Thanks Miles and friend for the rides and commentary! Fun facts: 1. Back when I lived in Cleveland, the Blue and Green Lines had an express zone (Tower City to Shaker Square, $1.00) and a local zone (85 cents). 2. The trains ran on the left side from Tower City to E. 55th and then switched to the right side.
@coinman132433 минут бұрын
This was fucking awesome!! I went to school at John Carroll which is right by the green road station. The RTA is not in the right neighborhoods. the people that are in walking distance are all people with cars that look down on the public transit (at least on the ones out of downtown) really sick that this is the first time I've watched a video and been like I know all of this area!!! I hope you enjoyed your time in Cleveland!
@coinman132431 минут бұрын
my buddy also lived in the van aken apartments. that strip area doesn't get crazy tractions but they host a lot of events and that gets the place going. very upscale little area to be right by the rapid
@michaelimbesi231447 минут бұрын
I took Amtrak to and from Cleveland for the eclipse. I can confirm that Miles is correct. Cleveland’s current Amshack is terrible.
@SeaBassTian48 минут бұрын
Amshack? I'm dead hahaha.
@history_leisureСағат бұрын
South Miles? that assumes there is a North Miles. However, there is no West Brunswick so I could be wrong
@sammymarrco2Сағат бұрын
dang, these get less service then Philly's 101 and 102 routes.
@history_leisureСағат бұрын
Top Thrill used to have in-line load station and Maverick still does, don't tell me how to block zone
@Peace2MateoСағат бұрын
Such a weird, stressful, semi depressive, interesting train ride. Thank you lol
@history_leisureСағат бұрын
Close Green Rd for TOD, make West Green Green Rd and the Park & Ride
@officialmcdeathСағат бұрын
Remembering that Cleveland has scooters, we have the makings of a Great Race™️: start at the division point of the Blue and Green lines, send a scooter rider off towards the terminus of the Blue just after a Blue service departs, see if their opponent can catch up with the scooter using the next Blue service \m/
@chibivesicle9612Сағат бұрын
Ah the return rapid revenge video! I've never rode the blue or green line, but they seem less interesting than the red. I thought the red line at least went into the very desirable suburb of Lakewood, but I guess not by much with only the W. 117th stop. Several of my cousins all under 40 are all now living in Lakewood since it is one of the few walk able areas. As far as the housing comment, I have relatives who are getting priced out of neighborhoods as renters; I think more housing is needed in places that could easily absorb the density and for younger-ish individuals. The really desirable locations are definitely pricing people out of them.
@erwinc.9117Сағат бұрын
2:20: "How can it be both a Hampton and a homewood?" Apparently it's quite common nowadays in cities. When the hotel group has a big building, they assign some of it to one franchise and some to the other, so that there are two levels to choose from for customers with different needs, while certain things like cleaning and check-in are integrated. Wack, but honestly pretty smart.
@MrMatteNWkСағат бұрын
11:00 I'm unfamiliar with block zones, can you explain that?
@jessieb4503Минут бұрын
Essentially, a block is a railroad term for the distance between signals. This is the system for the UK, but it is very similar in the US: a red signal means that a train is occupying the next block, and the driver should stop, a single yellow signal means that the next signal is red and the driver should slow down to 45 MPH, a double yellow signal means that the next signal is single yellow, and the driver should pass the signal at the speed limit, but prepare to slow down, and a green signal means that the next signal is either green or double yellow, and the driver should proceed as normal. If the next signal is anything other than green, an alarm called the Automatic Warning System, or AWS, sounds off in the cab, and the driver needs to acknowledge the alarm within a specified time limit, or else the emergency brake will be applied. If a driver passes a single yellow signal at more than 80 MPH, or passes a red signal without stopping, a similar system called the Train Protection and Warning System, or TPWS, applies the emergency brake. In the US, both systems have been replaced with Positive Train Control, or PTC, which combines aspects of both systems. I have tried to keep this as simplified as possible, but have a habit of going too in-depth lol.
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-unСағат бұрын
More Cleveland facts: Public Square by Tower City was part of the Connecticut Land Company's (never forget the tale of Long Connecticut and CT's true destiny) original plan for the city, which were overseen by Moses Cleaveland in the 1790s. Cleveland was modelled after New England, and the square is signature of the layout for early New England towns. In 1879, it became the first street in the world to be lit with electric streetlights, thanks to arc lamps designed by Cleveland native Charles F. Brush! The Cuyahoga River once caught on fire at least FOURTEEN times! When it did in 1969, it helped spur the American environmental movement, resulting in amendments extending the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA). Because of the incredible effort, the American Rivers conservation association listed it as their River of the Year in 2019! Along with being the first city with electrified public spaces, Cleveland has had lots of other interesting firsts, too! These have included the opening of the first indoor shopping mall (The Arcade) in 1890, the first automobile sale in the US in 1898; and the first blood transfusion in 1905. In 1967, Cleveland was also the first major US city to elect an African-American mayor when it elected Carl B. Stokes. While the character of Superman comes from another planet, the concept of the Man of Steel comes right from Cleveland, Ohio. Co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster are from the city, and the story goes that Superman was created at Siegel’s house at 10622 Kimberly Ave. in the early 1930s. Cleveland didn’t invent rock music, but back in the 1950s, the term “rock and roll” was coined by local disc jockey Alan Freed on his Moondog Rock and Roll Radio Hour. The very first rock concert, the “Moondog Coronation Ball,” was held in Cleveland in 1952
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-unСағат бұрын
Shaker Heights was established in 1909 and incorporated as a village in 1912. Shaker Heights is home to the oldest house in Cuyahoga County, built in 1817 by Moses Warren. The name "Shaker Heights" has origins in two local sources. The community was laid out on land formerly owned by the North Union Community of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as Shakers. Shaker Heights' elevation is 1050 feet above sea level. Severance Hall was designed by the Cleveland firm Walker and Weeks, who also worked on the Indiana World War Memorial in Indianapolis, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland's Public Auditorium, Cleveland's Superior Building, Cleveland's Hope Memorial Bridge (the Cleveland Guardians got their name from the bridge's Guardians of Traffic), and Cleveland's since demolished Municipal Stadium.
@henryefryСағат бұрын
The red line will still be heavy rail. High floor platforms, fully grade separated, electrified. Sounds like heavy rail to me. I'm tired of people being rolling stock prescriptivists
@youtubesewersocialistСағат бұрын
It's a high-floor light rail made by Siemens, just like San Francisco
@kitchin22 сағат бұрын
Why of all the Lake Erie Islands, is only Pelee covered by farms? Amtrak (by request only)? You see Mr. Miles these are known as constructive queries, unlike the boatload of wingeing from your not very good day in C-land, one of the greatest cities in the world. The founders of modern Miami were Clevelanders. The Cleveland Clinic is stupendous, the orchestra as noted, the only (probably) subway stop inside an airport in the U.S., the proximity to Toledo, the Erie Gauge War of 1853-54, the possibility your phone may connect to a Rogers tower in Canada (more a problem in Detroit), the Connecticut cultural traditions of northern Ohio, a.k.a. the Western Reserve (hence Case Western), the edge-of my-seat expectation Miles in Transit is about to say “but in Europe…” Just kidding, it’s all good. Hope you got to the diner.
@valeriereishuk51122 сағат бұрын
This former Clevelander thought that all cities had car-centric train systems like the GCRTA Rapid. (West Side Red Line is especially car-centric as you get nearer the airport.)
@jeremyquiros54832 сағат бұрын
One of these days I'd love to visit Cleveland just to listen to the Cleveland Orchestra.
@bipbipletucha2 сағат бұрын
Love this wacky system
@mystery_gameryt2 сағат бұрын
I recently went to Cleveland, and though the system needs some (okay, a lot) of work, for the size of the city, it's actually pretty decent. Sure, I may have only rode it from Tower City Center to one stop westbound on the red line (the eastbound portion was closed at the time of my visit), and sure, the system is pretty small, but it's much better than some bigger cities across the US. The stations (at least the ones I saw) need a lot of cleaning, and fixing, but they're overall pretty good. The area within a 15 minute walking radius of the station I travelled to from Tower City Center (West 25th - Ohio City) has pretty good development around it, including a market, some newer condos, and an incredible street featuring a very nice cafe/bar, an ice cream shop built out of a movie theatre, and an arcade/bowling alley, to name a few. I'd imagine there were some bars too, but I was there in the morning-afternoon. Overall, a system that needs a little fixing, a little cleaning, and a whole lot of modernization. (correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a transit card. I was disappointed, since I'm in the process of collecting cards, but oh well.)
@henryefryСағат бұрын
They've been 2 years away from getting a smart card for the past 8 years now
@emjayay2 сағат бұрын
Sorry, but that atrium is NOT Art Deco. However your buddy Miles is a really sweet guy.
@nicholasorr42302 сағат бұрын
man, if you hate the green line, you’ll hate STL’s red line on the Illinois side
@emjayay2 сағат бұрын
You have probably mentioned the basic problem: Cleveland's population is down from a peak in the decades around mid 20th century to half that, about what it was in 1920.
@subparnaturedocumentary2 сағат бұрын
@05:36 this gray, red and white house is interesting.
@cornkopp29852 сағат бұрын
definitely rivals baltimore for the most poorly utilized light rail in the USA
@MasterPuppets2063 сағат бұрын
D I N E R
@LucaPasini23 сағат бұрын
The payment system seems so strange: what is preventing them from making everyone pay when they get on all the time?
@bryanCJC21053 сағат бұрын
It's sad to see rail infrastructure that barely functions as an avg bus line. Total ridership for the 2 light rail lines is an avg of 3200/day combined. There are at least 7 bus lines in Cleveland that far exceed light rail daily ridership, w some lines having twice the ridership. The light rail lines are serving the wrong corridors. After the Health Line, the Broadway corridor is the city's busiest at about 8,000 riders/day.
@LewisYamanoteAintReal3 сағат бұрын
The return to Cleveland.
@nicholasmarshall91283 сағат бұрын
Try the Norfolk lightrail
@celestewilliams56813 сағат бұрын
So nostalgic! I never rode the individual blue and green lines, only the red and waterfront lines when I was growing up in cleveland. Those loud announcements on the trains threw me back so much xD shame theres not more TOD on the lines, since having such an established network that goes to the airport to downtown is such an asset! Poor cleveland...
@drdewott91543 сағат бұрын
This... seems pretty awful ngl. Abysmal frequencies, poor land use, fare ordinances which are not at all customer friendly, lack of good accessibility, just god. Cleveland has got a lot of work to do thats for sure.
@itmightgetdark3 сағат бұрын
Kinda funny a dude named Miles is dedicating his life to public transportation and its peoples....
@erik_griswold3 сағат бұрын
11:33 “Thank you”. “Whatever Bud”.
@BenTheDuck3 сағат бұрын
The fare system is weird I visited once probably got yelled at ~3 times still do not get why to this day
@erik_griswold3 сағат бұрын
The Van Sweringen brothers and their racist “Shaker Standards” thank you for your visit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Sweringen_brothers
@thefareplayer22543 сағат бұрын
🎼🎶 “Come on down to Cleveland-Town, everyone! Come and ride both our light rail lines!”
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un3 сағат бұрын
Gonna be three light-rail lines once the Red Line fleet is replaced!
@henryefryСағат бұрын
@@SupremeLeaderKimJong-unwrong, it will still be heavy rail. High floor and fully grade separated. Sounds like heavy rail to me
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-unСағат бұрын
@@henryefry The new ones are Siemens S200s, the same ones that the MUNI light-rail uses! Light-rail can still be high-floor! Like the AnsaldoBreda P2550 used on the LA Metro!
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-unСағат бұрын
@@henryefry And light-rail can still be grade-separated! Look at MetroLink in St Louis, Newark Light Rail, and HBLR!
@SupremeLeaderKimJong-unСағат бұрын
@@henryefry Also, the Red Line is basically already light-rail. They effectively run the same way as the Green and Blue Lines, and when in the yard, they're parked on the same tracks. Miles and Caleb took note of this on their Red Line adventure. All the lines will have the same Siemens S200s
@josephschwarten64683 сағат бұрын
Btw Stations on the RTA are starting to have real time tracking. Thanks to Clevelanders for Public Transit for pressing them on this. You can actually see one at 12:02
@AverytheCubanAmerican3 сағат бұрын
Yeah the rolling stock you rode on the Green and Blue Lines were built by Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie in 1980, while the Type 8s built for the MBTA Green Line were built between 1998 and 2007. And as mentioned, Shaker Heights was designed to be a streetcar suburb around those lines. The Blue Line opened in 1920, while the Green Line opened in 1913. The Van Sweringen brothers built the Terminal Tower at Tower City (designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; a Chicago firm that was the successor to Daniel Burnham's firm) as a plan to use it as the hub for all of Cleveland. They are the ones that built the lines to Shaker Heights as they owned Shaker Heights and used it as a development scheme (with restrictive covenants and guidelines called Shaker Standards; that also unfortunately barred African-Americans). The plan was to use build more streetcar suburbs and connect them to the tower, run all long-distance trains there as well (they owned a railroad as well, the Nickel Plate Road), and the local street cars. However, their plan came crashing down after the stock market crashed in 1929. Shaker Heights took over the struggling lines in 1944, and the GCRTA took over in 1975. Besides the Nickel Plate Road, New York Central, B&O, and the Erie Railroad all used it, though the Erie Railroad initially didn't. And yeah, they've built new TOD at Warrensville-Van Aken, adjusting the road layout and redeveloping a strip mall and parking lots into mixed-used residential, creating a town center with Phase 1 opening in 2019. It also included a Blue Line extension, but that idea for it was scrapped for more development. Terminal Tower was the second-tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1927, it remained the tallest building in the world outside of NYC until the completion of the main building of Moscow State University in Moscow in 1953, and stood as the tallest building in North America outside of New York City from its completion in 1927 until 1964 when Prudential Center in Boston defeated it. It remained the tallest in Ohio until the Key Tower was completed in 1991. Besides Terminal Tower, the Graham, Anderson, Probst & White firm also worked on Philly's Suburban Station, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago's Merchandise Mart, Philly's 30th Street Station, Chicago's Wrigley Building, Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, and finished Chicago Union Station after Daniel Burnham passed in 1912. Tower City was never particularly popular with the railroads. It required deviating from the quicker route along Lake Erie. As the city would not allow trains to operate under steam power near the downtown area, trains were forced to switch from steam to electric power at a suburban rail yard when heading inbound and then reverse on the way out at another yard. As a result, some lines began to bypass the station entirely, heading along the lake route, and some trains stopped serving the city altogether (like the New York Central Railroad's Lake Shore Limited and the New England States).
@paulhealy25573 сағат бұрын
I only ever used the red line and only a few times, I have no memory of how the paying worked. Even leaving a baseball game, getting a train wasn't crowded.
@BrianJColby15YT3 сағат бұрын
This reminds me of when I used to ride the trolleybuses in Watertown - from Harvard Square to Watertown, you pay when you exit; from Watertown to Harvard, you pay when you enter.
@williamerazo39213 сағат бұрын
This had ridership and express services before the highways. Highways killed the city and region to the sunbelt
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Thanks Miles and friend for the rides and commentary! Fun facts: 1. Back when I lived in Cleveland, the Blue and Green Lines had an express zone (Tower City to Shaker Square, $1.00) and a local zone (85 cents). 2. The trains ran on the left side from Tower City to E. 55th and then switched to the right side.
This was fucking awesome!! I went to school at John Carroll which is right by the green road station. The RTA is not in the right neighborhoods. the people that are in walking distance are all people with cars that look down on the public transit (at least on the ones out of downtown) really sick that this is the first time I've watched a video and been like I know all of this area!!! I hope you enjoyed your time in Cleveland!
my buddy also lived in the van aken apartments. that strip area doesn't get crazy tractions but they host a lot of events and that gets the place going. very upscale little area to be right by the rapid
I took Amtrak to and from Cleveland for the eclipse. I can confirm that Miles is correct. Cleveland’s current Amshack is terrible.
Amshack? I'm dead hahaha.
South Miles? that assumes there is a North Miles. However, there is no West Brunswick so I could be wrong
dang, these get less service then Philly's 101 and 102 routes.
Top Thrill used to have in-line load station and Maverick still does, don't tell me how to block zone
Such a weird, stressful, semi depressive, interesting train ride. Thank you lol
Close Green Rd for TOD, make West Green Green Rd and the Park & Ride
Remembering that Cleveland has scooters, we have the makings of a Great Race™️: start at the division point of the Blue and Green lines, send a scooter rider off towards the terminus of the Blue just after a Blue service departs, see if their opponent can catch up with the scooter using the next Blue service \m/
Ah the return rapid revenge video! I've never rode the blue or green line, but they seem less interesting than the red. I thought the red line at least went into the very desirable suburb of Lakewood, but I guess not by much with only the W. 117th stop. Several of my cousins all under 40 are all now living in Lakewood since it is one of the few walk able areas. As far as the housing comment, I have relatives who are getting priced out of neighborhoods as renters; I think more housing is needed in places that could easily absorb the density and for younger-ish individuals. The really desirable locations are definitely pricing people out of them.
2:20: "How can it be both a Hampton and a homewood?" Apparently it's quite common nowadays in cities. When the hotel group has a big building, they assign some of it to one franchise and some to the other, so that there are two levels to choose from for customers with different needs, while certain things like cleaning and check-in are integrated. Wack, but honestly pretty smart.
11:00 I'm unfamiliar with block zones, can you explain that?
Essentially, a block is a railroad term for the distance between signals. This is the system for the UK, but it is very similar in the US: a red signal means that a train is occupying the next block, and the driver should stop, a single yellow signal means that the next signal is red and the driver should slow down to 45 MPH, a double yellow signal means that the next signal is single yellow, and the driver should pass the signal at the speed limit, but prepare to slow down, and a green signal means that the next signal is either green or double yellow, and the driver should proceed as normal. If the next signal is anything other than green, an alarm called the Automatic Warning System, or AWS, sounds off in the cab, and the driver needs to acknowledge the alarm within a specified time limit, or else the emergency brake will be applied. If a driver passes a single yellow signal at more than 80 MPH, or passes a red signal without stopping, a similar system called the Train Protection and Warning System, or TPWS, applies the emergency brake. In the US, both systems have been replaced with Positive Train Control, or PTC, which combines aspects of both systems. I have tried to keep this as simplified as possible, but have a habit of going too in-depth lol.
More Cleveland facts: Public Square by Tower City was part of the Connecticut Land Company's (never forget the tale of Long Connecticut and CT's true destiny) original plan for the city, which were overseen by Moses Cleaveland in the 1790s. Cleveland was modelled after New England, and the square is signature of the layout for early New England towns. In 1879, it became the first street in the world to be lit with electric streetlights, thanks to arc lamps designed by Cleveland native Charles F. Brush! The Cuyahoga River once caught on fire at least FOURTEEN times! When it did in 1969, it helped spur the American environmental movement, resulting in amendments extending the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA). Because of the incredible effort, the American Rivers conservation association listed it as their River of the Year in 2019! Along with being the first city with electrified public spaces, Cleveland has had lots of other interesting firsts, too! These have included the opening of the first indoor shopping mall (The Arcade) in 1890, the first automobile sale in the US in 1898; and the first blood transfusion in 1905. In 1967, Cleveland was also the first major US city to elect an African-American mayor when it elected Carl B. Stokes. While the character of Superman comes from another planet, the concept of the Man of Steel comes right from Cleveland, Ohio. Co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster are from the city, and the story goes that Superman was created at Siegel’s house at 10622 Kimberly Ave. in the early 1930s. Cleveland didn’t invent rock music, but back in the 1950s, the term “rock and roll” was coined by local disc jockey Alan Freed on his Moondog Rock and Roll Radio Hour. The very first rock concert, the “Moondog Coronation Ball,” was held in Cleveland in 1952
Shaker Heights was established in 1909 and incorporated as a village in 1912. Shaker Heights is home to the oldest house in Cuyahoga County, built in 1817 by Moses Warren. The name "Shaker Heights" has origins in two local sources. The community was laid out on land formerly owned by the North Union Community of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as Shakers. Shaker Heights' elevation is 1050 feet above sea level. Severance Hall was designed by the Cleveland firm Walker and Weeks, who also worked on the Indiana World War Memorial in Indianapolis, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland's Public Auditorium, Cleveland's Superior Building, Cleveland's Hope Memorial Bridge (the Cleveland Guardians got their name from the bridge's Guardians of Traffic), and Cleveland's since demolished Municipal Stadium.
The red line will still be heavy rail. High floor platforms, fully grade separated, electrified. Sounds like heavy rail to me. I'm tired of people being rolling stock prescriptivists
It's a high-floor light rail made by Siemens, just like San Francisco
Why of all the Lake Erie Islands, is only Pelee covered by farms? Amtrak (by request only)? You see Mr. Miles these are known as constructive queries, unlike the boatload of wingeing from your not very good day in C-land, one of the greatest cities in the world. The founders of modern Miami were Clevelanders. The Cleveland Clinic is stupendous, the orchestra as noted, the only (probably) subway stop inside an airport in the U.S., the proximity to Toledo, the Erie Gauge War of 1853-54, the possibility your phone may connect to a Rogers tower in Canada (more a problem in Detroit), the Connecticut cultural traditions of northern Ohio, a.k.a. the Western Reserve (hence Case Western), the edge-of my-seat expectation Miles in Transit is about to say “but in Europe…” Just kidding, it’s all good. Hope you got to the diner.
This former Clevelander thought that all cities had car-centric train systems like the GCRTA Rapid. (West Side Red Line is especially car-centric as you get nearer the airport.)
One of these days I'd love to visit Cleveland just to listen to the Cleveland Orchestra.
Love this wacky system
I recently went to Cleveland, and though the system needs some (okay, a lot) of work, for the size of the city, it's actually pretty decent. Sure, I may have only rode it from Tower City Center to one stop westbound on the red line (the eastbound portion was closed at the time of my visit), and sure, the system is pretty small, but it's much better than some bigger cities across the US. The stations (at least the ones I saw) need a lot of cleaning, and fixing, but they're overall pretty good. The area within a 15 minute walking radius of the station I travelled to from Tower City Center (West 25th - Ohio City) has pretty good development around it, including a market, some newer condos, and an incredible street featuring a very nice cafe/bar, an ice cream shop built out of a movie theatre, and an arcade/bowling alley, to name a few. I'd imagine there were some bars too, but I was there in the morning-afternoon. Overall, a system that needs a little fixing, a little cleaning, and a whole lot of modernization. (correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a transit card. I was disappointed, since I'm in the process of collecting cards, but oh well.)
They've been 2 years away from getting a smart card for the past 8 years now
Sorry, but that atrium is NOT Art Deco. However your buddy Miles is a really sweet guy.
man, if you hate the green line, you’ll hate STL’s red line on the Illinois side
You have probably mentioned the basic problem: Cleveland's population is down from a peak in the decades around mid 20th century to half that, about what it was in 1920.
@05:36 this gray, red and white house is interesting.
definitely rivals baltimore for the most poorly utilized light rail in the USA
D I N E R
The payment system seems so strange: what is preventing them from making everyone pay when they get on all the time?
It's sad to see rail infrastructure that barely functions as an avg bus line. Total ridership for the 2 light rail lines is an avg of 3200/day combined. There are at least 7 bus lines in Cleveland that far exceed light rail daily ridership, w some lines having twice the ridership. The light rail lines are serving the wrong corridors. After the Health Line, the Broadway corridor is the city's busiest at about 8,000 riders/day.
The return to Cleveland.
Try the Norfolk lightrail
So nostalgic! I never rode the individual blue and green lines, only the red and waterfront lines when I was growing up in cleveland. Those loud announcements on the trains threw me back so much xD shame theres not more TOD on the lines, since having such an established network that goes to the airport to downtown is such an asset! Poor cleveland...
This... seems pretty awful ngl. Abysmal frequencies, poor land use, fare ordinances which are not at all customer friendly, lack of good accessibility, just god. Cleveland has got a lot of work to do thats for sure.
Kinda funny a dude named Miles is dedicating his life to public transportation and its peoples....
11:33 “Thank you”. “Whatever Bud”.
The fare system is weird I visited once probably got yelled at ~3 times still do not get why to this day
The Van Sweringen brothers and their racist “Shaker Standards” thank you for your visit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Sweringen_brothers
🎼🎶 “Come on down to Cleveland-Town, everyone! Come and ride both our light rail lines!”
Gonna be three light-rail lines once the Red Line fleet is replaced!
@@SupremeLeaderKimJong-unwrong, it will still be heavy rail. High floor and fully grade separated. Sounds like heavy rail to me
@@henryefry The new ones are Siemens S200s, the same ones that the MUNI light-rail uses! Light-rail can still be high-floor! Like the AnsaldoBreda P2550 used on the LA Metro!
@@henryefry And light-rail can still be grade-separated! Look at MetroLink in St Louis, Newark Light Rail, and HBLR!
@@henryefry Also, the Red Line is basically already light-rail. They effectively run the same way as the Green and Blue Lines, and when in the yard, they're parked on the same tracks. Miles and Caleb took note of this on their Red Line adventure. All the lines will have the same Siemens S200s
Btw Stations on the RTA are starting to have real time tracking. Thanks to Clevelanders for Public Transit for pressing them on this. You can actually see one at 12:02
Yeah the rolling stock you rode on the Green and Blue Lines were built by Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie in 1980, while the Type 8s built for the MBTA Green Line were built between 1998 and 2007. And as mentioned, Shaker Heights was designed to be a streetcar suburb around those lines. The Blue Line opened in 1920, while the Green Line opened in 1913. The Van Sweringen brothers built the Terminal Tower at Tower City (designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; a Chicago firm that was the successor to Daniel Burnham's firm) as a plan to use it as the hub for all of Cleveland. They are the ones that built the lines to Shaker Heights as they owned Shaker Heights and used it as a development scheme (with restrictive covenants and guidelines called Shaker Standards; that also unfortunately barred African-Americans). The plan was to use build more streetcar suburbs and connect them to the tower, run all long-distance trains there as well (they owned a railroad as well, the Nickel Plate Road), and the local street cars. However, their plan came crashing down after the stock market crashed in 1929. Shaker Heights took over the struggling lines in 1944, and the GCRTA took over in 1975. Besides the Nickel Plate Road, New York Central, B&O, and the Erie Railroad all used it, though the Erie Railroad initially didn't. And yeah, they've built new TOD at Warrensville-Van Aken, adjusting the road layout and redeveloping a strip mall and parking lots into mixed-used residential, creating a town center with Phase 1 opening in 2019. It also included a Blue Line extension, but that idea for it was scrapped for more development. Terminal Tower was the second-tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1927, it remained the tallest building in the world outside of NYC until the completion of the main building of Moscow State University in Moscow in 1953, and stood as the tallest building in North America outside of New York City from its completion in 1927 until 1964 when Prudential Center in Boston defeated it. It remained the tallest in Ohio until the Key Tower was completed in 1991. Besides Terminal Tower, the Graham, Anderson, Probst & White firm also worked on Philly's Suburban Station, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago's Merchandise Mart, Philly's 30th Street Station, Chicago's Wrigley Building, Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, and finished Chicago Union Station after Daniel Burnham passed in 1912. Tower City was never particularly popular with the railroads. It required deviating from the quicker route along Lake Erie. As the city would not allow trains to operate under steam power near the downtown area, trains were forced to switch from steam to electric power at a suburban rail yard when heading inbound and then reverse on the way out at another yard. As a result, some lines began to bypass the station entirely, heading along the lake route, and some trains stopped serving the city altogether (like the New York Central Railroad's Lake Shore Limited and the New England States).
I only ever used the red line and only a few times, I have no memory of how the paying worked. Even leaving a baseball game, getting a train wasn't crowded.
This reminds me of when I used to ride the trolleybuses in Watertown - from Harvard Square to Watertown, you pay when you exit; from Watertown to Harvard, you pay when you enter.
This had ridership and express services before the highways. Highways killed the city and region to the sunbelt
The light rail is weird because it’s in Ohio 😂
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fun times in Cleveland some more!!!!
at least we're not detroit!
Come on down to Cleveland town,everyone!