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Transit Tangents
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Transit Tangents
Transit Tangents: 100th Episode!
We mark 100 straight weeks by revisiting our 2025 transit list and tracking which projects delivered results. Chicago’s frequent buses, NYC’s congestion pricing, LA’s push for speed and access, and new lines in Dallas and Honolulu show how funding, design, and frequency reshape cities.
• Chicago launches 10-minute bus corridors and upgrades Red and Purple stations
• Illinois passes SB 211 for governance reform and $1.5bn annual transit funding
• NYC congestion pricing raises hundreds of millions and cuts traffic
• Debate on free buses, with MTA prioritizing signals, fleet, and safety upgrades
• Boston clears slow zones and restores subway speed
• LA overhauls the G Line, expands bus-lane cameras, opens the LAX hub
• Dallas opens the Silver Line orbital to DFW
• Honolulu Skyway reaches the airport with phase two
• Phoenix adds five-plus miles of light rail
• Austin’s Rapid 800 and 837 grow ridership, frequency remains the lever
• Community highlights, advocacy links, and plans for 2026 content
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We started this year with a video called 10 New Transit Projects Coming in 2025. And a lot has changed on the channel since then, as well as in public transportation as a whole. First off, when we posted that video, we had 2,915 subscribers. And today we're actually approaching almost 11,000, which is pretty amazing. So thank you to everyone who has subscribed over the last year. I don't think either of us thought we would necessarily have that many people ever really watching this as this is just kind of a fun side project for both of us. And what is very exciting about reaching kind of those milestones is that this is actually also our 100th episode of Transit Tangents.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, which is wild because not only did I not think we would have as many people watching, but also I never thought we were going to get to 100 episodes. Not that I didn't have faith in it. Not that I didn't have faith in us, but uh I really thought, you know, uh we'd do this, we'd get to 25 and see how it goes. And we got to 25 and we're like, yeah, things are going well. Let's continue. We got to 50. And we did our like 50th episode bike ride. And I was like, well, this is really fun. We should like see if we can get to 75. So being able to get to 100 uh is a huge milestone for us. And you know, above all, uh it's a hundred consistent weeks. I mean, we haven't missed a Tuesday, you know, knock on knock on wood. Uh so it's just been a hundred consistent weeks of of pushing this out.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I honestly can't think of anything else in my life that I basically do consistently every single week, if I'm being totally honest. So um self self-pat ourselves on the back for keeping with the consistency. Uh, we will talk more about kind of the 100 episode milestone at the end of the video, kind of share some of our favorite episodes and favorite moments um from you know throughout the almost two years of doing this. But uh to kind of get us started though, we want to revisit essentially 2025 in public transit and kind of revisit specifically the kind of 10 projects that were on the list in the video that we put out at the start of last year. And uh, if you're wondering, we will do another list just like this for 2026. It'll be our last episode of this year uh looking at 10 new transit projects to come in 2026. So that's something to look forward to. Um, to kick us off though, uh, the first one that we are going to revisit is uh some news from Chicago, which has actually had some positive news lately.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so Chicago is a city we haven't really spent a lot of time talking about on the show. But when we did talk about it in our top 10 uh transit projects to look forward to in 2025, one thing we sort of skipped over was the CTA's goal of implementing more frequent uh bus service across the network. What that's gonna look like is eventually there will be 20 bus routes that have 10-minute headways or less, which is really, really impressive uh for a city the size of Chicago. The program officially launched on March 23rd of this year and initially rolled out with eight routes uh that have 10-minute or better service. Now that changes a little bit based on the time of day. It's 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and a little different on the weekends. Um but they say that with this initial phase, CTA's estimating that 35% of their service area now has access to buses with 10-minute headways. That's really, really awesome. The uh ultimate goal is that by expanding to the full 20 routes, that 70% of their coverage area is going to have access to a bus with these uh 10-minute headways. So that's really cool uh that they've made this progress and it's really cool to watch as they continue to roll out these uh bus lines.
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely. And they've been keeping folks updated too. They have a link on their website that kind of shares uh which new routes have already been rolled out, which ones are coming soon, even this fall, there are still some that are being launched, as well as routes that will open up uh early this winter as well. So definitely some exciting news in Chicago. Uh, the main thing we did talk about on that episode, though, is the red and purple line modernization uh plans. And uh this was actually a topic that was recommended to us by a Patreon member. And what's very fun is that same Patreon member, about seven months later in July, sent us a message with photos of a lot of the new modern stops that were redone. So there was a lot of focus on accessibility, putting in new elevators, um, new pavement, all this sort of stuff, uh, and really cleaning up the stations and the photos, which we'll include here for you if you're watching the video version, uh, they look really nice, which is always a positive thing to see. So uh, and and it was also basically on schedule from what we said at the beginning of the year as well. So um, you know, things happening, you know, on schedule and uh looking looking basically as good as the renderings, if I have to say uh myself looking back at them. So uh happy to see that. Um but really the biggest thing that happened in Chicago, and I feel bad that we haven't covered this on the show yet, um, but very similar to issues that we were talking about um in Pennsylvania with the uh kind of cuts in SEPTA, uh as well as where else did we talk about? There was another um was there another one?
SPEAKER_02:Well, there's always Dallas is always under threat.
SPEAKER_01:Dallas, yeah, Dallas, Philadelphia, um, all of these sorts of things. Chicago had its own kind of fiscal problems with public transportation. And fortunately, uh just earlier this month in November, uh Senate Bill 211 actually kind of solved that issue, uh, creating the Northern Illinois Transit Authority to kind of replace the existing transit authority and modernize the governance for the region's transportation providers.
SPEAKER_02:And probably the most important part of that development is that it adds$1.5 billion in new annual revenue for transit in northeastern uh Illinois. So it's not only helping set up the framework for better management of the system, but now there's recurring funding that will continue to support CTA and other transit projects. So that's really exciting and really refreshing to see a state assembly actually supporting transit. Absolutely. Moving on to another project that was on our top 10 list earlier in this year was the development of the Dart Silver Line. So, as you may know, if you're watching the show, I was actually had the privilege of being able to go and be there for the grand opening ceremony of the Dart Silver Line. Uh, this is a new train line that runs from Plano to uh terminal B at DFW Airport and really adds this sort of orbital connection to some of the suburban towns around Dallas. So a really exciting development for the city of Dallas, for Dart, uh for Data, the group that we work with uh on a couple have worked with on a couple videos. If you'd like to learn more about the Dart Silver Line, that episode just came out a couple weeks ago and it did really, really well. So go and take a look at it and uh yeah, check it out.
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely. And while you're also there checking it out, we'll make sure that there's a link on that video too. But there are a couple member cities since the Silver Line has opened who are now revisiting trying to leave Dart. This is like uh it's on again, it's off again, it's on again, it's off again issue. We've talked about it multiple times on the channel before. Unfortunately, it is back in the on again. So uh getting involved with data if you're in that area um makes a lot of sense to uh try to help out the cause there. Moving on though, uh we talked about this one, we've talked about this one a couple times and the the evolution of Kathy Hokel of being a transit villain to a transit hero to somewhere in the middle. I don't I don't know where she stands today, honestly. What a character back and forth. Yeah, yes, what a character arc, exactly. All all in this this year in 2025, it all happened this year. So um, yeah, she's she's really had quite a journey. Oh, maybe it's been over two years now, but um MTA congestion pricing is what we're talking about. Uh in on January 5th, the tolling actually began. Um, despite lawsuits and uh Kathy Hokel being against it and for it, and uh complaints from folks in New Jersey and different folks who are uh there's this one woman on the New York City Council who uh I don't know why I see her tweets in my my feed, but her name is like Vicky something, and she is extremely car-brained and also just like subscribes to every crazy conspiracy ever. But there are a lot of weird folks in the New York City political scene and New Jersey political scene against this, but MTA congestion pricing has has held through the test of time through the entire year. I'm knocking on wood while I'm saying it because you never know with this one, but um overall it's been an extremely positive benefit for MTA funding in the city.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, absolutely. As of Q1 in 2025, they had already raised about$159 million. Um that continued to grow once we got into uh May, the highest uh grossing month for the MTA congestion pricing. They had raised just$61 million in the month of May, which is pretty incredible. Uh and now that we've moved in toward the later half of the year, we're well over, I think we're well over$260 or$270 million. So their goal is to raise$500 million uh by the end of the fiscal year, and they are on track to do it, which is really impressive. Um, also, we're seeing that reports about vehicle traffic in this section of Manhattan is down by 11%. So not only has it reduced traffic and improved commuting times for people, but it looks like that pattern may be holding. Uh so we'll we'll see, and we'll continue to watch the developments for MTA as well.
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely. And there'll be a lot of interesting things to look at with transit in New York City going into uh 2026 uh with the uh we we covered a couple weeks ago, um, just talking about free buses in general, but we also talked about Zoran Mamdani, who uh is now the mayor-elect for New York City. So um we'll see, you know, uh if he's able to pull off his free bus proposal and what that ultimately ends up looking like. If you're looking for an interesting, nuanced conversation about the pros and cons of free buses, Chris and I spent a half an hour talking about a whole bunch of different scenarios laid out there. Um, and the answer is are they a good idea? Maybe, could be, maybe not. There there are pros, like quite a few pros and cons to it. So I'll be curious to see if that ultimately ends up rolling out um and what the implications of that may be.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and also as we move forward watching MTA, we really want to focus on what the developments are, what are they using this money for? And it already has come out from the MTA that a lot of this money is already being spent on updating the fleet of trains in New York City, updating signaling and moving forward priority projects for you know safety improvements and service improvements. Um, those are now moving full speed ahead uh with this new funding source. So really exciting to see the developments there. And we'll continue to keep you posted.
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely. And uh speaking of agencies kind of updating things, uh, earlier this year we talked about uh Boston and the MBTA slow zones. So uh in that you know episode at the start of the year, that was one of the things, and they achieved it basically right at the end of the year, actually. It was December 2024. Uh Boston's subway system was slow zone free. Um, we actually had a chance to speak with somebody from the MBTA team. We'll make sure that episode is linked below about how the city actually pulled it off. And Chris and I actually had a chance to go ride the public transit in Boston as well as part of that kind of series of episodes on our uh this felt it feels like it was forever ago, but it was only five four or five months ago. Um, our single about that earlier, yes, the regional. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:We had a great time in Boston and we actually got a few episodes out of that. So if you're interested in learning more about what's happening there, we actually did a fun video that was about the history of the north and south train terminals that enter into the sort of downtown area of Boston and why they don't connect. So if that intrigues you, definitely go check out that video.
SPEAKER_01:We're gonna jump right back into this episode in just a second. But first, if you have not liked this video, go ahead and do so. Also leave a comment. We love reading all of them and respond to as many as we can. Uh and be sure that you are subscribed so that you catch every episode as they come out.
SPEAKER_02:Please share this with your friends. And if you don't have time to watch YouTube videos in the future, you can catch us on any of the podcast platforms that are out there. Uh, just be sure to leave us a rating and uh give us a comment. But moving on, we're gonna head over to the west coast to Los Angeles. And we don't talk about Los Angeles much either on this show, which we really should because they are building more metro rail lines than pretty much anywhere else in the country. A lot of this is a big push to be ready for the Olympics, which are happening in 2028. Uh, so that's coming up very soon. But there's been some really exciting developments. One of those has been uh that Metro broke ground on a$668 million overhaul of the Orange Line. Well, what used to be called the Orange Line, now I think it's called the G Line. Uh basically, this is a bus rapid transit corridor from the San Fernando Valley uh into LA. And the goal of this major overhaul is to um try to reduce end-to-end travel times by about 12 minutes. So it doesn't sound like a lot, but that does add up uh over time for commuters who are using this uh daily. Uh, it's also about a 22% improvement in the travel time. So definitely, definitely significant. Uh, and they're also trying to protect that corridor and uh prevent more vehicle intrusions, which definitely slow down buses. So big improvements there for bus rapid transit in LA.
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely. And with the kind of intrusions for bus rapid transit, uh, they also launched phase two of their automated enforcement methods for essentially cars being in bus lanes. Uh so what that means is literally cameras on the front of buses, and if they catch you in a bus lane, you essentially get a ticket in the mail, which I think makes a lot of sense. I mean, yeah, uh you people you like you don't want to get a ticket, don't drive in the bus lane where you're not supposed to drive in the bus lane. Uh it seems fairly straightforward. And if you want to be able to take advantage of the bus lane, you can take advantage of it for a pretty low price of I I don't know exactly what their rate is actually for riding the bus in LA, but it's I'm sure very affordable, and you can drive by the pat the traffic in the bus lanes on the areas where uh that is there. So um I think more cities should be doing that. It feels like kind of a no-brainer. Um it makes sure that your transit runs effectively, it makes sure that uh honestly you don't need to have like police worrying about patrolling that because there are buses going through there all the time. There's no need to have somebody get out of the car and go talk to you. I mean, you you were breaking the draw the law. If you're in the bus lane, um, it's on camera, send them the ticket, get it over with. I think that that makes a lot of sense and would love to see more rollout of that um, you know, across the country.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I think I absolutely agree. Uh, they're also trying to increase ridership and provide more services for more communities in the area. Part of that comes with the GoPass program. Uh, the goal of that was to provide free or subsidized transit specifically for students. And when they launched that, they have 500,000 students enrolled. So that's definitely really positive and providing more transit options for the LA area. But probably the biggest and most anticipated development for LA is that finally the transit hub that connects to LAX is open. Uh, it opened on June 6th of 2025. This is served by, I believe, two different rail lines plus uh a series of bus lines that come out from this area. Um, now the only thing is that it doesn't quite connect to the terminals just yet. So if you take a train or a bus to LAX, it's gonna take you to the hub, which is off-site, and then there's gonna be a shuttle bus that takes you to the terminals. Uh, they have the automated people mover that's gonna go from the transit hub and then take you to sort of the center of all the terminals. That's gonna open up in 2026. So we're almost there, but it's really cool to see like this this huge thing that LA's needed for so long finally open.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I mean, that one's been a long time coming and it's been exciting to see uh some of the progress there and even see it, you know, kind of in use today. I know you do have to ride on the buses kind of through the terminal, um, the normal loops through the terminal right now. But when the people mover is open, um, you know, next year, that'll be really cool to be able to take advantage of that. Hopefully, when we are able to go to LA uh for uh at some sort of episode there, we can take advantage of the people mover and connect right into the system. With the LA Metro, the line formerly known as the Purple Line, now the D line has been progressing. Tunneling was completed uh earlier this year. Uh and right now, Section One is reported at 98% completion for that project. Lastly, uh the extension of the E-line from East LA to Whittier, uh, that is currently in environmental review. Um, and the kind of funding and planning process is continuing to remain active there. So that's another one to keep an eye on. Um, we've always said that there's just so much going on in LA right now, and I honestly think that that is why personally I haven't looked super hard at it because it's almost overwhelming to try to keep up with it as someone who really hasn't spent that much time there. Um, I have watched a few videos on the topic though. Uh the channel Nandert, I'm not actually 100% sure if he's based in LA, but I I I'm pretty sure he is based on the kind of detail of the video. So if you're interested in some LA transit, we'll make sure that some of uh their content uh is linked below. But uh moving on, this is a city we've covered quite a bit, so we'll kind of move quickly through this. But our friends in Kansas City uh celebrated the opening of their Main Street extension last week.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so congrats to them, congrats to Donna and Lauren for uh getting that across the finish line. So I'm excited to go back to Kansas City and check it out. Uh, but we have a great video about that extension, so you should go and check that out as well.
SPEAKER_01:All right, moving on to Hawaii. Uh last year we saw the opening of the Honolulu Skyway, and now uh we have phase two happening this year in 2025. This just recently opened a couple weeks ago, and this adds four new stations to the system here. This one had a lot of controversy when it first opened because without, you know, if you're just looking at it at the surface, it feels like they're building this transit system backwards. Um, this is a line that when it's fully complete will run from Honolulu um out of the city, heading to the east, and it will kind of head out past the airport, past a military base, um, and kind of into some more rural areas outside of Honolulu. Um but it started in the more rural areas, and in the first section, it didn't even make it all the way to the airport. So it basically was, you know, didn't see very much ridership and was set up for not failure from the start, but it was set up for people to be able to attack it so easily because they could literally point out and say, well, like the classic like train to nowhere. Like it was a train to nowhere at the start. Um, now this finally connects to the airport and gets you kind of just to the edge of the kind of beginning of downtown Honolulu, not even quite, maybe a little bit further out than you'd like to see it. Um, but with this, it's seen uh a nice bump up in ridership with the opening of segment two. Um and segment three, when this eventually gets added, is going to really make this thing uh a really effective way to get around. Um, I have not been able to go check this out yet. I would like to. Uh I should go do it because my my sister-in-law actually lives in Honolulu not far from this line. Um, I might have to ask her to take some photos and videos for us uh of this, but um definitely something to keep an eye on as Honolulu continues to build out this system.
SPEAKER_02:Moving back to the mainland US, this is another story that we talked about back at the beginning of the year. I was very excited for this one. In fact, I think it's one of my favorite episodes I that I've made, but it was the grand opening of the uh Amtrak Mādi Gras service between Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana. I had the opportunity to go there for the grand opening, take the inaugural uh revenue service ride, meet a lot of really cool people, including Miles and Transit, Arias and Transit, or sorry, Transit Arias rather, um, and really just had a great time. So if you are interested in that episode, I'm very proud of it. Uh, go check that out as well.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that was a really good one. And uh I think that was interesting because there were like dueling videos on this. There were like five transit YouTubers on those two first trains going either direction. Um, so it's fun to go and see the multiple perspectives of that one, which was kind of interesting. Moving on to Phoenix, we uh what's funny about Phoenix is we almost went to Phoenix earlier this year. Uh we were there was a trip we we were doing, we were deciding if we're gonna do DC or Phoenix, and Chris was like, Oh, let's do DC, let's do DC, let's do DC. We get to DC and it's freezing cold and like 30 degrees and snowing and windy, and Phoenix was like 85 and sunny. Um, so I won't I won't let you down on that one. But uh anyway, uh Phoenix had a light rail extension this year, uh approximate yes, yeah, approximately five and a half miles long. They added eight new stations, and this was uh a line that kind of runs along uh for lack of a better term here. I mean, is the like it runs along basically a wide road, a strode. There's uh kind of all sorts of stuff on it, but the the right-of-way was so huge that it was pretty easy for them to run a light rail down uh a good chunk of it. Uh the cost for this extension was$1.34 billion. Um, and it was expected to add roughly 8,000 new riders per day uh into the system. Um there are goals to be able to extend this even further um into different parts of the city, uh, this being their their light rail into different parts of the city. Um so lots of kind of exciting stuff going on uh in Phoenix, which is another one of those places that you just kind of see as uh being a very car-dependent place in general. So it's nice to see the investment in public transit there as well. Again, they do have so many of those just really wide corridors that oftentimes you can take advantage of that extra space without even really affecting um the existing traffic flow of people in their own private cars going through. So uh happy to kind of see that happening there. With this extension in Phoenix, it allows the system to be a little bit more flexible instead of just having one line like they had before. Uh you now essentially have two branches to the lines. So um it allows for different routing options and whatnot in the future. Moving on though to our last on the list before we kind of reflect on a hundred episodes of transit tangents, uh, is the Austin Rapid Bus Lines. So uh if you're from Austin or you've visited Austin, those would be the new 800 and 837 routes. Um the 800 is essentially a uh uh kind of a route that goes around the outside of the city. Um and the 837 runs from kind of a nicer, slightly more affluent neighborhood um directly into the downtown area.
SPEAKER_02:So overall ridership on this expansion is not quite where we thought it would be. Um it is improving though. On the 837, it started with just about 601 daily riders in March, up to just shy of 1,000 this fall. The 800 started with about 850 riders a day in March, and it's up to about 1,300 this fall. So definitely uh some improvement there. Um, it's still running on uh slightly slower frequencies, but when that changes, uh, we think ridership's probably um definitely going to improve.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yeah, yeah. Because right now at peak, it's the both of those routes are only running at every 20 minutes. Uh off peak is every 30 minutes. And the peak windows in Austin are not as wide as in some other cities. I think like after like 7 or 8 p.m., it drops to those half an hour frequencies. Um, whereas the other rapid lines in the city, the 801 and the 803, are at every 10 minutes at peak. So um hopefully when we see those kind of increases in service levels, uh, you'll see more people riding them. I think especially there's opportunity for that with Mueller, uh, which is the kind of nicer neighborhood that I had mentioned. I think for folks in Mueller, it's more of like a lot of folks there have access to a car and you're trying to convince them to switch over to riding the bus because it's more convenient. And in a lot of cases, it's not more convenient if the bus comes only every half an hour if you're trying to use it to go out for the night in town, um, or even every 20 minutes if you're trying to go to work. Um, it's uh less appealing. But if it bumps to every 10 minutes, uh, I think that you will see more of those people who are choosing to ride transit. They're not like uh in a position where they have to use transit. I think you'll start to attract more of those people. So ultimately we'll see where that goes. It's still early days for those lines, and I'm I'm rooting for them, and I think that they're uh I'm glad to see that they rolled them out when they did, even though they were not able to roll them out at the levels of frequencies that they initially were hoping to. I think it's better to start with something than nothing, but um, we'll kind of ultimately see uh where it starts to go. So um with that, that's kind of our list and our look back at this year, but we do want to take a second to kind of think back on uh transit tangents as a whole. Chris, I'm curious if you have any specific moments, episodes, things like that that uh kind of have been your favorite so far.
SPEAKER_02:Well, first I want to say, you know, we are continuing to evolve. Now you are in Germany, which has, you know, created uh a little bit of technical challenges as we you know film on two different continents. Uh we're finally moving off of the couches. I'm working on uh a background behind me.
SPEAKER_01:Filming this episode has actually been a disaster.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, a lot of a lot of delays back and forth, which are a little frustrating. But but yeah, so things things are exciting, and uh I'm looking forward to what we have uh going on in the future. But yeah, as far as favorite moments go, I mean, this has been such an incredible journey, and the people that we've met, I think, have been such a highlight. You know, we've met a lot of transit advocates at happy hours and sort of across the country. We've had um we've met a lot of people at agencies as well, you know, huge shout outs to places like Kansas City where we got a tour of their facilities, to Baltimore, uh where we've had somebody from the agency join us to Boston. So, you know, being able to meet people, that's really the the highlight for me.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, uh in addition to you know, those groups, I mean, it's it's been really fun to stay in touch with a lot of them as well, and it makes it easier to find new projects to highlight. I also think we've done uh a lot of good work and I hope to do more of it uh looking into next year, specifically surrounding, you know, trying to connect these different ad advocacy, these different advocacy groups um and folks who are kind of on the front lines trying to advocate uh for better transit in their cities and even folks who are trying to kind of help help uh bolster those people's voices. So uh I think back to kind of a couple interviews we did with folks um from Philadelphia, uh, whether that be uh Steve from How We Get Around, as well as Jay from the Roosevelt Boulevard uh subway movement, um, obviously the folks at Data who we've talked with quite a bit, um uh Peter from Link Houston talking about the issues there. So I think kind of trying to find these different advocacy groups, I'm having a hard time with that word today, um, and highlight different issues going on. I wanted to do that for Chicago as well, but we just kind of ran out of time. And then fortunately, Chicago um that that seems to be at least resolved for the time being. So um hope to do uh more of that in the future as well.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, also the interviews that we've been able to do with elected officials, you know, Andy Judge Andy Brown and Travis County, John Busey at the Texas legislature. I'd love to do more of those, uh, more of these interview style um episodes. So if you have any ideas for those, definitely um put them out there. But the biggest thing too is uh meeting all of you who watch the show. I don't know how many times now for both of us, we've been out in public and somebody has stopped us and said, like, oh, you're Chris from Transit or you're Lewis from Transit. And being able to meet people who actually watch the show and appreciate it and it's a highlight for them, that's also really rewarding and definitely helps us uh keep producing these and keep moving forward.
SPEAKER_01:Totally. My favorite moment of that was actually it's it's happened to me. I've been twice on the bus in this was while I was still living in Austin. I don't think I'm gonna get recognized anywhere in Germany. Actually, I was only in Austin, really, is where that's happening. But uh twice on the bus in Austin, um, people stopped me. And I felt that that was very appropriate um for them to stop me on the bus, which is kind of a uh a fun spot for that to happen. So um, yeah, overall, definitely looking forward to a lot of fun stuff uh coming into next year. Uh over the next couple weeks, even we have a lot of really fun content coming. Next week will be the last part of our three-part series um from when Chris was out here in Europe. We did Vienna already, we've done Munich, um, and next week will be Zurich. Um, I'm really excited for you guys to see Zurich because despite me feeling under the weather that entire day, we rode some very cool modes of transit there. Um, I'll just leave it at that. You guys can uh look forward to that next week. Um, we have some other fun content. Moving into the end of the year, uh I went and rode the Thuringen Waldbahn, which is this very cute tram system that runs through the woods, through a bunch of small German towns. Um, and I know we have a lot of fun plans rolling into 2026.
SPEAKER_02:Last thing for me is huge thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has been watching the show, who has subscribed on YouTube. Again, hitting 10,000 subscribers was such a huge milestone for us. It actually happened uh while we were at dinner uh in Munich. And uh I will admit it was a friend of mine, uh Scotty, who was our 10,000th subscriber. I've texted him, I was like, hey, you need to subscribe. But hitting up milestone, it's such a huge deal for us. So again, thank you to everyone who has been supporting us. If you'd like to continue to support the show, please share it with your friends. Go ahead and like and subscribe. Uh, and then of course, we also have options like our Patreon. We have our merch store. Uh, we are sporting the shirts today, and I promise there will be a couple more things coming to that store as well. Uh, so stay tuned for all of those things.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and huge, huge thank you to the people who have already taken advantage of that sort of stuff. Um, the you know, whether it be buying merch or supporting us on Patreon, it helps us out quite a bit. So, um, with all that being said, though, thank you all so much for watching and enjoy the rest of your transit tangents Tuesday.