Did Milwaukee’s New Streetcar make it Better?

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1. The question is: can the L line be upgraded to a W line?

2. If theres one thing that can make me mald its the anti transit policy in Wisconsin. Seriously what the actual fuck

3. You got so many great representative clips of how stupid Milwaukee drivers are 😀

4. You are spot on about the politics. Downtown Milwaukee deserves better. And this comment was written by a suburbanite.

5. great video @thomTRA! Its sad the politics slide is needed, but i get it.

6. It's not puzzling why it's not busy. The buildings stores are clearly still under construction and your visiting a transit stop in a heavily outdoors focused tourist section of milwaukee (i.e., summerfest grounds and large lake front parks) in late October/early November well past peak tourist season for the region. I don't know about you but I don't go stand by lake Michigan in the winter much lol 🥶

7. I would think the major destination for the new L line is Summerfest. It gets nuts down there those weeks. Plus the museums are worthy enough as well

8. This is the same rolling stock as the QLine in Detroit, isn’t it? It’s such a shame because they’re super nice inside but (at least in Detroit, haven’t tried this) it practically feels less convenient than just hopping on a bus on Woodward.

9. Love you and your videos

10. It is absurd, right?

11. I remember the old TM and the old MIlwaukee Streetcars of the 1950's-60's

12. 17th best skyline in the world right there 🎉

13. Brilliant video sir, good to see Lyndsey let you get out for the day lol.

14. Stop. Breathe

    I love that lmao

15. There's a difference when it comes to a urban city and a suburban/ rural area One is more publicly accessible and the other one is private car accessible, and I think our politician's aka Republican come from a suburban, rural mindset when it comes to cities. which they are totally different a suburb does not have to deal with excessive traffic as much as a city does and also relying on cars to get around is a disaster but if you give people options like the hop and expanded to key places you can reduce trafficking on city streets.

16. Milwaukee has good bones to expand the system someday when the political climate changes. I'm rooting for it!

17. I enjoy the video👍👍

18. it's always the same in America. U make a garbage rail oriented public transit system and then the politicians have what is needed to ban any public transit system proposals in the future. In every project there are enough positive points that lets you know we could build the type of transit that would be very successful – the economics behind the auto industry (personal owned automobiles) is just to powerful for railways to contend with because cars work so well with urban sprawl and those systems working in tandem generate far more taxes than public transit ever will!!!

19. If we’re going to fantasize about extending the L line northeast from Burns Common, let’s bring it up in a direct line via N Farwell Ave and then N Maryland Ave instead. The catchment areas of stops (even the university stop at the end!) would include many more potential destinations than if the line was extended closer to the lake, and the more direct alignment means shorter travel times to/from the university.

    Also, what’s up with the slow speed of the trams in the video and others I’ve seen? I’m not from America and we don’t have that kind of patience for mass transit where I’m from. I suspect you have more political sabotage going on than is apparent to most.

20. Trump will be President for the next four years. No more Federal matching funds for transit projects because Trump and Republicans hate spending money on transit. Maybe after two years assuming the Democrats retake the House and Senate during the midterms, which is likely. But definitely not before the then.

21. Were those trains built by Siemens?

22. The HOP could be great if not for state Republicans sabotaging the city. They withold funding and then say "see their broke" yes you caused that. If it went further, it would be great

23. It’s pronounced (Ca-ture).

24. I'm a Republican, but I definitely don't agree with those politicians that don't want to fund rail travel! I'm in Ohio and the Governor before our current one, I voted for him but then his first speech after he got in office he said he would not authorize funding to build a light rail from Cincinnati to Cleveland! I was NOT happy with him for that! I think a lot of these politicians have their hands in the pockets of the oil companies and building train service contradicts that! But trains do need to go where people are going. Cincinnati has one of those what seems to be a worthless street car. We don't want that, either!

25. I would call those who have caused this system not to be able to finance operations and expansion small minded.

26. 5:14 That car backing up as the streetcar came in.

27. Enjoyed your analysis and commentary. A bit off-topic, but can we please find another name for these train stations other than "Intermodal"? Blah. I get it: the bus lines come here too. They also probably go to Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport. How about "Milwaukee Station"? Hmm?

28. ❤😊

29. Tom, even though you look like one of my grade 9 students, you will always be a fully-fledged adult to me.

30. Republicans are the cause of all of Wisconsin's, and America's problems. They are a Clear and Present Danger.

31. Loved loved LOVED your whiteboard message. We Wisconsinites need to change the laws.

32. As usual, I found this quite an informative video! I hope that someday, the issues with the Hop can be fixed.

    Thanks for the video!

33. The hop is a complete waste of taxpayer money and should have never been built. Nobody rides it anymore. It was a fad when it first came out and now is a bust.

34. It was only free to ride for the first year. Sponsored by Potawatomi casino. You now have to pay for it.

35. The city of milwaukee has around 600,000 people. Not 1.5 million people.

36. That turn was painful

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