I've avoided commenting about his channel, but this video is so ass that I might have to make something about it.
Also this is absolutely part cope for the fact that the Dutch suck at building heavy rail metro
Also this is absolutely part cope for the fact that the Dutch suck at building heavy rail metro
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Once caught him claiming that €500K row houses in the Randstad are a "steal".
Meanwhile more and more people can't afford a decent family home any more, even with 2 incomes.
But maybe I'm psychoanalyzing too much
In comparison Hamburg has no tram which is bad but trams could never shoulder the U & S Bahn network here
Also it's funny how he briefly cuts to Karlsruhe when introducing the tram trains & just ignores that the whole system there didn't come from the trams -
Yes they use the tram tracks but they were two different systems until a few decades ago & the core idea was getting regional into the city, not trams to spread out so whoops
New Orleans in particular has a very decent system for North American standards, and even has grassy tram tracks he soys about.
Another bad video was him soyfacing over some random suburban rail station that has the same service levels as South Orange, New Jersey
Czech cities that are considerably smaller (100k inhabitants) got a couple lines but no western “expat” (immigrant) is soyfacing over them
I don't mind it every once in a while if there's valuable content between but it's all he does now.
That and bitching on Mastodon about how BlueSky sucks.
"Ooooh, it has transit signal priority! That means it doesn't get stopped by streetlights and/or cars!" - A metro also has this
Just a nothing burger overall
I see them as the best form of surface level transit for local trips
Subways are needed when cities prioritize car traffic so surface level transit is too slow and unreliable, but in transit first cities surface level transit is more convenient and nicer
If you want to experience a city or a lifestyle where everything is close you're better off just moving then waiting for your specific town to spontaneously decide to redesign itself like that. Even if they did tomorrow it would take years to build up to it.
Also NJB: "The US will always be car dependent. Just move"
But if you want to live that way now, you're much better off living in a different place.