Honestly I think a large part of it is that many of us just weren't aware of a better way. I've lived my whole life in Indiana and my first car was a beat up '86 Ford pickup that I loved. I associated riding the bus with poverty and desperation. Until a year ago, I simply wasn't aware of what the alternatives could be. I knew car crashes were common and deadly, but what can you do, we have to drive right? Just be careful I guess? About a year ago I stumbled on Jason's video about Dutch bikes that sent me on a path to seeing a whole different way. Since then, we sold one of our two cars, ride bikes everywhere, and chafe against the car dependency and lack of transit in our area. It makes me optimistic that big change is possible in NA, many of us just haven't realized what we are missing because car dependency is all we've ever known 🙃

It seems to me, that there's this deeply held mindset in the US that only the poor take transit and that may be part of the reason people don't want transit in their town. Basically, classism is deterring it.

Disney also added a Gondola system between some resorts which has been a big hit as well.

US ski towns also have free bus systems that get good use, plus gondolas to get to the lifts or around town.

Always boggles my mind that people can go to Europe, see how much better the transportation is and then come back to NA and not think hey why can't we have that here.

And the biggest kicker about this mindset that public transit can't work in the US is that many of our cities used to have it! There was literally a time when LA had urbanism right. Now they've pretty much spent the past century undoing all of that. The problem is not that it can't work, it's that we've mangled our cities with car-centric development so badly that cars are the only option now.

The most ridiculous thing about the transit at Disney land is that due to a ridiculous law in Florida, you're required to fold up strollers and hold your stroller aged child on the bus. I haven't encountered this anywhere else in the world (granted, haven't taken a stroller on the bus in the US; when I road the bus with a baby in the US I used a carrier). This resulted in a lot of delays from needing to fold up the stroller and a lot of tired screaming kids woken up from their necessary naps after a long day at Disney.

Went to Disney and the monorail shut down, then the boat line was too long so we went on the bus which had no line. At least they had different modes of transportation as walking wasn't possible.

Bad public transit access is literally lose lose for everyone except car companies: taxpayers and gov subsidize an inefficient transport system, poor people have to spend 20-30% of their income on a car, rich neighborhoods are worth less than what they’d be with transit access, emissions, increases frictional unemployment, decreases access to tourist hotspots, and a million other things.

This is exactly what's going on. The reason only Disney World has good transit is because Americans treat Europe the same way they treat Disney World: a place you visit, not a place you live in.

Please make part of this into a short!

Having lived in Disney Housing and worked at 2 different Walt Disney World resorts while also visiting all of the parks over 4 months, Disney Transportation is not as good as it's made out to be. It's better than metro Orlando's Lynx bus system but that's an incredibly low bar. This was 15 years ago but I've heard it's only gotten worse, in that time span a person died because of a monorail accident. The monorail only goes among the parks and AFAIK to/from one resort. Within the parks and resorts, some of which are massive, transit is very lacking and mostly requires a lot of walking. They have special transportation for those with mobility issues but I've heard complaints about that as well

Seattle, I enjoy Seattle more than DC. Boston is also pretty good.

I spent 90 days in Japan and never missed driving!

Thank god you said “take out NYC, DC, etc. off the list” at the start because I was going to bomb this comment section when I saw the title lol. Anyway, yeah as someone who did go to Disney World, I’m disappointed but not surprised about Disney World being better than most American cities

Even disney world's transit is aging, they've had multiple problems with the sky rails.

Urban sprawl makes public transit impossible or heavily subsidized (therefore, unsustainable).

What if disney world get their customers on bicycles?

Disney as the new mass transit contractor for American cities confirmed!? /jk

Buses do rather suck. Im Czech, we got decent public transport, but most ppl naturally prefer stuff on rails or even troleybuses, anything with permanent structures, and even better if its running at least partially separated from car traffic, over buses, those are only for smallish towns, suburbs or villages, but not the core of public transport for any decent sized city. I remember there was even some study ten+ yrs ago about flats in Prague and how their desirability and value/ price, both for owners and renters, increases if they are located on or close to streets with tram line or metro station compared with buses, which are nowadays mostly used as feeders for metro or as temporary replacement of trams.

i forget these two men have faces

In short, because its the one place where private enterprise was allowed to build and maintain something top-to-bottom with little to no restriction.

@Jason,Brostachio!

Who’s interviewing who here?

The more relaxed conditions during vacation may reduce the sense of needing to personally control their mode of transportation. Many Americans also seem to have an almost allergic reaction to the idea of paying taxes needed to provide public services. Lastly & sadly, I am afraid elitism may also be a major factor regarding willingness to use shared transportation at Disney World vs public municipal transportation. Disney World's economic exclusivity provides an environment in which tourists only have to share space with people they are likely to feel comfortable with .

You know, it’s funny how much people truly appreciate good city design and infrastructure when they’re not the ones paying for it.

Why does Jason have a Belgian numberplate ???

Wait, what? The bus service at Disney World is terrible. Yeah, maybe it's better than most American public transit, but that's faint praise. Don't use Disney World as an example of *good* public transit.

You're asking the wrong question. I was reading an article about US higher education and came across this piece of information which was sourced to Psychology Today: "The rate of students taking psychiatric medication doubled between 2007 and 2019, and is now at 25 percent." So that's a pre-pandemic stat. Why is that? Why are one in four of our best and brightest on psychiatric medication? Could it have anything to do with.. I don't know.. the alienation of needing to be driven everywhere from birth? The crushing let down after going on vacation to walkable cities? Sure, the rise of "social" media plays a role as does the increasingly competitive nature of modern living but "competitive" is frequently code for "expensive" and expensive comes from ballooning debt to pay for infrastructure and suburban housing and the military. And the infrastructure costs and the suburban sprawl and the military costs of dollar-denominated oil are directly related to car dependency. People are trapped. It is no longer possible to "drop out" of the rat race without ending up on the streets. People know all this, their kids know this, hence the cognitive dissonance between the 'dream' and the reality. I don't want to say its hopeless but you're up against something much larger and much more sinister than simple inertia. Best of luck.

There is still the strong association of patriotism (buy American!) in American car ownership. One of the reasons to convert to more train and bike travel is that the US no longer has a car industry. Much of it is built overseas. We support a lot of money into overseas manufacturing and to the benefit of globalist elitists ran megacorporate conglomerates. Rail and bike trails are lousy in that they are insufficient in the US and that needs to be addressed with vigor. We need to build density of the grid in rural and remote areas where it is cheap to buy land and infill rails and trails there first instead of concentreating on big cities. Wonder if Disney uses its tram system to restock overnight...

You can't bring DC transit into the conversation. The Purple Line failed.

You know why...

So weird hearing the narrator voice coming out this guy.

It would be nice if you reached out to other youtubers besides NJB. Their demeanor/approach may not be the best way to reach a large portion of a potential audience.