Chinese Public Transit is literally too good.

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Chinese Public Transit is literally too good.

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When things get too good, you readjust your baseline. Chinese public transportation is a good example of this. While this takes place in Shenzhen, this is true for pretty much all of developed China.
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@seancutt793 5 ай бұрын

Something worth mentioning: The lack of car traffic is thanks to so many people are taking public transit or other alternatives.

@thejamescorwin 5 ай бұрын

Yuuuuup! You’re absolutely right. Though car traffic still gets pretty bad during rush hour.

@Helena_Zee 4 ай бұрын

I love Shenzhen, such a cool, clean, green, modern city

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

Yup, me too. Really unique, interesting place.

@jogana6909 4 ай бұрын

The China government has built the best infrastructure for the people, and everyone can enjoy it.

@cbrrebates 5 ай бұрын

I remember when I was in China, there was an article in my college English textbook explaining why the western world built public transportation to resolve the traffic issues😂 after I moved to the states I found out it's not true. People would rather have bad traffic than public transportation for the homeless and poor.

@thejamescorwin 5 ай бұрын

Yuuuuuuuuuup! It’s weird, huh!

@tangkh6699 4 ай бұрын

Agree. True experiences from here in San Francisco!

@linphilip6389 4 ай бұрын

Not surprising. Oil companies control your goverments and make sure roads and cars are built to consume patroleum. Yet none of the common people could see this and now leads to your daily nusance.

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

@@linphilip6389 well said. How do we fix it?

@Go4Broke247 4 ай бұрын

Corporation over People.

@seancutt793 5 ай бұрын

This is literally the first video that's come up on my feed on Chinese transit. Thanks for posting!

@thejamescorwin 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for thanking! Really means a lot. Can’t believe no one else has made videos about it!

@amandagrant4331 4 ай бұрын

Very good public transit

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

Very good indeed…. If only it was better 🤔

@DW-op7ly 5 ай бұрын

Where I live taxis and ubers are way overpriced Your taking your life into you own hands riding a bike And you have to arm yourself with defensive items, taking public transit... They literally closed down Psychiatric hospitals and dumped these people on the streets

@tkh2944 4 ай бұрын

Frankly, China have the most comprehensive public transportations anywhere in the world. No other countries can match them.😊 Most other countries you take what's available & make do - take it or leave it. That's what spoil most people & the nitpicking starts ... 😅

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

If they can work out the bike share kinks, it’ll be significantly improved. And maybe bring the electric Meituan scooters to Shenzhen 😁

@DW-op7ly 5 ай бұрын

Nice video.... 3 dollars wouldnt even give me a 1 way bus fare where I live

@Anonymous------ 4 ай бұрын

3 dollars can get you two way metro fares and a lunch in China. 😂

@flyingnan2520 4 ай бұрын

03:00 It's funny. It seems that you are the only one who really paid the bus fee in the bus.

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

Hahaha, that day I think you’re right, I was.

@hyjcxyz 4 ай бұрын

😂老年人都是免费坐的，所以他们不会错过任何一个公交车

@Anonymous------ 4 ай бұрын

In China if you are poor and don't have money for the bus, just tell the bus driver, most likely the driver lets you get on.

@flyingnan2520 4 ай бұрын

@@Anonymous------ Well you missed the point. It's no business with poverty. Everyone except the youtuber in this video just got on the bus with "beep, free card for the old". It's a kind of welfare for the old provided by the local government. Probably this video was recorded in working time of work days, so at that time there were only old people taking the bus.

@Anonymous------ 4 ай бұрын

@@flyingnan2520 I wasn't talking about him.

@chunniu3936 4 ай бұрын

Hi James, as a LA resident, I hear you! haha!

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

Not surprised! Hahaha. Are you from China originally?

@chunniu3936 4 ай бұрын

I'm Chinese and my parents were born in China.@@thejamescorwin

@John-yx6yz 4 ай бұрын

You didn't use the electric scooter/moped option. Good stuff btw, I found that amusing.

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

You’re so right. That actually would have made a legit difference. And charging it would have been mafan. Next time 😏🤔

@BrianaisGoingPlaces 4 ай бұрын

This is so fun! I recently learned you could take high speed train within Shenzhen. I took a train from Shenzhen North to Pingshan pretty killer deal actually, but metro still has my

@maneil9297 2 ай бұрын

Great experiment 🎉🎉

@aquariuskiwilog 5 ай бұрын

Thumbed this up because I appreciate the video and comparison. As a swede perhaps our public transport sucks (and very expensive) because I actually really appreciate the options in the places around china I've been. I've spent most time in shenzhen and cities around and westward towards maoming and neigbouring places. didi che is awesome and cheap, I really like bus and subway in shenzhen, clean and fast. And biking is less marginalized than here in stockholm where I am near death every day with cars and crazy bikers not knowing the law. I might afree agree with taxis in china, usually a bit smelly and more chaotic vibe!

@thejamescorwin 5 ай бұрын

At least you’ve got it way better than Los Angeles!!! I would have expected Sweden to have incredible and inexpensive public transport…

@KinLee919 4 ай бұрын

i once missed a Metro train, and saw the screen said 'next train: 13 mins', and i was so angry , i was like ' what the hell' because normally the next train only take 3 or 5 mins.

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

Yup! Happens to me too! Then I went to Korea and had to wait like 19 minutes every time and was blown away. Then I went to Portland and had to wait like 24 minutes and thought that was outlandish. Then I went to Los Angeles and cried.

@user-tj2nm3db3e 2 ай бұрын

@@thejamescorwinu are so hilarious,funny

@geraldc9876 2 ай бұрын

Overcapacity of course!

@MasterT333 4 ай бұрын

Getting a license is cheap, even for foreigners. As long as you have a driver's license from your home country, you only need to take the written test which can be in English. Buying a car is quite cheap too only a couple thousand RMB a month. I pay 1,800rmb and an average of 250rmb a month to charge my car. Check out the new XiaoMi SU7. Looks like a Porsche Taycan and only costs 216,000rmb to 300,000rmb.

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

Doesn’t this depend on the city you’re in? Getting license plates for the car in Shenzhen is the expensive part. They have raffles to get plates and you can’t drive in the city on specific days or during certain times unless you have the right plate numbers. I was in Dongguan once and got into a didi and he had to cancel because he wasn’t allowed to drive into Shenzhen at that time.

@dingdanny5745 4 ай бұрын

New energy license plates are very easy to obtain in shenzhen

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

@@dingdanny5745As far as I know, that used to be true, but much less so now that most of them are already new energy vehicles.

@JohnSmith-vl3eo 5 ай бұрын

Nice LK easter egg after the bus arrival haha. Compared to my transportation options in the US, these all sound amazing. Over here, The bus and subway will almost certainly subject you to crazy people and people high on fentanyl. An 18 min taxi will be $40+ unless they take you for a joyride. And biking is pretty dicey as you’ve said… The construction comment made me smile since my experience is that cracks and potholes are rarely addressed over here 😢. I have an off topic question and I’m not sure if you can speak to this but… In the media over here we keep getting blasted with stories about Chinese youth unemployment and a property market collapse potentially destroying the Chinese economy. What’s your perspective? Thanks for sharing your experience! I find your content super interesting… even the non luckin stuff :)

@thejamescorwin 5 ай бұрын

You’re the best. I love comments like this! I’m curious where you are. I’ve never taken a taxi in LA, but I imagine that’s about the price. As for the Chinese economy, I would love to make a video about this, because I have a lot to say, but my genuine answer is I don’t know. And neither does anyone in China. The best answer I can give is that there’s too many variables and unknowns to have a conclusive answer. I know for sure there’s a huge layer of American anti-China sentiment that loves to talk about how bad the Chinese economy is, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t problems. There are tons of people from rural, poor areas of China that are illegally entering the US through Mexico because of inability to find jobs. But at the same time, the problem is that they’re often misinformed about what life is like here, and it may not be a good solution for them. There are a lot of uneducated people in China who are only able to do low skilled factory work, and there aren’t enough of those jobs because manufacturing has slowed and a lot has been automated. China spent an insane amount of money on Covid Zero, only to have it not work and be completely thrown out. But covid zero also created thousands of jobs, so it also helped their economy. My friend who runs the Cotti Coffee stores and also started his own chain is doing very well and for him it’s business as usual. Housing prices have increased so much that only mega rich people can buy a place in developed cities, but it’s been like that since I got to China, and the government knows that’s where people store their money, and that they can’t just let the real estate market collapse. For some it’s life is the same as usual, with no economic problems. For others their prospects are few and far between. So I guess I would say, take American news with a grain of salt, but also know there’s truth to the problems. Predicting the economy is unfortunately impossible.

@JohnSmith-vl3eo 5 ай бұрын

@@thejamescorwin Thank you so much for the thorough and thoughtful response! I figured the truth would be somewhere between the hyperbolic extremes. I spent a couple months over there traveling mostly through Yunnan Province about 10 years ago. Beautiful area! Hopefully be able to visit again somewhat soon I'm in the Bay Area so the taxi fare is probably high relative to other places in the US but not that far off. Interesting that you have a friend in Cotti ;) Thanks again for all the great videos!

@thejamescorwin 5 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-vl3eoThank YOU for the engaging comments! I started a video about the Chinese economy thanks to your comment :D Stay tuned! Hahaha

@Helena_Zee 4 ай бұрын

@@thejamescorwinwith a grain of salt? Bro, the US media/government are outright hostile to China and very little of what you hear is factual and even real. The fundamentals of the Chinese economy are sound (with reasonable levels of sovereign debt, 5% economic growth, high household savings and home ownership, etc.) and the government announced all the way back in 2018 that is would purposely allow the real estate bubble to deflate (western media conveniently chose to ignore that fact) as the country shifts further to high value add high-tech manufacturing (China is already the world leader in several key technologies of the future (photovoltaics, new energy vehicles, EV batteries, etc.) and away from construction as engines of future economic growth.

@Helena_Zee 4 ай бұрын

@@thejamescorwin@thejamescorwin with a grain of salt? Bro, the US media/government are outright hostile to China and very little of what you hear is factual and even real. The fundamentals of the Chinese economy are sound (with reasonable levels of sovereign debt, 5% economic growth, high household savings and home ownership, etc.) and the government announced all the way back in 2018 that is would purposely allow the real estate bubble to deflate (western media conveniently chose to ignore that fact) as the country shifts further to high value add high-tech manufacturing (China is already the world leader in several key technologies of the future (photovoltaics, new energy vehicles, EV batteries, etc.) and away from construction as engines of future economic growth.

@luofubo 4 ай бұрын

Back in 2015, I took my BMX from Baoan Stadium to Huawei in Shenzhen north, 36.3 km, 195 minutes, never gonna do that again.

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

Still, that’s awesome! Didja film it? Thatd would look so cool as an insta360 timelapse

@icebaby6714 4 ай бұрын

Great infrastructure in China, however the taxi drivers shouldn’t smoke inside the cars…hope Chinese government will do something to that otherwise nobody wants to ride on taxis, however you can always hire a Didi car (equivalent to Uber in the U.S.), these cars are cleaner and drivers don’t smoke inside the cars.😅

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

They do!! I use 百度地图 to book cars and like 40% of the time I get a smoke car, and if I’m going somewhere far like Nanshan to Dongguan or something, it’s like 80%.

@blocklit Ай бұрын

Rout. Awesome.

@lukegiles1312 5 ай бұрын

FWIW, strongly disagree about city being well setup for biking, (maybe some areas of the city are?) Shenzhen is the worst city in China I've lived in for biking. Bike lanes frequently take you a longer distance than car traffic (bridges you must walk over etc). Many areas have no bike lanes and so you're forced on to the sidewalk because shenzhen forces bikes off the road. Making the sidewalk also awful for pedestrians. Bike lanes are also comparatively narrow, and so much roadway is wasted with on street parking.

@thejamescorwin 5 ай бұрын

Hahahahahaha I love this comment because it’s *exactly* what I’m talking about! In Los Angeles, you get “share the road” bike lanes where you literally just share the same lane as cars. It’s so intensely bad here that people die ALL the time. But here we are nitpicking Shenzhen 😂🤣 what city in China has the bike setup?

@kitsura 5 ай бұрын

I agree, there are better cities built from scratch with bike lanes incorporated from the beginning (some in Jiangsu for e.g.). Most of the bike lanes in SZ were tacked on as an after thought. When I first visited SZ more than 10 years ago there was only 2 metro lines and 0 bike lanes then.

@lukegiles1312 5 ай бұрын

Beijing has always had really great bikelanes, Jinan in Shandong quite decent too. Have heard good things about bike lanes in Shanghai and Xiamen even has a bike highway (which is probably a crazy waste of money, but is fun to ride along) @@thejamescorwin

@flyingnan2520 4 ай бұрын

@@thejamescorwin I think Hangzhou has the best city bicycle lanes among the tier1 and tier2 cities in China.

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

@@flyingnan2520I went to Hangzhou in 2015 and EVERYTHING was under construction for a political summit that was happening like a month later. Haven't been back since. I'll have to check it out. Expect a video about it ;)

@louis-marieokolo41 4 ай бұрын

Here at 5K views. This is gonna become one of the most viewed videos on this channel

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

Fingers crossed you’re right!! I spent over a year making that video 😅😂🤣

@00001111henry 3 ай бұрын

Come to NYC USA 🇺🇸 blasting their music or porter speaker in the subway and bus. No care passages. Not on time and very dirty. Lots men urine inside subway stations. Smells like bathroom 🚽.

@randomname931 4 ай бұрын

VTOL drones will be next.

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

Lolol, they’d fit in perfectly. If any place is gonna do it, it’ll be China.

@computer-ot8si 4 ай бұрын

if you are really working and living in Shenzhen as ordinary people, normally, people can't live in expensive and convenient area, they have to take over 1 hours to go to work and struggle among other extremely overcrowded people.

@thejamescorwin 4 ай бұрын

You’re not wrong, but in the US, we’re talking 3, 4 hours to get to work if you have to rely on public transit. It’s not even feasible. It’s a significant job barrier to some people.

@computer-ot8si 4 ай бұрын

@@thejamescorwin but in US, on the way to work, you are driving your own lovely car enjoying music and hearing free and real news, not propaganda or brainwashing subliminal messages. And you are not working 12 hours per day for about us$900 per month.

@hyjcxyz 4 ай бұрын

@@computer-ot8si醒醒

@AznAfroMan513 4 ай бұрын

@@computer-ot8si CIA bootlicker gtfo