Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:22 Why Electrify? 1:22 Springfield Corridor 2:49 Empire Corridor 4:55 Michigan Services 7:05 Cost 8:08 Leadership Rant 9:39 OutroWhat Makes a Good Startup in the Railroad Industry?Alan Fisher2024-09-09 | Thanks to Suntrain for having me out at their event: suntrain.co
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 1:24 What Defines a Startup? 4:33 Why Certain Groups Generally do Better 5:12 Suntrain's Vision 7:32 Advice to the Industry 9:09 OutroThe Philadelphia Politicians that indirectly Killed a DoctorAlan Fisher2024-07-26 | Let's talk about how bad Philly Bike lanes are with the recent death of Dr. Barbara Friedes.
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 1:01 The Spruce & Pine Bike Lanes 3:41 RCO's 6:18 Kenyatta Johnson 8:20 Mayor Parker 8:52 The Churches 10:13 Lets Make Philly a Better Place 11:12 OutroNew Yorks Governor Just Stupidly Killed all Future Transit Expansion in NYCAlan Fisher2024-06-06 | NYC Congestion Pricing Needs to start at the end of June like MTA intended. To make sure that happens contact Kathy Hochul's Administration here: act.transalt.org/a/hochul-dont-stall-congestion-pricing
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:55 The Original Plan 3:18 Why NYC is a Unique Place 5:19 Broken Promises 6:07 What is possibly cancelled now 8:04 How to Fix this 8:51 My Message to the GovernorThe Ben Franklin Parkway is Frustratingly BrokenAlan Fisher2024-04-26 | Never let anyone tell you that European planning should be copied 1 for 1 always.
Check out the Philadelphia Bike Action Group here: bikeaction.org
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Brief Explainer 1:54 History 4:13 Why Its Garbage 8:11 Design Solutions 9:53 How to Get Involved 10:42 Outro (Apologies out of audio sync)The American Governments Massive Plan to Build more Passenger Rail: Corridor IDAlan Fisher2024-01-18 | Check out Train Sim World 4 Here: bit.ly/TrainSimWorld-4-alanthefisher
Corridor ID is a framework system set up by the Federal Railroad Administration to streamline the process for getting funds to start up new passenger rail lines in the US. This is all thanks to the Biden Infrastructure Bill.
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:34 What is Corridor ID? 1:59 Train Sim World 4 Ad spot 2:43 High Speed Rail Corridors 5:32 Brief Caveats 7:03 Ashville to Salisbury 7:40 Atlanta to Savannah 8:04 Atlanta to Memphis 8:32 NOLA to Baton Rouge 9:04 Boston to Albany 9:38 San Jose to San Luis Obispo 9:59 Chicago to Davenport/Moline 11:09 Rust Belt Limited 11:49 3 C's + D Corridor 12:09 Cleveland to Detroit 12:30 Coachella Valley 12:37 Colorado Front Range 12:59 Commonwealth Corridor 13:21 Delaware 13:50 Twin Cities 14:25 S-line 15:04 Gulf Coast 15:11 Houston to San Antonio 15:14 i-20 corridor 15:23 Florida 15:36 Indiana 15:48 North Coast Hiawatha 16:02 Northern Lights Express 16:07 Phoenix 16:16 Reading to Philly 16:36 NYC to Scranton 16:55 Wilmington to Raleigh 17:01 Chicago to Peoria 17:09 Other Corridors 18:07 OutroAmericas Oldest Neighborhood is ProblematicAlan Fisher2023-11-25 | Visit partner.ekster.com/alanthefisher and use the code *URBANIST* at checkout to enjoy up to 55% off items in the store!
Elfreth's Alley is an interesting tourist spot in Philly, but also a frustrating location with nimby's blocking a new park leaving them with an empty lot.
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Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:31 What is Elfreth's Alley? 1:34 Wallet ad 2:19 The Problems with Elfreth's Alley 3:54 "Historic Preservation" 5:47 Another Example in Philly 6:47 My Other Favorite Street 7:26 Outro
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Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:31 Nordvpn Ad 1:19 History 2:30 The Lease 3:10 Why is the Purchase bad? 6:13 Mayor Problems 7:28 Vote No on Issue 22 8:08 Outro
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:06 Sponsor Spot C:S2 1:31 What is Brightline? 4:06 The Issues 6:25 The History of HSR in Florida 9:48 OutroBloated BART Extension, New Chicago Union station*, and HS2 Cancelled: The Urbanist UpdateAlan Fisher2023-10-14 | The Urbanist Update for the Week of October 9th. We talk about NIMBYS, Amtrak and BART.
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:12 Amtrak vs Alstom 1:13 MTA 20 year plan 2:59 BART San Jose 4:39 Caltrans Whistle Blower 6:18 Amtrak Airo 7:10 SF Housing 9:15 Amtrak Midwest 9:58 HS2 CancelledBrightline to Orlando, California HSR Funding and NYC Parking: The Urbanist UpdateAlan Fisher2023-10-03 | The Urbanist Update for the Week of October 2nd. We talk about rail funding, parking and future metro expansions.
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:30 BrightLine 1:40 Baltimore Red Line 2:48 FRA Rail Grants 5:08 Caltrain 5:32 MetroLink 5:50 NYC Eliminating Parking Mandates 6:53 SEPTA Credit/Debit cards Allowed 7:42 BSL Progress 8:04 OutroThe Worst Type of Train StationAlan Fisher2023-09-02 | Highway median transit stations seem to be a North American specialty, I wish that wasn't the case. Our Cities deserve better.
Thanks Diana for the C:S demo! check out her channel here: @CitiesByDiana Also Check out: @OhTheUrbanity Intro Cover Music By Blue Krama: youtube.com/watch?v=KfE5E1TlR8k
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:14 Chicago History 3:18 UIC-Halsted 4:06 Sox-35th 5:05 Spring Garden & Girard 6:50 C:S Demo by Diana 8:21 Why do we even build these? 10:01 Other Options 11:05 Outro and ThanksThe Philadelphia Project thats TOO Successful /// Hovcart EbikeAlan Fisher2023-08-26 | The Hovsco Hovcart: hovsco.com/urbanist *$100 off coupon: URBANIST100* *$50 off coupon: URBANIST50*
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Timestamps: 0:00 What is a Schuylkill? 0:52 Philly and the Problem 1:56 Bike Ad 2:34 Congestion 3:36 Why is the Trail Popular? 4:27 Double Standards 5:39 OutroWhich Affordable American City is Better Planned?Alan Fisher2023-07-24 | Birds vs the Bears in this episode. (but also I love both of these places even if I be a metra hater sometimes).
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Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 1:21 Airport Connections 2:17 Regional & Commuter Rail 3:50 Metro Systems 5:00 Bike Lanes 6:01 Street Sizes 6:49 Intercity Travel 8:16 More Train Services 8:42 OutroWhat Happened to Amtraks New Acela Trains?Alan Fisher2023-06-27 | How did the French Screw over Amtrak this time?
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:37 Keeping Track 1:15 Back in Time 2:45 The First Gen Acela 5:02 The Avelia's Problems 7:09 No Excuses 9:16 Domestic Manufacturing 11:17 Outroi95 Collapsed, What do we do now?Alan Fisher2023-06-12 | Lets talk abit about how transit might save us and how to plan for the future so that we don't have to be as car dependent.
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:25 What is i95? 1:22 Other Options? 2:27 How SEPTA can increase Service 4:58 Planning for the Future 7:11 OutroThe You Dont need a Car for the American Lifestyle /// HovCart EbikeAlan Fisher2023-05-27 | The Hovsco Hovcart: hovsco.com/products/hovsco%E2%84%A2-hovcart-20-step-thru-electric-fat-bike?ref=URBANIST *$100 off coupon: URBANIST100* for any Hovsco ebike order, but will expire after 31th, May. *$50 off coupon: URBANIST50* for any Hovsco ebike order after 31th, May.*
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:38 The Caveats 1:53 Daily Errand 1 3:19 Bike Ad 3:50 Daily Errand 2 4:58 off to the club 6:56 Back to the City 7:19 Parks and Recreation 8:11 Groceries 8:41 OutroEconomics Explained is Misled about Induced DemandAlan Fisher2023-05-07 | His excuse of a video gives me an opportunity to talk about steam engines, Xi and drifting...
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 1:05 Economies of Scale 3:48 Chinese High Speed Rail 9:29 Induced Demand 14:29 But Muh Car 16:26 Extra info 17:48 OutroDenver’s Transit System is ProblematicAlan Fisher2023-03-30 | Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/URBANIST - Enter promo code URBANIST for 83% off and 3 extra months FREE!
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:10 Ad spot 2:11 What is Denver RTD? 3:18 Why Transit? 4:05 Lack of Destinations 6:14 Good Examples 7:02 Can RTD Fix this? 8:27 OutroThe Worst Transit Project in the US is CancelledAlan Fisher2023-03-18 | The SEPTA King of Prussia Extension for the NHSL is no more.
Time stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:15 Brief Explainer 1:16 What Killed the Project 3:15 Schuylkill Valley Metro 7:11 What Happens now? 7:56 Hey SEPTA let me be GM 8:16 OutroA Train Derailed in East Palestine, Ohio; Why did that Happen?Alan Fisher2023-02-23 | Norfolk Southern what's your Function? Hotboxing trains on the business line.
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:42 An Overview 2:09 The Derailment 5:49 Talkin about Brakes 9:33 Policy 12:58 OutroWhy Rails to Trails are Problematic /// HovCity EbikeAlan Fisher2023-02-20 | Check out the Bike here! hovsco.com/products/hovcity-step-thru-cruiser?ref=URBANIST Thanks to Hovsco for sponsoring this video
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:41 What is Rails to Trails? 1:23 Good Examples 2:45 Bike Ad 3:30 Problematic Trails 6:14 The Real Enemy of Bikes 7:34 Another Good Example 9:01 OutroPhiladelphias Ghost Subway Line thats Rising from the DeadAlan Fisher2023-01-24 | Find the Roosevelt Blvd Subway Twitter here: twitter.com/BlvdSubway
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:43 Philly Ghost Lines 1:38 Roosevelt Blvd Subway? 3:06 Housing 4:10 Timeline 6:22 What you can do to help 7:20 OutroWhy Amtrak isnt building High Speed Rail (And thats okay for now)Alan Fisher2023-01-05 | Yes obviously, fast train between city A & B would be nice.
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:15 Amtrak's New Lines 0:55 The Character of the Day 1:45 Head Empty HSR Argument 3:44 Amtrak's Funding 5:40 I rant about Trains 9:22 OutroPhiladelphias Painful Trolley ProblemAlan Fisher2022-12-13 | SEPTA please
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:55 Where are the Trolleys? 2:29 What we've lost 3:56 Other Issues 5:28 The Solution 6:54 OutroCalifornia High Speed Rail is Fine; And the Wild Scrutiny of Transit Projects in the USAlan Fisher2022-11-24 | Ralph Vartabedian can go pound sand.
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:58 What is CAHSR & I69 2:26 The Dichotomy 3:49 The People Fighting Transit 4:59 Austerity is Stupid 6:17 We have Plenty of Money to Spend 6:57 How to Lower Costs 8:56 Private Companies 9:56 The Shinkansen 11:09 OutroHow Americas Largest Railroads are Ruining our Supply ChainsAlan Fisher2022-10-08 | Time to scare them with muh "big government"
0:00 Intro 0:42 US Rail History 101 4:00 Class 1's the Beginning 5:26 PSR and Issues 9:35 Railroad Workers 11:32 Solutions 13:39 OutroThe Weird City Planning of Maps in World of TanksAlan Fisher2022-09-24 | Play World of Tanks here: tanks.ly/3SrRbxt Thank you World of Tanks for sponsoring this video. During registration use the code TANKMANIA to get for free: - 7 Days Premium Account - 250k credits - Premium Tank Excelsior (Tier 5) - 3 rental tanks for 10 battles each: Tiger 131 (Tier 6), Cromwell B (Tier 6), and T34-85M (Tier 6) The promo code is only for new players during the registration. Check out the WoT merch on Amazon: amzn.to/3HhfIkG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first video in the series of "Urban planning in video games that are not Cities: Skylines"...
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:52 What is World of Tanks? 2:01 The Maps 3:00 Lakeville 3:52 Highway 4:47 Widepark 5:44 Suburban housing in Games 7:39 OutroWhy Burying your Highways Underground Doesnt WorkAlan Fisher2022-09-01 | Boston's Big Dig has alot to learn from...
Music: Mechwarrior 4 OST - Push Vulfpeck - The Cup Stacker Mechwarrior 4 OST - Core Vulfpeck - Fugue State Cory Wong - Starfire Verdi's Messa Da Requiem - Movement II Vulfpeck - Newsbeat
Time Stamps: 0:00 Operation Dunkin 1:07 Highway History 2:31 The Big Dig 5:03 The Real Failure 6:41 Why MBTA is Current Bad 8:00 What should we do? 10:03 OutroPATCO: The First Modern Metro Line in North AmericaAlan Fisher2022-08-15 | Budd don't break. Unless you have GE motors...
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 1:03 History 3:37 Technology 6:09 Urban Sprawl 7:35 The Future 9:21 OutroRural Towns dont have to SuckAlan Fisher2022-07-18 | I desperately wanted to talk about the D&H canal more.
timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:52 Breezewood, PA 1:40 Bad Rural Planning 2:20 Hawley, PA 4:23 Strong Towns 5:31 Rural Planning rant 7:07 OutroGrid Cities are Fine, and OBF is a CopycatAlan Fisher2022-07-02 | The difference between you and me is that I don't hide zero creativity with editing skills, I know that my editing sucks.
0:00 Intro 0:35 Why Grid bad? 4:27 Why are the Roads Wide? 5:49 but hills tho 6:39 muh heat 8:28 Let the Smackdown Begin 11:28 All of the Known Copies 11:47 Dad Lecture 13:10 Outro
Intro Song: youtube.com/watch?v=NIWyZmFSep0 Other Music: Mostly VulfpeckThe Worst Transit Project in America and the Flawed Agency thats Building itAlan Fisher2022-06-25 | yes, I know that I spelled Broad Street wrong. it was late.
All Other Music is VulfpeckAre Monorails good? What Housing should we build? The 100k AMA Special; With a Guest...Alan Fisher2022-06-08 | Its like half in the bag, except with Trains.
timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:54 Favorite US Transit System 2:49 Was LRT good for Seattle? 4:10 Excited for any projects? 5:18 Latin American Cities 6:58 Why is Pittsburgh? 8:44 Syracuse and Snow 10:04 New Zealand Transit 11:06 How to improve CAHSR 12:04 Is Montreal REM good? 15:38 How bad is BrightLine? 18:43 Lexington KY 22:51 Luxembourg 24:15 Why is Philly Better than Boston? 26:00 CopenHagen Islands 27:45 MBTA Blue Line 31:31 Favorite Chicago Buildings 37:26 Why did we stop building Subways? 41:31 Baltimore is Good 46:14 Are Dual Mode Locos memes? 54:06 HART in Honolulu 59:19 SW US transit 1:07:45 Most Controversial Transit Take 1:08:59 NJT or SEPTA? 1:09:40 Best Monorail? 1:12:45 Housing Construction and Density 1:18:36 Electrification Voltages 1:19:28 Worse Metro Area 1:22:44 Jones Act 1:27:18 Minimum Pop for Metro 1:34:07 OutroCalifornia High Speed Rail has not Failed and RealLifeLore is wrongAlan Fisher2022-05-31 | Your ability to put stock videos over a script does not mean I have to take you seriously.
Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:42 Opening Hymn 1:08 Short bit of Philly History 2:14 Streets do be narrow fr fr 3:10 slow down yo 4:21 bike 5:00 how to fix other roads 5:29 Traffic Lights 6:02 Bad Philly Streets 6:51 Good stuff and OutroReal Solar Punk is Smart Land Use, Not Gimmick Skyscaper FarmsAlan Fisher2022-05-03 | Farms good, suburbs bad.
0:00 Intro 0:27 What are Vertical Farms? 2:02 Real Sustainability 3:12 Going on alittle trip 3:54 Farms vs Suburbs 5:30 Outro 5:45 ???Ranking the 12 Largest American Cities on Urban PlanningAlan Fisher2022-03-08 | Which American city is the worst? Find out and not be surprised.
0:00 Intro 1:41 Atlanta 4:37 Boston 7:23 Chicago 10:13 Dallas 11:55 Houston 14:05 Los Angeles 17:41 Miami 20:12 NYC 24:05 Philly 28:50 Phoenix 31:39 San Francisco 34:41 Washington DC 37:32 OutroParking Garages Represent Lazy and Terrible PlanningAlan Fisher2022-02-22 | Car building bad, human building good.
songs in order: Dog Eat Dog - The Toasters The Impression that I get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones (marching band edition) Sell Out - Reel Big Fish (Acoustic cover) Beer - Reel Big Fish (Acoustic cover) Speedwalker - Vulfpeck
0:00 Intro 1:25 Local Train 4:26 Road Railers 7:30 Suggestions 9:07 OutroYour Two-Day Shipping Needs to ChangeAlan Fisher2022-01-12 | The numbers don’t lie, and they spell disaster for you trucker joe.
Timestamps: 0:00 intro 0:21 Warehouse Logestics 2:45 Trucks and Roadwear 5:06 The Solution 8:35 Real World Examples 10:56 OutroThe Real People behind the future for E-MobilityAlan Fisher2021-12-30 | Skateboard go brrrrr
0:00 Intro 1:08 The Eskate Builder 2:22 Laws and Big Companies 4:23 Bike Lanes 5:00 Other Countries 5:47 R&D 6:21 Info and OutroMilwaukee Road Melancholy: the Music Mix for a fallen flagAlan Fisher2021-12-06 | Sad boy music for the Little Joes
Songs: 0:00 Gibbz - Stay for Awhile 3:25 Blink 182 - I miss you 7:52 Vulfpeck - Baby I Don’t Know 11:34 Joji - Mr Hollywood 14:54 The Weekend - Save your Tears
Intro Music: Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4 Other music: probably Vulfpeck
Thanks to my friend Chris for Providing most of the Metra footage used in this video!
0:00 Radio Intro 1:24 The Problems 4:08 Rolling Stock 6:51 Core Issues 8:38 New Jersey 8:41 OutroFuture Videos, My Life & Disease, and some other rantsAlan Fisher2021-11-12 | Just thought that I'd give y'all an update. I'll be surprised if you watch the whole thing lol
0:00 Intro 0:52 Upcoming Videos 5:38 Crime video and Leftism 7:14 more video ideas 7:42 podcast talk again 9:03 why the slowdown? 9:37 my life & Disease 14:42 talking about people and urbanism 17:30 A car video? 21:38 going full time? 26:20 outroWhy the best place to live in the US will be the Rust BeltAlan Fisher2021-10-19 | The Armchair Urbanist Series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhycIWhOLttikNg2Z1aJvGPoqijpGs9qh
Most of the Music that's not listed is Vulfpeck.Alan goes to the Illinois Railway MuseumAlan Fisher2021-09-11 | the goth girl at the front desk was also cute
My Twitter where I shitpost: twitter.com/alanthefisherElectric Cars are Not Sustainable and theyre TerribleAlan Fisher2021-08-16 | *soyface pointing meme* “Elon bad actually”
Most of the Music that's not listed is Vulfpeck. Verdi Messa da Requiem - Movement II Blood Blue - Instrumental Cover Dirt Rally - Replay Music Fine Del Vento Aureo & Il Vento D'oroAuto-centric Vaporwave: A music mix for Inducing DemandAlan Fisher2021-08-06 | When we actually thought that cars were the future...
Songs: 0:00 Saint Pepsi - Pineapple Juniors 2:16 Cory Wong - Comic Sans 6:49コンシャスTHOUGHTS - MIDNIGHT 9:23 Vulfpeck - My First Car 13:45 ConsciousThoughts - Dancin’ 16:32 Fearless Flyers - Birdwatcher 19:38 Daytona USA - King of Speed