SEPTA deserves more recognition as a transit organization. But it also needs more funding.

@chromebomb

5 жыл бұрын

I agree they have it all and get no respect

@lukaskolednik16

5 жыл бұрын

Toronto Transit ChanneLl

@lol-ug2ry

4 жыл бұрын

Same for MBTA

Thanks Tim for showcasing Philadelphia transit!! There is room for expansion and newer equipment but funding is hard to find.😀😀♥️

SEPTA feels really old. I was in Philly in june and rode the commuter rail, busses, and heavy rail

@alonzo9772

5 жыл бұрын

They really do need to update it but with budget cuts and political squabbling...It's like wishing for a pie in the sky.

I understand that this is a video on SEPTA, but are you also going to make a video on PATCO, the river line, and the Atlantic City line?

@timosha21

5 жыл бұрын

Here is a great video I made of PATCO: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zah2ybGqkpivgLw.html Riverline: kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6BlmdGjfdLcmKg.html

As much as I love Philadelphia, when I see this, I think of the "boxiness" of our transportation systems equipment. The mega cities in Asia may have borrowed the inventions of W. Europe and America, but their execution of those technologies is so 21st c. They think completely outside the Euro/American box, and the results are stunning to look at,

@oussematrabelsi9429

4 жыл бұрын

Boxiness is just an American aesthetic in trains. Nothing wrong with it, the trains still have the same engines that european and Asian trains use

You dont really think of the USA and public transport in the same sentence,but this video shows when they do it well,they do it very well. That single rail car was cute. I couldnt make out if it was fuel or electric?

@billpenna

5 жыл бұрын

It's 3rd rail electric. It gets quite fast in some stretches. I clocked it at 56 mph (90 km/h) when I was on it a few months ago.

@sepruecom

5 жыл бұрын

Public Transit (as they call it in the US) in big cities is often comparable or even better than public transport in European countries. Unlike in Europe, they are not as fond of regular schedules (e.g. a schedule based on 15 or 20 minutes service), which makes them more flexible. While in Europe agencies will often prefer crowded (crush loaded) services (because they would have to go up to the next cycle, e.g. from every 15 to every 7.5 minutes, which is expensive), in the US they simply run every 13 or 12 minutes once a certain threshold of passengers is surpassed. Of course, in smaller cities (generally less than 1 Mio people in the metropolitan area) public transit is often abysmal in the US, with infrequent services and short service periods. Here European cities often massively surpass the US transit agencies...

@davidfreeman3083

2 жыл бұрын

@@sepruecom Well. I'd say in East Coast big cities especially. Wouldn't call transit in big cities like LA, Houston, or even Seattle, etc. remotely good. Especially accessibility wise. (And here I don't mean ADA or stuff. I mean what neighborhoods/areas does a transit system go to). And even here in the East coast it's kind of a problem. Including shown here in Philly. There are parts of the region, even the city, where you don't really have good transit options. I think that's where places in EU and Asia do way better

Mass transit in an assortment of flavors.

A nice collection. But I'm surprised there's no 30th Street Regional Rail or 40th & Baltimore tunnel portal.

Im from pennsylvania septa is the best transit agency in the whole Commonwealth i also like port authority in pittsburgh the T

Maybe Timosha could make a Film next time about the Philadephia Mass Transit System with some Narration.

Go to Split, Croatia.Record the trains there.It also haves a mini metro system Pls record it

I like the Silverliners a lot.

I live in New York. There are plans to build a Street Car- The BMX- I think it is called to go from Queens to Brooklyn and not go through Manhattan.

@matthewhernandez8342

4 жыл бұрын

I dont trust it to be honest. Its route can literally be done by taking the N from Astoria to Queensboro Plaza then take the 7 to Court Square and take the G train to Carroll Gardens, while using the bus to get to and from the waterside.

@RandallWI

4 жыл бұрын

@@matthewhernandez8342 that sounds like too many unnecessary transfers tbh, no offense. If people can do that on this proposed streetcar, sounds like a win-win scenario... right ???

I wish Orlando had a major transportation system like Philadelphia PA the lynx bus doesn't run everywhere and I have to walk 3 milles to Ride bus 10 to St cloud or Kissimmee Florida and trains are alot safer than busses and faster to get around I hate automobile traffic and I wish I could ride a train to Walt Disney world I love to ride a monorail or a people mover accross central Florida than waiting for the bus we was going to get a light rail trains however arguments with government funding cost us our light rail trains shame on Orlando

@alek488

4 жыл бұрын

Andrew Nelson you guys will be getting brightline but that’s only for going to different cities

Hello from Lebanon County Pennsylvania. Thanks for your coverage of SEPTA in the Philadelphia area. In your zeal to show every type of bus which runs there, you missed two entire classes of streetcars which operate there. There are double-ended Kawasaki streetcars which operate out of 69th St. Terminal to Sharon Hill and Media on the lines of the old Red Arrow system. Also, there are refurbished PCCs which operate on the number 15 line streetcar (Girard Ave.) which run east-west completely across the city. These cars, first built in the 1940s, are some of the oldest PCCs still operating in regular revenue service anywhere in the world.

@moishglukovsky

5 жыл бұрын

Suburban trolleys are out of service for two weeks for maintenance. City trolleys not running in the subway for same reason.

@timosha21

5 жыл бұрын

Have a look at my description: I noted that Rt 15 and 101, 102 were operated by buses this day.

@charlesshivoder2887

5 жыл бұрын

Timosha21 hello Again. I viewed only your video. Sorry SEPTA didn’t cooperate. Summer is the work season for them. CAS

Who made the video

Bad week for trolleys!

the 1:40 streetcar is a remodeled pcc car?

@centredoorplugsthornton4112

4 жыл бұрын

SEPTA has 18 rebuilt PCCs assigned to Rt 15 Girard Avenue. Actual streetcar operation on Rt 15 is often hit or miss.

ового крутое видео!

Train Tunisie please 🇹🇳🇹🇳

Man I wish New York City whould build monorails and people movers and maglavs in the city so people can Ride above ground and see the city of New York and not Ride in the dark below the ground and monorails and people movers and maglavs can help evuate people away from the city of a major hurricane was to hit the city with a Storm serge and electric street cars are cleaner for the environment than gas polutting busses together with metro North railroad can help get people around New York City faster and safer than busses New York City needs more clean mass transit to get around than gas polutting busses and texcies the streets of New York are more dangerous than the traffic was in early 1900 the cities biggiest mistake was getting rid of electric trolleys for gas polutting busses

Not as good as the MBTA our trains are so much more colorful

@ghostengineer

5 жыл бұрын

Mbta trains have a shit schedule and breakdown more so what's your point

@bostonandmaine7444

5 жыл бұрын

@@ghostengineer My point is hometown pride. Calm down, and yes, our trains are so much more old and disgusting. Hopefully, that will change with the new cars rolling out. We also wish our republican governor could do more. cbsloc.al/2TzcEYg

Sadly, DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) looks a little more efficient.

@tomstrobel6574

5 жыл бұрын

Austin Waldrop you can see this from a 10 min video?

@austinwaldrop776

5 жыл бұрын

@@tomstrobel6574 I'm just speculating. It seems like DART uses cheaper trains and busses and runs more efficiently. That's all I'm sayin

@timosha21

4 жыл бұрын

@@austinwaldrop776 But also they operate in different environments don't they? The density of Philadelphia is greater than Dallas which is more spread out.

@austinwaldrop776

4 жыл бұрын

True. Dallas is forced to be more efficient in nature because it is ridiculously spread out and (for the most part) only seperated by small creeks and swamp-like forests. DART has ensured the cost effectiveness of each of their vehicles because they all travel hundreds of miles each day. Philadelphia is denser, and bennefits from bigger, 'fancier' busses and trollys in those dense areas since a high amount of people in that area are using what would be like 10 DART busses

@austinwaldrop776

4 жыл бұрын

To emphasize how economical DART busses are, I've just seen two towed this week