Why we need public transport?

In this video, we talk about why a comfortable, liveable city is impossible without high-quality public transportation – in terms of economics, ecology, and also geometry. And also about what Le Corbusier has to do with it.

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Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
00:20 – How and why public transport appeared?
02:09 – Le Corbusier vs. trams
03:46 – Why public transport is important?
06:33 – Conclusions

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High quality and comfortable public transport is an essential part of a modern liveable city you can build the most beautiful buildings and surround them with the best parks but without ability to move quickly comfortably and safely from point A to point B there will be not much joy with it so today we

Will talk about why we need public transport but first let’s dive into a little historical background for a better understanding of how public transportation appeared already in ancient times people realized that if they live together it would be much easier to solve security issues and exchange goods services and

Knowledge this is how the first cities appeared which were compact and grew as long as the surrounding agricultural land could feed their inhabitants and that’s why all the cities were compact and walkable delivering food from far away was problematic cuz you can’t bring a lot with horsh drawn carriages that’s

Why cities arose in the most fertile areas the intersection of trade routes and near rivers and seas this pattern remained until the industrial revolution of 18th and 19th century and the introduction of the Railway which made it possible to quickly transport huge amount of goods over a very long

Distances this led to the Unseen Urban expansion including places where it couldn’t have appeared before in the 19th century cities grew large enough to make working problematic and new big factories became places where masses of people needed to get to at the same time in places where these mass movements

Were most visible appeared the first public transportation routes initially these were hor drawn omnibuses but soon they were replaced by Electric Tramps and in 1863 in London was launched the world’s first subway in just a few decades many cities have developed such extensive tra systems that their size is

Still impressive for example in Strasburg in the 19 30s there were over 200 km of tram tracks and trams moved 55 million passengers annually but everything was changing more and more space on the city streets was gained by The Cars and later the architect Le corbusier unveiled his plan was in a

Concept for transforming the center of Paris into a Rapid City divided into neighborhoods separated by multi-lane highways ler considered public transportation to be a left over from the past and believ that private cars were the bright future the tram has no right to exist in the center of a modern

City wrote lorier about his plan by the way the sponsor of the plan was Gabrielle Wen a friend of the architect and surprise surprise the owner of car factory named after himself so the plan was modestly named in his honor such a shy Automotive lby ler bu’s ideas quickly gained popularity and hundreds

Of cities around the world began to implement them demolishing old neighborhoods dismantling tram tracks and building skyscrapers wide highways multi-level intersections and underground Crossings instead the tone was set by the United States but Europe was moving in the same direction but the car Centric reality was not as happy as

Le Coria had promised the more cities built highways and multi-level intersections the more car citizens bowed and the longer traffic jams became cars were increasingly filling streets and squares pushing out any other activity and demanding more this was combined with an increase in noise pollution and the number of accidents

City streets were becoming increasingly dangerous and uncomfortable the main downside of private cars is that they are extremely inefficient in using Urban space and are far behind public transport in this regard for example a bombardier Flex City Trim like this one from Berlin can carry 64 seated passengers if the same

Number of people travel by cars their line at a traffic light will stretch for more than 100 m if there are four persons in each car but this will never happen because in real life each car has an average of one and a half persons so

In reality this line will be at least twice longer and if we take into account the passengers who can ride in the tram standing up the difference will be even more striking by the way way according to the 2017 European Urban Mobility report traffic jams in the European

Union cost about 130 billion EUR annually or just over 1% of European GDP the same situation is with energy use public transportation is much more efficient in this regard and uses far less energy per passenger than a private car let’s make a chart and compare the bigger numbers let’s assume that 100,000

People in our city travel 5 km every day using the tram the total energy consumption per day will be 25,000 KW while driving small cars it will be 195,000 at the same time driving large SUVs they will have to burn as much as 440,000 KW 440 is much more than 25 and

This is just for one day couple this with engine noise exhaust and dust from Tire abrasion and this scale of the problem becomes clear however you probably see this problem every day from your window so considering that Urban space and energy are limited cities have to look for more efficient Mobility

Modes and these are clearly not the private cars on top of that public transportation is also useful for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as it also produces fewer emissions per passenger as of 2018 the most CO2 per capita in the world was generated in the United States can Canada and the Saudi

Arabia which are highly car oriented countries at the same time in countries with more developed public transportations such as Germany France and Spain this number is almost three times lower meanwhile the European Union is working to further reduce emissions in January 2020 the European Parliament approved the European green deal which

Is a set of policy initiatives aimed at making the European continent climate neutral by 2050 which has become become a commitment for all EU members of course developing a highquality public transport is a complex task that takes hundreds of millions or even billions of euros and years of hard and consistent work for

Example the French city of grobble in 2017 spent 9917 million EUR on its public transportation system which serves 600,000 glomeration of course it is complicated timec consuming and expensive but if we ignore the development of public transport we’ll have to deal with a whole bunch of unpleasant Trends people start buying

Even more cars and driving them constantly and everywhere the streets become more polluted and noisy which leads to a worsening quality of life increased morbidity and mortality and of course people will spend more time in traffic jams which means both economic losses and simple life discomfort to do

It right we have to understand that public public transport is not a typical business but rather a tool for healthy functioning of the city it helps to reduce traffic jams improve Urban environment and make streets safer and more comfortable that’s why cities have to invest a lot of money in it and it’s

Profitable because where there is good public transportation business develops better there is more demand for a property there is no need to build a multi-lane highways and people have more time and money for their own needs and desires which all means taxes and economic development that’s why we need

To buy all these new modern trains trams trolley buses and buses create dedicated lanes for them build modern Depot and do many other things that should be discussed in separate Videos W