The 10 Worst Transit Cities: US Metro Areas Where Taking the Bus or Rail May Just Crush Your Soul

What are the worst cities in America in 2022 for public transportation? In a previous video we looked at the ten US urbanized areas under a million with the highest transit ridership (Small Cities, Big Transit), and today we flip the script: it's the ten US urbanized areas over a million population with the lowest transit ridership.

Our journey today mostly focuses on workhorse bus systems, but we'll also look at new bus rapid transit lines, light rail, modern streetcars (urban circulators), water taxis, people movers, and incredibly illegible bus stops -- and we'll even do a side trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico to look at Publicos and the Tren Urbano.

It's a lot of transit modes...and not much ridership. Fun times!

Other CityNerd videos referenced in this video:
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- Top 10 Cities for Ferry Travel:    • Transit On the Water: Top 10 Ferry an...  
- Top 10 North American Cities for BRT:    • Top 10 Cities for Bus Rapid Transit i...  
- Top 10 Small Cities with Big Transit Ridership:    • Smaller Cities With Great Transit: 10...  
- 10 Biggest Freeway Interchanges:    • Top 10 GINORMOUS Freeway Interchanges...  
- 10 Most Freeway Heavy Downtowns:    • The Most Freeway-Heavy Downtowns in t...  
- 10 Best Existing Freeway Lids:    • Freeway Lids / Caps / Decks: What The...  
- 10 Best Place to Build New Freeway Lids:    • Freeway Lids: The 10 Best Places to C...  
- 10 Most Urbanist NBA/NHL Arenas:    • 10 Arenas That Fit Their Cities Seaml...  
- 10 Walkable Neighborhoods in Unwalkable Cities:    • 10 Surprisingly Pedestrian-Friendly N...  

Transit Agencies referenced in this video:
- Sacramento Regional Transit District: http://www.sacrt.com/
- TECO Streetcar: http://www.tecolinestreetcar.org/#/home
- Hillsborough Transit Authority: http://www.gohart.org/
- Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority: https://www.psta.net/
- Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority: https://www.go-metro.com/
- Jacksonville Transportation Authority: https://www.jtafla.com/
- JTA Ultimate Urban Circulator: https://u2c.jtafla.com/
- Kansas City Regional Transit: https://ridekc.org/
- San Bernardino County OmniTrans: https://omnitrans.org/
- sbX Green Line: https://omnitrans.org/routes/sbx-gree...
- Riverside Transit Agency: https://www.riversidetransit.com/
- Detroit Department of Transportation: https://detroitmi.gov/departments/det...
- Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation: https://www.smartbus.org/
- Hampton Roads Transit: https://gohrt.com/
- IndyGo: https://www.indygo.net/
- Dallas Area Rapid Transit: https://www.dart.org/maps/printrailma...
- Memphis Area Transit Authority: https://www.matatransit.com/

Other Resources:
- "Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S." by Jonathan English for Bloomberg City Lab, available at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
- UITP (international transit data): https://www.uitp.org/data/

National Transit Database: https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd
Urbanized Area (UZA) definition: "An area defined by the U. S. Census Bureau that includes:
- One or more incorporated cities, villages, and towns (central place)
- The adjacent densely settled surrounding territory (urban fringe) that together has a minimum of 50,000 persons
The urban fringe generally consists of contiguous territory having a density of at least 1,000 persons per square mile. Urbanized areas do not conform to congressional districts or any other political boundaries."

Wikipedia page on Metropolitan Statistical Areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropo...

Photo/Video Credits:
- Cincinnati Race Street Subway Station By Jonathan Warren - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Jacksonville Skyway By Aaron Clausen - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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