How often do they do that?

Cause the Delmar Loop Trolley here in the Lou can do the same, they have just never run all 3 cars at once. 😢 I’m sure they do in K.C. Sometimes though cause headways are decent when I visit. Unfortunately the 2 new extensions are about the only feasible places in the city for good rail transit, (except maybe the adjacent north/south one you mentioned) most of the rest of that city is so car-centric. 😢

Who cares it’s trash

During the NFL Draft, 5 cars were used on the route. Run frequency was 3 minutes.

Most hours of the week 3 are running, 4 are often put into service for busy events/weekends.@@StLouis-yu9iz

Good luck getting the folks in Jeff City to green light that. They’ve been blocking funding for our trolley and new North/South line forever. :/

Is "literail" short for "literal rail" (as opposed to "metaphorical rail") or did you mean "light rail?"

Yeap. I lived in Zürich Switzerland for a long time and the street car infrastructure is extensive and absolutely awesome. The more lines you have the more the utility is increased and you get more and more passengers with every added stop. From there it's a positive feedback loop. Streetcars are easily the best transportation system for cities. They're so convenient to get on and off, you can see out during the ride, they normally are quiter and have much less vibrations and movement than a bus making the experience more pleasurable, they're electric thus contribute to less air pollution... I could go on forever. I just love street cars.

The Delmar Loop Trolley here in StL has the same problem. 😢 at least they actually run the trolley on the west side of the state regularly. 😅

How do I sign that petition

Agreed! 💚

I’m glad you enjoyed your time in Missouri! Might I suggest visiting the better city in the state though; St. Louis. StL is THE most underrated city in the Americas. We also have a trolley that goes through a great mixed use entertainment neighborhood (Delmar Loop). Plus we have a metro system with 2 east/west lines and should be getting a north/south tram (dedicated row) soon too! Downtown K.C. is pretty nice, I’ll admit that; however the rest of the city is so soulless and car-centric. StL was the third biggest metro in the U.S. for a time so we still have plenty of great urban fabric from the Victorian era left. 😊

If start banning cars from its r.o.w. You won’t have to worry about traffic. 😉

They hold more than an artic but yea definitely a little disappointing that the ROW isn’t dedicated

@@climateandtransitdedicated row won’t be as much of a problem if we just keep laying new tracks until we’ve surpassed our historic system lengths. Then we can start congestion pricing to remove the cars from the rails! 😁

@@climateandtransit IDK about that, it doesn't look like it could ever carry more than 110 passengers max which is far below many articulated bus models that are often certified to carry upwards of 150 passengers, with bi articulated ones being even higher. You'd generally need 5 segment vehicles to surpass the capacity of an articulated bus, like what you see on most European light rail systems.

@@drdewott9154two articulated busses can replace about one of these streetcars you can fill a streetcar exactly as packed as a bus and even more.

Have you seen the rest of the city..? It looks like a giant subdivision outside the downtown corridor 😢

@@StLouis-yu9iz my ex moved there, he didn't last long.

There is a stoplight right there, just out of view of the screen.

Another great obscure transit system 🤔🤔🤔🤔

@@climateandtransit Yes! It was made free after COVID restrictions, and ridership is expected to pass 1,000,000 for 2023. I ride it at least once or twice a week just to have something to do for free, as I don't often have much money. I'd love to see a video about it!

There is a lot of surface lots in the crossroads/midtown area but there really isn’t too much room for infill. The northern extension is the one being built with t.o.d. in mind, the only problem is the reason why there was nothing on the riverfront before the new current stadium is because it’s a floodplain. They haven’t upgraded the levee or anything so ig kc planners just forgot about the area being underwater a few decades ago. 😅

An LRT with no dedicated ROW is a huge mistake. It will compromise the ultimate utility of the line by slowing it down, especially during heavy traffic. It ends up being worse than a bus.

There is TONS of room for infill on the extension line in Midtown. The KC Current stadium and riverfront extension are in a 500-year floodplain and protected by a levee, not sure what you're talking about there. @@StLouis-yu9iz

Cause ‘Mercia 🙃

@@StLouis-yu9iz well, the streetcar’s in America so that doesn’t really explain it either

@@romanrat5613that’s the joke… because america still sucks at rail rn.

USA doesn’t care that’s why

@@StLouis-yu9izit’s utterly terrible on purpose

Luckily it doesn’t seem to be affecting the models the KC Streetcar bought (knock on wood)

Next time I’m in Milwaukee I will!

Just a replica of this streetcar

I'm from KC, we call them drivers. It just makes sense when we have no prior context to work with and there's "car" in the name.

Not sure how it is that you don't understand the ramifications of the "First Mile."

It's almost like that's why it was called the "starter line" and is under construction for 3+ more miles through the spine of the urban core for other lines to branch off of.

That just sounds like the demand for the streetcar outways the number of units on the route. Free fare makes perfect sense- if cars can use the road for free, so should those who use public transit. (Yes buses are also free in KC)

@@TheKeksadler Later on the same trip, I took the Qline streetcar in Detroit, which is also free to ride. It was infested with junkies and bums, and one junkie (meth or crack, undoubtedly) lost his freaking mind and started screaming threats of physical violence at someone who, apparently, wasn't even ON the streetcar at the time. He then started punching and kicking the train's hardware Judging by the expressions on the locals' faces, this was NOT an isolated incident. You HAVE to charge fares because people do not value that which they are given as much as that which they earn. It also filters out the wretched refuse of society. Technically, vehicles pay to use roads via fuel and other excise taxes, therefore only EVs and bicyclists use them for "free." Your comment regarding demand is utterly meaningless because your government has interfered with the demand formula, just as they do with parking requirements -- and BOTH of those things create unintended negative consequences. If pizza is free there will NEVER be enough pizza!

​@@colormedubious4747charging fares does not keep broke homeless people off the trams. Adding security on the trams is the obvious solution here.

@@AssBlasster Why not both? After all, you're clearly both a fan of Graboids and a man of culture.

rushed as in words and nuance were left our for a shorter video? or were you referring to the actual speed of speech? cuz I watched at 2x and it sounded fine to me

@@AntonWongVideo I would prefer slightly slower narration, but most of all, I want longer pauses between sentences. Clearly, he reads from a script that he writes beforehand. He probably makes mistakes, or inhales, or gulps, or smacks between the sentences, so he cuts all this noise out (professional radio/TV anchors speak clearly and breathe without making pauses). But he cuts it too short, the rhythm breaks. You have a certain speed to the sentences, then there is a quick jump to the next sentence, which is jarring, and this happens almost every sentence. After a while, this becomes irritating. The info and presentation are good, though.