Second thing is, when I go out into the world, particularly when I'm commuting, we often use public transit . When I use public transit , I seem like the type of person who is confident and does not care about what other people think, right? Even for me, it takes about 30 seconds to １ minute to get on a bus.
That kept lingering in me. So I avoided public transit . I believe that there are many people with disabilities in Korea.
You don't have to be poor. You can come on public transit . You can ride your own car.
get out there and have a ball while we're doing it. I actually took public transit to get around LA for four years, and I recently stopped.
Like the way that it looks in New York City's sort of food insecurity might be, urban and security means having to walk a half hour somewhere, having to take lousy public transit with heavy bags. In the rural countryside, it might mean only being able to afford gas to go those five towns over once
And the importance of having those options available can't be underscored. I think public transportation, public transit , is one of those answers. But I don't think it's the only answer.
There's congestion on the roads, et cetera. So you prefer to rely on public transit or ride hailing or car sharing or other solutions, and owning a car is not that critical anymore. But on the other hand, there are things that we'd like to invest in today that the banking system
and trying to find the right partnership to create an app that would not just act kind of like a map that gives you the real time movement of public transit in the area, but it would also be a social space where people could discuss what bike lanes look like at various points of the day.
Sorry. But in the case of Mongolia, a lot of their leadership were recently nomads. And so the concept of public transit and of protecting that future for the people was kind of remote for people who were used to traveling by horseback for miles and miles.
passes by faster. The Google shuttles are very helpful in that we have Wi-Fi on there, and so that we can do work. But I was wondering for public transit , how do we make it more fun so that we can inspire more people? I think you're right.
I love watching that video in all versions of it. And we can do that to public transit . And maybe it requires partnering up with a really great private organization.
And so we did a very similar thing on a lot of measures, including in Santa Clara County, to help build support for a bridge toll increase to fund public transit across the bridges. And so in those years up to 2004, we got a lot of funding for transit expansion.
The buildings are built on these massive rubber bearings that slide back and forth during quakes, absorbing the energy and keeping the building— and the people inside— safe. And they even apply earthquake preparedness to their public transit . The high-speed rail system that connects Tokyo to other Japanese cities is connected to the country’s earthquake early warning system.
Perhaps it's difficult for them to come outside easily, so they can be mostly in a hospital or at home. Or they might be using other forms of transportation than public transit . I recognized the physical barrier and the awareness barrier.
Things actually get worse. And I understand that and the growth and close to public transit and the intent behind it, but I've done some research and I can't find a straight answer
You're going to see it happen right here in this area. approach that will substantially increase the amount of money in public transit , for instance, so that we can build for the future and deal with this problem.
more money for roads. And so even when we tried to build public transit and have people be able to get around, it would turn out that if we built too many of our-- either shopping centers or, in this case, the Cisco campus-- this way, you actually can't get around.
This shows the amount of money we are spending out of our own pockets, collectively, on transportation. And if all of the neighborhoods had the same level of public transit access as those ones in yellow, as those really low ones with good transit access-- in the Bay Area, we would be spending $10 billion less a year on transportation out of our pockets and emitting 42%
if you drive into the central business district in London you have to pay a pretty high toll and they did that to try to ease congestion and encourage people to use public transit and just like diplomats in the u.s. can get away with unpaid parking tickets diplomats in London can get away with not paying their congestion charges now most
Jeff Garlin: Did you start today? >male voice in audience: I wanted your take on public transit and why cities I guess in particular L.A. is so bad, I mean everyone, I've never lived there but everyone complains
your question in two seconds a 30-year upgrade or review and Analysis it's been 30 years since the last time we did this to completely transform our entire public transit Network it's called the transit Effectiveness program te we just came out with the report and the studies it's been 30 years since we've updated our entire mun transit
And this particular day was Community Action Day. And basically everybody who was involved fanned out across the city to various public transit stops and other places in neighborhoods on all sides of the city. And we basically interviewed people on the street and asked them what they were experiencing in their neighborhoods.
What's really interesting is this piece also became the icon of Web 2.0, and it engages users from around the world, from Japan to Australia, from Tokyo to New York street art, from LEGOs from Denmark and Singapore public transit . We also have cakes around the world.
So it's not that big of a deal to hop in your car or take public transit to go pick up your own food.
We know that in the city of a million people, a 40% expansion of public transit has an annual health benefit of more than $200 million.
Things actually get worse. And there's been flyers lately or waivers about not having to anymore if it's close to public transit .
They also prioritize walking, biking, and public transit .
And so in Los Angeles, when we launched we actually provided a credit for people who were coming from public transit into a Waymo,
without someone's help. What was most tangible was the physical barrier. Second thing is, when I go out into the world, particularly when I'm commuting, we often use public transit . When I use public transit , I seem like the type of person who is confident and does not care about what other people think, right?
get out there and have a ball while we're doing it. It would be a great way for a lot of people to commute to Playa, since Playa is sort of a public transit
So travel is every cruise, hotel, Uber, public transit , parking, tolls.
And by new ways, I mean the ancient art of pedestrian travel, cycling, public transit , and new tech.
We see a future where, as cities all over the world grow, pedestrian travel, cyclists, cars, and public transit hold equal value for those building infrastructure.
So that's one thing. Secondly, we spend, out of the highway trust fund, about 20% of the dollars in public transit . And that has to pick up not only urban transit, but also rural transit, as well.
Maybe there were some brave people out there, or walk to work, or took-- oh good, a brave person in the audience-- or took public transit ,
Why do people drive instead of walking, or biking, or taking public transit ?
we must commune-- and more to the point, commute-- with thousands of other animals upon ever-increasingly crowded roadways and public transit vehicle systems.
And this is what it looked like when I first came to the Bay Area, before they took down the freeway after the quake. So anyway, what happened, because of all of the land use happening in this way that relied on cars, is that funding for things like public transit declined as we needed more money for roads.
about air quality and a whole bunch of other things, and I want to encourage the use of public transit . If I want to do all that, then we cannot do the, make the changes that