Indiana senator vs buses | Baltimore bridge collapsed | Used trams for Ukraine | Urban News #9

Welcome to UrbanNews #9. In this episode –
00:00 – Intro
00:13 – Baltimore’s Key Bridge Collapse
01:03 – Railway development in Switzerland
01:41 – Indiana senate blocking bus lanes
03:34 – New bus lanes in Los Angeles
04:01 – Light rail network returns to public control in Sheffield, UK
05:06 – Berlin and Bern donating trams to Lviv, Ukraine
06:47 – Plans for new tram line in Prague, Czechia
07:30 – Metro extension in Milan, Italy
08:00 – HESS wins electric bus tender in Lugano, Switzerland
08:57 – Sagrada Familia in Barcelona “will be completed in 2026”

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Sources:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-26/citylab-daily-vital-baltimore-bridge-collapses-after-being-struck-by-ship?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=citylab

https://www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructure/swiss-parliament-agrees-more-long-term-rail-projects/66190.article?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/03/25/what-indianapolis-brt-mess-reveals-about-the-troubling-power-of-state-preemption-in-transportation

bus lanes in San Fernando Valley officially dedicated this morning!!! 🎉

5.6 miles of bus-only lanes on Sepulveda +

.9 miles of a peak hour bus-only lane on WB Ventura

happy to be joined today by our partners — city of LA and @LADOT pic.twitter.com/HtCGkPRlWZ

— Metro Los Angeles (@metrolosangeles) March 26, 2024

Sheffield light rail network returns to public control

https://tvoemisto.tv/news/26_mln_gryven_hochut_vytratyty_na_transportuvannya_vzhyvanyh_berlinskyh_tramvaiv_do_lvova_162331.html?fbclid=IwAR1-8lKzoACPNpIt-gSS1XfqQ70bptxzEQ1LkCK2LfGkZBT0fUS2gKf4pBs

Львів отримає 11 трамваїв з Берна – ймовірно, вже наприкінці літа

https://www.idnes.cz/praha/zpravy/tramvajova-trat-prodlouzeni-modrany-komorany-dpp-projekt.A240312_111455_praha-zpravy_vich

https://www.railwaygazette.com/metros/funding-agreed-for-milano-metro-extension-and-interurban-tram-refurbishment/66191.article?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS

HESS wins electric bus tender in Lugano

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/sagrada-familia-barcelona-completed-2026-stairway?CMP=twt_b-gdnnews

Hello everyone it’s Sunday and that means it’s time for another summary of the most interesting Urban news from around the world and by the way I make this episodes weekly so subscribe to keep in touch this time I’ll start with Baltimore where a container ship leaving

The port lost control due to a power outage and crashed into the Francis cut keybridge causing its trust part to completely collapse rescuer saved two persons from the water and six others probably died thankfully the ship’s crew was able to warn about the problem and the police managed to stop traffic on

The bridge so lost cars passed the section just seconds before the Collision now the city will obviously face significant logistical problems because now neither cars can drive across the street nor ships can enter the port so I hope the bridge will be restored as soon as possible and when

It’s rebuilt the pylons will be made more secure so that’s such cases don’t happen again in the future the Swiss Parliament approved changes to the 2035 Railway development program and increased spending on it by 3 billion Franks to a total cost of 23 billion this program includes widening of existing Railway tunnels and

Construction of the new ones as well as modernization of the stations including construction of an underground station in Geneva in addition the parliament approved a long-term strategy until 2050 aimed at development short and medium- range Transportation increasing the number of asban trains and developing suburan stations meanwhile in Indianapolis

Public transport is once again becoming a victim of political clashes the situation is very similar to the story of trains in Wisconsin which I have described in previous videos in recent years the city of Indianapolis has been working to create a brt system with dedicated Lanes two routes are already

In operation and now the city wants to create a third one the blue line for which it has even received a Federal grant of $150 million but the state government is actively blocking this initiative and doesn’t want to hear any arguments or research results that show the benefits of public transportation at

The same time the Blue Line project started after the 2016 referendum in which almost 60% of Voters were in favor of creating a rapid public transportation system the first such route the red line opened in 2019 and became the first fixed route in the city since the closure of the tram in 1953

But despite all this Indiana state senator Aaron Freeman says that building dedicated Lanes hurts business and overloads the streets and that buses as a concept are behind the times why do we need buses if we we can always just call Uber he says oh yeah and I forgot to mention

That the city government in Indianapolis is democratic and the Indiana State Senate is controlled by Republicans in short it’s a classic institutional failure when someone is ripping off important work just because they can it’s very sad to see that such an important thing as public transportation system is becoming a target of political

Struggle and so stupid arguments but there are good news from Los Angeles it seems they don’t have their own Senator Freeman so recently the city launched several new bus lanes in the San Fernando Valley including the 5.6 M long Lane on SE palva Boulevard in

Total there are now 51 Mi of bus lanes in Los Angeles with another 31 mil to come this year and thanks to these Lanes bus speed have increased by by 15% the light rail system of British city of Sheffield is returning to public control after 27 years of operation

Under the management of the private company stage coach and by the way it’s the same company that once operated trolley buses in Wellington New Zealand now the South Yorkshire authorities are planning to work on expanding the network as well as reducing some fairs by 10% making the schedule more

Convenient for for passengers creating a mobile application called super tra app and starting deep cleaning of the shelters at the stops and the last one is the most interesting because does this mean that the private operator didn’t clean them at all the administration is also studying whether

It’s possible to expand the network by introducing trm service on the freight line from Sheffield to Stokes bridge and South to Chesterfield in general it seems that public transportation in Sheffield has hasn’t been performing well over the past years so I hope it will get better

Now Ukrainian city of Le is planning to receive 12 used tatra kd4 tramps from Berlin Germany this year the wagons themselves are to be transferred for free and the city will have to pay about €600,000 only for their transportation and Customs clearance in addition the original 1435 mm gauge Bogies will have

To be replaced by the narrow ones with a track width of 1,000 mm which are used in leiv this will not be the first X Berlin tatras in leiv in 2018 the city already received a batch of 33 wagons which were purchased for €8,000 per unit in addition to the tramps from Berlin

This year Le is also to receive for free 11 the trams from the SS city of burn so even during the military aggression from Russia Ukrainian cities are finding opportunities to develop their public transportation by the way I also have on my channel a video about another Ukrainian City vinit and its tram

Cooperation with the Swiss city of Turk so if you haven’t watched it yet I recommend you to do so it’s also good to clarify that the used trams are not the only tram renewal in L the city also has about 20 low Flor TRS purchased in cooperation with the European Investment

Bank and the newest of these are five section wagons built in 2021 and 22 which operates on the newly constructed triem line that connects the city center with its largest residential district so if you would like to see a separate video about this please let me know in the

Comments the capital of czechia Prague is developing not only its trolley bus service but a tram Network as well the city has planned to build a new 2 and2 km trem line from the Madan Railway Station to kamaran District which will replace the current bus line the construction should cost

26.5 million and another 1.2 million will be spent on the project development and this new trim line is expected to improve mobility in the area which is currently undergoing active construction of new housing and suffers from traffic congestion the route is scheduled to be launched in 2029 the Italian government has allocated

€45 million to extend Milan M1 metr line 3.3 km West to Valia Ali and bajo this is only a part of the project cost that is needed to start the work and the total budget of this extension is estimated at 543 million the work should start in

2025 and last for 5 and A2 years meanwhile Swiss manufacturer H has been awarded a contract to supply battery electric buses to the Swiss city of Lugano by the end of 2025 the company is to deliver eight electric buses to the city and set up charging stations at

The end stops the new electric buses will operate on route number five which is one of the longest in the city has a he difference of 117 M and is also the second largest in terms of Passenger traffic currently public transportation in Lugano consists only of diesel buses

And the electrification of one of the routs is a step towards improving the air quality in the city oh come on Lugano you already look too nice it is interesting that until 2001 Lugano had a trolley bus system and used H trolley buses so this contract will be a kind of

Comeback for the company the end is near in Barcelona Spain they announced a new date for the completion of the famous Sagrada Familia Cathedral the construction is expected to be completed in 2026 which is 144 years since it was started a St camps president of the organization tasked with completing Antony G’s Masterpiece

Announced that they have enough money and materials to complete the building including the 172 M central tower which is to become the tallest building in Barcelona however even after 2026 there will be work on the sculptures and stairs to the main entrance which are scheduled to be

Completed in 2034 H 12 years to build a stairs is it a Stairway to Heaven as far as I understand there is no clarity about the stairs although ests claims that G’s original plan was to stretch the stairs for two city blocks you know I can hardly imagine

This but we will see maybe in 12 years for decay’s construction was financed mostly by Tes with about 5 million visitors a year paying 25 to4 per visit and about a half of €125 million that tourism brings in goes to completing the work maybe I’m wrong

But to me the Sagrada Familia is also famous because it is constantly under construction ruction and never seems to be completely finished perhaps this incompleteness is one of the reasons for its enormous popularity because the next time you’ll see it it will be different

Than it is now and it’s like a symbol of the constant incompleteness of the creation of anything in the world so maybe this process shouldn’t be declared complete and that’s all for now thanks for watching and see you next time