Seeing a bus in San Francisco makes me remember Mrs Doubtfire.

man trolleybuses are just so damn cool. I wish we had more of them in the US. The wires are cool, and they're quiet as hell

@luislaplume8261

Ай бұрын

Unlike the loud diesel buses from GM that my old hometown of NYC had when I was a boy in NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s. 😮

Trolleybusses, wooh (largest system in the Western Hemisphere)! SF's gonna have overhead electrification for busses and trains!

@rlwelch

2 ай бұрын

Mexico City has entered the chat

@n.bastians8633

2 ай бұрын

@@rlwelch I didn't know that, but you're right. Mexico City has more vehicles.

@rlwelch

2 ай бұрын

They’re both definitely impressive though!

Wake up babe, new alan fisher video

Thank you, Alan for presenting a bus driver's perspective in operating a trolleybus. On a personal note, some of the narrower streets should be devoided of parked cars and trucks, unless the motorists resided/visited the residential areas along the route and truck drivers were making quick deliveries. But, in a major city such as San Francisco, that's probably close to impossible to implement without pushback from certain civic groups.

This is a unique way to look at the world! As a kid, I always wanted to sit up front in the bus, or trolley. Loved the Birds Eye unobstructed view. Especially in tunnels! As adult I try to do this but am mindful of passengers who may be challenged & in need of the front seat. Excellent video.

i wish i could afford to live in sf. it has everything i want except for reasonably priced rents.

@TohaBgood2

2 ай бұрын

Yep. If only SF built normal amounts of housing it would be the perfect city.

@NicksDynasty

2 ай бұрын

They need to build taller in more places outside downtown

@conorreynolds9739

2 ай бұрын

There are so many people who share this sentiment, that they’d need to build an immense amount of housing to affect prices.

@NicksDynasty

2 ай бұрын

@@conorreynolds9739 The land is so valuable and in most of the peninsula they only go three or four stories up

I remember taking the 30, I took it for all sorts of reasons because it serves so many diverse locations in the city.

Only thing this needs now is some commentary about the system and an interview with a long time ‘cab’ operator

Wow! I love these SlowTV real time journey videos of transit lines. I mostly see them of various European trains and trams and buses. I wish it were more a thing here too but I’m guessing there’s a lot more red tape involved to make videos like this here in North America.

@alanfisherextras

2 ай бұрын

you just have to know the right people 😉

That's a beautiful ride!

Nice lookin' trip!

Figured "Sports Basement" was a snarky nickname for something but, nah. It's an actual place.

Then someday you can take a true electric bus to an electric caltrain. A sight we need more of in this country.

@chromebomb

2 ай бұрын

later this year!

Very nice, is this the full route by any chance?

I presume this is a hybrid battery electric bus that uses a battery before reaching the spot to release the double trolley poles.

TROLLEYS ARE THE BEST RAHHHH

did u just stick a go pro to the bus and hope the driver didn't see lol

lets gooo!

How did you film that? GoPro on the bike rack?

48:30 My eyes. He took my fucking eyes

6:48 ok, now I’m irritated that Boston got rid of their trolley buses because one of the main reasons was “outdated technology.” Clearly it’s still in use. Especially on the silver line, for example. On the SL2 we could easily use this type of tech. Not sure how far it could go off wire, but maybe on SL3 if they really wanted to stretch how far the buses could go on battery.

39:24 why did they lower the trolley polls?

Vibes, Go down to San Jose its not as bad as everyone makes it out to be

@TohaBgood2

2 ай бұрын

VTA light rail is getting a ton of random hate online for some reason. It's actually a pretty good system. The segment that I ride on the green line is faster than driving with excellent signal priority and a largely grade separated right of way. What it really needs is a ton of TOD which thankfully the VTA is building like crazy. It will be a great system in 5-10 years when all the empty lots are filled up.

@knightlunaaire1087

2 ай бұрын

@@TohaBgood2 ok system when I used it, was my introduction to rail transit for daily commute. but the coverage to the rest of the area sucks, and it probably wont get an east-west line for a long time. should be connected to the airport and not be so slow in DTSJ. Also I got ok frequency when riding north-south taking either the blue or green but it still would suffer delays with signal priority not being perfect.

@sammymarrco2

2 ай бұрын

@@TohaBgood2 how busy does it get

Was the camera placed outside? I can hear the wind flow. I imagine you had permission from that bus operator to film it this way. Anyways cool video!😉👍💯🚎

the dirty 30! I LOVE SF

I rode this route back in 2018 when I visited SF, out of curiosity does anyone know how the driver stays in line with the wire, does it steer automatically?

@n.bastians8633

2 ай бұрын

Not familiar with this particular route, but in all cases I know about staying in line with the wire is just something the driver has to be careful about. If they're not, the trolley poles dewire, and that does happen from time to time.

@brendanmckeon

2 ай бұрын

Apparently there's enough flexibility that a trolleybus can usually move into an adjacent lane to pass a stopped car. And wires typically continue straight even where the bus pulls to the side for a stop. But drivers do have to be careful not to go through switches too fast, or the poles can jump off the wire. And some branching switches are passive and require poles to be already tugging in the right direction.

@jpg3702

2 ай бұрын

When the poles become detached from the overhead wires, there is a distinctive thwap, thwap, thwap p sound. It's part of the joys of living in SF. No matter, The operator just stops the bus exits walks around to the back and reattaches the poles to the wires and on they go. When they have construction. They sometimes have to operate without being connected to the wires and they have a plastic thing that they can use to let the poles just rise up and that guides them onto the wires.

Alan turned my face off at the end and now I can't see.

Green traffic lights are so satisfying and red so disappointing.

the amount of entitled people just parking in the middle of the road is insufferable. Uber was the biggest mistake to our cities.

cars, ew

6:48 ok, now I’m irritated that Boston got rid of their trolley buses because one of the main reasons was “outdated technology.” Clearly it’s still in use. Especially on the silver line, for example. On the SL2 we could easily use this type of tech. Not sure how far it could go off wire, but maybe on SL3 if they really wanted to stretch how far the buses could go on battery.