it stick and leaves the viewer stranded or trying to think of an example. An easy way would be to show a pov or shot of someone biking to a station, something that people have done or seen themselves, optionally with a fictional case. I like both approaches, beginner and theory level. Maybe a combination of short problem centric entry videos and corresponding longer, connected explanatory videos would be best. It would also allow to gather viewer input before trying to decide on what to point out. kzread.infovideos does this similarly. Since your videos are focused on the "users perspective" with transit and walkablility, i'd reccomend to stick to that and teach people to view their world differently. You were giving advice as to how people can initiate changes. If you want you could also create a bit of background from your own experience, how you got into it, the optimal ice breaker. Some feedback: I've been watcing videos from "propel", "not just bikes" and "shifter", but yours have a pretty unique view of the casual person that uses the city, while at the same time being well informed of the solutions. It was like taking the journey with you, not hypothetical "delay average", but 2 minutes of your bus being delayed on video. You're really in a position to attract people to these problems, which to me is really important, because if people don't think and step in for themselves, others will. It's a crucial part of a more human city to sometimes think about the public and it's so much easier if people step in for each other from time to time. Thinking only of yourself only works when you don't interfere with others. Habits don't change by words, but by thinking about something for yourself, translating and connecting the mentioned problems to you own experience. By keeping the individual in the center instead of the public, you speed up that slow process of change. In my opinion a broader awareness sparks change without needing much thought. Changing a city planners mind is hard, showing people a way to change their city is not. Probably easier to catch people who are unaware than to adress those who already have their head around urban planning. Interesting how these kinds of videos can overwhelm people, because they never got to consider anything other than cars, yet when it dawns on them, there's really not holding back.

As someone living in Amsterdam I think it's really insidious how America adopted the car centric infrastructure, made the solution to traffic conjestion being MORE HIGHWAYS, which put cities in MORE DEBT, and only serve to bring in MORE CARS for MORE CONJESTION and then continue to promote THE SAME SYSTEM THAT KEEPS FAILING. @NotJustBikes does great videos covering all of these issues.

Super impressive video, particularly your mapping around the 7 minute mark. Deserves to be a much larger channel!

Public transportation needs a massive overall in the US. I’m disabled. I cannot drive. This limits my independence in a massive way. I recently moved to a small town where I can call for curb to curb service. That has been life changing for me. Even though they need more buses and drivers, at least they are trying.

Hearing that Tulsa only has a fleet of 62 buses is pretty crazy for a city of over 400k. The PVTA in Springfield, MA has a fleet of 186 buses and 144 vans serving a similar albeit slightly larger population

@kacpermalinowski8215

Жыл бұрын

It was so jarring in comparison to europe. My home city of Warsaw with roughly 3x the population has almost 2k buses, plus 500 trams! The problem right now seems to be getting drivers to get them all on the road.

great video! as someone who lives in brittany, where roads aren't square-shaped, I realize your system would be better than what we have because most of our lines go from outer city to the center, so you HAVE to go to the center to travel from one suburb to the other. I don't complain because it works well and we have amazing frequency/coverage, but the "travel everywhere with just one change" sounds very good

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

Another funky thing about Tulsa is that our "city center" is actually not very centrally located. Most of the city is located to the south/east of downtown. This means that any transit system based entirely around a central downtown station would actually be fairly impractical here.

Love seeing urbanism content for Oklahoma. Been in OKC for a while, and there's a small movement here, but it has, so, so far to go.

Ah, Personal Injury lawyer! The characteristic species of the Stroad. Sadly* they are extinct on New Zealands Stroads, because we have a national insurance scheme for accidents and injuries *not

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

Gotta love the ol' US of A and our ability to settle for mediocre, somewhat exploitative systems

I think the most important thing that Americans need to try to understand is that investing in public transit is also benefiting car drivers. I think in many parts of Europe people understand that cutting a line often means hundreds, sometimes even thousands of more people on the road. Europe also has the benefit of being extremely unwilling to tear down historical buildings to make space for cars. Having limited space to work with means that public transit is the only way to move more people around. We also have our fair share of car centric people who don't like the idea of closing or slimming roads, but so far most in my experience are in favour of public transit even if they themselves hate it. The simple notion of "I don't have to use it, but if OTHER people use it I get more space on the road" helps a lot. Then once it get's so convenient to use, many who would have never considered it end up using it on their own accord. If you think about it traffic is like flowing water, people choose the most convenient way when it is available.

i always hear people say that american transit is strapped for budget but i never understood what that meant until this video. this kind of, not having enough money just to have good frequency has never come up where I live, or, if it does, it comes from people who don't actually understand how this stuff works financially, and are just wrong and making assumptions (annoyingly these are often people who work for the government). but in america this actually seems like not only an issue, but like, the biggest issue. as in, nothing can get done! oh my god

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

Yep. Our transit systems here in the US end up in a bit of a death spiral where 1. nobody rides them because their quality of service sucks, and then 2. their funding gets cut further due to the terrible ridership numbers, leading to worse service. These two steps just keep looping until a transit service hits rock bottom, which either means service gets cut or it runs at an absolute bare minimum. Until we can break that death spiral, public transit will continue to suck.

Is there a plan for a loop to/from the airport? That's another piece that visitors to the area would need to know.

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

As far as I'm aware, there used to be a route that connected to the airport, but they got rid of it due to low ridership. For the most part, people who come to Tulsa understand that the bus system is bad and they should just plan on renting a car. I wouldn't be surprised if service to the airport returns at some point.

@alexwright4930

Жыл бұрын

@@eryngo.urbanism There's not even a skeletal bus to the airport? I'm struggling to think of a Western European city where an airport - one of the places people arrive without their car - doesn't have at least a bus service to the nearest city centre. (Some parts of Eastern Europe maybe, where buses and shared taxis sometimes kind of merge into the same thing.) Or in the case of some misleadingly named RyanAir airports, a city 30+ km away.

as someone who works as a bus operator, you need way more then then minimum number of buses as you need more to cover breakdowns, and bus swaps do to biohazards and night car swaps. plus you also need relief cars so the operators can get to and from buses mid routes so that your not always recalling the bus to the depo when a operators schedule is up.

This was a solid well presented video with great animations. I like how you cut in your bus trip with the ideas for better BRT and the interviews with relevant experts.

@eryngo.urbanism

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed!

As someone who grew up in a "transit deadzone" in London, 15 minute headways is the minimum we expect for a bus service in the area and that's with just normal buses. Some town centres can get 2 minute headways with multiple bus routes acting as branchlines of 1 bus route.

Kudos on a great new channel: high information to time ratio, no wheel spinning chit chat, no lengthy dead-time intros. Were you a journalist in a previous life? My two-cents: in promoting better budgets for transit, we can truthfully tell driver/taxpayers that cannot conceive of ever stepping foot on a bus that their experience on the road will be exponentially better for every thousand drivers we get out of their lanes. Also, the cost WILL also be additionally mitigated by the induced demand that will follow from improved frequency and bus connectivity. I’m talking trips that are now not being made by either car or bus.

From the animations of the bus system over the grid to the hand-drawn paper visual, I really like your graphics!

I live in the Miami area. I've met people here who think taking the bus sounds "foreign" and "strange." Even met immigrants who've taken public buses in their native countries who refuse to take the bus here, saying it's "useless," "slow," and such.

Tulsa is a nice grid so a good bus system is easy if we can get the city to just work on it.

I have worked in transit in a region north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I was an apprentice mechanic in their rapid transit bus garage. I know that at least ten buses were kept out of role call because you have to have back up buses in case of break downs enroute...so, 62 buses in total in Tulsa's transit fleet means at least 2 to 3 buses kept back in the garage, not counting any buses kept for maintenance and or repair work, so let's have two in the garage for those reasons...Tulsa would have a total of 57 buses on any given day out on routes, except weekends and holidays (always less service then).

esoteric much here's your upvote kind stranger

It was super interesting to see a planner from the city's thoughts on the matter. Great video!

The other day in my town I had to use a bus, (we don’t usually use them as we live within walking distance of shops, schools, train stations, and the town centre, and outside from these places we don’t tend to follow the main bus routes so we usually drive elsewhere.) my family and I came back to England after our holiday and found that there was a train strike, which meant we couldn’t get a taxi without a 3 hour wait as they were all ferrying people to London, so we had to look for other options. Luckily for us, our town has great local bus routes and some BRT-like lines, and amazingly even at 1am in autumn on a weekday outside of the school holidays, probably the absolute lowest demand time, there was still a half-hourly bus that was able to take us to a bus stop on the avenue nearest to our house, which was perfect and gave us a 2-minute walk home from the bus stop. And we’re only a suburban town, with a total population of roughly 120 thousand and a density of 5760/square mile in mainly terraced housing and low-rise flats that blend into the terraces. If our town of 1/4th the size can operate a very successful bus route that even operates late at night (albeit at reduced frequency, during peak times 2-5 minutes are common on the BRT routes and 5-15 minutes on local routes), and has such high ridership that the majority of students and workers in the town will use the bus, than Tulsa can do it for sure. They might need to do some upzoning and improve density, but I’m sure Tulsa is capable of having a great bus system too and I hope things can be improved sooner rather than later.

Reinforcing transit *before* densifying the area is crucial for the success of transit. If it happened the other way around, the people that move to the dense areas would buy a car in order to commute (because in their eyes, "no transit yet" is the same as "no transit", they need to commute), making traffic congestion much worse and making the project look like a failure.

I’m in Albuquerque. The only bus that stops in my neighborhood only comes once an hour and stops running at 6 pm. It’s even worse on weekends. I was without a car for two years and any time I wanted to go out in the evening I had to take a Lyft home. I looked at moving to a neighborhood with better bus service but I couldn’t afford it. I was fortunate enough to be able to afford a used Prius this year and it’s necessary. I’ve tried contacting the city about this issue but they just say they won’t increase service because ridership is so low. But hello?!? At least I’m on disability. I can’t imagine trying to hold down a job and relying on this bus schedule.

Appreciate your efforts to make good quality videos. Liked the stop motion part very much, then realised that must have been very time consuming for you. Hope you grow as fast as possible, so we can get much more great content like this and maybe someday be able to change our cities from car centric to walkable.

@eryngo.urbanism

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I'm glad you enjoyed! The stop-motion didn't take too long, but it was definitely a bit of a challenge, as were the map animations since I haven't really done anything like that before. As a new channel, I'm still kind of experimenting with style and working out what kinds of visual examples feel right to include. And yep, I'm looking forward to being a part of the change!

Digging the transport themes, something that's come up alot in my KZread algorithm as just another thing I think of in the back of my mind now. Especially when I'm in a larger city or metro area. Would like to know thoughts on more rural areas in terms of public transportation. Mainly due to the very relavent problem of density in those areas being prevalent. As it's always been the reason I've been use to cars for my own transportation.

@eryngo.urbanism

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Actually, public transit in rural areas is a really interesting topic that I've been considering covering at some point. So look forward to that in the future hopefully!

@michaelstratton5223

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If Asia can have public transit in rural areas, then I would think the alleged "greatest country in the world" could wrack their brains and figure it out somehow too. Unless *gasp* we're not really the greatest.

Have a look at Barcelona's network, too, they, redesigned their former sprawling spoke bus network to a grid network with more forced changes, but made up with higher frequencies. And one of the interesting additions I noticed was signage on the pavement to the connecting bus lines' stops, making it really easy to find your way around.

I started commuting by bicycle as a kid because when I got my first job, it didn’t take me long to realize that it was a 30 minute bike ride, but a two hour bus trip. On the week days, there was a 30 minute wait where I needed to transfer. For the Sunday shift, it nearly an hour long wait

You have given me new perspective on transit in my city (Winnipeg) where we have a metro area population of nearly a million. We have 640 buses, and it typically takes 2-3x as long as a car trip. I commute by bus about 30 minutes each way, which would be a 13 minute drive. The bus fare is half as much as downtown parking.

Great channel and videos! So cool to see someone talk about urbanism/walkability/transit in my hometown (or the lack thereof in Tulsa's case lol). I had always wondered about Aero in Tulsa and what Tulsa was doing. I appreciate the hard work you've put in!

This video is incredible. Great production value and love the message. Its awesome how you put the video together, and I really appreciate it. Let's see how things improve!

My only experience of buses in the USA was in 1989 in Baltimore ME and Washington DC when I visited my sister who was studying at Johns Hopkins University. Firstly I was shocked by the lack of walking in Baltimore especially, no-one walked and also no white people walked through the black areas either. I did so to get to bus routes and only had pleasant experiences from the black residents (one old guy used to sit on his porch in a rocking chair and every time I went passed him he's greet me and I returned the greeting) Two things that struck me: First was the infrequency of buses, hourly in the suburbs and maybe half-hourly downtown where lines converged. So if I wanted to do a two bus journey it was often quicker to walk to the second line rather than have the waits that seemed to be built in. Second, I was the only person aged over 16 and under 70 on the bus (also I was the only white person too which reminded me more of sub-Saharan bus transport!) Basically the only people using the buses seemed to be children using the buses because they weren't able to drive yet and old ladies (rarely old gentlemen) who may well not drive. I realise my experience is old 33 years old from before your birth I suspect but this has been a problem for a LONG time in the USA. Fortunately I live in a German city 100 yards from a tram stop that takes me into the downtown area in under five minutes and has a frequency of ten minutes. There are some ill-served areas for public transport here in Bielefeld but we are working on it.

thanks for the video! I live near Kyiv and am aware of the issue in US/Canada in regards to the overabundance on cars. The way everything is right now, methinks it would require a complete changeover of the people in charge, lots of education campaigns to get the "masses" to understand the issue. I think one of the "low hanging fruit" is to allow small shops inside "suburbia" to get people walking initially, then expand from there.

@alexwright4930

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How is transport working in Kyiv given the circumstances? I've been amazed how well the intercity trains have managed to keep running.

@yuriythebest

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@@alexwright4930right now it sometimes get partially disrupted during/after attacks, but within a day usually things get back to normal. Btw in Kyiv we can pay either by a city transport card OR by visa/mastercard, bus/subway rides are around 25 US cents

@BreadFred3

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You think oil companies and insurance industries and even police unions are in favor of a better public transportation system? There's a reason why public transit is bad here in North America. Politicians are funded are by those industries.

Transit is awesome. I live in Prague currently, never owned a car, never wanted one - if it were free I wouldn't use it. I live a 2 minute walk from 20 tram lines, a metro stop and but stops. I would never dream of taking a car anywhere. I can also walk to the centre in 20 mins, most of Prague is medium density.

Really dope to see you test things and interview ppl while looking for possible solutions. Keep up the good work!

Dare to be great Tulsa. Let's give citizens pole shade!

Love this as someone who lives in Bixby which is part of the metro area, commenting for algorithm.

Anybody else notice at 3:50 that the construction workers seem to have missed the part of the MUTCD about NOT putting signs in open traffic lanes, and that bicycle lanes are traffic lanes? Worst thing is there's an open grass shoulder *right there* the could put their signs on.

I don't have any hope for places like Tulsa and i feel bad for anyone who does. But very well made video. Kudos

@eryngo.urbanism

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We've gotta start somewhere

I live in the bay area and my husband rides a train into the city for work. I wake up at 4:30am to drive him to the train station that is 1 mile away. There is a bus that runs directly from our apartment to the train station that he never rides. It's that unreliable. On days I can't take him to the station, it is still more convenient to walk up the hill than it is to wait for the bus.

It's hard to find practical solutions to problems if a person in charge doesn't experience the problem for their self. Good video

My sister is just north of you in Bartlesville. She travels by bike, but they did have a bus for a while. One bus, making a loop. If it had a flat, the whole system went down until somebody brought a jack. It was considered a failure. For obvious reasons. My view: Minimum practical headway would be a half hour. It would also be nice if they could connect to the surrounding towns in the Tulsa area a few times a day. Like to Bartlesville. Then I could fly in and visit my sister.

Yes! Great public transit system is good for economy and also great for environments!!! more frequent bus routes and more bus for faster frequent stops !!! At least every 5-10 mins. More cities in U.S. needs better transit/ route systems like European and Asian coutries. Great video!👍

This is such a good video. I love the inclusion of interviews.

I've looked into this in my city. My ~18 minute drive to work becomes OVER FOUR HOURS, according to Transit's own route planner! No way in HELL!

it would be great if proponents of public transport wouldn't make high in the sky claims, like most public transport system pays for it self. Do like how versatile the tulsa planning office works less busses, more space, using their grid based road structure to their advantage damn

Lol. Florence’s bus fleet is half the size of Phoenix’s bus fleet. Valley Metro has around 1000 buses for a metro area population of over $4 million. I thought Phoenix’s bus system wasn’t good, until hearing of Tulsa and Nashville. Typical suburban bus routes in the Phoenix valley have 30 minute headways, and Valley Metro embraced the grid as much as they could (bus routes tend to go along one main road, and the route numbers come from the address of the primary main road the route goes along (e.g. route 0 goes along Central Avenue, which has an address of 0 West). Some suburban bus routes have better service in core areas (route 19 has service every 12 minutes from the south end of the route until 19th Avenue/Union Hills, and during the day, route 29 has service every 8 minutes from 51st Avenue to 44th Street along Thomas Road, though the route goes from 93rd Avenue to around Pima Road (8800 East), with minimum service every 30 minutes). Of course, the buses are pretty prone to delays.

Even in Chicago I have issues like this. Missing buses and trains because they decided to change their route or timing and not announce it. You're a 3rd class citizen if you want to take public transit anywhere in the US

As someone who lives 1.5 miles from downtown it's insane to me that I can either take a 5min car walk or wait an hour for the bus.

Oh, now I see why Chandler Bing from TV series Friends didn't like to be stationed in Tulsa for his job.

Man, 60 MINUTE FREUQENCIES FOR MAIN LINE ROUTE???? And I thought 30 minute frequencies on a SUBURBAN ROUTE was bad! I'm in Calgary, AB, (Canada) where the transit isn't a total clusterfuck. Most main line routes run every 10-20 minutes off peak and 5-15 minutes on peak. I wish we had better BRT, as our current BRT (MAX [insert colour], Routes 300, 301, 302, 305 are BRT but not part of MAX) has buses running every 10-20 minutes on peak (300 - 302 are roughly the same with some getting 5 ish minute frequencies sometimes) and 30 off peak. Calgary is also making changes like building better communities with TOD and increasing development/reconstruction in other communities to make them better. Good video!

Let's not get sucked into the trap that fares and advertising revenue are a reasonable funding solution when we don't expect that of the roads. this is infrastructure. That's a $1.83 that we all just need to pitch in to make it happen.

You should check out the BRT system in Albuquerque, also on Route 66. We do have dedicated lanes and signal priority for the majority of the length of the route. It isn’t perfect and had lots of strange issues during planning and construction, but it’s better than most public transport in U.S. cities. (Not saying much)

Damn bruh, great channel! I see this exploding. You are obviously putting a lot of effort into your content. Big appreciation

@eryngo.urbanism

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Glad you enjoy! Look forward to more videos soon.

@saketjawaji1557

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@@eryngo.urbanism already am :D

I wish Tulsa luck, in expanding the amount of bus service it has. And to roll out more BRT lines. Seems like in theory this could be more rolled out there(BRT lines), since Tulsa seems to have a grid street system a la Chicago.

I am 100% in agreement about setting up public transit before adding density. In the 20 years I've lived in Vancouver BC they've installed a new subway/skytrain route and expanded the bus lines. So now that they're adding density it's not difficult to get around. There are car and bike share programs too, they're charging for parking and calming neighborhoods to encourage only local traffic. To add a thought, major routes here have express buses that only stop at a few stops, and local buses which stop at every stop. It helps speed up the commute.

An hour headway and people are taking it to go a mile.

Great video, I will watch everything else you have made too. I want to suggest further comparisons, Florence being a good start. I live in Helsinki nowadays. It has a metro area one third the size of Philadelphia, where I used to live, but a far better transit system with regional rail, one metro line, several bus rapid transit lines, multiple bus lines, and 9 tram lines.

Something else that dawned on me watching more of this video. A year or so ago, Tulsa put out a call for people to move and live and work in Tulsa from around the U.S., using financial incentives to attract individuals. The catch was YOU HAVE TO WORK REMOTELY! This would increase the city revenue and not impact infrastructure spending...Wow, just, wow...

@marlak4203

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and i just mentioned this to someone else that if work from home really grows again a lot of this stuff they talk about (more and better transit, no sfh, etc) won't be as necessary anymore. Who cares about riding the bus to work when your at home? Plus, you won't use the car as much because you'll be at home so the car would end up being affordable due to the savings.

Light rail to downtown would be fantastic.

1:47 The "NOT JUST CARS" comment lmao

9:07 the "OOo" 😂😂😂

1:48 lol not just bikes evil doppelganger

When are you guys going to check Buenos Aires? Is the second most walkable cities I've been around (I went to Amsterdam) - Public transport just works! No need for a car - Taxis everywhere at an affordable price - Buses everywhere within short periods of time, 24 hours service and designated bus lanes for faster speed - Multiple Subway lines - Dozens of trains (local and long travel to other cities) - Public bicycles system and the bicycle lanes are expanding FAST - Almost every building has a floor level space designated for commercial use (hardware, restaurant, kiosk, convenient store, supermarket, etc) - No Speedway crossing the city or splitting it in half Bottom line: The most walkable city EVER! I find everything I need within a 5 minutes' walk or less. Even my kids' school is 15 blocks away. I haven't had the need for buying a car in 5 years. You should take a look at it ;-)

"It means fifteen minute headways, and improved stops like level boarding." \*nods in European\* "Yes, yes, Tulsa BRT means you have bus line. I understand." (Okay, that is mean. My home village's bus ran every twenty minutes.)

Haha you are lucky, everytime find a seat in the bus. I have to stand mostly because the trains and busses are so full from morning to late night here and that one comes every 5 minutes. :D It is like another world here in Europe...

Used the bus system in Rome and it was quite an experience. Worked great! Very packed buses. Subway and buses were a great mode of transportation, while in Italy.

Great video love this stuff! Just wanted to make sure tho that you mean 269 million dollars not billion dollars for cost of the bus network

@eryngo.urbanism

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Yeah I think you're right, my bad

The biggest selling point of transit to car users is LIGHTER TRAFFIC and less money spent widening roads.

Great new channel (new to me at least). I live in a car dependent suburb because that's where housing provides the space I need for a price I can afford, but it means -- I have to own a car if I want to leave my suburb efficiently and safely. I'm an avid cyclist, and I would happily equip one of my bikes for errand running, but leaving my suburb requires a ride along a no-should two-lane country road with a 45mph speed limit. Even though drivers are courteous and respectful here, it's not a safe place for a guy on a bike. I'd also happily run routine errands by bus, but the nearest bus stop is two miles away and, of course, puts a walker on that same dangerous road.

I just want you to know my subscription is mostly magenta based. Great content to understand why we have crap for transit everywhere.