Amazing! Sad that so much was lost, but at least some lines were saved, and are coming back too.
@pacificostudios
Ай бұрын
I never knew the SF streetcar system was ever so dense, or that so many companies competed with each other for so long. Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and even New York or London do not have stories like this.
@rebeccawinter472
5 ай бұрын
This is amazing! I feel like I have found a gem and definitely going to subscribe if you make more content like this.
@Maxime_K-G
6 ай бұрын
It is definitely fun to imagine! I always dream about visiting pre-war America. When reading literature from that time, you get a feel of what it must've been like. So much innovation and optimism back then, in cities that were still catered to their human inhabitants.
@maxnash8450
6 ай бұрын
That was a great video! Mind if I ask how you animated this?
@darkwoodmovies
8 ай бұрын
It's disgusting how the car completely took over and ruined cities because daddy Ford and whoever ran GM needed to boost their stock price.
@micosstar
9 ай бұрын
came from youtube recommend <3 - mico, a man part of gen z (: age 18 :)
@LimitedWard
9 ай бұрын
It makes me SO ANGRY to learn just how much was stolen from us by the auto industry. This story isn't unique for San Francisco, it was the norm in every major city across America, with notable exceptions like NYC. And only now are we starting to reckon with horrifying consequences. How many homes had to be razed in order to build this inner-city freeway network? How many more houses could have been built if we hadn't added parking minimums and subsidized the suburban lifestyle so heavily? The current housing crisis, the mental health crisis, income inequality, air pollution, noise pollution... all of these issues are interrelated, and all are, at least in part, due to America's addiction to the car.
@stevencipriano3962
9 ай бұрын
San Francisco has a population of 800,000 not 8 million
@CallMeInfinite0000
12 күн бұрын
He's talking about the metro area of San Fran.
@steveshea9448
9 ай бұрын
Loved hearing about the proliferation of streetcars and trains. It's fun to see the maps and photos. The narrator was definitely NOT a local. Keer-nee? Noh Valley? Phew. A good number of the lines still exist as streetcar, rail, and bus lines. I lived in SF during high school and never felt I needed a car,crisscrossing the city between almost any two points by various transit options for $5 a month!
@steveshea9448
9 ай бұрын
SOW salito? Tah RAHV al?
@kerboplaytv8744
9 ай бұрын
Awesome work! Quick note about some pronunciation mistakes, e.g. Noe Value is pronounced "Know-ee Valley"
@sinfoniasam
Жыл бұрын
Uh…. SF does NOT have 8 million people.
@punchnazis3498
Жыл бұрын
The SF Bay Area has 8 million people, which is clearly what he's referring to, seeing as the video is about the Bay Area, and not just SF city-proper.
@blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602
Жыл бұрын
12:18 nooooooooooooooooo
@MichalBergseth-AmitopiaTV
Жыл бұрын
What if humany DIDNT kill the trams??? We wouldnt need to get them back today. We would have solved lots of infrastructure issues. Geezz... !!!
@dannjrad2109
Жыл бұрын
8.7 mil do NOT live in SF along 😂
@Geotpf
Жыл бұрын
The correct number, as of the 2020 census, is almost exactly 10% of that. Methinks he saw 870,000 and thought it was 8,700,000.
@punchnazis3498
Жыл бұрын
You guys need to learn what a metropolitan area is.
@m0istl0la97
10 ай бұрын
Hes talking about the bay area
@chad.breece
Жыл бұрын
As an SF public transit advocate, this hurts me so much...
@qjtvaddict
Жыл бұрын
Just upgrade the M and N lines to full metro and build an El along 16th Street linking the central subway to the existing tunnel on the N completely grade separating the line. Turn N and M into driverless metro and then the remaining teams become feeder lines and you either upgrade them or drop em your move.
@calebjiang4056
Жыл бұрын
@@qjtvaddictor... for essentially free, just ban cars on the ROW and achieve the same travel time improvements
@TohaBgood2
5 ай бұрын
@@calebjiang4056 Don't you be starting to make sense all of a sudden! What are we crazy to do something that makes sense?!? Seriously though! Why the hell don't the Muni Metro lines have signal priority and dedicated lanes?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?
@puffpuffin1
3 ай бұрын
@@calebjiang4056 delusional fantasies again...SMH
@edwardmiessner6502
Жыл бұрын
Excellent work! It is absolutely amazing that such a dense city, almost 900k souls in 49 square miles of area, was built with just cable cars and trolleys. An atrocity that GM through National City Lines had to come in and pull up almost all the tracks. 😠🔥😡🔥🤬🔥👿
@toddmcneil8421
Жыл бұрын
Yeah…bay crossing times with a ferry transfer would be nowhere near as quick as the BART transbay tube. How in the world did you come up with that nonsense?
@preahko
Жыл бұрын
This is fascinating and well-done overall, so this might seem like a petty point, but why don't you know the basic proper pronunciation of several streets and areas in San Francisco (Noe Valley, Divisidero, Taraval, to name a few)?
@paulhaynes8045
Жыл бұрын
Utterly confusing (to a Brit), but fascinating! Hard to believe there was once such a massive system of trams/street cars. If only they'd been able to look forward 50-70 years and see what we now know - cars are NOT the answer.
@TohaBgood2
Жыл бұрын
To be fair, SF has brought back a lot of the lines and even built new ones. There's still some parts of the city that are less well served by rail, but the electric trolleys and busses do cover that part of the city pretty well and Muni already has planned rail extension there. LA is the more impressive example for the decline of rail. They had an even _better_ rail transit system than SF and likely the best rail transit system in the world at one time due to the much more flat geography. They've still only brought back a small fraction of their railways. They're building a ton of rail transit too now, but it will take decades to recover everything.
@jayfielding1333
Жыл бұрын
@@TohaBgood2 The LA story is truly depressing. What a sad loss.
@LimitedWard
9 ай бұрын
American traffic engineers of today can look forward, but all they can imagine is more cars. "We anticipate traffic will have increased along this road 200% in 2030. Better double the width!"
@ActuallySanFrancisco
6 ай бұрын
san francisco still is a predominantly public-transport oriented city. 2/3 of san franciscans don't own a car, and it's the only major US city that does not have a freeway system.
@paulhaynes8045
6 ай бұрын
@@ActuallySanFrancisco very glad to hear that, it's a place I've always wanted to go to. We were due to go there last summer, having planned an East/West Coast holiday, with a train trip in-between, but we ended up having to break it into two holidays - doing the East Coast only, and hoping to do the train (from Chicago) and San Francisco bit next year. Fingers crossed!
@ababababaababbba
2 жыл бұрын
sow sa lee toe
@manueljarema7054
2 жыл бұрын
Very good research and that’s what I always looked for information of the evolution of public transport in the cities of the states, why didn’t you show the evolution after 1964? Or did I miss something?
@anthonysnyder1152
2 жыл бұрын
You're missing the T line and the central subway in SF that is yet to open
@CoolTransport
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent vid 👍
@terencehill2320
2 жыл бұрын
Please, Please do one with Philadelphia's SEPTA Regional, Subway, Trolley, and other routes! Most dont do a good job at all with those but with that kind of effort this video has it would most likey be the best one yet.
@noemierollindedebeaumont1130
2 жыл бұрын
What is the BART system ?
@L-Taraval
2 жыл бұрын
Bay Area Rapid Transit. It's a separate interurban light rail system
@davidyegiazaryan3417
Жыл бұрын
@@L-Taraval not a light rail, but more of a regional commuter heavy rail system
@henrycrowell741
2 жыл бұрын
this is a great video.keep uploading.
@safeatthird6060
2 жыл бұрын
Nice😊
@arandomyoutubechannel2940
2 жыл бұрын
Nice video; I wish I found this sooner.
@TohaBgood2
2 жыл бұрын
I'm done watching theses videos about old rail transportation in the Bay Area. We had a better and faster rail system in the 19th century than we have in the 21st. It's just so depressing! WTH?
@anthonysnyder1152
2 жыл бұрын
Blame GM/other car companies for buying up and dismantling trains and light rails to sell buses that are not as comfortable to ride. They sit in traffic with cars in an already congested city.
@peteralbert1485
2 жыл бұрын
This is so well done and carefully explained through the freeway revolt. I would love to see you do an update from that era that includes the halted freeways, the inception and expansion of BART, the creation and expansion of Muni Metro, the (re)proliferation of ferries after the 1989 quake, along with Caltrain and SMART. In a sense, these rail networks are starting to fill in along the lines of your "fantasy" network, as do the next phases of rail expansions now under review: the second Transbay Crossing, the extension of the Central Subway to the northwest, the BART and SMART extensions.
@dancingwiththestars3778
3 жыл бұрын
Can Bart Extend The Geary and Fulton Lines To Ocean Beach Great Highway Or Sunset Line To Beach
@TohaBgood2
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, but it is very expensive and unfortunately people do not want to pay for it. They would use it if it were built, of course, but yeah...
@DiddamsGaming
3 жыл бұрын
8.7 million?? You mean 870,000 lmao
@TohaBgood2
2 жыл бұрын
He probably means the inner Bay Area. Out of towners often confuse the city and the metro area. Depending on how you count the metro area you can get something around 8.7 million population, but there are many different estimates based on what you choose to count. In all fairness, San Francisco may be a separate city and county but it is heavily integrated with the rest of the Bay. Half of the working population of SF commutes to another city for work and half the workforce commutes in from other cities. It's not really a standalone city except on paper. In any other country the inner Bay would have long ago been united into one jurisdiction for easier governance.
@RaymondHng
2 ай бұрын
@@TohaBgood2 San Francisco County use to extend down the peninsula. In response to the lawlessness and vigilantism that escalated rapidly between 1855 and 1856, the California government decided to divide the county. A straight line was then drawn across the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula just north of San Bruno Mountain. Everything south of the line became San Mateo County while everything north of the line became the new consolidated City and County of San Francisco, to date the only consolidated city-county in California.
@btomimatsucunard
3 жыл бұрын
Great video! I am so sad I didn't find this earlier! Out of curiosity, with the east bay, why was the SP Big Red Interurbans left out of the history video? They provided just as varied and comprehensive electric service in Berkley, Oakland and Alameda
@BlackGateofMordor
3 жыл бұрын
That was great! How did you animate it?
@guyr.6053
3 жыл бұрын
How shocking it is to see that such a dense grid of trams were razed so fast!
@romanrat5613
Жыл бұрын
to be fair, the busses that replaced them were essentially the same, of course now they could've been improved with modern rolling stock as the remaining streetcar lines were
@SamNYC2000
3 жыл бұрын
Is that how Taraval is pronounced? I was never sure
@tocino415
2 жыл бұрын
Terrible, wasn't it?
@ArtamStudio
8 ай бұрын
Thank goodness I wasn't drinking when he said that, as I would have doused my screen.
@loydenochs8572
3 жыл бұрын
Great history lesson on the SF transit world!
@CaseysTrains
3 жыл бұрын
Honest criticism, I feel like you you rushed that last 2 minutes. Like the opening of BART and the T Line. Aside from that, I learned a lot from this video and I thank you for making it. It's just amazing seeing a city once covered in rail transit now only has a handful of lines in operation.
@rider573
2 жыл бұрын
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@lespaulranger
2 жыл бұрын
The last part of it was a what if
@arnorrian1
3 жыл бұрын
Great work!
@Your_Local_Dawg
3 жыл бұрын
Idk 🤷♀️
@kohmeik
3 жыл бұрын
Why does this video have so little views? It seems like a ton of work went into this video.Was this video part of some bigger project? Was is posted anywhere else?
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