The Doom Loop of American Public Transit

the american dream

luxemburg is free. you gonna mention that?

It is rather intense. I hate that you dive those poor New Yorkers. I know unions work differently than the USA 😊

Public transit sucks in Vancouver too. Enjoy breathing in shit particles anf second-hand fentanyl.

Some buses run once every 45 minutes or longer in the Bay Area. If i miss a bus in Europe or Montreal the next one is less than 5 minutes away.

Stop. Blaming. Capitalism. You will never solve the problem if you can’t identify it. It is corruption and the failure of policy makers. Not capitalism.

The US is an example of Capitalist greed gone awry. Get those old near-dead buffoons out of power and replace them with non-political leadership that are young enough to have vision (both figuratively and literally) and that'd be a good start. Similar issues in Canada, the UK, Australia...

biggest problem with public transit are the homeless

America certainly has a transportation problem

Everything sucks in the drug and homicide ridden shit hole known as America

Oh, this channel is in favor of unionbusting. Profits for shareholders above all else

you have a 1/4 chance of being shot or stabbed by a gang if you live here for a decade. and you want me to trap myself in a metal box with people i don't know with some random i don't trust whos likely drunk driving? nah im good.

this is such a good video. i hope that people raise awareness of this issue of overspending on labor costs

America has a race problem.

Because black people. Saved you 67 minutes

preach brother

Those cities you listed for highest public transportation are using the transport infrastructure as a gathering place for those who need to be in jail or mental institutions.

Pple rememver how Irina Zarutska was randomly stabbed to death by some nutcase, keeping people scared of using public transport.

And the lefty politicians, that are all collectivist/socialist activists, deny any wrong going with THEIR public transport systems. Surely the guy making this vid, knows that?

Why do cities like NYC, SF hsve the highest OT ridership in the country? 2 reasons:
overpopulation, no space for cars
lefty politicians

wsr torn Europe caused health care to be scarce and expensive.
So,inba way, Hitker did not lose the war.

Slight issue with the claim/premise:
public transport does not work "everywhere else",
In the Netherlands, for instance, govt keeps subsidizing it, because otherwise it would have gone bankrupt, with all the empty trains and buses, wasting vast amounts of energy. To keep the energy wasting ongoing, and hopefully destroy the climate, the govt has to keep subsidizing it. And because the govt subsidizes PT, that does not have to make any effort to please customers. The only reason for the existence of PT, is: so govt can get away with bullying motorists, that through paying outrageously high fuel prices subsidize the weapon the govt uses against them

I have issues with some of the wage charts around 19:00. Of course US workers serve less passengers per worker, that is solely due to fixed and variable staffing. You need at least 1 person at the ticket counter whether a station serves 10 riders a day or 100,000. So these Asian cities with much greater ridership can take advantage of lower staff per rider, since a busy station might only need 1-2 extra staff members for an extra 99,000 riders.

America has the best public transportation in the world. I've been to America a few times and it's far superior to Japan's.

Look at any of the large cities On Google Earth who had most of their growth after World War 2. These cities are almost all parking lots significantly more space is allocated to sport parking lots than any residential buildings or commercial spaces

you can only win the game by cheating

At 7:54 you can Be re assured the EU transport is just as corrupt however the difference is that in the EU it's way easier for governments to lie about statistics especially regarding profitability. If the EU bosts profits you have to take that with many grains of salt.

Black people

Australian cities have more quarter acre block houses than anywhere, but they also have public transport to the resulting sprawl. The idea here is that you use public transport or your car depending on the sort of travel you are doing. If you want to commute to work you use public transport, if you want to go grocery shopping you use the car.

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Acting like overtime exploitation is only a thing within the American public transit sphere is insane. They aren't even the worst abusers of overtime, which is actually police.

The problem with transit in America can be summed up in one word: Americans.

haha, great!

US public transit is essentially funded and run at the MUNICIPAL level with next to no assistance from state and federal governments- in term of the scale of costs.

In US, each of the 50 states is similar in size to European nations and Japan and Taiwan, eg. That is, the geography coverage is similar as a nation for each of 50 states.

In Europe, Japan and Taiwan, their public transit often are run by their national government or heavily subsidised by their national government.

All of the metro rail systems in various cities in Taiwan get initial funding for construction from their national government. The operators are municipal based (they have only 2 layers of governments) and they once the networks are built just need to maintain it and pay for upgrade slowly, again assistance from the national government. These assistances are not shown in the P&L at all.

In Paris metro, it’s similar. Their national government had/has put initial costs of constructions of the network. Their national government/city then runs the network with lower total costs and need only slow maintenance and upgrade of network with national subsidies.

Japan too has their national government set up different networks and run them by national bodies.

HK too with funds initially paid by the HK government and the operator just runs the services with again government subsidies on infrastructure upgrades.

In US public transit has not the same level of support, from day one, from either the state or federal government. This automatically means they have worse service and run at large losses. Amortisation of self-funded infrastructure upgrades kill any likelihood of profits.

It’s balance sheet item shifting from one entity to others in other regions of the world.

Even the venerable bullet train in Japan had to be reorganised with national government took on the debts and losses cumulated so the new set up could be slightly profitable- but likely will not long term.

In Australia which geographically similar in size vs US, our state government runs the rail and bus and ferry services.

The bus here in my state (Sydeny as the capital) is run by private operators. But they are heavily subsidised so their reported profit is no guide to their operations. They don’t even pay for the purchase of busses themselves or maintaining them in the usual sense.

We also in these last several years built a driverless suburban rail in addition to the existing extensive network for Sydney metro region. These driverless new additions are run by private operators. But aging, they paid no initial construction costs or even regular upgrades of infrastructure. So their P&L are not realistic reflection of real costs. They don’t buy and own the train carriages at all. It’s another state authority that is the owner.

Our freight rail operations in my state are also mostly private. But the tracks and infrastructure are built and maintained by the state government authorities. Again the P&L for our freight rail industry is not that real. But even their rolling stocks are mostly wined by the state authority.

Same with UK rail services outside London Tube. Their private operators make money but they never put a cent in construction of the network or pay for the maintenance of the network infrastructure in the first place. So their P&L are what?

Municipal based public transit by its limitations of population size and economy always means low quality of services and poor infrastructure upgrade. The resources possible for use are minimum vs state or national operations.

The US public health and education systems too also suffer due to the fact that it’s the municipal governments that run them. Weak funding’s due to low take of municipal tax revenues of course leads to low quality outcomes.

The US system as a whole should be revamped. The state governments should take over in public transit, school and public health hospitals plus police enforcement. The sharing of resources should be elevated to among all state residents.

Again, each of 50 US states, in geographic sense, is like European nations, Japan Taiwan Korea etc. Hence the US states should run all of the public services instead of leaving to the municipalities.

This is wonderful. Personal transportation (via road/vehicle or bus/train) is incredibly subsidized in the US by the government and non-rider.
In most of the world, owning a vehicle, purchasing petrol, driving on a road is WAY more expensive. So are fares on busses and transit and inter-city trains.
USA thinks things should be "free" == subsidized by others, low-quality, poor service.

Many more people would consider public transport once an El Salvador style clean up of the criminal underclass has made the streets safe

The problem with public transit in most of the US is that if you use it, you'll be surrounded by the kind of people who take public transit. Mostly people with no other option, usually the dregs of society. Not just the working poor, but also criminals, welfare types, the sick and diseased, uneducated immigrants, the mentally ill, drug addicts, etc.

I am absolutely not going to drive for many myriad you're very and different reasons public transit and I like it the only reason why I would voluntarily riding a car as if someone else was driving did I knew it was going to take care of me I don't see many problems with our public transit but I'm not saying this guy is wrong to say what he said